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This CIA memorandum dated 6 September 1955 records a traveler's account of an unusual flying object seen from a train at about 7:10 PM, while four members of a party rode in a sleeping car. The witnesses saw a reddish glow like a searchlight on the horizon, then an object with two white lights like eyes that rose vertically and passed over the train silently in about five seconds. The file also includes interrogation notes and interviews describing a rotating, balloon-like shape, and it records that a porter pulled the shades soon afterward.
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Notes on interviews with 1. The train left about 6:10 o'clock. It was still light enough to take color photos 2, about an hour and 10 minutes later ten minutes out of the station after the train had turned away from the Sea the sight was blurred. 3. The train was in one compartment alone, the lights out. Mr. were in the adjacent compartment with the lights on. It was gett dark but the horizon was big. The sun reached into their compartment and announced that he had seen as flying caverns the light were astonished at all lithed at the window. For a moment they saw nothing in it. said, "The
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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. 19 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.