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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.
Official page text
- 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.
Official note
- The account is the flight crew's report and opinion as relayed by the embassy, which explicitly offered no assessment of its own.
- This summary is AI-generated from the document text for navigation purposes only and is not an official analysis or conclusion.
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