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This Central Intelligence Agency report (No. 00-W-29745), distributed in April 1954, translates three Dagens Nyheter articles from 18 to 20 December 1953. It covers a sighting on 17 December 1953 by Transair pilot Ulf Christiernsson and flight mechanic Olle Johansson, who saw a round metallic object near Hässleholm, Skaane, while flying a DC-3. Swedish Defense and Air Staff experts suggested a daylight meteor or a balloon. Later reports favored perfume advertising balloons released that day near Hässleholm.
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CLASSIFICATION # CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INFORMATION FROM FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS nEPORT NO. 00-W-29745 CD NO. COUNTRY Sweden SUBJECT Military - Unconventional aircraft DATE OF INFORMATION 1953 HOW PUBLISHED Daily newspaper DATE DIST. IAPR 1954 WHERE PUBLISHED Stockholm DATE PUBLISHED 18-20 Dec 1953 NO. OF PAGES 4 LANGUAGE Swedish THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION VETERAN SWEDISH AIRMEN OBSERVE, DESCRIBE DISK-SHAPED AIRCRAFT OVER SKAANE The information in this report was taken from three articles which appeared in the liberal Stockholm daily, Dagens Nyheter on 18, 19, and 20 December 1953. In the rendition of the first two articles (18 and 19 December), repetitious elements have been omitted. The third article is given in full. Numbers in parentheses refer to appended sources. The chief pilot for Transair Airlines, Flight Captain Ulf Christiernsson, and his flight mechanic, Olle Johansson, reported that on the afternoon of 17 December 1953, while flying in a DC-3 over Skaane, they sighted a mysterious circular metal object flying in an opposite direction of them at a speed estimated at about the speed of sound. The airmen estimated that the object was about 10 meters in diameter. Captain Christiernsson, at present employed by Transair in flying the morning [Stockholm] papers to southern Sweden, has very extensive air experience, having served as a volunteer with the RAF from 1942-1946, finishing his service with the rank of captain. He flew 30 missions against enemy territory from North Africa and Italy. Captain Christiernsson made the following statement to Dagens Nyheter: "I do not doubt for an instant that it was not a jet plane. What I saw was a completely unorthodox, metallic, symmetric, round object which was unlike anything I have seen before. The mysterious object appeared suddenly on the air route traveled by all controlled air traffic between Bulltofta and Bromma airfields [at Malmö and Stockholm respectively]. I myself was en route to Bromma.
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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. 8 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.