The following is an extract from "Intelligence Digest" No. 180
of November, 1953.
This report comes from our best observer in Berlin.
He holds an important position there and is not a man readily
susceptible to sensational rumour, as he has been trained to
evaluate reports.
Our observer says that he himself did not witness
the event reported. The news was brought to him from the Soviet
zone by a man whom he has known both personally and officially
for many years. There is only one eye-witness to the happenings
here reported, and he has not yet been able to escape from
Soviet controlled territory, where he is lying low. He is very
badly wanted by the M.V.D.
Flights of extraordinary objects.
The story begins on July 19. Between then and July,
26th (1953) the inhabitants of some of the towns and villages on
the German Polish border along the Baltic coast—especially in the
neighbourhood of Stettiner Haff and the mouth of the Oder—
observed flights of extraordinary objects, which appeared to be
round. They generally flew in groups of six or more, with many
abrupt twists and turns, and at what seemed to be very high speeds.
Most of the appearances were towards evening and in
the early morning. At night, too, people observed strangely
glowing objects streaking across the sky at high speeds. The
frequency of these appearances was so great as to be called almost
regular.
Reports of this kind were made from such places as
Kolobrzeg (Kolberg), Koszalin, Stargard, Goteniow, Odra Port,
Stettin and places in Eastern Germany such as Pasewalk, Heringsdorf
and Usedom. A large number of people in these places reported
seeing these peculiar objects.
Reports were made to both the East German and Polish
police, as well as to both Intelligence services. On July 19
and 20, both these services showed great interest in the reports,
and sent observers. On the afternoon of July 20, there was a
sudden and complete change of attitude on the part of the local
services. Both police and Intelligence began flatly to deny the
evidence. They declared that nothing of the kind had happened,
and threatened people who made reports that they would be dealt
with as imperialist rumour-mongers if they did not stop talking.
This was enough to put a stop to all open talk; but it did not
prevent people from continuing to see the strange objects flying
about.
A very strange happening.
From the evening of July 26 to the morning of July 29,
no more of these objects were sighted; but during the early hours
of July 29 to August 1, the flights were resumed.
The strangest happenings of all took place on July 31
at 7 p.m between the towns of Miedzyzaraje and Wolin. The two
towns are connected by 24 km of railroad. Leaving Wolin the line
goes due north for 13km then turns sharply west towards Miedzyzaraje.
Two and a half k.m. east of that turn, a strange object landed—at
the time stated above—on a country road running roughly parallel
to the railroad.
The landing took place with very little noise, so
that little attention was attracted. No one was actually on the
spot when the object landed. A short distance away, however, five
Poles and two Germans were working. Their curiosity was aroused by