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This Central Intelligence Agency release pairs a January 1956 transmittal memo from the Liaison Division to the Chief of the Applied Science Division with a summary and tabulation of an unconventional flying object sighted in the USSR on 4 October 1955. Members of a party travelling by train from Baku to Tiflis made the sighting. The chart sets their accounts side by side, covering shape, size, lights, motion and searchlights. It concludes that darkness and the short duration kept the observers from describing the object properly.
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OF MOVEMENT 11 hours out of Eahu 1910 1910 1910 DISTABILITY After Dark Lights were on in train, not yet completely dark, sky was clear. Dark but clear Enough daylight to see a form ACTION OF FIGHTING ----- 6 - 7 seconds 90 seconds, about 5 seconds on ground very short CUTTING 1½ hours by rail 10 minutes by rail from ATJAST 50 - 60 miles south of Eahu 10 minutes by rail from ATJAST ACTION BY RAIL LINE South of rail line South of rail line Left of rail line South of rail line STANGS BY RAIL LINE Not possible to estimate distance estimate distance 5 miles 1 - 2 miles HER OBJECTS LIVED Searchlight Searchlight, horizon Large airfield, steel tower, hangars, several searchlights Cooplan Sea still visible Two searchlights AGE OF JOB Ball Round or square, ray have had stub wings Triangular with point to rear Round like a partial inflated balloon TIME OF JOB May have been small as rocket 1/3 size of searchlight visible to the left about the size of US jet fighter about the size of US jet fighter DISTANCE OF JOB Rotated slowly as it rose Rotation not seen made three to seven spirals Rotated slowly
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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. 7 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.