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This National Security Agency release gathers COMINT message traffic classified up to Top Secret Umbra, including a message dated August 1978, and one message cites COS Taipei. The messages list radar tracking of unidentified flying objects by time window, count, direction of movement and altitude. Most entries describe the objects as probably balloons moving slowly toward the west, at altitudes from about 6,500 to 100,000 feet. The released text has the place names redacted.
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CATEGORY = 4BB MESSAGE = 03648331 LH #0010 2130540 SECRET STOKE INTEL SECTION THREE FOLLOWING INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED 5. UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO): 0655-0905, EIGHT UFO MOVED SLOWLY FROM TOWARD SW AND PASSED AND ALT 11,500-72,100 FT. 6. RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO): A. 050-030, SEVEN UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED SLOWLY FROM NW OF TOWARD WEST AND PASSED 0529-0710, 14 UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED SLOWLY FROM NE OF TOWARD
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Report, from the nsa 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. 25 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.