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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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SUBJECT: Interview with the shades. No unusual attitude on the part of the guard was noted but it was dark. (This is in direct contradiction with the original dispatch and the statement that it was not present when the dispatch was prepared and sent from Prague, and as a consequence did not have a chance to verify the contents. 4. The testimony does not in my opinion support the theory developed saucer-like or unconventional aircraft. It is quite possible that the objects seen were the exhausts of normal jet aircraft in a steep climb. The fact that none were seen on the ground night indicate that the aircraft were in a dive followed by a sharp pull-up in such a way that nothing was seen until the exhausts were visible to the observers on the train. However, it is possible that the aircraft were indeed of the short or almost vertical take-off variety. Harlent Smith 6 NEGENT SCOVILLE, JR. Assistant Director Scientific Intelligence
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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.