CIA File of the Day
'FLYING SAUCERS' IN EAST GERMANY
A CIA foreign-document report, dated for distribution on 3 August 1952, summarizing a Greek newspaper account of Oscar Linke, a 46-year-old German and former mayor of Gleimershausen. Linke gave sworn testimony that an object resembling a huge flying pan, about 15 meters in diameter, had landed in a forest clearing in the Soviet Zone of Germany. The report marks the information as unevaluated.
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