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This Central Intelligence Agency compilation of foreign press and radio reports, distributed 29 October 1954, gathers unevaluated sightings of unidentified flying objects published between 31 July and 20 September 1954. It covers reports from Austria, Finland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey, Uganda and Singapore. Items include a hovering object near Acheux-en-Vimeu, a red-orange disk near Hirson, and an object tracked by the Ciampino control tower and Pratica di Mare radar near Rome. French air police are quoted as attributing two alleged landings to smuggling planes.
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# INFORMATION FROM FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO. COUNTRY Non-Orbit SUBJECT Military - Unidentified flying objects DATE OF INFORMATION 1954 HOW PUBLISHED Dr.11. newspapers DATE DIST. 29 Oct 1954 WHERE PUBLISHED As indicated NO. OF PAGES 5 DATE PUBLISHED 31 Jul-20 Sep 1954 LANGUAGE Various THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION SOURCE As indicated SIGHTINGS OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 31 JULY-20 SEPTEMBER 1954 ## WESTERN EUROPE ## Austria "FLYING SAUCER" SIGHTED OVER BREGENZ -- Vienna, Neue Wiener Tageszeitung, 21 Aug 54 Bregenz, 20 August -- Three inhabitants of Hard, on the Lake of Constance, observed a "flying saucer" at about 2045 hours on 19 August. A carpenter named Fessler, his son-in-law, and Kloser, a teacher, described it as follows: a small gleaming disk-shaped object, about twice as large as Venus, came from the south-west, flying in the direction of Pfaender. Suddenly it turned and vent in the opposite direction, making sore a rupt zigzags over Bregenz. After about 2 minutes, it disappeared into a bank of clouds. ## Finland "FLYING SAUCER" OVER KELSINKI -- Paris, Franc-Tireur, 15 Sep 54 Several people report having seen a circular flying object over Helsinki on the night of 14 September. The object, flying at an altitude of 300 meters, gave off an intense light and left a trail of reddish smoke about three times its diameter. It was visible for about 7 seconds. APPROVED FOR RELEASE DATE ... 6 h 20 79
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.