1960 CIA Intel Report on UFO’s Sighted, Photographed in Sweden; Unidentified Satellite Seen

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17 March 1960 —

UFO's Sizhted, vaotosrasteain= Sweden; Unidentified Satellite Seen

@he full text, with the exception of the final paragraoh, of an

article on pages 1 and 8 of the 8 March 1960 issue of the Stockhola—

daily, Dagens Nyheter, is given below. _ The article, which was entitled: |

"Licht in Sky New Satellite, Experts Believe", was accompanied by &

photograph of the two UFO's signted by Esse Jansson mentioned in the...
erticle.
"Phe -luminous object which was observed shortly after 2000 ©

hours on 6 March ty-the crew of the Sundsvall plane of Linjeflyg

[Svefish airline] was, Juiging fram all = the circumstances, &.

itherso unidentizied satellite. — ghe point of light was also

observe? from the observatory in Saltsjoebaden.

‘moay made the discovery gust before the object disappeared
‘dalow the nortuvest horizon, states Docent Gunnar Larsson-Leanier
feresucably of the ooservatory]. {It seemed to be a satellite and
I em sure that it was not a shooting star or neteor.!

"Pwo unidentified flying objects were ovserved and photographad

on the morning of 6 March by photographer Fsse Jansson of Norrtaclp.

Hewae +s He states that he bad gone out into a field early in the morning to.

photograph the unidentified satellite, 1960 Alphas, which was expected

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7 March 1960

UFO'S Sishted, Fhotorrashed in Sweden} Unidentified Satellite Seen

Phe full text, with the exception of the final paragraph, of an
erticle on rages 1 and 8 of the 8 March 1960 issue of the Stockholn Spas

daily, Degens Nyheter, is given below. The article, which was entitled:

"Ticht in Sky New Satellite, Experts Believe", was accompanied by &
photograph of the two Uro's signted by Esse Jansson rentioned inthe - Lee
erticie,

The luminous object which was observed shortly after 2000.

hours on 6 March ty the-crev of the Sundsvall plane of Linjeflyg - ©
[Svadish airlinel,-~es, juiging from all the circumstances, &

pitherto unidentizied-satellite, The point of light wes also

observed fron the observatory in Saltsjoebadens = === 95s

™\y made the discovery just before ths object disappeared
_ below the nortiwest horizon, states Docent Gunnar Larsson-Leander
fpresuzadly-of the observatory]. It seemed to de a satellite and -

J Ss sure -that-it-was not a- shooting star or meteor, Soe ee ee Dee eS

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“Pwo unidentified flying objects were ooserved and photographal co
on the norning of 6 March by photographer Esse Jansson of Norrtaelp.

‘Aeewec vs Be states that he had- gone out-ioto a field early in the morning ¢o

photograph the unidentified satellite, 1960 Alpha, vhich was expected . ~ --.


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to pess the Stockholm latitude in @ southerly direction about
0525 hours. Between 0515 and 0527 hours he observed two objects
which came from the north and were moving ina southeasterly
. @trection, Their wovenent was slow. but otherwise initially
was not entirely-unlike that of the satellites he had seen before.
Suddenly, however, the direction of movenient changed , and the ob-
jects turned suck that they wera going back in the same direction
_they ceme- fron. On one of hig plates he even caught a third lun- |
tnous object-of. the. same kind.
FTt has not been possible to determine whether the observation |

4s purely anq@tical illusion or not. It can be added, however,

that a_resident of Bromma, Thorsten Haakanssoa, reports that
between 0528 and 0543 hours on 6 March he saw the so-called. phantom

gerellite, 1960 Alsna, with binoculars through a window fecing _ ee

on sne-west. .But-in his case also the satellite moved a little
peculiarly as seen from the observer's location: 'I observed...
the satellite in the north-northwest and it was moving in 4

horizontal direction .-. » (out) then it went straight down at a
rigat angle ana disappeared. "

rhe sighting by the-crew of the Sundsvall-bouad airplane mentioned

above «2s origizally reported in Dageas Nyheter of 7 March, page 9, under

the ti+22 "Moving Light Phenomenon Is Believed to Be Satellite". The
full text of that erticle follows.

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Sundsvall, an unidentified luminous object, probably a satellite,

was sighted from one of Linjeflyg's regular planes ea route from

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Stockholm to Sundsvall.

"Air Captain Maurit2 Harrin, captain-of Linjeflyg's regular

evening plane to Sundsvall, said ‘late in the evening of 6 March

that, "It was_just after 2000 hours Swedish time that Copllot _

Kjell Ferm reported a bright luainous cbject on a generally north-
westerly course.’ He (Hamrin) thinks that there is hardly any great

doubt that it wes-sone form of satellite.

"Tight phenenena which ray originate from a satellite have

also-been observed over Stockhola.

from Tidings that on two evenings in succession 4 moving point of

Light bad been chserved at 2230 hours ine south-southvesterly

aivection.and 15°%6 20 degrees avove the horizon."

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