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This CIA foreign documents report, distributed 20 August 1953, gives the full text of a Stockholm Morgon-Tidningen article from 13 July 1953. It says Danish defense authorities take flying saucers seriously. A Danish Air Force Command report based on radar observations suggests the objects could come from a Soviet base on Novaya Zemlya. The report cites a 12 November 1952 sighting by Karup Airfield personnel and Norwegian sightings at Horten and near Bodø.
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INFORMATION FROM FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS 'EPORT NO. OO-W-27521 CD NO. -- COUNTRY Denmark, Norway, Finland, USSR SUBJECT Military - Air, unconventional aircraft DATE OF INFORMATION 1953 HOW DATE DIST. 20 Aug 1953 PUBLISHED Daily newspaper WHERE Stockholm NO. OF PAGES 2 PUBLISHED DATE 13 Jul 1953 PUBLISHED LANGUAGE Swedish SOURCE Morgon-Tidningen. THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION DANISH DEFENSE LEADERS TAKE SERIOUS VIEW OF FLYING SAUCERS Comment: The information below is the full text of an article which appeared in the Stockholm daily, Morgon-Tidnirgen, on 13 July 1953. The leading Copenhagen dailies, Berlingske Tidende, Social-Demokraten, Politiken, and Information, during the period around the above date, did not carry the story Copenhagen, 12 July -- Danish defense authorities take a serious view of the problem of flying saucers. The military experts are of the opinion that although most of the observations of flying saucers have turned out to be astronomical phenomena, there remain the reports of trained observers which, among other things, would seem to indicate that the saucers are dispatched from Soviet bases in the Arctic Ocean. The Danish Air Force Command has recently turned over to the Defense Staff a report on various phenomena in the air over Denmark and the waters adjacent to Denmark. The report is based on observations from Danish Air Force radar stations. These observations are compared with information regarding the remote-controlled projectiles which have been traced in the atmosphere over the northernmost part of Norway and Finland. On the basis of these observations, the members of the Defense Intelligence Service have come to the conclusion that the projectiles could have been dispatched from a Soviet base on Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Ocean. The report discusses the incident in which an officer and seven privates from Karup Airfield on Jutland, on 12 November 1952, sighted an object in the air which resembled an aircraft, but which moved more rapidly than any known type of aircraft. The Danish observations are compared with a number of Norwegian observations, among them one which occurred in October 1952 when, according to the Norwegian Defense Staff and the Norwegian Navy, an aircraft of hitherto unknown design flew over the naval base at Horten at the entrance
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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. 4 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.