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This Defense Intelligence Agency release gathers Army and Air Force intelligence reports on unidentified flying objects from several countries. It contains translated Finnish Border Guard reports of glowing spheres and lights seen near the Soviet border, a Costa Rica sighting near Puntarenas, and Afghan news items from 1959 on bright objects over Kandahar, Mazar-i-Sharif and Kabul. Other reports describe objects over Kuldja in Sinkiang, China. A 1969 OSI report from Nakhon Phanom, Thailand concludes that a pilot's ground sighting was probably a religious procession carrying ceremonial drums.
“El País”12 pages
AGADIR: 13 January (Maghreb Arab Press): There were a few clouds in the sky on last Wednesday and by mere luck, men, women and children had been watching for thirty minutes the coming out of the moon in order to know whether Ramadan was over and to celebrate Aid El Fitr. Suddenly, at 1743 hours, a round luminous object with a fantastic speed and an exceptional brightness like the beams of a powerful searchlight appeared in the space above Agadir. First, people thought it was a meteorite, and then a Telstar-like satellite. Many thought it was a common shooting star but they had to change their mind as the sight was turning into real science fiction. Mr. Juan Dias, a Spaniard and chief of the "Radio maritime of the port of Agadir" department asserts that "it cannot be a shooting star or a satellite which had left its orbit. The object had an impressive volume, four times bigger than that of a star. It was seen two or three seconds before the cannon shots which announced the end of Ramadan. Its course was absolutely fantastic. It lasted three or four seconds. Meanwhile, the luminosity of the mysterious object lighted the whole town in an extraordinary way and then suddenly and probably when it came in touch with the atmosphere it disintegrated more mysteriously. The luminosity which had turned blue became red and finally yellow." Mr. Dias said that being an extremely interested witness he can assert the disintegration was not followed by any sound. "The pieces, if there were any pieces, he added, have completely melted in the atmosphere even before reaching the sea."
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