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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.

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1955-10-01 / debunked

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.

Small greenish-yellow glowing ball rising quite rapidly