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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, prepared for the Director of Central Intelligence and signed by the Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, is dated 1955. It summarizes debriefings of four members of an official party who saw objects while travelling by train at night. They reported a greenish-yellow glowing object that rose rapidly while rotating and then levelled into horizontal flight, along with a triangular object with lights. The memo concludes that most observations can probably be explained as climbing aircraft or missiles and that the evidence does not warrant concluding a radically new aircraft is in operation.
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LIGHTING OF FLYING CINEMAS OR DISCONVENTIONAL AIRCRAFT
observations can probably be explained as deep climbing aircraft or missiles. Further observations will probably be required before the matter can be completely resolved. In the meantime, however, the evidence does not give sufficiently firm to warrant the conclusion that the forces have developed and have in operation a radically new type of aircraft.
... rt Smith , V .
M. ZING COVILLS, JR. Assistant Director Scientific Intelligence
OSI: ESCOVILLE:GS (31 October 1955)
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2 - AD/SI Not linked to a story yet.
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.