Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency report, 00-W-30797, was distributed 30 July 1954 and compiles unevaluated foreign newspaper accounts of unidentified flying objects published between 19 January and 15 May 1954. It covers sightings in France near Saint Mexant and Sare, in Sweden's Norrbotten Province and at Kautokeino in northern Norway, and over Saint Arnaud, Setif and Ouled Djellal in Algeria. It also includes reports from Worcester in South Africa and from Port Swettenham and Cheras in British Malaya.
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## Union of South Africa SIGHTING OVER WORCESTER -- Cape Town, Die Burger, 17 Apr 54 At 2000 hours on 16 April 1954, C. Horn of Worcester saw what appeared to be a blood-red star in motion. When he looked through a telescope, he could also detect moving objects around the star. The "star" climbed obliquely at a very fast rate and moved upward with a jerky motion, alternately start ing and stopping. It seemed to sway like a balloon and became brighter as it rose. Finally, the object headed north. ## FAR EAST ## British Malaya SIGHTINGS OF CIGAR-SHAPED OBJECTS -- Istanbul, Son Posta, 15 Mar 54 Kuala Lumpur (Anatolian Agency), 14 March 1954 -- On 12 March, harbor workers at Swettenham sighted a flying object which resembled a cigar and which left a white trail behind it. The object, which slowly disappeared in the clouds, has not been identified. Istanbul, Hurriyet, 19 Mar 54 Kuala Lumpur -- On 17 Mar 1954, a second cigar-shaped object was observed in the sky over certain portions of British Malaya. It was seen by residents of the towns of Por Swettenham, Cheras Swettenham, and Cheras.
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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.