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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum for the record, dated 4 September 1955, reports an interview with a traveler whose name is withheld. While riding a train with three others after dark, he saw two greenish yellow round lights climb steeply one after the other, with no trail, smoke or audible noise. A searchlight nearby did not track them. His companions said they saw lights and details on the objects. He added that if the objects were jet aircraft, they climbed surprisingly fast.
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stated that after he was back in his compartment, lying down, the porter pulled down the shades. This was at least 10 minutes later and was not unusual. It stated that he preferred to ride the train, taking it whenever possible. There was nothing unusual about him using the train on this trip. He did not feel where trying to conceal anything from him in this region. He did not see anything to indicate the presence of a big airforce base in this region. Elsewhere, he passed several airbases and no attempt was made to conceal the from him. has never seen a jet airplane take off at night. If these objects were jet airplanes, they climbed surprisingly rapidly. 2 - 2 / 52 7 = 2.0 members (1 cy each)
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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.