Department of StatePDFTier 2 · Documented firsthand reportLuminous
Kazakhstan, January 31, 1994
UFOP-287 · Release 01 (5/8)
Agency
Department of State
Document type
PDF
Sighting type
Luminous
Location
Kazakhstan (Other)
Incident date
1/27/94
Release
Release 01 (5/8)
Evidence tier
Tier 2 · Documented firsthand report
What the document says
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.
This is one of 7 Department of State records in the declassified archive, and one of 8 cases describing a luminous, reported in the Other region. It was published in Release 01 (5/8).
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