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This Central Intelligence Agency record, dated 23 August 1952, reproduces a Berlin news report about a flying saucer said to have landed in East Germany. Oscar Linke, a former mayor of Gleimershausen who had fled the Soviet Zone, and his daughter Gabriella swore before a judge that they saw two men in shiny clothing beside a disc 13 to 15 meters wide near Hasselbach. The object rose, rotated and flew off toward Stockheim, and it left a freshly dug circular hole behind.
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## "FLYING SAUCERS" IN EAST GERMANY Berlin, July -- Furnished with the sworn testimony of an eyewitness, Oscar Linke, a 48-year-old German and former mayor of Gleimershausen, West Berlin intelligence officers have begun investigating a most unusual "flying saucer" story. According to this story, an object "resembling a huge flying pan" and having a diameter of about 15 meters landed in a forest clearing in the Soviet Zone of Germany. Linke recently escaped from the Soviet Zone along with his wife and six children. Linke and his 11-year-old daughter, Gabriella, made the following sworn statement last week before a judge: "While I was returning to my home with Gabriella, a tire of my motorcycle blew out near the town of Hasselbach. While we were walking along toward Hasselbach, Gabriella pointed out something which lay at a distance of about 140 meters away from us. Since it was twilight, I though that she was pointing at a young deer. "I left my motorcycle near a tree and walked toward the spot which Gabriella had pointed out. When, however, I reached a spot about 55 meters from the object, I realized that my first impression had been wrong. What I had seen were two men who were now about 40 meters away from me. They seemed to be dressed in some shiny metallic clothing. They were stooped over and were looking at something lying on the ground. "I approached until I was only about 10 meters from them. I looked over a small fence and then I noticed a large object whose diameter I estimated to be between 13 and 15 meters. It looked like a huge frying pan. There were two rows of holes on its periphery, about 30 centimeters in circumference. The space between the two rows was about 0.45 meters. On the top of this metal object was a black conical tower about 3 meters high. APPROVED FOR RELEASE DATE ARCHIVAL RECORD PLEASE RETURN AGENCY ARCHIVES
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