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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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MOVEMENT 1 hour out of darkness 1910 1910 1910 HIDILITY After Dark Lights were on in train, not yet completely dark, sky was clear. Dark but clear Zoough daylight to see a form NOTION OF LIGHTING ----- 6 - 7 seconds 90 seconds, about 5 seconds on ground very short CUSION 1 1/3 hours by rail 10 minutes by rail from AKJAYT 50 - 60 miles south of Akjayt 10 minutes by rail from AKJAYT NOTION OF RAIL LINE South of rail line South of rail line Left of rail line South of rail line CUSION OF RAIL LINE Not possible to estimate distance Not possible to estimate distance 6 miles 1 - 2 miles HER OBJECTS LINKED Searchlight Searchlight, horizon Large airfield, steel tower, hangars, several searchlights Cagpian Sea still visible Top searchlights ATE OF JET Ball Round or square, may have had stub wings Triangular with point to rear Round like a partial inflated balloon TOT OF JET May have been small on rocket 1/3 size of searchlight visible to the loft about the size of US jet fighter about the size of US jet fighter NOTION OF JET Rotated slowly as it rose Rotation not seen made three to seven spirals Rotated slowly NOTION OF JET Hana soon Two stationary lights like eyes three, one on each point of the triangle, lights were red and green 2 lights on top, lights on bottom that rotated NOTION OF JET Not seen Not seen Launched like a missile Not seen
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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. 4 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.