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This National Security Agency release begins with an 18 July 1955 cover letter from the Air Force Special Security Office, Northeast Air Command, sending the Director of NSA reports on UFOB sightings in the NEAC area. It contains RB-47 radar and visual contacts over the Canadian Arctic in June 1955, plus signed statements on a July 1955 KC-97 and radar sighting near Harmon AFB, Newfoundland. The release also includes a 1958 intelligence report on unexplained radar tracks in the Panama Canal Zone and a later mission report noting a bright light.
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ORIGINATING ARCHITECT REPORT NO. PAGE CAirC, Director of Intel. -IR-4-58 26 or 87 pages EXTRACTS FROM THE LOG AT MOVEMENT & IDENTIFICATION SECTION ADCC 09 March 19:59 Unknown aircraft flying Tango Route inbound. No known aircraft in area but one advised by Tocumen, WEZ BLB ATC. 20:45 Unidentified blip believed to be weather balloon picked up between Albrook and Taboga. Appears to be orbiting. No air traffic in area at all. Advised ATC of possibility of object interfering with air traffic. 20:45 Advised that a balloon had been released earlier in the evening at approximately 1830R but should be down southeast of Albrook at present time. 21:40 Tower advised P-501 (Pan American Flight) is cleared by Albrook ATC for DP instructions in order to avoid object. Flight P501 will cross the canal over Albrook. 23:45 Distance of object from D Battery (Flamingo) is 4870 yards, height 3.5 thousand feet. At the present time, a searchlight from harbor entrance control point is being used to aid in identification purposes, to be executed by one AF-Naval crash boat. 23:55 Object now at 6.0 feet moving away very rapidly to the southwest. 24:00 Radar advises that as soon as searchlight was employed, the object became evasive. Object now at 10.0 feet, 7800 yards from site. Two returns, one at 10.0 feet, other at 08. 10 March 00:44 Braniff Flight 400 reports negative sighting of object during brief investigation. Radar reported aircraft was approximately 100 yards from object. 00:55 Radar reports two targets now approximately 100 yards apart. Braniff Flight 400 landed at 0047. 02:10 Radar contact lost. 10:12 Unknown aircraft at EJ1646, speed 290K. No known aircraft in area. Check with Tocumen, Albrook, Howard, ATC & CAA. Blip very practical, has reached speed of 900K then slows to a complete stop for several minutes before moving again. 10:30 Major Davis at Howard Operations advised of UFO. He will go up and take a look. 11:20 AF 5289 (T-33) airborne to check UFO. UFO was observed AF 1 OCT 32 112a REPLACES AF FORM 112-PART N. 1 JUN 42 WHICH MAY BE USED. CLASSIFICATION (SECURITY INFORMATION when filled in) UNCLASSIFIED B. 2. GOVERNMENT POSTING OFFICE 26-00470-1
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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. 26 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.