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This Central Intelligence Agency report, No. 00-W-30883, was distributed on 25 August 1954. It is an unevaluated compilation of foreign press items published between 7 May and 20 June 1954 about unidentified flying objects. The report covers sightings in northern Norrbotten, Sweden, and a plan to excavate a metallic object buried in a field near Spjellerup, Denmark. It also includes a craft seen over the Taurus Mountains from Mersin, Turkey, and glowing disks near Frankfurt and Düsseldorf airport in West Germany.
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DATE PUBLISHED 7 May-20 Jun 1954 LANGUAGE Swedish, Turkish, French, German THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION ## SIGHTINGS OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS ADDITIONAL WITNESSES TO PREVIOUS SIGHTINGS·IN SWEDEN -- Stockholm, Svenska Dagbladet, 18 May 54 Luleaa -- A snowstorm on 17 May made it impossible for the Gaellivare police to investigate the celestial objects which were recently seen in various places in northern Norrbotten Province. The police do not think that the objects were meteorological balloons but do not have any theories to account for the sightings. The latest eyewitness account was given by Valdemar Ylinentalo from Kuusijaervi, who declared that he saw a silvery football-shaped object coming from the Finnish side of the boundary; it had a fiery tail 70-80 meters long and appeared to descend to earth about half a kilometer from where he was. Jenny Karlsson, another eyewitness, stated that she saw a sphere-shaped object attached to a meter-long rod pass her at a distance of 4-5 meters [sic] and come to earth in the forest, a short distance from her. No traces of this object have been found. CELESTIAL OBJECT TO BE DUG UP IN DENMARK -- Stockholm, Svenska Dagbladet, 24 May 54 In the near future, an investigation will be made to determine whether a flying object which landed in a field near Spjellerup about 6 months ago is a meteor, a shell, or some part of a "flying saucer." The object made a hole in the field about 3.5 meters deep and 25 centimeters in diameter and passed through a thick stratum of flint. The owner of the land pushed a long iron rod into the hole and determined that the object at the bottom is metallic. It is said that at the time the object descended to earth, there were quite a number of unidentified flying objects over the area. Excavation of the object will be performed with assistance from the military. APPROVED FOR RELEASE DATE ... 6 20 74
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