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This Central Intelligence Agency foreign-documents report, distributed 23 August 1952, translates a Greek article published in an Athens daily newspaper on 9 July 1952. It relays the sworn statement of Oscar Linke, a former mayor of Gleimershausen who had fled the Soviet Zone. Linke said that he and his daughter Gabriella saw two men in shiny clothing beside a 13 to 15 meter object near Hasselbach. The object rose, spinning and ringed with flames, and flew off. The report marks the material as unevaluated.
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CLASSIFICATION ASSOCIATED SECURITY INFORMATION CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT INFORMATION FROM FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO. COUNTRY Germany SUBJECT Military; Scientific DATE OF INFORMATION 1952 HOW PUBLISHED Daily newspaper WHERE PUBLISHED Athens DATE DIST. 23 Aug 1952 NO. OF PAGES 2 DATE PUBLISHED 9 Jul 1952 LANGUAGE Greek SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT NO. THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENCE OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE HEADING OF LEXIONAGE ACT NO. 6, G. C., 51 AND 52, AS ARRESTED. ITS TRANSCRIPTION OR THE REVELATION OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN EXHIBITIONIST PERSON IS PROHIBITED BY LAW. REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROMOTED. SOURCE THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION I Xethinerini. ## "FLYING SAUCERS" IN EAST GERMANY Berlin, July -- Furnished with the storm testimony of an eyewitness, Oscar Links, a 48-year-old German and former mayor of Gleimershausen, West Berlin intelligence officers have begun investigating a most unusual "flying sauser" story. According to this story, an object "rossembling a huge flying pan" and having a diameter of about 15 meters landed in a forest clearing in the Soviet Zone of Germany. Links recently escaped from the Soviet Zone along with his wife and six children. Link: and his 11-year-old daughter, Gabriella, made the following sworn statement last week before a judge: "While I was returning to my home with Gabriella, a tire of my motorcycle blew out near the town of Hasselbach. While we were walking along toward Hasselbach, Gabriella pointed out something which lay at a distance of about 140 meters away from us. Since it was twilight, I though that she was painting at a young door. "I left my motorcycle near a tree and walked toward the spot which Gabriella had pointed out. When, however, I reached a spot about 55 meters from the object, I realized that my first impression had been wrong. What I had seen were two men who were now about 40 meters away from me. They seemed to be dressed in some shiny metallic clothing. They were stooped over and were looking at something lying on the ground. "I approached until I was only about 10 meters from them. I looked over a small fence and then I noticed a large object whose diameter I estimated to be between 13 and 15 meters. It looked like a huge frying pan. There were two rows of holes on its periphery, about 30 centimeters in circumference. The space between the two rows was about 0.45 meters. On the top of this metal object was a black conical tower about 3 meters high. STATE NAVY MSRB DISTRIBUTION ARMY AIR FBI
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.