Fast-Moving Flying Objects Over Stalingrad
This Central Intelligence Agency report, released via the CIA Reading Room, transmits an unevaluated firsthand account of an unidentified flying object seen over Stalingrad (now Volgograd), USSR. According to the source, in the spring of 1954 he was hospitalized for jaundice at a military hospital near the Barrikadi Munitions Works (given approximate coordinates 48°48'N, 44°32'E). On two occasions during his convalescence, he and other patients observed the flight of an unknown object crossing from horizon to horizon, moving from southeast to northwest and appearing to climb. The witness could not describe the object itself but stated it took roughly one minute to pass out of view, caused significant vibration in the air, and made a screeching, whistling noise distinct from an artillery shell in flight; he reported seeing a disturbance in the air that seemed to envelop it. The document is explicitly marked 'UNEVALUATED INFORMATION.' The two pages present the same account with slightly differing transcribed dates and coordinates (one page reading spring 1958).
Description
A CIA intelligence report relaying an unevaluated eyewitness account of unidentified fast-moving flying objects observed over Stalingrad (Volgograd), USSR, in the spring of 1954. The source, hospitalized for jaundice near the Barrikadi Munitions Works, describes an unknown climbing object crossing the sky from horizon to horizon.
Claims
The object caused significant air vibration and made a screeching, whistling noise different from an artillery shell in flight.
65%In the spring of 1954, the source and other patients at a military hospital near the Barrikadi Munitions Works observed an unknown object flying from horizon to horizon.
60%The object flew from southeast to northwest, appeared to be climbing, and took about one minute to leave the witness's range of vision.
60%In spring 1954, the source and other patients at a military hospital near the Barrikadi Munitions Works observed an unknown flying object on two occasions.
60%The witness could not see the object itself but observed a disturbance in the air that seemed to envelop it.
55%The object flew from horizon to horizon southeast to northwest, appeared to be climbing, and took about one minute to leave the range of vision.
55%The observer could not see the object itself but saw a disturbance in the air that seemed to envelop it.
55%
Events
Dec 31, 1953
Sighting of fast-moving flying objects over Stalingrad
Witness and other hospital patients observed an unknown climbing object crossing the sky from southeast to northwest, accompanied by air vibration and a screeching, whistling noise.
Dec 31, 1953
Observation of fast-moving flying object over Stalingrad
Hospital patients twice observed an unknown object flying horizon to horizon (southeast to northwest), appearing to climb and producing a screeching, whistling noise.
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