Declassified UFO / UAP Document

Information Report: Unidentified Flying Object Observed on Iran/USSR border

📅 12 June 1957 📍 Iranian Julfa 🏛 CIA 📄 Information Report

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A CIA intelligence report detailing a 1957 sighting of a small, ball-shaped object with a tail and smoke trail near the Iran-USSR border. The object was observed by two witnesses at an altitude of 2,000 feet/meters.

On 12 June 1957, at approximately 11:00 a.m. local time, an unidentified flying object was observed from Iranian Julfa. The object was described as a ball-shaped craft, approximately one-half meter in diameter, possessing a tail of similar length. It was observed traveling at high speed at an altitude of 2,000 feet. The sighting was brief, lasting only a few seconds. The object left a smoke trail that drifted over Iranian Julfa from the direction of the USSR. A second witness, whose name is illegible in the report, corroborated the sighting, describing the object as being the size of a football and moving at an altitude of 2,000 meters. This witness further noted that the smoke trail left behind by the object remained visible for approximately 15 minutes.

The object appeared to be a ball about one-half meter in diameter and had a tail one-half meter in length.

Witnesses