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This Central Intelligence Agency foreign press report, distributed 18 August 1953, collects unevaluated newspaper items published in Athens, Brazzaville and Tehran between March and May 1953. It relays German engineer Georg Klein's claim that wartime German flying saucer designs and specialists were seized by the Soviets. It also reports four discs seen over Bocaranga, Ubangi-Shari, on 22 November 1952, flying saucers over Homs, Syria, and a luminous object over Abadan and Khuzistan, Iran, on 18 May 1953.
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"They moved several times, but each time it seemed that only the two lower ones were rotating. Just before they all four began to move, they lit up brightly, like suns. Then it looked as though they arranged themselves to move in circular fashion so as to return to their starting point. On stopping, they lost their brilliant color and regained the silvery one. During their rotation, they seemed slightly oval. I cannot say whether it was due to a new shape they assumed while in flight or to the oblique position they had assumed while moving. Each time they turned, they had that shape and that profusion of light. We observed them for about 20 minutes. After their final turn, they remained motionless in their initial position for several moments. Then they disappeared, headed in the direction from which we had come. What I saw was no aerolite, shooting star, or anything of the kind. It could only have been a man-made machine." Lasimone then gave an equally detailed version, as follows: "At about 2200 hours, we observed four halos of silvery light grouped in a square formation and located above light clouds. The night was very clear. "At one point, the four halos were on the horizon, ranged in a line in, the direction of Bousoum. Suddenly, one of them lit up in vivid red, causing its shape to be distinguished. It was like a cigar, thicker in the fore section. The center section constituted about one third of the total length, and appeared opaque in the light, with perfectly symmetrical lines. Flying above the clouds, this object headed in our direction at considerable speed, about equal to that of an average plane. About 5 or 6 kilometers away, it halted without changing its lights and then climbed again, vertically. The stop was abrupt and the glow became silvery again. The other three on the horizon then began to move in the same way as the first and joined it to form a square once again." REPORT "FLYING SAUCERS" SEEN IN SYRIA -- Athens, Le Messager d'Athenes, 19 May 53 The Damascus newspaper Al Ahaya reports that "flying saucers" were seen recently above the city of Homs, Syria, coming from the south. LUMINOUS OBJECT SEEN IN SKY OVER ABADAN -- Tehran, Etela'at, 20 May 53 This newspaper was informed by its correspondent in Abadan that at 1855 hours, on 18 May 1953, a luminous object was seen in the sky over Abadan. The object was reported to be as bright as the sun and to have the shape of a new moon (but several times larger than a new moon). It traveled extremely fast and could be seen for 20 minutes. It was also reported that the same object was seen over all the oil areas in Khuzistan.
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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.