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Azerbaijan in the US government files
3 of the Pentagon's 2026 PURSUE files concern events in Azerbaijan.
Sighting Of Unconventional Aircraft
November, 1955 · Baku, Azerbaijan
This CIA information report from November 1955 describes a US national's eyewitness account of triangular aircraft with wing lights launch at a steep angle from an airfield near Baku, Azerbaijan on October 4, 1955. A redacted version of this report has been av...
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10/14/55 · Azerbaijan
Air Intelligence Information Report, 14 October 1955, Report of eye witness account of the ascent and flight of a unconventional aircraft in the trans-Caucasus region on the USSR.
Memorandum on Unconventional Aircraft Sightings, 1955
1955 · Azerbaijan
This memorandum summarizes a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) debriefing of a group of four individuals who reported observing a “flying saucer” or “unconventional aircraft” in 1955. The group, which included U.S. Senator Richard Russell, a U.S. military serv...