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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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The object must a flat circular shape with a bulge upon it, partially inflated and partially inflated below. The object moved upward statically, it stopped rotating and moved rapidly over the trailing it did not appear to increase in size as it moved over the trail. There were no signs on the object that was said not to be a conventional display. No estimating distance could be made. Its size was thus to be about as large as a fly. There were three search lights to the left with the beam horizontal. The lights appeared to be diffused. The lights were not thought to be associated with the object; The object appeared to be about 38° ahead of the drive and crossed the train at about 90° . The train was moving
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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.