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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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Halo rapidly at a setup below, will not level out occurred to relatively then noted horizontally novel rapidly upward at high occurred to relatively and novel horizontally Clinical rapidly Not unusually high climbed fast faster than usual Greenish-yellow dark object too dark to see Color shallow ----- ----- high ascended to very high Kona ----- sense flame to rear sparks or flames come out bottom or object ascended NONE NONE NONE NONE 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 5 - 10 minutes after object disappeared while still watching the object after sighting object ----- ----- 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 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.