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This is a Central Intelligence Agency teletyped information report about an unidentified object seen in the sky on 6 December. The source was watching Mars through a telescope when a steady object of magnitude 3 crossed his field of view from north to south. He believed it was Sputnik III. Headquarters comments state that Sputnik III was not visible from the source's area at that time and that the direction he gave does not match computed orbits. Headquarters requested an evaluation from Air and OSI.
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TDCS-3/644,21) ## PREFORE DISAPPEARING. 2. (FIELD CONTENT: OBJECT IMPACTED PRIOR TO REACHING THE CASPIAN.) 6. FIELD DISSEMINATION: NONE INDICATED. END OF MESSAGE
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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.