T h e B lack Vault The Black Vault is the larges t o n l ine Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) document clearinghouse in the world. The research efforts here are responsible for the declassification of hundreds of thousands of pages released by the U.S. Government & Military. Discover the Truth a t : h t tp://www.theblackvault.com This document is made av a i l a b l e through the declassification efforts and research of John Greenewald, Jr., creator of: DEFENSE INTELUGENCE AGENCY WASHINGTON, O.C. 20:MO. U-80,721/PO/FOIA 4 October 1996 Mr. John Greenewald Dear Mr. Greenewald: Tills responds lo your request under the Freedom of Information Act dated 16 September 1996. Therein you requested records from 1969 to 197 9 concerning Unidentified Flying Objects. A of DIA' s systems of records located 16 documents responsive to the subject of your request. Of these, one was previously provided to you in response to another request, case for your use are 12 documents with only administrative markings withheld. Upon review, it was determined some portions of two documents are not releasable. The portions withheld are exempt from release pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552 (b)(l), (b)(2), and (b)(6), Freedom of Information Act. Subsection (b)( 1) applies to infollllation properly classified under the criteria provided by Executive Order 12958. Subsection (b)(2) applies to information which pertains solely to the internal rules and practices of the Agency. Subsection (b)(6) applies to information which if released would constitute an unwarranted invasion of the personal privacy of other individuals. All reasonably segregable portions of the documents are attached hereto. All substantive portions of the remaining document are not releasable. The information withheld is exempt from release pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552 (b)(l), (b )(2), and (b)(6), Freedom of Information Act. There are no reasonably segregable portions of this exempt material. You are advised that a requester may appeal, within 60 days, an initial decision to withhold a or part thereof. Should you wish to exercise this right, you may do so by referring to case #0703-96 and addressing your appeal to: 14 Enclosures a/s Defense Intelligence Agency AITN: PO/FOIA Washington, D.C. 20340-5100 Sincerely, BERT P. RlCHARDSON Chief, Freedom of Information Act Staff _ . DEPARTMENT OF DEFE~JSE trHE~GENCE INFOR~-/,ATION REPORT 2. suaJECTs (U) Article on Objecta Falling From.. ~n: or REPORT: Aircraft Over Surabe.Ja tO. NO. OF PAG5: 2 ,: ISC.HUMIEit; DIRM lM2b, lPl 12. OIUGINATOR; OAIRA, Djakarta a:, AHD DA.n or ~CQ:Sura.baje./19 Nov 64 ~. &VM.UATION: SOUilC ..;:O: lllf'OilMATION _..:;2~- 7 . SOUIIC:f: Pre88 '('a). 'thii report conoerna inf'ormat.ion condeneed tr<a two news articlee trom the St1rabaja preea one in E&lglieh &D4 the other t.ranala.ted into Englle~ from the ori&iDal . Both lleVB articlee are on the e-. eubje'ot D8.1119ly, objeota falling f'rOIII d.roratt pertormi:ng aorobati.oa and et'torts on the part o! AURI to d18pel app:oe~neiona or Surabaja popul.aoethat en~ aircraft are beins shot dow 1 . (U) Capt SUMAKN0 Deptlt;y C01111118Me:r of Squadron 3 at hi& 'J~U. Headquarters in PERAK .lFB, Sura.baja, 1d durhlg a presa interview tbll.t Squadron 3 i8 training a DUIIbv of you:ng pilots in certain skills, including ao-oalled aorobe.tio flying. ~ t.ra1n1Dg nighte over Surablja, parte or the planes have fallen ott' aJXl wn toUDd 'b7 peo~e 1n the vll.lagea. ThU 1e not unu.ual, the O_apta!n aa1d, and people . lhoul.d IIOt !PH VOlT7 about it. Capt Sl.IMAXBO and Oapt tMAR, an oCfioer from Opera- tion~. Wine 002, both add there are a.irorart training over Surabaja. evecy day b)' pilOts vho