PURSUE Release 03 — Sighting of Unconventional Aircraft (CIA-UAP-006)
Source: U.S. Department of War, PURSUE (Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters) — Release 03 (third tranche), published 12 June 2026. Document CIA-UAP-006.
URL: release portal https://www.war.gov/UFO/release/03/ · bundle https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/061226/release_03/release_03_documents.zip (file: CIA-UAP-006_Sighting_of_Unconventional_Aircraft.pdf)
Captured: 2026-06-12. Text below is the clean born-digital / OCR text extracted from the released PDF (2 pages).
What this is: Sighting of Unconventional Aircraft. Index/analysis: pursue-release-03-uap-records.
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no technical training or experience in aviation matters . He recently visited
the USSR as a tourist at the invitation of a senior Soviet official.
At 1630, 4 Oct 55, I boarded a train at Baku for Tiflis in the company ot
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three other US nationals, one of whom shared a Wagon-Lit compartment with . me; the other two occupied the ad.Joining compartment. The train ran very slowly, making evffY stop; I vould estimate its overall speed. at 20 Jll.l)h. Exactly tvo hours and forty minutes out of Baku, one ot our group in the compartment next door entered my compartment and said, “Did you see that out theret I just saw a ny1ng saucer o ” I and my compartment companion vere about to laugh it off wen the man from next door pointed out ot the window again, and then we all saw the following sight . On the letthand side ot the traill, between the train and the Caspian Sea coast, was a large air field o The evening we.a dark but clear o A huge
1earc:hlir,ht 1 on the tield itselt, shar,e on a triangular obJect on the ground wich :i: would say was probably not more than tvo miles distant from the railroad . [collector ’ s comment i Source first estimated that the air field was about five miles away but, on further reflection, chansed the distance to the obJect to two mi.l.es;J i’b.e eize ot the object was comparable to that ot a US Jet tighter, vith a squat shape and in the form of an equilateral tmngle . There were three lights on the obJect, one on each point of the triazigle, presumably two wing lights and a tail light. As we watched, it was eJected from its launching site, mak1ng not less than three anti not :more than seven fast spirals in the air, a:tter which it cl.im’bed extremely tut at about a 45 degree angle o We watched ·- it climb and saw it reach a high altitude; the •earchlight followed it all the way.
I wish to ~haaize that this was no ordinary take-of’f but a launching procedure more like a m.ssile eJection. OUr companion from next door reported that this was the second launchil:Jg in rapid succession.
I believe that the train at the time of the ai&}lting vu ‘betveen 50 and 65 miles south ot Baku. Thet!Cupian Sea vu still visible. While the fo~_..Q:C. ua were still watching the obJect asceruJ1ns, _!he steward ~ - - - - i -rn and pulled d ~ e bllnO:s o When I bepn to protest, the •tetard ---Jio”fii~etr""toward the rear ot the car and shook his head, 1D41c:ating to me that the MVD man who had boarded the train at the moaent ot departure had ordered the blinds drawn o : i
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- our party ha4 wished to make this part of the Journey by air, but we were intormed by DTOURIST in Baku that there were no flights between Baku and Tiflis . In Tiflis the Ill’l’OURIST people were surprised that our party had not tlo”Wll and said that there were several flights a clay.
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