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Lt. Col. Thomas S. Ryan
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Appears in the archive as Lieutenant Colonel Thomas S. Ryan, U.S. Air Intelligence Officer (USAIRA) in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He conducted the 1955 intelligence debriefing of Senator Richard Russell and his party after they witnessed two large disc-shaped craft ascending from Soviet territory, and authored the classified report IR 193-55 noting the sighting "lends credence to many 'saucer' reports," documented in the archive as Air Intelligence Report IR 193-55: Senatorial Eyewitnesses to Flying Discs in the Soviet Union, October 1955.