CIA-UAP-017: Placement on High Alert Due to Perceived Aggressive Foreign Posturing

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                         REPORT CLASS S EC RE T --NOFORN
                         DIST: 3 JULY 2008
                                    COUNTRY: ZIMBABWE
                                    TOPIC: DEPS/FMCC__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
                                    SUBJ: PLACEMEN'Ij'-_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _pN HIGH
                                    ALERT DUE TO PERCEIVED AGGRESSIVE FOREIGN POSTURING
                                    DOI· EARLY JULY 2008




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          ~ - - - - - - - - - - - -______Jw.as reporting from Zimbabwe
                                              !regarding an unidentified object
          ~h~o=v~e~r~1=n~g~a~.t~=h1~g~h~~a~T~r~1~tude over the Harare International
            Airport. This object was observed, possibly by both radar
            and optical means, in the skies abo;;z.ec__li.ar_a_r_,e_ru;LLLna_-1:Jie__~
            afternoon of 2 July 2008. Reporting

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                      directly over the Harare airport. At one point
            during observation ''beams'' were observed emanating from
            the ob'ec

            3. Individuals~~==~~~~=~~~==~~~~ ho were
            aware of the incident ha                    e object was
           'an advanced reconnaissance device belonging to a foreign
            government, or whether the object was an unidentified
            flying object of extraterrestrial origins. According to
            observers ~----~the object was disc-like in shape with
            a hollow center, and had a series of rotating lights on
            the underside of the airframe. After a period under
            observation from the ground, the rotating lights under
            the object shifted colors and the object quickly ascended
            to higher altitudes and out of visual ranue. Reuardless
            of the orinins. this incident.I                           l
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           ~"u~~~:L.LE'-'L~~·ted in the decision to place the Zimbabwe
                          Ion hi h alert.
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