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This Central Intelligence Agency information report, distributed 11 February 1952, is a reinterrogation of an informant from an earlier report (SO-49149x). It describes three light phenomena seen almost every night from May to September 1947 from a camp at Pakhta Aral, about 50 km southwest of Tashkent, Uzbek SSR. Each began as a dark red ball of fire that climbed a long trajectory while changing color, with no smoke, noise or detonation noticed. A field comment says the trajectory estimates should be treated with reserve.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 4 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.