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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum for the record, dated 1955, is signed by the Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence. It records an interview about a sighting made from a train on 27 October, when a party saw two greenish-yellow balls rising rapidly and a searchlight nearby. The memo does not support the theory of saucer-like or unconventional aircraft. It suggests the objects were probably jet exhausts in a steep climb, though they could have been aircraft of the short or near-vertical take-off type.
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# O MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: Interview with 1. On 27 October, relative to an observation of unconventional or sancer-like aircraft during his visit The following is a statement of his observations with my comments. I will submit separately his views on statements but I believe he is in general agreement with the views stated herein. 2. The party was travelling between a train at the specific request of the observer who made every attempt to journey by train when possible. (This tends to refute the theory that the train trip was arranged in order to stage the operation and that the subject was not feeling well, was resting in his compartment with the lights turned out while the remainder of the party was in the next compartment with the lights on. He suddenly noticed a greenish-yellow ball rising rapidly. He rushed into the next compartment stating that he had seen what he thought was a flying saucer. They turned out the lights and looked out the window but instinctively saw nothing and the rest of the party was initially skeptical. However, suddenly a second ball was noticed rising rapidly and then the other members of the party were convinced. The second object was initially seen at a minimum altitude of 700 to 800 feet, and while the first object was initially viewed at an even higher altitude, nothing was seen on the ground with the exception of a search light which was about one-half to one mile away and appeared to be aimed at a very low trajectory almost at the train. The subject did not on either occasion see the form of the object, only this fiery ball. No firm estimate could be made of the size or distance of the ball because there were no reference objects. However, the subject had the impression that the object could have been as small as a rocket although no trail was left by the rising ball. The object gave the impression of whirling and appeared to follow a single trajectory with no break in its flight pattern. The subject did not see any lights; only the yellowish glow (this is contrary to statements of other observers). The search light did not appear to be following the object. About
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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.