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USSR
SUBJECT
Sighting of Unconventional Aircraft
REPORT NO.
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DATE DISTRIBUTED
15 NOV '55
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PLACE ACQUIRED (By source)
Azerbaijan SSR
DATE ACQUIRED (By source)
DATE OF INFORMATION (Date or dates, on or between which,
events or conditions described in report existed)
4 Oct 55
4 Oct 55
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SOURCE US national, 41 years old, publicity and advertising vice president of large
US corporation.
His major education was in the field of political science
(Phi Beta 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.
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At 1630, 4 Oct 55, I boarded a train at Baku for Tiflis in the company of
three other US nationals, one of whom shared a Wagon-Lit compartment with
me; the other two occupied the adjoining compartment.
The train ran very
slowly, making every stop; I would estimate its overall speed at 20 mph.
Exactly two hours and forty minutes out of Baku, one of our group in the
compartment next door entered my compartment and said, "Did you see that
out there? I just saw a flying saucer."
I and my compartment companion
were about to laugh it off when the man from next door pointed out of the
window again, and then we all saw the following sight.
On the lefthand side of the train, between the train and the Caspian Sea
coast, was a large air field. The evening was dark but clear.
searchlight,
on the field itself, shone on a triangular object on the
ground which I would say was probably not more than two miles distant
from the railroad.
Collector's comment: Source first estimated that
the air field was about five miles away but,
banged the distance to the object to two mill further reflection,
was comparable to that of a US jet fighter, with a squat shape and in the
form of an equilateral trangle. There were three lights on the object,
one on each point of the triangle, presumably two wing lights and a tail
As we watched, it was ejected from its launching site, making not
less than three and not more than seven fast spirals in the air, after
which it climbed extremely fast at about a 45 degree angle. We watched
it climb and saw it reach a high altitude; the searchlight followed
it all the way.
I wish to emphasize that this was no ordinary take-off but a launching
procedure more like a missile ejection.
Our companion from next door
reported that this was the second launching in rapid succession.
I believe that the train at the time of the sighting was between 50 and
65 miles south of Baku.
Thel'Caspian Sea was still visible.
While the
four of un vere still watching the object ascending, the steward came
In and pulled down the blinds.
When I began to protest, the steward
pointed toward the rear of the car and shook his head, indicating to me
that the MVD man who had boarded the train at the moment of departure
had ordered the blinds drawn.
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5. Our party had wished to make this part of the journey by air, but we
vere informed by INTOURIST in Baku that there were no flights betweer
In Tiflis the INTOURIST people were surprised that
our party had not flown and said that there were several flights a
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