SIGHTINGS OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 10 JUNE-15 JULY 1954

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: UFO SPECIAL COLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005516191
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2011
• Case Number: F-2010-00651
• Publication Date: September 22, 1954

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO. OO-w-30956
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CO NO. --
Military - Unidentified flying objects
Daily newspapers
As indicated
10 Jun-15 Jul 1954
Finnish, Norwegian, German
,SOURCE As indicated
DATE DIST. .2]. Sep 1954
NO. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
UNTDIs1 ~3Ed';'S PB0POGBM2 i N FIND DURIIIG AND AF'T'ER ECISPSE --
Eels inZi?, Helsingin. Sanomat, 11 Jul 5I
S4veral photographs of ss unidentified object in the sky were taken in
Helaink3 Ruring-the eclipse on. 30 June 1954. According to informed circles, a
round object which appears on the photographs is not the moon or a cloud. One
photograph differs from the others in that the upper edge of the object is
-illuminated as if the sun were shining on a hard surface. The center of the
object appears as a dark blotch. [The photograph described is shown in source.]
Helsinki, Belsingin Sanumat', 12 Jul 54
...A strange object was photographed in the sky in Maerianhamina immediately
after the sun was in full vie4, following the eclipse on 30 June 1954. The cigar-
shaped object appeared on several pictures taken consecutively. (A photograph of
'Ehe object is Chown*in sourte. ]
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REPORT LATER SIGHTING IN FINLAND -- Helsinki, Eelsingin Sanomat, 15 Jul 54
On 14 July 1954, an unidentified, oblong object was sighted at Pulkkila,
flying Isoutir est] in the direction of Baapevesi-Nivela. The object, which was
flying very high, appeared grey from the rear and very bright from the side.
The object was in view for several minutes and was flying with the speed of an
ordinary plane.
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uRIDENTIF7.ED FLYING OBJECT, FnMW IP NORWAY DURif7G ECLUSE -- Oslo, Aftenposten,
6 Jul 54 (FM edition)
Color motion pictures of unidentified flying objects were obtained by photo-
grapher Johnny Bjoernuli during the recent total eclipse of the sun. The pictures,
which were obtained from an airplane flying at an?altitude of 4,5M meters, show
two shining disks with condensation trails awing at great speed in the direction
opposite to that of the plane. (Photographs are shown in source.]
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT SIGHTED IN?AUSTRIA Salzburg, Salzburger Nacbrichten,
10 :un 54
A contractor in Th llein, Austria, retorted to the gendarmerie that he and
two other men sighted a strange object in he sky over the Tennen Mountains shortly
after midnight on 7 June 1954. The object was gleaming red and appeared to have a
diagonal streak across it. It seet-ed'to be about three times as large as Yens
and moved spasmodically in a ve*tical and then a horizontal direction. The object
was in view for 2 hours.
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