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This National Security Agency release, Part E of a series of Communications Intelligence (COMINT) reports, is undated and heavily redacted. It contains classified message traffic marked Secret Spoke and Top Secret Umbra. The messages record radar tracking of unidentified flying objects, often several at a time, at altitudes from about 500 to 88,500 feet. Most entries describe the objects as probably balloons. Locations, sources and many dates have been removed.
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CATEGORY = 488 MESSAGE = .03758358 LH #0015 010713 ZNY MMN$H SECRET SPOKE WNINTEL SECTION TEN THIS MESSAGE IS CLASSIFIED SECRET SPOKE IN ITS ENTIRETY. THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED. 46. RADAR TRACKING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT (UFO): 914-936, ONE UFO (PROBABLY A BALLOON) MOVED SLOWLY FROM THE WATERS THREE NM SOUTH OF TOWARD EAST, ALT 36, 936-49, 200 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.