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This Central Intelligence Agency information report, released in 1998, records an unnamed source's account of an unidentified object seen over Montevideo, Uruguay, in about the last week of March 1955. The source and their wife, along with many others in the street, watched a very bright hovering light with a smaller light below it. The light then moved south, pulsing in brightness, and made no sound. The source was certain it was not a conventional aircraft or missile.
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INFORMATION REPORT This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law. PREPARED AND DISSEMINATED BY CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO. 25X1A2g COUNTRY Uruguay DATE DISTRIBUTED SUBJECT Observation of an Unidentified Object at Montevideo, Uruguay NO. OF PAGES 1 SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT # PLACE ACQUIRED (By source) 25X1A6a RESPONSIVE TO DATE ACQUIRED (By source) Late Mar 55 DATE OF INFORMATION (Date or dates, on or between which, events or conditions described in report existed) 1. While in Montevideo, Uruguay in approximately the last week of March 1955, I observed an unidentified object under the following circumstances: It was approximately 8:30 PM., a dark clear night, no moon with many bright stars in evidence. I was approaching number 3064 Layenda Patria on foot in company with my wife when our attention was directed to an object hovering in the sky. This same object was being observed by many other people standing in the street, looking out of windows, etc. I was looking southwest at an angle approximately 15 degrees off the horizon at an object I estimate to have been at an altitude of 1500 to two thousand feet. The object was an extremely bright light, approximating in color that of an old-fashioned carbon wire electric light; however, of such intensity that the size of the object or its outline could not be determined. 2. When first viewed by me the object was hovering and there was a smaller second light which appeared to be immediately below it and of the same color. I estimate that it remained stationary for a period of three to four minutes while I was looking at it and that it then moved in a generally southerly direction at about the speed of a modern transport aircraft in flight; that in flight the intensity of the light diminished in regular pulsations. I timed the pulsations and the light was bright for four seconds and then dimmed for one second; I watched the object until buildings finally obscured it from my and my wife's view. No noise was heard by us in connection with the movement of the object. I am certain it was not any conventional type of an aircraft or aerial missile currently in use. 3. The exact date of this unidentified flying object can be determined from newspaper articles in the Montevideo Press which appeared the following day. This unevaluated information for US Officials Only is supplied for the possible interest of your analysts. It does not warrant dissemination by report. 25X1A2g DISTRIBUTION STATE ARMY NAVY AIR FBI NO DISSEM ABROAD LIMITED LIMITED: Dissemination limited to full-time employees of CIA, AEC and FBI, and within State and Federal intelligence components, other offices producing information, data, images or documents. Not to be disseminated to consultants, external projects or reserve personnel on short term duty (excepting individuals who are normally full-time employees of CIA, AEC, FBI, State or Defense) under the written permission of the originating office has been obtained through the Assistant Director for Collection and Dissemination.
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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. 1 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.