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This declassified message, which the Joint Staff relayed from an FBIS London report dated 20 April 1991, carries an English-language TASS dispatch from Alma-Ata. It says militia patrolmen in the Kazakh capital saw a flaming object with red rays at the top of Kok-Tyube mountain. As they approached, rays swept their patrol car and it stopped dead, and the object then dimmed and disappeared. The officers later could not recall the drive back. Radio talk was taped, and TASS cites impartial witnesses.
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3: COPY TO UD, MOD (2) NTRY: USSR J: ALMA-ATA PATROLMEN REPORT UFO SIGHTING JRCE· MOSCOW TASS IN ENGLISH 1603 GMT 19 APR 91 .XT· //((BY TASS CORRESPONDENT VASILIY DANSHIN)) ((TEXT)) ALMA-ATA APRIL 19 TASS -- MILITIAMEN SIGHTED AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT WHILE ON PATROL IN ALMA-ATA, CAPITAL OF THE SOVIET CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN, THE NEWSPAPER VECHERNYA ALMA-ATA REPORTS TODAY. LATE IN THE AFTERNOON, WHILE APPROACHING THE KOK-TYUBE MOUNTAIN -- A RECREATION AREA FAVOURED BY LOCAL INHABITANTS -- THE PATROLMEN NOTICED A KIND OF FIRE AT THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN THEY WATCHED THE FLAMES GO UP AND DOWN THEN AN ARRAY OF RED RAYS BURST OUT OF THE CENTRE. OTHER MILITIAMEN ALSO NOTICED THE STRANGE OBJECT THE DRIVER OF THE PATROL CAR SAID HE AND HIS COMRADES DROVE UP TO THE "FLAMING OBJECT", AND WHEN THEY WERE A MERE 200 METERS AWAY FROM THE HOVERING UFO, A FEW RAYS SWEPT ACROSS THE CAR AND IT STOPPED DEAD WHEN THE MILITIAMEN MOVED TOWARDS THE UFO, IT DIMMED ITS "SEARCHLIGHTS" AND DISAPPEARED. UPON RETURNING TO THE POLICE STATION, THE PATROLMEN NOTICED THAT NONE COULD RECALL THE WAY BACK FROM THE MOUNTAIN -- ALL MEMORY OF THE PASSAGE HAD BEEN COMPLETELY OBLITERATED RADIO TALKS CONCERNING THE UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT WERE RECORDED ON TAPE. THERE ARE IMPARTIAL WITNESSES TO THE EVENT ADMIN (ENDALL) 19160 BT #4715 NNNN
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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. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.