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This Central Intelligence Agency report, No. 00-W-30339, was distributed on 26 May 1954. It collects unevaluated foreign newspaper accounts published between 10 December 1953 and 2 March 1954 of unidentified flying objects seen outside the Soviet orbit. Sightings include a fireball seen by a Sabena pilot near Brussels, a fiery disk at Arras, and a red ball at Gemeaux. Others describe disks and a cigar-shaped object over Algeria and a metallic disk above Montevideo. French astronomers attributed the Dieppe explosion to a large meteorite.
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DATE PUBLISHED 10 Dec 1953-2 Mar 1954 LANGUAGE Various THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION # NON-ORBIT SIGHTINGS OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 10 DECEMBER 1953-2 MARCH 1954 ## WESTERN-EUROPE [The first three items in this section may refer to incident cited in 00-W-29903 in the item entitled "Explosion in Sky Breaks Windows at Dieppe."] Belgium BALL OF FIRE SEEN OVER BRUSSELS -- Liege, Le Monde du Travail, 10 Jan 54 On 7 January 1954 at 0420 hours, a Sabena pilot preparing to land at Melsbrock saw a ball of fire low on the horizon, moving in a north-northwesterly direction. The ball was white, edged with green, and was followed by a long trail. The phenomenon illuminated the whole sky and the pilot supposed at the time that it was a green rocket signal set off by the airport authorities. Since the latter denied this, it was assumed that he had seen the same light which was seen over Dieppe. ## France FIERY DISK SEEN AT ARRAS -- Casablanca, Le Petit Marocain, 8 Jan 54 At approximately 0427 hours on 7 January 1954, a fiery disk, followed by a luminous trail, was sighted in Arras, Pas-de-Calais Department. An observer stated that the disk remained motionless in the sky for an instant, after which it flew away and disappeared over the horizon. ARCHIVAL RECORD PLEASE RETURN TO ```markdown ``` APPROVED FOR REI AGENCY ARCHIVES. DATE. 6.7 STATE NAVY NSRB DISTRIBUTION ARMY AIR FBI
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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. 6 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.