have jUBt gradUa.ted. !rom the AURI Aviation AoadelltY to become lf8hter Both captains said that on 1 Oot 64 the top fell from e.n airorart during 8AJI~l.ll~ acrobatics. Thu plane vas not shot dow. ~ Oot 2nd a crash behwt fell . OIBo,FAOA!' 6499l'B SP'l'GP lET. 4,, 6499TH SP!GP DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE:>INTI:LLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT . . ORIGINATOR -'an ai:Qraft during an exercise in .P'/IJ which the canopy had to lie open. On I tbe top (BDa hobabl)' meana the oanop)") tl'CIIIl another plM oame loose e.u. .. to .the .groUDd. . J n .... SUMI.KNO IJIH/t. appealed to the pUblio to report aey taUeu o)?jeote :~tbi.-. &izt .. t<J .. tho autbonties or 'clireotl)" to Squadron 3 at ~K ~ eo. that I . lli:I'OIIT NUioiBt:ll: a,.~auaJ~cT: More on 1Jn:i dentifi.ed Flying Object~-o .. n or IIEPORn 4;11Sc N UMBIII: ~'Q:A.Tit OF IN f'Ofi':WA TION: f','JlLACE A NO DAT E OF loCQ: Montevideo, ?.~ Aug 65 ll. PIIEPA .. EO ev: PI,.. e rwi/Of peUCJ.f.' lhO.jd no(l;! 1'41 ' . 2~ September l9QS AI..UATIOH: IOUitC _.;C;_ INTO RiolloTION _.~:._ .,~:: U.' APPJIIOVIN G AUTI<OIIITY: ,Jr:~UIIC: PresS 'RICHARD .T. ,?TCil. Col.., GS . \1. S. Defense :At ta.che ;.. . This IH forwe.rdK a tran lation of an article appeari'ne in the 23 Aug .. 65: .: ;.: :isErue of a Montevideo newspaper, F.l Diario. It Mvere the aoUvi ties of theo !CUO (Inves t gation Center f or \lnit\enttriAd Objects) since ita estal1lis hment il'l'1950.: .l t concludee th~t. flyil'l8 sau~erfl are moxe the.n e.n optic!'.! i.lliiRil)n. FLYING SAUCERS OVER Maf.TBVIDP.O A _gr-ouP nf ~ople in Urusua,y have taken charge of inveet,igati.nc ll1llt pub'.; ' 1-lc:.izinc the problem raieed by repeated observance in the a tlllosphere of our.-: . of some apparati that could no t be i dentifiP.d end which are ~ouped QQder . . the international denomi.r..ation of UFOO (Unidentifierl Flying Ohjecte ) or OVli).S .-- ~ .JNon-.identifieri Flying Objects). ::: .,. \ On 29 April 1958 several personf'l helcl a meetine to organize an!\ :; .. with other centerR abroad for tha l"lrpoae nf learning more ab01.1t and e~quail'\ted with every aspeGt connec: ted with the P.\)'E:terinus objcota. IPI.TIIU.UT.ON o .. ~GIH4 TOR: 11. 00WN4UIIA0tNC DATA~ jnin'foroee ThllS i .t ~s. :The Ambassador UNCLI\.SSIF'IED .. .. COHTINUATIOH SHEET UNCLASSIFIED REPORT NO. ORIOIIIATOR USAi~A, t~ontevtde~f the Investiea tion Center for Unidentified Objects (!CUO) was establistted., main~ins that the UFO'e exiat, that they are machinea, and that theyare ext:raten~rial origin. Simultaneoualy Rnother IM1I -Raul Rinc~n Pa.reja; eiSbt years ago devoted himself to astrono~ey and became concerned with th!t . _.. 'i\1\igma of the flying saucera. In thia capaci \)' Rinco1t Pa.re,la hs.a certainly 9(>me '-to be the Uz-ueua.yan with the moat information on the 8ubject. Moreover, t:>e O~ ~-:;~iWO. teleBCO.P89: one is an azill!Uthal reflector i the second one is }0 centimeters." diameter and 2.10 meters in focal distance, with a 760 enlargement. ; . CASES IN URUGUAY Incidents recorded by ICUO for Urueuay from 1950 up to the present timE!"' ainount to 200 observations. The following is obtained from a study made of-6o olutely confirmed oa.aes : 7 2. ~;;, were made by civilian o bservera ; 18. &,'_, by : . :technicians (astronomers, pilots, meteorologiRts), and 8. ~;~ by mil~ tary persons~. In a 111eticulous job by ICUO, nu111erou11 cases are recorded . One o f them. i8 interes t ing because 1 t refere t Q an t)fficial docUli!Eint o f Carrasco lfa tional ~ .. .ad~po:rt~ On 1 II'Arch 1954, the Tow~r Control Chief, Pedro V. Ocampo, report~d to ""-~ Airport Chief that he h!td oh11erved. 