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This Foreign Broadcast Information Service cable, relayed by the Joint Staff in January 1991 and later released by the Central Intelligence Agency, translates a CTK report from Bratislava Pravda of 22 January 1991. It says observatories in South Moravia received reports of a shining unidentified flying object seen on 18 January, which looked like a comet's tail shedding burning pieces and moved quickly from north to south. Astronomers assumed that a satellite, or part of one, was burning up in the upper atmosphere.
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PAGE:0096 INQUIRE=DOC13D ITEM NO=00397803 ENVELOPE CDSN = LGX368 MCN = 91024/20689 TOR = 910241251 RTTUZYUW RUEKJCS0320 0241249-UUUU--RUEALGX. ZNR UUUUU HEADER R 241249Z JAN 91 FM JOINT STAFF WASHINGTON DC INFO RUEALGX/SAFE R 241138Z JAN 91 FM FBIS VIENNA AU TO RUCWAAA/FBIS RESTON VA RUEBHAA/STORAGE CENTER FBIS RESTON VA RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHINGTON DC//INR/SEE/EE// RUEKJCS/DEFINTAGNCY WASH DC RUEOACC/CDR PSYOPGP FT BRAGG NC//ASOF-POG-SB// RUETIAV/MPC FT GEO G MEADE MD RUFHVOA/VOA MUNICH GE ACCT,FBAU-EWDK BT CONTROLS UNCLAS 2C WARNING: ATTN VOAVN SERIAL: AU2401113891 BODY SOURCE: BRATISLAVA PRAVDA IN SLOVAK 22 JAN 91 P 2 TEXT: //((CTK REPORT: "DESTRUCTION OF A SATELLITE?")) ((TEXT)) UHERSKY BROD -- SINCE SATURDAY ((19 JANUARY)) OBSERVATORIES IN SOUTH MORAVIA HAVE BEEN RECEIVING REPORTS ABOUT A MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENON. EYEWITNESSES CLAIM THAT ON FRIDAY 18 JANUARY BETWEEN 2317 AND 2320 ((2217 AND 2220 GMT)) THEY NOTICED A SHINING UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT IN THE SKY. IT LOOKED LIKE A COMET'S TAIL FROM WHICH BURNING PIECES WERE OCCASIONALLY FALLING. THE OBJECT WAS RELATIVELY HIGH UP AND MOVED QUICKLY, ROUGHLY FROM NORTH TO SOUTH. IT GLOWED LIKE THE FULL MOON. THE FLIGHT WAS ALSO OBSERVED BY ASTRONOMERS WHO ASSUME THAT THIS PHENOMENON INVOLVED THE DESTRUCTION OF A SATELLITE OR, AS THE CASE MAY BE, PART OF ONE WHICH BURNED UP WHEN IT REACHED THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE. ADMIN (ENDALL) 32301. 05 22 JAN 24/1216Z JAN UNCLASSIFIED Approved for Release Date AUG 1997
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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. 1 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.