Declassified UFO / UAP Document

Transmittal of Tabulation on Unconventional Flying Object Sighted Near Baku

📅 4 October 1955 📍 Near Baku 🏛 Office of Scientific Intelligence, CIA 📄 Memorandum

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This is a 1956 CIA memorandum transmitting witness statements regarding an unconventional flying object sighted near Baku, USSR, on October 4, 1955. The actual witness statements were enclosed with the memo but are not present in this document.

This memorandum, dated February 3, 1956, serves as a transmittal document from the Chief of the Liaison Division of Central Reference to the Director of Intelligence at the Headquarters of the U.S. Air Force. The subject of the correspondence is the forwarding of a tabulation of statements regarding an unconventional flying object sighted by individuals traveling on a train from Baku to Tiflis on October 4, 1955. The document notes that the tabulation was prepared by the Office of Scientific Intelligence of the CIA. It further specifies that any inquiries regarding the contents of the tabulation should be directed to a Wilton E. L[illegible] at Code 143, Extension 683. The document indicates that the enclosure mentioned in the text was not attached at the time of the review. The memorandum includes distribution information for the original and copies, and bears a stamp indicating it was approved for release in February 2010.

Attached is one (1) copy of a tabulation of the statements made by each member of the party relative to the unidentified flying object sighted by them on 4 October 1955, while on the train from Baku to Tiflis.

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