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Indian troops report unexplained lights in Ladakh

Name: Indian troops report unexplained lights in Ladakh
Start: 2012
Location: Ladakh, India

When: 2012
Where: Ladakh, India
Sources: 2 public sources

Pangong Tso in eastern Ladakh, on the border area where Indian troops reported the lights in 2012 Stanzin1945, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Indian army border troops in Ladakh reported about 100 sightings of yellowish glowing objects drifting from the Chinese side over several months in 2012. Astronomers later sent by the army reportedly identified many as Jupiter and Venus, though earlier cases had been blamed on Chinese lanterns.

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PressIndian troops report seeing UFOs (Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times) (opens in a new tab)The Spokesman-Review / 2012-11-08
PressIndian military pondered attack on Venus and Jupiter (opens in a new tab)The Register (citing The Telegraph, Calcutta) / 2013-07-26

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