NATO is the Western military alliance. It appears in these files as the place where reports were sent, and in at least one case as a presence nearby. 1957. After their encounter, Lemos Ferreira believed the joint report written by the four Portuguese pilots went to NATO, but no conclusion ever surfaced. In 1977, Aviano Air Base was a USAF-operated NATO base, and the report of the spinning top reportedly went up to NATO HQ in Brussels. Off Lewis in 1996, a NATO exercise of 32 ships, 7 submarines and 80 aircraft began two days after the explosion.
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