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This is a Foreign Broadcast Information Service transcript released by the Central Intelligence Agency. It records a Havana Radio Progreso broadcast of 23 December 1993 in which reporter Candido Dominguez describes seeing six or seven bright lights with tails moving north to south over Matanzas City, Cuba, on 21 December for about 30 seconds. Specialists from the Cuban Academy of Sciences also saw them, and meteorologist Orestes Gribao compared the sight to a 1913 photograph taken at the Toronto Observatory.
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*** Document 305 of 54 ... FBIS *** DOCN 000429524 CLAS UNCLAS 6A SERI SERIAL: FL2312181593 PASS ATTN: ATTN BBC SD COPY TO COUN COUNTRY: CUBA SUBJ*SUBJ: UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS SIGHTED IN MATANZAS SKIES SOUR SOURCE: HAVANA RADIO PROGRESO NETWORK IN SPANISH 1200 GMT 23 DEC 93 TEXT TEXT: // ((REPORT BY CANDIDO DOMINGUEZ FROM MATANZAS)) ((TEXT)) THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY, A GROUP OF MATANZAS RESIDENTS, *YOURS TRULY INCLUDED, HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO OBSERVE UNIDENTIFIED *FLYING OBJECTS, UFO'S, OVER MATANZAS CITY. SHORTLY BEFORE 1900, I HEARD MY EIGHT-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER WHO WAS ON THE PORCH SHOUT: DADDY, LOOK, FIREWORKS. I WALKED OUT ONTO THE PORCH AND OBSERVED THE STRANGE PHENOMENON. THE FIRST THING I SAW WAS A VERY BRIGHT WHITE-BALL FOLLOWED BY LIGHTED TAIL, SOMETHING LIKE A COMET. LATER THE LIGHTS MULTIPLIED AND I SAW SIX OR SEVEN OF THEM LINED UP, EACH WITH A TAIL THAT FOLLOWED A NORTH-TO-SOUTH TRAJECTORY. THESE LIGHTS REMAINED VISIBLE FOR APPROXIMATELY 30 SECONDS. YESTERDAY I LEARNED THAT A GROUP OF SPECIALISTS FROM THE TERRITORIAL METEOROLOGY SECTION OF THE CUBAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ALSO VIEWED THE STRANGE SIGHT FROM VARIOUS AREAS OF THE CITY. ONE OF THEM, JESUS GOMEZ, SAW IT IN JOVELLANOS, 42 KM SOUTHEAST OF MATANZAS. (ORESTES GRIBAO), WHO IS A METEOROLOGIST AND FOR YEARS HAS BEEN STUDYING UFO'S, WATCHED THE PHENOMENON IN THE VERSAILLES NEIGHBORHOOD. (GRIBAO) SHOWED SEVERAL PEOPLE A BOOK THAT HAS A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN IN 1913 FROM THE TORONTO OBSERVATORY, CANADA. WE ALL AGREED THAT WHAT WE SAW ON 21 DECEMBER IN MATANZAS IS ALMOST IDENTICAL TO WHAT THE 60-YEAR-OLD PICTURE SHOWS. UNDOUBTEDLY, THIS WILL BE A SUBJECT OF MUCH INTEREST TO YTHOSE WHO STUDY THE *EXTRATERRESTRIAL UNIVERSE. (ENDALL) 231200 23/1815Z DEC 222312.013 BT #0906 NNNN NNNN ---EOD--- Approved for Release Date MAY 2008
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