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This Central Intelligence Agency report, distributed on 30 July 1954, compiles unevaluated foreign newspaper accounts of unidentified flying object sightings published between 19 January and 15 May 1954. It covers reports from France, Sweden, Norway, Algeria, the Union of South Africa and British Malaya. Among them are a cigar-shaped object near the Pyrenees, three rotating objects in V-formation seen over Kautokeino by Sheriff Oskal and his deputies, and cigar-shaped objects over Swettenham. The report gives no conclusions.
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## : It was reported from Hammerfest, Norway, that on the same day, three bright objects passed over Kautokeino (in northern Norway) at great speed. They flew in V-formation and disappeared toward the southwest. A deputy constable who had observed them with binoculars stated that they flew so high that he could not ascertain their shape but that they were not ordinary airplanes. He added that they seemed to be red on one side and white on the other and appeared to be rotating. ## Norway UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS OVER NORTHERN NORWAY -- Copenhagen, Berlinske Tidende, 15 May 54 Oslo, 14 May -- Luftkommando Nord (Air Command North) has received a number of reports that indicate that the flying objects observed over Finnmark Province, Norway, at 1210 hours on 13 May were not conventional aircraft or meteorological balloons. Sheriff Oskal of Kautokeino, three of his deputies, and two clerks observed the three objects through binoculars for 4-5 minutes. Oskal described them as flying in formation at an altitude of about 2,000 meters, being triangular in shape [sir; probably a reference to the V-formation mentioned above], reddish brown on the underside and shiny on the upper, and moving with a rotary motion. They left no smoke. The weather was clear and visibility perfect. ## NEAR EAST/AFRICA ## Algeria FLYING OBJECT REPORTED OVER THREE CONSTANTINE DEPARTMENT TOWNS -- Constantine, La Depeche de Constantine, 19 Jan 54 At 1330 hours on 18 January, many persons in Saint Arnaud observed an object leaving a double trail of white smoke, describing an immense circle over the town. Several officers at La Remonte [military base nearby?] even heard a strange sound made by the object, which seemed to have come from the north. (A similar observation had been made on 16 January, when the object had come from the vest.) The meteorological station at Oued Hamimime airport (near Constantine) reported that it had observed a double trail of smoke at 1400 hours but concluded that the smoke came from a plane flying at great altitude. At 1430 hours, inhabitants of Setif saw an object arrive from the east, emitting bluish smoke trails and moving relatively slowly. After circling above the town for several seconds, it suddenly headed back in the direction of Saint Arnaud at great speed. Most of the spectators described it as being cigar-shaped and flying at high altitude. Finally, at 1645 hours on the same day, a large, luminous, rectangular shaped object was seen over Culed Djellal (200 kilometers southwest of Setif) for over 30 minutes following a rectilinear course. The object came from the east and disappeared toward the west.
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.