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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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NOTION OF FOLLOWING 6 - 7 seconds 90 seconds, about 5 seconds on ground very short CERTICI 1½ hours by rail 10 minutes by rail from ARJATY 50 - 60 miles south of Baku 10 minutes by rail from ARJATY NOTION OF RAIL LINE South of rail line Left of rail line South of rail line TRANCE OF RAIL LINE Not possible to estimate distance 6 miles 1 - 2 miles HER OBJECTS SERVED Searchlight Searchlight, horizon Large airfield, steel tower, hangars, several searchlights, Caspian Sea still visible AGE OF JET Ball Round or square, may have had stub wings Triangular with point to rear TIME OF JET May have been small as rocket 1/3 size of searchlight visible to the left about the size of US jet fighter NOTION OF JET Rotated slowly as it rose Rotation not seen made three to seven spirals NOTION OF JET None seen Two stationary lights like eyes three, one on each point of the triangle, lights were red and green NOTION OF JET Not seen Not seen Launched like a missile
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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.