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Sighting Of Unidentified Flying Objects

Defense Intelligence Agency · 148 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This Defense Intelligence Agency compilation brings together several Department of Defense intelligence information reports on UFO sightings from 1968 to 1976. It includes 1968 reports of UFOs over South China and the Taiwan Strait, a 1970 South Korean report on possible North Korean balloons, and a table of Spanish sightings from 1973 to 1974 taken from the local press. It also contains a Pakistani report of a light seen before an earthquake and the USDAO Tehran account of F-4 jets losing instruments while chasing a UFO in September 1976.

  • p. 82 …DSIR WILL CONTINUE TO COOPERATE WITH FULL ANALYSIS INFOR= PAGE 2
  • p. 84 …We do not know at this time whether they are trying to cooperate or to possibly…

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3. APPARENT EFFECT OF RE-ENTRY: 18 HOLES OF VARYING SIZE THROUGH THE SURFACE, INCLUDING TWO APPROXIMATELY 26 MM. DIAMETER HOLES AT THE POLES; LARGEST HOLE IS APPROXIMATELY RECTANGULAR, MEASURING 116 BY 26 MM; SURFACE SPATTERED WITH MAGNETIC GLOBULES PROBABLY MOLTEN STEEL. 4. CONSTRUCTION: 11.1 PERCENT SILICON; 0.7 PER CENT IRON; 0.02 PER CENT MAGNESIUM; 0.02 PER CENT COPPER; REMAINDER ALUMINUM. NOT RADIOACTIVE.

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