CIA-UAP-006: Sighting Of Unconventional Aircraft

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                   Sighting ot Unconventional Aircraft
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                   Azerbaijan SSR
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        DATE ACQU I RED         Of dales, on or .be lween w hich,
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          4 Oct 55                               4 Oct 55
                                                          THI S IS    UNEVALUATED           INFORMATI ON
       souRcE US national, 41 years old, publicity and advertising vice president o:f' large
              US corporation. His Mjor education was in the field ot political sci~nce
              (Phi B~ta Kappa), and he has lectured extensively on current affairs . He has had
              no technical training or experience in aviation matters . He recently visited
              the USSR as a tourist at the invitation of a senior Soviet official.

            l.      At 1630, 4 Oct 55, I boarded a train at Baku for Tiflis in the company ot
                    three other US nationals, one of whom shared a Wagon-Lit compartment with .
                    me; the other two occupied the ad.Joining compartment. The train ran very
                    slowly, making evffY stop; I vould estimate its overall speed. at 20 Jll.l)h.
                    Exactly tvo hours and forty minutes out of Baku, one ot our group in the
                    compartment next door entered my compartment and said, "Did you see that
                    out theret I just saw a ny1ng saucer o " I and my compartment companion
                    vere about to laugh it off wen the man from next door pointed out ot the
                    window again, and then we all saw the following sight .

            2.      On the letthand side ot the traill, between the train and the Caspian Sea
                    coast, was a large air field o The evening we.a dark but clear o A huge
                     1earc:hlir,ht 1 on the tield itselt, shar,e on a triangular obJect on the
                     ground wich :i: would say was probably not more than tvo miles distant
                     from the railroad . [collector ' s comment i Source first estimated that
                     the air field was about five miles away but, on further reflection,
                     chansed the distance to the obJect to two mi.l.es;J i'b.e eize ot the object
                     was comparable to that ot a US Jet tighter, vith a squat shape and in the
                     form of an equilateral tmngle . There were three lights on the obJect,
                     one on each point of the triazigle, presumably two wing lights and a tail
                     light. As we watched, it was eJected from its launching site, mak1ng not
                     less than three anti not :more than seven fast spirals in the air, a:tter
                     which it cl.im'bed extremely tut at about a 45 degree angle o We watched
                  ·- it climb and saw it reach a high altitude; the •earchlight followed
                     it all the way.

                    I wish to ~haaize that this was no ordinary take-of'f but a launching
                    procedure more like a m.ssile eJection. OUr companion from next door
                    reported that this was the second launchil:Jg in rapid succession.

           4.         I believe that the train at the time of the ai&}lting vu 'betveen 50 and
                      65 miles south ot Baku. Thet!Cupian Sea vu still visible. While the
                      fo~_..Q:C. ua were still watching the obJect asceruJ1ns, _!he steward ~ - - - - i
                     -rn and pulled d ~ e bllnO:s o When I bepn to protest, the •tetard
                 ---Jio"fii~etr""toward the rear ot the car and shook his head, 1D41c:ating to me
                      that the MVD man who had boarded the train at the moaent ot departure
                      had ordered the blinds drawn o
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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.

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