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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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MANY PERSONS SEE UNUSUAL OBJECT OVER PARIS -- Paris, Le Parisien Libere, 3 Sep 54 Jolivet, a resident of Paris, reported that on 30 August, he had seen a luminous, circular object flying over the city. After his report appeared in the press, many other persons [source gives names and addresses] reported that they had witnessed the phenomenon on the same day. Some of the reports indicate that the object was headed south-southwest, while other reports indicate a northeast direction; but, according to Claire Cordier and Andre Greffier, two natives of Angers, the object disappeared toward the north. [Claire Cordier reported a "disk" flying over her hose town as well; see below.] "FLYING DISK" SIGHTED IN WESTERN FRANCE -- Algiers, Alger Republicain, 4 Sep 54 A disk-shaped object was [no date given] observed by various persons simultaneously, at about 2020 hours, flying over Angers and Lion-d'Angers, both in Maine-et-Loire Department, and over Chateau Gontier, Mayenne Department. The object was generally described as being brown and emitting a smoke trail of an odd hue of green. According to Claire Cordier, a nurse in Angers, the object gave off a soft drone, and its glow was reminiscent of the light in neon tubes. The phenomenon was visible for several minutes. ## UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS SEEN IN SOME DEPARTMENT --- Dakar, Paris-Dakar, 10 Sep 54 A 21-year-old mason and his assistant report that recently on September, see below, saw a gra object resealing a truncated millstone with a large inverted plate lying on it in a field about 200 meters from the road where the were iscling, near Acheux-en-Junienois, Some Department. The object oscillated slowl and seemed to have a closed door on its side. When the men had run about 50 meters toward it, the object began to fl away. Smoke was then visible from a sort of exhaust pipe on the underside. After an oblique right of about 12 meters, the object rose vertically and disappeared. Police later found no traces of the object. Emile Renard, a mason, and Yves de Guillerrez, his assistant, saw what they considered to be a "fling saucer" at 0.15 hours on 1 September. Both men are known to be very reliable. They stated that the object apparently never touched ground, but hovered above the ground like a helicopter. It was about 10 meters in diameter and 3 meters in height, did not glow, and departed noiselessl, trailing smoke as it took off. The saw the object for at least 3 minutes. ## Paris, Le Parisien Liere, 14 Sep 54 [Source contains three crude sketches of the object drawn by these men.] "FLYING DISK" SIGHTED IN AISNE DEPARTMENT -- Paris, Le Parisien Libere, 14 Sep 54 At about 0030 hours on 1 September, Robert Chovel and his wife and father-in-law were driving home from the theater in Hirson, Aisne Department, when they saw a luminous, red-orange "disk" flying above the railroad track. The "disk" stopped suddenly across the road, 300-400 meters from the ground. It
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.