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This Central Intelligence Agency information report, dated 9 August 1955, describes three flying objects seen one August 1953 evening over a camp about 10 km southwest of Shakhty in the USSR. The objects moved from southeast to northwest without sound, glowing reddish like a comet or shooting star. Observers believed they were rockets. Field comments note that earlier Shakhty reports described loud noises and suggest the objects were propelled by a ramjet or rocket engine.
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2. Field Comment. All previous reports on flying objects observed in the Shakhty area mentioned that loud noises accompanied the action. The description of the noises indicated that the body was propelled by a rocket or fitted with a pulse-jet engine. See and The objects mentioned in the present and . The objects mentioned in the present report possibly lie at such a high altitude that the sound of the engines could not be heard. Another possibility is that a different phenomenon was observed, which, however, appears rather improbable. 3. Field Content. The observation reported agrees with previous information and indicates that the body was propelled by a runjet or a rocket engine.
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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.