Declassified UFO / UAP Document
Information Report: Fast-moving Flying Objects Over Stalingrad in Spring 1954
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AI-Generated Summary
A CIA report from 1956 details a 1954 sighting of an unidentified, noisy, and vibrating aerial object near a munitions plant in Stalingrad. The report is based on the testimony of a hospital patient.
This Central Intelligence Agency information report, dated August 2, 1956, documents an account of unidentified aerial phenomena observed in the Soviet Union. The report details a sighting that occurred in the spring of 1954 near the Barrikadi Munitions Works in Stalingrad, located at coordinates 48 48 N - 44 32 E. The primary witness, a patient recovering from jaundice at a local military hospital, reported observing an unknown object on two separate occasions during their convalescence. According to the witness, the object traveled from the southeast to the northwest and appeared to be climbing. The witness noted that the object was not clearly visible itself, but caused a significant disturbance in the air that seemed to envelop it. The passage of the object was accompanied by a screeching, whistling noise, described as distinct from the sound of an artillery shell in flight, and it generated a notable amount of vibration in the air. The object remained within the witness's range of vision for approximately one minute before disappearing. The report is marked as unevaluated information.
This object caused a great amount of vibration in the air and made a screeching, whistling noise which was different from the noise made by an artillery shell in flight.
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Official Assessment
An unidentified object was observed on two occasions by patients at a military hospital near the Barrikadi Munitions Works in Stalingrad during the spring of 1954.