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This Central Intelligence Agency report, No. OO-W-30956, was distributed on 22 September 1954. It is an unevaluated compilation of Finnish, Norwegian and Austrian newspaper items published between 10 June and 15 July 1954. It describes photographs of unidentified objects taken in Helsinki and Maarianhamina during and after the 30 June eclipse, and an oblong object seen at Pulkkila on 14 July. It also covers color film of two shining disks shot from an airplane over Norway, and a gleaming red object seen over the Tennen Mountains near Hallein, Austria.
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UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS FILMED IN NORWAY DURING ECLIPSE --- Onlo, Aftenporten, 6 Jul 54 (PM edition) Color motion pictures of unidentified flying objects were obtained by photographer Johnny Bjoernulf during the recent total eclipse of the sun. The pictures, which were obtained from an airplane flying at an altitude of 4,500 meters, show two shining disks with condensation trails moving at great speed in the direction opposite to that of the plane. [Photographs are shown in source.] UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT SIGHTED IN AUSTRIA -- Salzburg, Salzburger Nachrichten, 10 Jun 54 A contractor in Hallein, Austria, reported to the gendarmerie that he and two other men sighted a strange object in the sky over the Tennen Mountains shortly after midnight on 7 June 1954. The object was gleaming red and appeared to have a diagonal streak across it. It seemed to be about three times as large as Venus and moved spasmodically in a vertical and then a horizontal direction. The object was in view for 2 hours.
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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.