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This Central Intelligence Agency release, dated 20 August 1953, gives the full text of a 13 July 1953 Morgon-Tidningen article reporting that Danish defense authorities took flying saucers seriously. According to the article, a Danish Air Force Command report based on radar observations was handed to the Defense Staff, and defense intelligence concluded the projectiles might come from a Soviet base on Novaya Zemlya. The report cites a Karup Airfield sighting of 12 November 1952 along with Norwegian incidents at Horten and near Bodø.
recently in northern Norway, when the crew of an anti-aircraft battery outside of Bod5 observed a mysterious object at a great height. A jet plane was sent up, but it was not able to reach the object, which disappeared at a terrific speed. The report of the Danish Air Force Command emphasizes that the "flying saucer traffic" over Scandinavia seems to be a fact of great aerotechnical interest. END
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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. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.