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Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects

Central Intelligence Agency · 1954-08-25 · 2 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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COUNTRY	Non-Orbit	DATE OF INFORMATION 1954
SUBJECT	Military - Unidentified flying objects
HOW PUBLISHED	Newspapers	DATE DIST. 25 Aug 1954
WHERE PUBLISHED	As indicated	NO. OF PAGES 2
DATE PUBLISHED	7 May-20 Jun 1954
LANGUAGE	Swedish, Turkish, French, German	SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT NO.

## SIGHTINGS OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

ADDITIONAL WITNESSES TO PREVIOUS SIGHTINGS·IN SWEDEN -- Stockholm, Svenska Dagbladet, 18 May 54

Luleaa -- A snowstorm on 17 May made it impossible for the Gaellivare police to investigate the celestial objects which were recently seen in various places in northern Norrbotten Province. The police do not think that the objects were meteorological balloons but do not have any theories to account for the sightings. The latest eyewitness account was given by Valdemar Ylinentalo from Kuusijaervi, who declared that he saw a silvery football-shaped object coming from the Finnish side of the boundary; it had a fiery tail 70-80 meters long and appeared to descend to earth about half a kilometer from where he was. Jenny Karlsson, another eyewitness, stated that she saw a sphere-shaped object attached to a meter-long rod pass her at a distance of 4-5 meters [sic] and come to earth in the forest, a short distance from her. No traces of this object have been found.

In the near future, an investigation will be made to determine whether a flying object which landed in a field near Spjellerup about 6 months ago is a meteor, a shell, or some part of a "flying saucer." The object made a hole in the field about 3.5 meters deep and 25 centimeters in diameter and passed through a thick stratum of flint. The owner of the land pushed a long iron rod into the hole and determined that the object at the bottom is metallic. It is said that at the time the object descended to earth, there were quite a number of unidentified flying objects over the area. Excavation of the object will be performed with assistance from the military.

CELESTIAL OBJECT TO BE DUG UP IN DENMARK -- Stockholm, Svenska Dagbladet, 24 May 54

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