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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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A. 035-063, 24 UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED FROM NW OF OWARD WEST AND PASSED OVER FROM NW OF TOWARD WEST AND PASSED OVER ALT UNK. C. 8/25-1116, 14 UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) OVER (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED OVER ALT 951000 FT. D. 0815-1542, 28 UFO 66,000-88,000 FT. E. 1546-1625, ONE UFO (PROBABLY A BALLOON) MOVED OVER ALT 75,500 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.