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 "slug": "cia-uap-006",
 "title": "CIA-UAP-006 Sighting of Unconventional Aircraft",
 "agency": "CIA",
 "year": null,
 "page_count": 2,
 "source_page": "https://wearenotalone.space/document/cia-uap-006/",
 "original_file": "https://wearenotalone.space/Season 03/release_03_documents/CIA-UAP-006_Sighting_of_Unconventional_Aircraft.pdf",
 "license": "U.S. Government work — public domain. Text is machine OCR from the original scan; the page image is authoritative.",
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   "text": "Approved for Release 2026\n-\n! '\ni '\n.._P_R_E_P_A_R_E_D_A_N_D_D_IS_S_E_M_I_N_A_T_E_D_B_Y_\nCENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY\nCOUNTRY\nUSSR\nSUBJECT\nSighting ot Unconventional Aircraft\nPLACE ACQUIRED /Br aourceJ\nAzerbaijan SSR\n1----- - - --~------------------1\nDATE ACQUI RED /Br •ourceJ\nOAT£ OF I NFORMATION (Dale Of dales, on or .belween w hich,\neveaa oz condiliom de.sc,i.bed la report exialedJ\n4 Oct 55\n4 Oct 55\nTHIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION\nsouRcE US national, 41 years old, publicity and advertising vice president o:f' large\nUS corporation. His Mjor education was in the field ot political sci~nce\nl.\n2.\n(Phi B~ta Kappa), and he has lectured extensively on current affairs.\nHe has had\nno technical training or experience in aviation matters.\nHe recently visited\nthe USSR as a tourist at the invitation of a senior Soviet official.\nAt 1630, 4 Oct 55, I boarded a train at Baku for Tiflis in the company ot\nthree other US nationals, one of whom shared a Wagon-Lit compartment with .\nme; the other two occupied the ad.Joining compartment.\nThe train ran very\nslowly, making evffY stop; I vould estimate its overall speed. at 20 Jll.l)h.\nExactly tvo hours and forty minutes out of Baku, one ot our group in the\ncompartment next door entered my compartment and said, \"Did you see that\nout theret I just saw a ny1ng saucer o \"\nI and my compartment companion\nvere about to laugh it off wen the man from next door pointed out ot the\nwindow again, and then we all saw the following sight.\nOn the letthand side ot the traill, between the train and the Caspian Sea\ncoast, was a large air field o\nThe evening we.a dark but clearo\nA huge\n1earc:hlir,ht 1\non the tield itselt, shar,e on a triangular obJect on the\nground wich :i: would say was probably not more than tvo miles distant\nfrom the railroad. [collector' s commenti\nSource first estimated that\nthe air field was about five miles away but, on further reflection,\nchansed the distance to the obJect to two mi.l.es;J i'b.e eize ot the object\nwas comparable to that ot a US Jet tighter, vith a squat shape and in the\nform of an equilateral tmngle.\nThere were three lights on the obJect,\none on each point of the triazigle, presumably two wing lights and a tail\nlight. As we watched, it was eJected from its launching site, mak1ng not\nless than three anti not :more than seven fast spirals in the air, a:tter\nwhich it cl.im'bed extremely tut at about a 45 degree angleo\nWe watched\n·- it climb and saw it reach a high altitude; the •earchlight followed\nit all the way.\nI wish to ~haaize that this was no ordinary take-of'f but a launching\nprocedure more like a m.ssile eJection.\nOUr companion from next door\nreported that this was the second launchil:Jg in rapid succession.\n-----\n·\nSEE BOTTOM OF PAc;i·roR ADDITIONAL SPECIAL CONTROLS, lF ANY\nS-E•e-B B 4'\nThia mcii~~~ ·'-1otaatlon aHec:lhig th•\n~ a tional Defense ol theUnited StalH ,irithln Ille\nmeanillg ol lhe Espionage Laws, Tille 18, U.S. C .\n_ _ ___ _______, Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or ren lat1oa\nof which ID any manner to an unauthorized per•\naon la prohiblled by law.\nINFO~MATION REPORT\nREPORT NO.\n00-\n13- ')02.20\nDATE DISTRIBUTED\nNO. OF PAGES\nNU. UI- ENCLS.\nSUPPLEM Eh T TO REPORT 11\nRESPONSIVE TO\n4.\nI believe that the train at the time of the ai&}lting vu 'betveen 50 and\n65 miles south ot Baku.\nThet!Cupian Sea vu still visible. While the\nfo~_..Q:C. ua were still watching the obJect asceruJ1ns, _!he steward ~\n----i\n-rn and pulled d~e bllnO:s o\nWhen I bepn to protest, the •tetard\n---Jio\"fii~etr\"\"toward the rear ot the car and shook his head, 1D41c:ating to me\nthat the MVD man who had boarded the train at the moaent ot departure\nhad ordered the blinds drawno\n:\ni\nl\n!\n. ..,.,\n'\nNOFOBN\nffO DlSSEM ABROAD\n<._\n.\nUMITED: Dinemfnation limited to full•lime employees o/ CIA, AEC and FBI; and, \"'\"hln Slate and Defense, lo the intelligence components, other\noffic:.s producing NIS elements. and .higher echelons with their Immediate supporting\n1s. Not to be disseminated to consultants, external pro/ects\nor reser-re personnel oa short term active duty (excepting indi viduals who are normuuy tull-Ume employees ol CIA. AEC. FBI, Stale or Defense)\nunlu.s the wrUlen permission of I.he odqinatinq olllce has been obtained through the A.ssislanl Director for Collecllon and Dl.s:semlnalfon, CIA,\nDISTRIBUTION\nSTATE\nAR MY\nNAVY\nFBI"
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   "text": ".....\n5. our party ha4 wished to make this part of the Journey by air, but we\nwere intormed by DTOURIST in Baku that there were no flights between\nBaku and Tiflis. In Tiflis the Ill'l'OURIST people were surprised that\nour party had not tlo\"Wll and said that there were several flights a\nclay.\n- end -\n! ,"
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