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This Central Intelligence Agency report, No. OO-W-30339, was distributed on 26 May 1954. It compiles unevaluated foreign newspaper items published between 10 December 1953 and 2 March 1954 about unidentified flying objects seen outside the Soviet orbit. It covers a fireball seen by a Sabena pilot near Brussels, sightings at Arras and Gemeaux in France, and French astronomers' view that the Dieppe explosion was a large meteorite. It also covers luminous disks and a cigar-shaped object over Algeria and a metallic disk over Montevideo beaches.
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CLASSIFICATION CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INFORMATION FROM FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS REPORT NO. OO-W-30339 CD NO. COUNTRY Non-Orbit SUBJECT Military - Unidentified aircraft DATE OF INFORMATION 1953-1954 HOW PUBLISHED Newspapers DATE DIST. 26 May 1954 WHERE PUBLISHED As indicated DATE PUBLISHED 10 Dec 1953-2 Mar 1954 NO. OF PAGES 3 LANGUAGE Various SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT NO. SOURCE As indicated THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION 1 4 NON-ORBIT SIGHTINGS OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 10 DECEMBER 1953-2 MARCH 1954 ## WESTERN EUROPE [The first three items in this section may refer to incident cited in OO-W-29903 in the item entitled "Explosion in Sky Breaks Windows at Dieppe."] ## Belgium BALL OF FIRE SEEN OVER BRUSSELS -- Liege, Le Monde du Travail, 10 Jan 54 On 7 January 1954 at 0420 hours, a Sabena pilot preparing to land at Melsbroek saw a ball of fire low on the horizon, moving in a north-northwesterly direction. The ball was white, edged with green, and was followed by a long trail. The phenomenon illuminated the whole sky and the pilot supposed at the time that it was a green rocket signal set off by the airport authorities. Since the latter denied this, it was assumed that he had seen the same light which was seen over Dieppe. ## France FIERY DISK SEEN AT ARNAS -- Casablanca, Le Petit Marocain, 8 Jan 54 At approximately 0427 hours on 7 January 1954, a fiery disk, followed by a luminous trail, was sighted in Arras, Pas-de-Calais Department. An observer stated that the disk remained motionless in the sky for an instant, after which it flew away and disappeared over the horizon. -1- ARCHIVAL RECORD PLEASE RETURN TO AGENCY ARCHIVES, CLASSIFICATION APPROVED FOR REF DATE
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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.