Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency file, declassified and approved for release on 2013/06/24, is a collection of published UFO photographs and captions. It includes images reported over Helsinki, Grenoble, Brazil, Bad Hersfeld, Upper Gornal, Hawthorne, Bulawayo and Salem, Massachusetts. It also has Cedric Allingham's 1954 Lossiemouth photographs, Palomar Gardens telescopic pictures from 13 December 1952, a Washington D.C. Airport radar plot, and Captain Jack Bicknell's sketch from near Mount Kilimanjaro. The file offers no analysis or conclusions.
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A week later, on 4th March, 1951, The Sunday Disp referred again to this sighting and reproduced a sketch of the mysterious object, as under: The newspaper made the following comments: Flying in a cloudless sky over Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanganyika, Captain Jack Bicknell; pilot of a passenger plane bound for Mombasa, saw through binoculars a metallic, bullet-shaped object which must have be more than 200 feet long". The Sunday Dispatch last week gave a detailed report of this Flying Saucer sighting, the most authentic so far recorded. When he brought the plane down, Captain Bickn drew a sketch of what he had seen. The diagram above was prepared from Captain Bic nell's sketch and shows the "large object attached to the rear". ---
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. 109 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.