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This Central Intelligence Agency information report, distributed 25 October 1954, compiles unevaluated foreign newspaper accounts published between 5 July and 2 September 1954 describing unidentified flying object sightings. It covers an object that 50 soldiers watched during antiaircraft exercises at Stavern, Norway, and saucer reports from West Berlin, Darmstadt, Schleswig, Rastatt, Switzerland, Montlucon, Vernon and Lyon. It also covers a luminous globe seen over Laketi in the Middle Congo and six objects seen over Enkeldoorn in Southern Rhodesia.
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UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT OVER LION -- Dakar, Paris-Dakar, 2 Sep 54 At 2015 hours on 31 August 1954, Henri Tardy is reported to have seen a flying object, in the shape of a short, fat cigar flying from east to west over Lyon. The object was bluish-green in color and emitted sparks from its tail. It disappeared in a few seconds toward the radio beacon on Mount Verdun. UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT OVER FRENCH EQUATORIAL AFRICA -- Lisbon, Diario da Manta, 21 Jul 54 Brazzaville, 19 July (ANI) -- Monsignor Verbille, Apostolic Vicar of Fort Rousset, reported in the Brazzaville newspaper La Senaine de l'AKF that he and others had sighted an unidentified flying object over Laketi in the Likuala-Mossala region of the Middle Congo on 18 June 1954 at 1935 hours. A luminous globe, it came from the North toward the Laketi Mission. It suddenly stopped, rose and dropped, stopped again, gyrated, and seemed to shake. A noise like that of an airplane engine, heard until that moment, also stopped. Seen through binoculars, the object had a dark mass in the center with light rays of unequal length coming out of it alternately. It went through its rising, falling, and stabilizing movements for 15 minutes, then shot back over the northern horizon. UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS OVER SOUTHERN RHODESIA -- Leopoldville, Le Courrier d'Afrique, 25 Jul 54 J. H. Flanagan (a policeman) and some friends recently observed six unidentified objects in the sky over Enkeldoorn, south of Salisbury. The objects, which were almost immobile, were visible for about 20 minutes but disappeared when night fell. LIBRARY SUBJECT & AREA COOES 10/54
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.