OBSERVATION OF AN UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT AT MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY

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CIA-RDP83-00423R001900300001-7
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RIPPUB
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C
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1
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November 9, 2016
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October 19, 1998
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1
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May 19, 1955
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REPORT
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'Approved For Releasey999/09/24: CIA-RDP83-00423ROO19OU00001-7 77 9~ Z INFORMATION REPORT SEE BOTTOM OF PAGE FOR ADDITIONAL SPECIAL CONTROLS, IF ANY PREPARED AND DISSEMINATED BY CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Observation of an Unidentified Object tv This material contains information affecting the 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 of which in any manner to an unauthorized per. son is prohibited by law. REPORT NO. 25X1A2 DATE DISTRI L o. OF ENCIS. DATE ACQUIRED (By source) I DATE_ OF INFORMATION (Date or dates, on or between which, Late Mar 55 I Late Mar 55 25X1X6 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. This aaevaln'ted information for ,only is supplied for the possible Or t at mis your analysts. It does in? not warrant dissemi nation by am report. 25X1A2g STATE I IMITED: Dissemination i offices producingAppaw@dFaw Ieamio to consultants, external projects AIR FBI