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This U.S. Air Attaché report from Prague (IR 193-55), with a cable sent to USAF headquarters on 13 October 1955, records the debriefing of Senator Richard Russell's party after their travel through the USSR. Lt. Col. E.U. Hathaway and Ruben Efron said that on 4 October 1955, near Atjaty in the Trans Caucasus, the party saw two disc-shaped aircraft take off almost vertically from their train. The report also covers the jet aircraft seen at Dnepropetrovsk, a radar site near Moscow and the railway gauge change at Cop.
From the source:Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: 10/14/55, Azerbaijan. NARA Record Group 341, catalogue id 110677. Air Intelligence Information Report, 14 October 1955, Report of eye witness account of the ascent and flight of a unconventional aircraft in the trans-Caucasus region on the USSR.
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