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This Central Intelligence Agency information report, approved for release on 24 June 1978, describes a fiery ball seen at about 2000 hours on 12 or 13 September 1953. It flew from north-northeast to south-southwest, about 5 km west of the coast, at a constant altitude of 1,000 to 1,500 meters. The object was yellowish red in front and dark red toward the rear, left no smoke trail and made no sound. The report says the sighting confirms earlier unidentified flying object observations in the Rostov area.
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CLASSIFICATION COUNTRY 2 LOCATION Flery Flue Observations in the Boatley Air Space EVALUATION PLACE OBTAINED DATE OF CONTENT September 1953 DATE OBTAINED 19 July 1953 REFERENCES PAGES 1 ENCLOSURES NO. 17 REMARKS SOURCE At about 2000 on 12 or 13 September 1953, it was observed from PW Corp in Boston that a fiery glass novel from north-northeast to south-southwest 5 km west of the coast at a constant altitude of 1,000 to 1,500 meters and a constant speed. The weather was clear and cloudless. The clear of fire was yellowish red in front and became dark red to the rear, but its shape did not change to the rear. So smoke trail was observed nor were sounds heard. The glass was observed for about 3 seconds during which it covered a distance of about 1,250 meters. This was not confused with an aircraft because no air activity was conducted during the period of observation. Field Current. The information confirms previous observations of unidentified flying objects in the Enkhty/Rostov area.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 3 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.