CIA · CIA-UAP-016
Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects in Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan (1968)
This is a six-page CONFIDENTIAL CIA Information Report (with NOFORN and Controlled Dissem caveats, country line India/Nepal/Bhutan/China, date of information February to March 1968) tabulating bright-object sightings over the Himalayan border region during 19 February to 25 March 1968. The body is a structured table of date, local time, area, direction of flight, and particulars for each event, including lights, blasting and thunder sounds, smoke trails, and one reported recovery of a metallic disc-shaped object and fragments in Nepal. The report header is interleaved in OCR with a separate CIA document-retrieval listing that references Dr.
Key excerpts
“A huge metallic disc-shaped object with a [...] base and [...] feet in height was found in a crater at Baltichaur, five miles NE of Pokhara. Portions of a similar object were found at Okjakot and [...] (pp. 4 to 5)”
Alternative hypotheses
Atmospheric reentry of spacecraft or rocket debris
most probable).
Meteor / bolide activity with meteorite recovery
Military or missile activity along the China border
Misperception and reporting error