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Chronicle year

1955

1955-10-01 / Trans-Caucasus region, USSR

Air Intelligence Information Report IR 193-55, dated 14 October 1955 and prepared by Lt. Col. Thomas S. Ryan of the U.S. Air Attache office in Prague, documents an eyewitness account of two round, circular unconventional aircraft resembling flying saucers seen at 1910 hours on 1 October 1955 between Atjaty and Adzhijabul in the Trans-Caucasus region of the USSR. Senator Richard Russell, Lt. Col. E.U. Hathaway, and Mr. Ruben Efron observed the disc aircraft ascending almost vertically one minute apart, with outer surfaces revolving slowly to the right, two stationary lights near the top, and sparks or flame from the bottom.

1955-10-01 / Prague

A 1955 CIA memorandum from Harvey Scoville Jr., Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence, addressed to the Director of Central Intelligence, analyzes a Prague dispatch dated 13 October 1955 reporting the sighting of two "flying saucers or disc-like unconventional aircraft." Mr. Efron, one of four observers, told interviewers he saw only two lights rise vertically and pass overhead at roughly 9,000 feet, and could not describe the body or shape of the objects.

1955-10-01 / Azerbaijan, Soviet Union

A CIA memorandum dated 31 October 1955, addressed to the Director of Central Intelligence and authored by Herbert Scoville Jr., Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence, summarizes debriefings of four witnesses who observed "flying saucers or unconventional aircraft" from a train near Alyaty, Soviet Azerbaijan, at 1910 hours in 1955. The witnesses included Senator Richard Russell, who saw a small greenish-yellow glowing ball rising rapidly, and Colonel Hathaway, who described a shadowy object with a rotating light at its base that did not resemble any aircraft, rocket, or missile he had seen.