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The CIA was watching a German flying-saucer magazine
in 1950s Chile.

Buried in the June 12 release — and nearly hidden by a literal space character in its URL — is a four-page CIA Information Report dated 31 July 1950. Its subject: a German scientist's article titled “The Mystery of the Flying Discs, a contribution to its possible explanation,”submitted for publication in Condor, a German-language magazine printed in Santiago, Chile. The CIA acquired it on the ground in Chile, stamped the file UNEVALUATED INFORMATION, and sat on it for 76 years.

“Attached for your information is a copy, in translation, of [an article] submitted to Mr. Edward L— for publication in Condor, a German-language magazine published in Chile. The article is entitled ‘The Mystery of the Flying Discs, a contribution to its possible explanation.’”

Three years after Kenneth Arnold's 1947 sighting kicked off the modern UFO era — and with Project Paperclip-adjacent German émigrés actively regrouping in South America — the CIA quietly catalogued what a German “scientist” was telling the German-speaking community of Chile about flying discs. The DoW pipeline OCR'd the cover sheet. It did not OCR pages 2–4 — where the actual translated article lives.