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This Central Intelligence Agency information report, marked as unevaluated information and dated 1958, describes a sighting made while travelling by train from Leningrad to Moscow. At about 10 PM on 10 July, the source saw a bright light in the air trailing a long tail of black smoke, perhaps 5 to 15 miles away and under 2,000 feet up. A guide reportedly said it was probably a flying object. An editorial comment notes that another source reported the same incident.
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INFORMATION REPORT CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Exemplified Farellay Bright Light Beam in the City ## UNEVALUATED INFORMATION 1. About 10 PM on the night of 10 Jul 59, ships arrive from Leningrad to Moscow by train, to carry a bright light in the air which was trailed by a long tail of blood smoke. It was much too bright for a place. It may have been five to 15 miles first and we under two thousand feet above ground. 2. We inquired of our guild that it was not only a humane reply that it was probably a flying prison. The guild was 'Ivinson' who had been with a party of which I was a member on a previous trip. Whether he knew that it was could not be determined. [Editorial Comment: Your attention is invited to 00-2-3113696 from another source, in which the same incident is reported.]
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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. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.