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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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UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS SEEN OVER WEST GERMANY -- Douala, L'Eveil du Cameroun, 17 Jun 54 Two unidentified flying objects were reported to have been seen recently for about 10 seconds by a PTT (Postes, Telegraphes, et Telephones, Post, Telegraph, and Telephone Service) engineer and by another person between Frankfurt and Darmstadt, near the Rhein-Main Air Base. The objects were described as glowing disks, which descended almost vertically to a certain [unspecified] distance above the earth at high speed and then rose rapidly, describing a parabola. US radar did not pick up the objects. New York, N. Y. Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 20 Jun 54 Employees of various air lines at the Duesseldorf airport recently observed a shiny, round object which approached from the south at high speed, then turned toward the west, and disappeared above the 6,000-meter overcast. An employee of the Condor aerial-advertising firm, who happened to be watching a skywriter of his firm at the time, called the object a "flying saucer" and stated that it could not possibly have been an airplane, balloon, or aerial measuring device. Several other airport employees confirmed his observation. LIBRARY SUBJECT & AREA CODES 25 AUG 1954
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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. 4 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.