St Gallen Switzerland reported disc saucer observation — August 9, 1963

Followed for approximately 3.5 mins, trailing short orange tail. Object passed over mountain only intermittently seen due to terrain. Consumed about 4 minutes and then disappeared. Sighting followed by zig-zag movement, continued to glow for 18 seconds and then winked out. Callen, Switzerland and have observed on Tuesday 13th August something as a missile or satellite flying at a flight of about 30 seconds. It seemed to be self-luminous and left a trail of light. After about 5 minutes it suddenly seemed to blink out and disappeared completely. After almost half an hour the object got smaller and disappeared in the distance. The explosion occurred quite suddenly and we are wondering what this flying object could be. It did not appear in the sky on Thursday and we wonder whether you have some knowledge of a body flying satellites. There is already some silly talk about flying saucers in our newspapers. On 13 August 1963 in the Bernasconi Hills, California an unidentified aerial phenomenon was reported similar to a previously observed sighting.