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This Central Intelligence Agency information report, distributed 25 August 1954, compiles foreign newspaper items published between 7 May and 20 June 1954 about unidentified flying objects. It covers sightings in northern Norrbotten, Sweden, among them a silvery object with a fiery tail, and a plan to dig up a metallic object buried in a field near Spjellerup, Denmark. It also reports a craft over the Taurus Mountains near Mersin, Turkey, and glowing disks near Frankfurt and at Duesseldorf airport in West Germany.
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SIGHT UNIDENTIFIED CRAFT OVER TAURUS MOUNTAINS OF TURKEY -- Istanbul, Yeni Sabah, 7 May 54 Mersin, 6 May 1954 -- Today, an unidentified aircraft was sighted by residents of the town of Mersin at approximately 1130 hours. The craft, which appeared over the Taurus Mountains, seemed to be about 10 meters in length and was traveling in a straight line. It was visible only for a few minutes and then disappeared. UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS SEEN OVER WEST GERMANY -- Douala, L'Eveil du Cameroun, 17 Jun 54 Two unidentified flying objects were reported to have been seen recently for about 10 seconds by a FTT (Postes, Telegraphes, et Telephones, Post, Telegraph, and Telephone Service) engineer and by another person between Frankfurt and Darmstadt, near the Rhein-Main Air Base. The objects were described as glowing disks, which descended almost vertically to a certain [unspecified] distance above the earth at high speed and then rose rapidly, describing a parabola. US radar did not pick up the objects. ## New York, N. Y. Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 20 Jun 54 Employees of various air lines at the Duesseldorf airport recently observed a shiny, round object which approached from the south at high speed, then turned toward the west, and disappeared above the 6,000-meter overcast. An employee of the Condor aerial-advertising firm, who happened to be watching a skywriter of his firm at the time, called the object a "flying saucer" and stated that it could not possibly have been an airplane, balloon, or aerial measuring device. Several other airport employees confirmed his observation. LIBRARY SUBJECT AREA CODES
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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. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.