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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum dated 24 January 1956 forwards a summary and tabulation of statements about an unconventional flying object sighted near Baku, USSR, on 4 October 1955. Members of a party traveling by train toward Tiflis reported the object, and their accounts are compared in a chart. The chart covers shape, size, lights, motion and searchlights. The memo concludes that darkness and the brief duration of the sighting kept observers from seeing enough detail to describe the object properly.
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## SIGNING OF UNCONVENTIONAL FLYING OBJECT USER ON 4 OCTOBER 1955 1. Attached is a tabulation of the statements made by each member of the party relative to the unidentified flying object observed by them on 4 October 1935 while on the train from Eskuyo to Tiflis. 2. The tabulation has been held for some time uniting answers to questions by Source 3 which have just been received and incorporated in the chart. 3. From observation of the chart it is apparent that due to darkness and the short duration of the sighting, the observers were unable to distinguish sufficient details to properly describe the object.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 4 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.