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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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On 1 March 1954, numerous bathers at the beaches near Montevideo observed a "flying saucer," a sort of metallic disk emitting yellowish reflections. It remained stationary for 2 minutes at an altitude of several thousand meters. ARCHIVAL RECORD PLEASE RETURN TO AGENCY ARCHIVES.
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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.