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This is a Central Intelligence Agency information report on the USSR, marked as unevaluated information. It records a sighting on 4 October 1955 by a US corporate executive traveling by train from Baku to Tiflis in the Azerbaijan SSR. The source and his companions watched a searchlight follow a triangular object about the size of a jet fighter as it spiraled up from an airfield near the Caspian coast and then climbed steeply. The report adds that an MVD officer had the train's blinds drawn.
From the source:Release of 2026-06-12 Incident: November, 1955, Baku, Azerbaijan. This CIA information report from November 1955 describes a US national's eyewitness account of triangular aircraft with wing lights launch at a steep angle from an airfield near Baku, Azerbaijan on October 4, 1955. A redacted version of this report has been available on CIA's public website.
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..... 5. our party ha4 wished to make this part of the Journey by air, but we were intormed by DTOURIST in Baku that there were no flights between Baku and Tiflis . In Tiflis the Ill'l'OURIST people were surprised that our party had not tlo"Wll and said that there were several flights a clay. - end - ! ,
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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.