A declassified CIA document, catalogued as DOC_0000015386, records the tabulated transmission of an "unconventional flying object" sighted near Baku, the capital of Soviet Azerbaijan. Though the document contains only a title-"TRANSMITTAL OF TABULATION ON...
A brief declassified entry titled "FLYING OBJECTS SEEN IN SARANSK AREA", catalogued as DOC_0000015265, records an intelligence report concerning unusual aerial sightings over Saransk-then part of the Soviet Union. Though the document provides minimal descriptive...
A brief declassified entry, catalogued as DOC_0000015251, records the sighting of an unidentified flying object observed along the border of Iran and the USSR. The document is succinct and contains no further description, but its inclusion in the CIA’s archive signals...
A short but striking CIA report, catalogued as DOC_0000015263 and titled "FLYING OBJECT OBSERVED AT ROSTOV," documents a Cold War-era UFO sighting near the strategic Soviet city of Rostov in 1951. The memo notes that U.S. personnel stationed in the region observed an...
In the spring of 1954, Soviet fighter pilots stationed near Stalingrad witnessed something they could not explain: fast-moving aerial objects flying at extreme altitude and speeds beyond the known capabilities of any aircraft in the USSR or the West. The report was...