CIA-UAP-D001, Intelligence Information Report, USSR, 1973
This document is a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) intelligence information report (IIR) that describes human intelligence gathering activities in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). This report characterizes its content as informational, not as finally evaluated intelligence. In section 14 of this document, the source describes an incident occurring in summer of 1973, where he allegedly observed an airborne, luminous, bright green, unidentified object. The source described concentric circles forming around the phenomenon over a period of several minutes, before it dissipated. The source also stated that no sound attended the observation. The source offered no opinion on the nature of the phenomenon and was unable to provide further details regarding the incident.
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Short overview
Document ID: docwargovrelease2004cia-uap-d001. This CIA intelligence information report is explicitly presented as information, not as finally evaluated intelligence. In section 14, the source describes seeing a bright green circular object or mass in the sky in the USSR during the summer of 1973.
Why this is interesting
The document is useful because it shows a UAP-like observation inside a broader human-intelligence report, including the CIA report format and the warning that the information was not finally evaluated.
Selected passages
- Page 1: the report page identifies the file as an information report and not finally evaluated intelligence.
- Page 3: section 14 describes an unidentified bright green circular object or mass seen west of the site after the source stepped outside while watching a television sports competition.
Editorial cautions
The document reports what a source said; it does not itself verify the nature of the observed object.