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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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WEST AND PASSED ALT 8,200-13,100 FT. C. 1821-1401, 14 UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED SLOWLY FROM TOWARD WEST AND PASSED ALT 66,000 FT. D. 0719-0924, 12 UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED SLOWLY FROM TOWARD SW AND FADED 11000. ALT 57,000-72,100 FT. E. 0749-1410, FOUR UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVE FROM TOWARD WEST. ALT 69,000-95,000 FT. E. 0719-0815, ONE UFO (PROBABLY A BALLOON) MOVED FROM TOWARDS WEST, ALT. 72,000-75,000 FT
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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.