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This Central Intelligence Agency information report, dated October 1955, relays observations of a flying object in the USSR. On three evenings in July and August 1954, observers about 30 km west of Saransk saw a white, drop-shaped luminous object brighter than a shooting star. It crossed about 60 degrees of sky in roughly a second, and other people saw the same thing on other days. The evaluator's comment says the type of object cannot be inferred from such scanty statements.
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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. 3 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.