Department of State cables, 1985 / 1994
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A 1985 US State Department cable from the embassy in Port Moresby. Papua New Guinea's National Intelligence Organization made an informal inquiry about reports of high-altitude, high-speed aircraft and unidentified aerial phenomena over PNG on the night of 24 January 1985 — fast-moving objects with lights, contrails and noise — which had frightened residents and prompted a public meeting attended by the Prime Minister.
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- An Air Niugini pilot's radar reportedly picked up aircraft flying south to north at high altitude and speed over Angoram.
- Visual sightings of contrails were reported across PNG, including six to eight objects travelling south to north at 2200 local.
- The US embassy told the PNG intelligence organization it knew of no B-52 overflights or US aircraft in PNG airspace that night and asked Washington for any confirmation or explanation.
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- The cable forwards sketchy, second-hand reports; sources were unsure even of the objects' directions of flight.
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A 1994 US State Department cable from the embassy in Dushanbe. Tajik Air's chief pilot, US citizen Ed Rhodes, and two American pilot colleagues reported that on 27 January 1994 they encountered a UFO while flying a Boeing 747SP at 41,000 ft over Kazakhstan. They watched it for about forty minutes as it maneuvered in circles, corkscrews and 90-degree turns at high speed and high G, then sped off horizontally over the horizon.
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- The object first appeared as a bright light of enormous intensity, approaching from the east at great speed and a much higher altitude than the aircraft.
- It maneuvered in circles, corkscrews and rapid 90-degree turns for ~40 minutes; the captain took photographs, and the crew later flew under contrails it had left at an estimated ~100,000 ft.
- The crew rejected a meteor explanation and, based on its speed and maneuverability, expressed the opinion the object was extraterrestrial and under intelligent control; the embassy added it had no opinion.
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- The account is the flight crew's report and opinion as relayed by the embassy, which explicitly offered no assessment of its own.
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