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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.
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THERE HAVE BEEN RADAR SIGHTINGS OF UFO'S FROM UFO'S USUALLY SIGHTED ABOUT 1930H HOURS, IN VICINITY OF AND NORMALLY TRAVELING INTO PREVAILING WIND. MAXIMUM ESTIMATED HEIGHT OUT 56,000 FT AND LARGEST NUMBER AT ONE TIME HAS BEEN EIGHT. REPORTED IIRST RADAR SIGHTING OF UFO'S ON J-2, IS SENDING FIVE MAN LECTRONICS TEAM TO FOR APPROX TEN DAYS TO INVESTIGATE. TEAM COMPOSED OF TWO MIL ELECTRONICS EXPERTS FROM J-2, ONE MIL ELECTRONIC EXPERT FROM ELECTRONIC WARFARE SECTION, J-2, ONE CIVILIAN FROM SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH GROUP, AND ONE CIVILIAN METEROLOGIST. LAST WEEK REPORTED VISUAL SIGHTINGS OF UFO'S FROM BEGAN AND HAVE CONTINUED TO PRESENT (SEE OUR INTSUM 32-6E, 3-C). UFO'S USUALLY DESCRIBED AS YELLOW OR GREEN, APPEAR BETWEEN 1900 AND 2130H, SEEMINGLY DRIFTING OVER THE AREA. POSSIBILITY THAT UFO'S SOME KIND OF PHISTICATED DEVICE APPEARS REMOTE THOUGH THIS IS WHAT USPECTS. HAVE NO INFO TO CONFIRM SIGHTINGS FROM RADAR OR SIGINT SOURCES. POSSIBLY THESE ARE REFLECTIONS OF AND/OR PROPAGANDA ALLOONS, DEPENDING ON WIND DIRECTION. AT UFO'S ALTITUDE. HOWEVER, FOUR RELIABLE AMERICAN OBSERVERS HAVE REPORTED SIGHTING UFO'S BUT BELIEVE THEY ARE ISUAL SIGHTINGS OF SATELLITES OR SPACE DEBRIS. ONE OBSERVER SPENT OVER TWO YEARS AT SATELLITE TRACKING STATION WHERE HE AND OTHER TRACKING STATION PERSONNEL HAD VISUALLY OBSERVED SATELLITES PASSING OVERHEAD. HE INDICATED THIS ---
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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. 16 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.