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This U.S. State Department cable, sent from the U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe on January 31, 1994, reports a UFO sighting by Tajik Air chief pilot Ed Rhodes and two American colleagues. On January 27, while flying a Boeing 747SP at 41,000 feet over Kazakhstan, the crew watched a very bright light maneuver for about forty minutes. It left contrails that Rhodes estimated at 100,000 feet. The crew rejected a meteor explanation, and the embassy said it had no opinion.
From the source:Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: 1/27/94, Kazakhstan. This document is a U.S. Department of State diplomatic cable from the U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe, Tajikistan to the Secretary of State in Washington, D.C. on January 31, 1994. On January 27, 1994 one Tajik pilot and three American citizens encountered an UAP flying a 747 jet at 41,000 feet over Kazakhstan. Object was a bright light of enormous intensity and approached over the horizon to the east at great speed and a much higher altitude. Several pictures were taken of the craft making 90 degree turns, doing corkscrews and maneuvering in circles a great rates of speed. Object was reported as resembling a bullet in flight. Visual estimation of the contrails were at 100,000 feet, which was too high to leave contrails by ordinary aircraft.
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