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This National Security Agency release, Part J of a series of Communications Intelligence (COMINT) reports, is undated. It gathers heavily redacted intercept and message fragments that describe radar tracking of unidentified flying objects, with times, bearings, altitudes and speeds. One intelligence summary (INTSUM 33-68) reports radar and visual UFO sightings and says a five-man electronics team is being sent to investigate. It adds that reliable American observers believe the objects were satellites or space debris, and that propaganda balloons are also possible.
“Scientific American”1 page
STEADY = 4.5 USAGE = 43724439 DE DE ADRSV ZKZK DE DEZ BETWEEN 2415 AND 2436 ON FACILITY LOCATED AT REFLECTED AN IDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT MOVING IN AN EASTERLY DIRECTION. THE OBJECT WAS INITIALLY REFLECTED AT 2415, APPROXIMATELY 5% NAUTICAL MILES ORTHEAST OF MOVING IN A SOUTHEASTLY DIRECTION TO A LAST NOTED POSITION OF 2430. THE OBJECT REMAINED AT HIS LATER POSITION TIL 2436 AND TWO MINUTES LATER THE OBJECT REPORTEDLY FADED ON SCOPE. ECREASING ALTITUDES WERE REFLECTED RANGING FROM 55,777 TO 16,425 FEET.
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Report, from the nsa collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 16 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.