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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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was passed on the outskirts of Baku on the way from the commercial field. The Intourist guide stated that this was a military training airfield and Col. Hathaway recognized some dark green transports parked there. PART C. OBSERVATIONS AT DNIEPERPETROVSK AIRFIELD The three US observers arrived at Dnieperpetrovsk airfield sometime on 9 Oct. 55 by DC-3 type aircraft. The airfield is grass-sod. The parking ramp is of octagonal brick or cement (see sketch of jet bomber and ramp brick design on page 8). One jet bomber was parked at the airfield (see description in text of cable and see profile sketch on page 8). Col. Hathaway counted 42 very stubby jet fighters parked at the field. The jet fighters were described as "short, stubby, smaller and higher horizontal tailplane, wings more forward, canopy more forward." At the time of the description I was having Col. Hathaway compare the fighter he saw with a scale model of a FAGOT. He definitely did not think they were Fagots because of the fuselage being more stubby. (Sort of rules out Frescos of which I could use a model as I don't have any.) This is my reason for citing SRI TIC 6244, as the composite configuration concludes that the SRI fighter is one third smaller than the MIG-15. I did not have time to show the composite drawing to the observer but the possibility exists that his sighting was of the SRI composite type. Further debriefing should bring out more details. PART D. OBSERVATIONS NEAR MOSCOW The three observers were escorted to a place which Senator Russell had requested to see outside Moscow. On the way, exaatly at the 42 kilometer signpost from Moscow on the Moscow to Minsk highway, on the right side of the road, there was a radar site (size unknown) with two radars. From the sketches of Col. Hathaway, they have been tentatively identified as one Woodgage or Gage and one square type Fle Freya. (See sketch below): (Approx. 200-250 yards off side of road.) PART E. OBSERVATIONS FROM TIFLIS TO SOCI. AT TIFLIS about the 5th of Oct. 55, Col. Hathaway sighted a large helicopter resembling a banana with two large, main rotors at each end and having many more windows than a banana type which he had seen in the USA. Between TIFLIS AND SOCI, on the Black Sea, while travelling by train, one of the most significant coincidences occurred, taking into account the observations which were reported in the ATJATY region. Sen. Russell's party made contact with a Russian who was about 55 years, named EGOROV. He was accompanied by a younger engineer who job was to keep EGOROV supplied with spirits. EGOROV was feeling pretty good when he met
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Official release, from the pursue 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. 10 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.