1\ "moving e.eri.al body of an extraordinary .ahape IS.l}l\ speed . " . . At1app.roximll.tely 1430, Ocampo and the ACC operator, ?.4.ra . de Rizzardo, :~ere ~f.c)}lll&r'Ving the sky in a northeasterly directi~>n when they "ere able to locali'ze. ~ oval .. shaped objed whi~h, 1fhile remaining stationary, quickly cbang(!d aljape. ~ith our attention concentrated, we located it at 30 azimuth and at a vertical angle of 150," he ttaid. . . NO INFOOMATION .Immed tely following, they obeerved another simi lar for~, but a smaller one, whic h .as l ocated helow and then b~hind, quite clone, both of them making ;i~ 'l'ertioal osciJ latine ascent, only t o di.Sil!lJ:l&ar rapi.dly. Af ter five minutes ;: J)le ACC opera t or a68in o bserve<l i t . with an a?. i'llllt th .from 1 200 t o 1 ~o and a . . .Yertical .height of 200, with an oval-lil~e shape and a very fine extP.naion, and .. twosmaller diRe& on its extremiti~a. When she turned to take the binoculars, the object Bhfftetl position at , b~Bh epeed. towa:rrl the 1111st, e.nd when Bhe gc'lt it in focus , it \1r8.S over the )(i~s . :':11Kiuntain ranee, dil!appearil'l6'. Later , 11. radio broadcasting s ta. tion call eeL t~ . . ;'f()Wtl' by telephone "asking for information as to whether we had obeel'Ved a.eything ... in the sky. We didn't give A.cy inform.ation The ICUO, a fter analyzing e.n infinite number of cases, concluded that the "shape, propulsion , the effects oaused in ito drive, the speed and. perfol"D18.1ice .. .r.e<>orded by theUFQe 's provide the g.tide linAs sh01ring hllB.t behi nd the flying . . lie.Ucers there is an intelligence tha.t creates and drives them. , ... FILCYi'S ALSO , !!'rom a laree collection of portfolios in his poaseflsion, Rino6n Pareja';: ;. selected one example beca111~e of ita d Mumentary value , On 19 !'ecember 1960 . the ... .crew of a PLW.A plene -CX-A~J -under coromann of Ju.an J os6 Figueroa, reported. . . ari epi s ode that had happened to him. The plane took of f f r om Carrasco at 2-23<L Five 111inutes a.ftnrt!llrda he recei vet! a me a sage f rnrn t he Contro l 'rower aokin,S'" . . >him whether he had ob f;erved a ny atrA.nse obj ect i n his niah t lin e . ?" ; . The Tower R~!:ed t hat qnestion .A.ft..e r hav:i.ne :reGe ivr!<l m~ny rro:n Poci toe and !.Ia.). vin st!lti ng t hl!. t A rlying R!l.ucer had bo Bn :-toe plan~ we.s leavine the Jrueu-3-y:m ooa,qt Rr.tl. was flyi ne: over IJNCL-\SSIFmn telephonE cans . ... l'>een. At that. time the neighborhood of COHTIHUATIOH SHEET ORIOIIIATOR USAi.tA,' J4ontev{deq. the Cero. Underneath .i t appearl!d what crew members described as an oval ohject which seemed like an airship dr i ven by a speed changing ever y fe'IJ aecondt<. . The contrivanc e gave off Rparks having a l11minosity ranging bet~een white . and an intense red. Moments later it was no longer seen. ;.. CONCLUSION . From all these incidents Rinc6n Pareja dra~s the conclusion that the 'flyine .. , eaucers are considerably more than a coll~tcti ve optical illusion, and. that behind them po1rerful forces are being moved that he understands belong to more .: developed beings than t he inhabi t ante of the earth. The stopping of motors, e i lenning or radios, radars, anq. the discharge the platters are actions fro111 an electrorna.gnetic field created by the fly'ing saucers. This &8JIIe field would IM.intain an atmosphere around the airehipa by . ~ioh they wo-uld be able to diRplace themselves in interstellar apace, in.the . : gaseous. mediUIII surrounding the earth, and even go int~ide the d epth o! our. seas," ';~nc6n rarej~ says :-<:CIIYENT: During the past aeverttl mnnthe thera hnve been nwneroua report~ o f. flying s a uce:r11". l.JNCLASf:IFU:D :: ....... at Deoept,ioa 'lilild han &lao re}'Ortecl.wddctit~ecl .r;J.yi.q-bbjeott. . : . .. ~ .::<.~ : /i "jJi~ . cHri:r NAVY Di'J'IU.IOJ!2CCR