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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated October 1955 and approved for release in 2010, records a sighting of an unusual flying object from a train. A traveler on a sleeping car describes how a companion saw a flying saucer, and how he then saw a glowing searchlight on the horizon and an object with two white lights rising vertically and passing over the train in silence. The file also contains interrogation notes and interview notes on the same sighting from other witnesses, with names redacted.
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## ] ## Interrogation of 1. The train was about one hour and ten minutes out of town. The train had traveled for about 10 minutes after it turned east away from the The time was about 7:10 PM. 2. The object was sighted out the left side of the train. The landscape was a bare plain to the horizon. 3. The train was moving at about 30 mph. h. The lights had been turned on in the train but it was not yet completely dark outside. 5. The sky was clear. 6. was resting in one compartment which was dark. 7. were-in second compartment with . 8. came into compartment and announced that he had seen a flying saucer. 9. The lights were extinguished and all looked out the window. 10. saw a search light which was described as a glow. There was no beam. 11. When the object was pointed out to him he saw two white lights, like eyes, rise vertically and then move rapidly over the train. He looked out the opposite side of the train but could see nothing. 12. The body of the object appeared only as a darkened object agains the sky. It may have been square or round, he was not sure. 13. The lights were not quite equally spaced on the span of the object, being somewhat closer together than the distance to the tips. 11. There appeared to be stub wings on the object. 15. The object appeared to be about 1/3 the size of the searchlight. 16. It was not possible to estimate the distance to the object. 17. The total time of sighting was estimated to be about 5 seconds. 18. About 10 minutes after the sighting, the steward came in the compartment and pulled the shade down. When they protested he said it
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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. 11 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.