Memorandum on Unconventional Aircraft Sightings, 1955
CIA-UAP-D020 · Release 04 (7/10)
Agency
CIA
Document type
PDF
Sighting type
Disc/Disk
Location
Azerbaijan (Europe)
Incident date
1955
Release
Release 04 (7/10)
Evidence tier
Tier 2 · Documented firsthand report
What the document says
This memorandum summarizes a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) debriefing of a group of four individuals who reported observing a “flying saucer” or “unconventional aircraft” in 1955. The group, which included U.S. Senator Richard Russell, a U.S. military service member, and two U.S. Government officials, reported observing a luminescent “greenish-yellow” phenomenon, as seen from aboard a train while traveling within the Soviet Union, in present-day Azerbaijan, between Baku and Tiflis (Tbilisi, Georgia). The document concludes by stating that the observation can “probably be explained as steep climbing aircraft or missiles,” and that “the evidence does not appear sufficiently firm to warrant the conclusion that the Soviets have developed […] a radically new type of aircraft.” The document “CIA-UAP-D021” contains a contemporary analysis of the incident.
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Context
This is one of 21 CIA records in the declassified archive, and one of 30 cases describing a disc/disk, reported in the Europe region. It was published in Release 04 (7/10).
Evidence tiers describe the type of record (sensor capture vs. written report vs.
administrative file) · not a claim about its conclusions. UFO Papers reports only what the documents state.