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Communications Intelligence (COMINT) reports Part A

National Security Agency · 25 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This National Security Agency release, of unknown date, collects communications intelligence (COMINT) message excerpts classified Secret Spoke and Top Secret Umbra. The messages report radar tracking of unidentified flying objects, giving times, directions of movement, distances and altitudes ranging from about 10,000 to 100,000 feet. Most entries describe the objects as probably balloons. The locations of the tracking are redacted, and some serial lines refer to March and April 1979.

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CATEGORY = 433

MESSAGE = 8378623

LII #0007 2770639

ZHY MMHSH

FOLLOWING INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED

6. RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO): A. 0435-0520, FOUR UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED FROM WEST OF TOWARD SOUTH, PASSED EAST OF AND FADED EAST OF ALT 11,500-13,100 FT. B. 0455-0520, ONE UFO (PROBABLY A BALLOON) MOVED FROM EAST OF TOWARD SOUTH AND FADED EAST OF ALT 11,500-13,100 FT. C. 0734-1025, THREE UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED SLOWLY FROM SOUTH OF TOWARD WEST AND PASSED AND ALT 49,200-66,000 FT.

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