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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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Not rapidly at a steady level out ascended to altitude then raised horizontally novel rapidly upward at 45° ascended to altitude and novel horizontally No Curlled rapidly Not unusually high climbed feet factor than 4.5 Large Creamish-yellow dark object too dark to see Color shallow Mixed ----- ----- high ascended to 200 feet Small None ----- some flame to rear sparks or flame came out bottom or edge ascended None None None None None Collected Did not follow Object Did not follow the Object Searchlights followed object all the way No association of searchlights and object 10 minutes after object disappeared 10 minutes after object disappeared 5 - 10 minutes after object disappeared while still watching the object after sighting the object No change ----- ----- No impression of Change No Change
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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.