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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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light on top of the object. The object was a flat circular shape with a bulge upward, partially inflated balloon. The object moved upward statically, only it slipped rotating a ball moved rapidly over the trailing it did and appear to increase in size as it moved over the trail. There were no wings on the object that was said not to be a conventional airplane. No estimating distance only he made. Its size must then be about as large as a fly. There were two search lights to the lift with the beam horizontal. The lights appeared to be diffused. The lights were
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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.