341_110677_Numerical_File,_5-2500

Date: 14 Oct 1955
Place: Trans-Caucasus region, Azerbaijan, USSR
Record: Pentagon file
Assessment: Not assessed
Evidence strength

467 case pages by decade; this one falls in 1950s with 49 othersAll cases

What was reported

Per the government's own description, this is an Air Intelligence Information Report dated 14 October 1955 recording an eyewitness account of the ascent and flight of an 'unconventional aircraft' in the trans-Caucasus region of the USSR. The OCR text supplied in this corpus is almost entirely unreadable noise (isolated letters and symbol fragments across all 10 pages); no content beyond the manifest blurb could be verified from the file itself.

What officials concluded

No conclusion stated

The file gives no official explanation.

Agency: Department of War
Released in

Evidence profile

Sensors1 of 9

Yes: Visual
No: Infrared
No: Radar
No: Video
No: Photo
No: Film
No: Audio
No: Night vision
No: Other sensor

Witnessescount not stated

No: Civilian
No: Military aircrew
No: Military ground
No: Airline crew
No: Sensor operator
No: Law enforcement
No: Scientist
No: Astronaut
No: Intelligence official
Yes: Other

Shapenot stated

No: Light only
No: Orb or sphere
No: Disc
No: Triangle
No: Cylinder
No: Cube
No: Other shape

Effectsnone reported

No: Physiological
No: Physical trace
No: Electromagnetic
No: Sound
No: Silent

Why this rating Cannot be assessed beyond the government's one-line blurb; the underlying report describes a single eyewitness account with no stated corroborating sensor.

As described in the file

Witnesses: Unspecified eyewitness (per blurb)
Sensors: Visual

Pentagon files

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On the map

41.00° N, 46.50° E, plotted at the centre of the region named in the record

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