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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 = 433 MESSAGE = 03658555 LH #0312 2163549 ZHY N1NSH P 84B531Z AUG 78 UNINTEL SECTION EIGHT FOLLOWING INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED 7. RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFO): A. 0100-051, 17 UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED FROM WEST OF ALT 82,000-88,200 FT. B. 0756-1450, 23 UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED OVER ALT 66,000-71,500 FT. C. 0743-1523, FOUR UFO (PROBABLY BALLOONS) MOVED
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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.