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This Central Intelligence Agency compilation dated 25 October 1954 gathers foreign press reports of unidentified flying objects seen during 1954. It covers an object watched by 50 soldiers at an antiaircraft battery at Stavern, Norway, nightly sightings over West Berlin, and saucers over Darmstadt, Schleswig and Rastatt. It also includes formations over Lake Constance and Chur in Switzerland, a cigar and saucers at Vernon and objects over Montlucon and Lyon in France, a luminous globe over Laketi in the Middle Congo, and six objects over Enkeldoorn, Southern Rhodesia.
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## SIGHTINGS OF UNIDENTIFIED PLYING OBJECTS ## UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT SIGHTED OVER NORWAY -- Oslo, Verdens Gang During exercises by an antiaircraft battery at Stavern, an unidentified flying object appeared in the sky directly in the line of fire and was observed through powerful binoculars by 50 officers and men. The object was located at a considerable distance and at an angle of 30-40 degrees to the horizontal; it was round or slightly elliptical in shape, flat on the underside, and silvery on the upper side. It moved up and down slowly for 7 minutes and then moved away at a speed estimated at several times the speed of sound. "FLYING SAUCERS" SIGHTED OVER WEST BERLIN -- Casablanca, Le Vigie Marocaine, 5 Jul 54 "FLYING SAUCERS" OVER WEST GERMANY -- Hamburg, Hamburger Abendblatt, 7 Aug 54 Since May 1954, mysterious objects, described as "flying saucers," have been observed [daily] between 2200 and 2300 hours by various persons living in West Berlin. Several inhabitants, the crew of the local weather station, and a police officer on light duty at headquarters observed three "flying saucers" over the city of Darmstadt. They appeared at around 2200 hours [presumably on 6 August], were of a fiery yellowish-red color, and seemed alternately to stand still and dart back and forth soundlessly. They were observed for about 1 1/2 hours.
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.