CIA-UAP-D001, Intelligence Information Report, USSR, 1973
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CIA-UAP-D001 is a CIA Intelligence Information Report (IIR) dated December 20, 1973, distributing human intelligence collected from a former Soviet citizen sourced in Germany. The report covers activity at the Sary Shagan weapons testing range in the USSR during November 1972 through November 1975. The primary subject is warhead checkout operations for Soviet missile systems including the SA-2, SA-3, and ABM-1 GALOSH. In section 14, the source reports that on one evening in late summer 1973, while at Site 7, he stepped outside and observed a bright green circular object or mass in the sky to the west, at an elevation of approximately 70 degrees. Within 10 to 45 seconds, the circle widened and concentric rings formed around it before the coloring dissipated entirely within minutes. No sound was heard. The source offered no explanation.
The UAP observation is a minor section of a broader intelligence report focused on Soviet weapons systems. Its significance lies in its location — Sary Shagan was a major Soviet anti-ballistic missile and directed-energy weapons testing facility, making an unexplained luminous aerial phenomenon there potentially relevant to weapons research activity. The source offered no opinion, and the report makes no analytical judgment about the sighting. Several fields in the document, including the source's exact identity and some field comments, are redacted or partially obscured in the OCR text.
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This document is a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) intelligence information report (IIR) that describes human intelligence gathering activities in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). This report characterizes its content as informational, not as finally evaluated intelligence. In section 14 of this document, the source describes an incident occurring in summer of 1973, where he allegedly observed an airborne, luminous, bright green, unidentified object. The source described concentric circles forming around the phenomenon over a period of several minutes, before it dissipated. The source also stated that no sound attended the observation. The source offered no opinion on the nature of the phenomenon and was unable to provide further details regarding the incident.
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COUNTRY USSR
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November 1972- November
1975
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The Sary Shagan Weapons Testing
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Summary:
This report provides limited information on the Sary
Shagan
warhead checkout unit
Also included is linired
information on the following:
Aldan [ABM-1 GALOSH] warheads;
runored laser resefirch; and an
unidentified aerial phenomenon. End of Summary.
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and/or Aldan.
Besides the Systen-75
SA-21 warheads, Site 4 also
warheads for a missi eis) known as
the System- 300
(Field Comment:
source did not inch if Aldan was
The System- 300/Aidan warheads
after being
checked
were taken to bite 35 for
launching.
According
to rumor, the missile was for antimissile defense (protivo
(Field Comment:
identified the
in avallable reference material as the
ABM- 1/ GALOSA.)
The warhead for the System-300/Aldan missile was about
two meters long and 80 to 100 certimeters in diameter.
The war.
head weighed approximately 400 kilograms, and it contained an
unrecalled number of black cassettes, 45 x 12 centimeters, which
housed an unknown number of metal balls (shariki!.
Warheads
for
the System-75
(SA-2] missile had approximately T00 grey cassettes
7 centimeters
about 200 to
300 metal balis,
1.5 centimeters in diameter.
Source had no knowledge regarding nuclear warheads.
He opined
that all systems could be equipped with nuclear warheads. However,
Source stated all work done by his department was basically
experimental (opytnaya) .)
According to hearsay, experiments involving laser weapons
were being conducted at an
unknow location at the
posedly, the tests involved powerful antennas (no further details).
14. On one
evening in
late Summer 1973, Source observed an
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unidentified phenomenon at Site 7.
While watching a sport com-
petition between Canada
and the: USSR on
television, he stepped
outside for some air and observed an unidentified sharp (bright)
green circular object or mass in the sky.
The object was situated
kest of the site
at an angle of sighting of
approximately 70
undeterminable.
Although there were no clouds in the sky that
evening,
Source belleved that the green mass would have been higher
cloud level.
Source could not estimate the diameter of the
object.)
Within
tu to as seconds or observation, the green cIrcle
widened and within a brief period of time several
circles formed
around the mass. Within minutes
concentric
the coloring dis-
appeared.
There was no sound, such as an explosion, associated
vith the phenomenon.
Source had no. opinion as
phenomenon was.
resultant runors.
Source could not provide any further details.
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