OBSERVATION OF AN UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT AT MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00423R001900300001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 19, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
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Observation of an Unidentified Object tv
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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
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1. While in Montevideo, Uruguay in approximately the last week of March
1955, 1 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.
The exact date of this unidentified flying object can be determined from
newspaper articles in the Montevideo Press which appeared the following
day.
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