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Placement on High Alert Due to Perceived Aggressive Foreign Posturing

CIA-UAP-017 · Release 03 (6/12)
AgencyCIA
Document typePDF
LocationHarare, Zimbabwe (Africa)
Incident dateJuly, 2008
ReleaseRelease 03 (6/12)
Evidence tierTier 2 · Documented firsthand report

What the document says

A never before released July 2008 report on a UFO sighting at the Harare International Airport. Individuals debated if the sighting was an advanced reconnaissance device of a foreign government or of extraterrestrial origins.
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Document text

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Context

This is one of 21 CIA records in the declassified archive, reported in the Africa region. It was published in Release 03 (6/12).

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