PROJECT BLUE BOOK

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TO. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS 11. COMMENTS
Crewaboard Crewaboard ship observed round, disc WX stations WX stations are located at located at
like object 1000 ters, After ters. After Spitzbergen (Norway) (Norway) and Bear
remaining still for a short for period, Island which Island which. send up balloons
picked up speed and vanished from and vanish from and radioson and radiosond odically.
sky Possible that th Possible that ese, rising rising
out of the white background, out of the white ckground,
were mistaken for "discs"
However, insufficient data for
conclusive evaluation.
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ELTERT SAUCER OESERVED
The cre on hoard cDroor shtpohs raltcd to the neopape PNordiy..
famtaatic phenomenou which they itnessed ote,the Russien coaat between
tunranst and Terberka in tho whdte Sea.t fer dayg ago The ron rolte that
Loc about one.quarter otian hour they obsorved a so-calied riying saucer
perkorringe vartous raneuvers over the shipe  The saucer Yhirled through
the arremaLned StatLonary foreA yhate and thon dieappeared bahnd&
ness on Shorea.Lhe object was right down-to one thousard metars endh
bdnocylarg on board Lere in use- -
There is a hole in the aey  shouted the Tat offider then he spotted
the curtous object s The saucer Mas then completely statlontry and the
cre rushed up on deck to see the phenomenon- yAae or a srddep tha saucer
worked up speed,vshot Like a streak of Lightnbng across the Sly and vanrshed
moment Iater, however it reappeared ascended in a snight Line so that
saucer remained stiL for a while, high up in the suy but tben descended
once Lore- and remaIned at an altitude of about one Chousand meterst
saucer they sare The objeot for a- tme stayed as closd to the ship as t.
allow photographs to be taken ie that bright thought had only da jied upon
The crer had cameras on board but in the heat ot the exoiterent nc
one thought of using them unti it was too late.
To us it wa a-reaL aircraft we sar,  said the newspaper infor ant.
"but of an entirely unknoun typeo Ne estimate it to be about tice the
size of an average conmercial airliner It moved at a Speed sa great th.t
it actually shot Iike a streak of Lightning through the in
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