DANISH DEFENSE LEADERS TAKE SERIOUS VIEW OF FLYING SAUCERS

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: UFO SPECIAL COLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005516159
• 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: August 20, 1953

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13 Juli 1953. The leading Copenhagen dailies, Berl iagake Tidende,
Social-Demokraten, Politiken, and Information, during the period
f5omment:? The information below is the full text of an article
Copenhagen, 12 July -- Danish defense authorities take a serious view of
the problem of flying saucers. The military experts are of the opinion that
although most of the observations Lof flying saucers] have turned out to be
astronomical phenomena, there remain the reports of trained observers which,
among other things, would seem to indicate that the saucers are dispatched from
The Danish Air Force Command has recently turned over to the Defense Staff
a report on various phenomena in the air over Denmark and the eaters adjacent
to Denmark. The report is based on observations from Danish Air Force radar
stations. These observations are compared with information regarding the remote-
controlled projectiles which have been traced in the atmosphere over the north-
ernmost part of Norway and Finland. On the basis of these observations, the
members of the Defense Intelligence Service have come to the conclusion that
the projectiles could have been dispatched from a Soviet base on Boveya Zemlya
The report discusses the incident in which an officer and seven privates
from Earup Airfield on Jutland, on 12 November 1952, sighted an object in the
air which resembled an aircraft, but which moved rare than %--own
type of aircraft. The 4anis1V observations are compared with a number of
Norwegian observations, among them one which occurred in October 1952 when,
according to the Norwegian Defense Staff and the Norwegian Navy, an aircraft
of hitherto unknown design flew over the naval base at Borten at the entrance
to Oslofjord. Another incident which is pointed out occurred on a maneuver
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recently in northern xorvay, when the crev of an anti-aircraft battery out-
side of Body observed a mysterious object at a great height. A jet plane
van sent up,but it was not able to reach the object, vhicb disappeared at a
terrific'speed.
The retort of the Danish Air Force Command emphasizes that the 'flying
saucer traffic" over Scandinavia sewn to be a fact of great aeroteebnical
interest.