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This Central Intelligence Agency teletyped information report, distributed 11 December 1958 and covering USSR/India, describes a source's telescope sighting on 6 December 1958. While observing Mars, the source saw an artificial object of magnitude 3 cross the field of vision from north to south, with no smoke, flame, noise or fall, and believed it was Sputnik III. A headquarters comment says Sputnik III was not visible from the source's area at that time, and it asks Air and OSI for an evaluation.
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TDCS-3/444,213 MN 26714 PA08 2 PEFOSE DISAPPEARING. 5. (FIELD COMMENT: OBJECT DAPACTED PRIOR TO REACHING THE CASPIAN.) 6. FIELD DISSEMINATION: NONE INDICATED. END OF MESSAGE
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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. 3 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.