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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.
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# DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSL JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF MESSAGE CENTER PAGE 2 D8IR. (F) TECHNICAL INVESTIGATION: R.O. BELIEVES THAT A U.S. TECHNICAL TEAM WOULD BE WELCOME TO EXAMINE THE OBJECTS ALTHOUGH THE R.O. HAS NOT DISCUSSED THAT POSSIBILITY WITH ANY NEW ZEALAND AUTHORITIES. COMMENT THE FOLLOWING COMMENT FROM THE EMBASSY SCIENTIFIC ATTACHE IS OFFERED QUOTE THE TWO SPHERICAL SPACE OBJECTS AND OTHER APPARENT SPACE DEBRIS WHICH WERE FOUND IN APRIL 1972 WERE LOCATED IN VIRTUALLY THE SAME AREA SOUTH OF ASHBURTON. (THE TWO 1972 IMPACT AREAS WERE APPROXIMATELY TEN AND ONE=HALF MILES APART. THE APPARENT 1978 IMPACT AREA IS ABOUT FIVE MILES SOUTH OF BOTH, FORMING A TRIANGULAR PATTERN). THE STATISTICAL Likelihood OF TWO SEPARATE SPACECRAFT DECAYING IN A WAY WHICH CAUSED THEM TO IMPACT IN VIRTUALLY THE SAME SPOT ON THE GLOBE WAS CONSIDERED TO BE 80 SMALL AS TO MAKE THE 1978 OBJECTS SUSPECT. THIS SUSPICION WAS REINFORCED BY ADVICE FROM MT. JOHN BAKER=NUNN TRACKING STATION THAT THEY HAD NOT BEEN ALERTED TO SPACE CRAFT DECAY DURING THE OCTOBER 23=24 PERIOD. DSIR'S ADVICE TO THE SCIENCE OFFICER NOVEMBER 3 THAT THE SPHERE WAS A SILICON=ALUMINUM ALLOY WITH A MELTING POINT OF LESS THAN 888 DEGREES CAUSED DOUBT THAT A SPACE OBJECT WITH SUCH A LOW MELTING POINT COULD SURVIVE RE=ENTRY IN SUCH A SURPRISINGLY COMPLETE CONDITION, EVEN IF SHIELDED. (THERE ARE NO EVIDENCES OF SHIELDING OTHER THAN THE MAGNETIC SPATTERING.) THE DISCOVERY OF THE SECOND SPHERE ON NOVEMBER 3, HOWEVER, SEEMS TO INCREASE THE LIKELIHOOD THAT THE OBJECTS ARE INDEED SPACE FRAGMENTS AND, BECAUSE THE ALPALFA FIELD HAD BEEN WORKED EARLIER THIS YEAR, IT WOULD SEEM TO ELIMINATE THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE SPHERES WERE CONNECTED WITH THE 1972 FINDINGS. ALSO, FROM THE OBSERVATION OF THE FIRST BALL, IT WAS TOO CLEAN INSIDE AND OUT TO HAVE BEEN LAYING ABOUT SINCE 1972 OR EVEN FOR SEVERAL MONTHS. (THE NZ POLICE SAY THEY DID NOT CLEAN THE BALL.) THE INTERIOR OF THE BALL IS COVERED IN A FINE, LIGHT BROWN DUST WHICH HAS NOT YET BEEN ANALYZED. THROUGH THE HOLES IN THE SPHERE, THE EQUATORIAL WELD CAN BE OBSERVED, AND IT IS APPARENT THE WELD WAS EXTERNAL ONLY. THE WELD BEAD DID NOT PENETRATE THE JOINT, AND A FAIRLY WIDE REACH BETWEEN THE TWO HEMISPHERES IS OBSERVABLE. DSIR WILL CONTINUE TO COOPERATE WITH FULL ANALYSIS INFOR= PAGE 2
FOIA release, from the dia collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 148 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.