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Ladakh, Nepal and Sikkim sightings

February 19 to March 25, 1968
Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan

Unresolved
Representative drawing from the From orbit page, not this specific sighting.

The official description

A 1968 report about UFO sightings in Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan. Seven UFO sightings are listed that took place between 19 Feb. to 25 Mar. 1968. A more redacted version of the report has been available on CIA's public website.

Quoted from the U.S. Department of War, PURSUE UAP releases. Read every file for this incident in Official files or at war.gov/UFO.

Witnesses

Not named in the files

Explanation

Unresolved

The official files offer no explanation.

Sources

  1. U.S. Department of War, PURSUE UAP releases (war.gov/UFO)war.gov
  2. U.S. Department of War, Release 03: CIA-UAP-016, Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects in Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutanwar.gov

From the U.S. Department of War PURSUE releases. The description is quoted from the official file.

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