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This Central Intelligence Agency information report, distributed 9 August 1955, relays unevaluated observations of flying objects near Shakhty in the Rostov Oblast, USSR. It says prisoners of war at the Ayuta camp saw three silent, reddish, fiery objects cross the sky at intervals one evening in August 1953 before they disappeared toward the Ayuta mines. Field comments note that earlier Shakhty reports described loud engine noise and suggest the objects were propelled by a ramjet or rocket engine.
CLASSIFICATION COUNTRY USSR (Postov Oblast) DATE DISTR. 9 August 1955 : DIRECT Flying Objects Seen in Sbakhty Area. PLACE ACQUIRED DATE OF INFO August 1953 NO. OF ENCLOS ELIITED BELOW SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT NO. >011RCL THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION LIBRARY SUBJECT & AREA CODES (10)
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 5 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.