State Department UAP Cable 002, Kazakhstan, January 31, 1994

Official Conclusion

No opinion offered; reported for what it may be worth.

Official Description

This document is a U.S. Department of State diplomatic cable from the U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe, Tajikistan to the Secretary of State in Washington, D.C. on January 31, 1994. On January 27, 1994 one Tajik pilot and three American citizens encountered an UAP flying a 747 jet at 41,000 feet over Kazakhstan. Object was a bright light of enormous intensity and approached over the horizon to the east at great speed and a much higher altitude. Several pictures were taken of the craft making 90 degree turns, doing corkscrews and maneuvering in circles a great rates of speed. Object was reported as resembling a bullet in flight. Visual estimation of the contrails were at 100,000 feet, which was too high to leave contrails by ordinary aircraft.

Key Findings

• →Three American pilots and their crew observed a bright light of enormous intensity approaching from the east at great speed and at a much higher altitude than their 41,000-foot cruising altitude over Kazakhstan on January 27, 1994.
• →The object was observed for approximately 40 minutes performing circles, corkscrews, and 90-degree turns at rapid rates of speed and under very high G-forces.
• →Captain Rhodes photographed the object with a pocket Olympus camera and intended to send copies to the embassy and the State Department Tajikistan desk.
• →Approximately 45 minutes after the initial sighting, the crew flew under contrails left by the object, estimated by Rhodes to be at approximately 100,000 feet — an altitude Rhodes noted was too high for ordinary aircraft to produce contrails.
• →Rhodes and his crew, all experienced former Pan Am pilots familiar with meteors and space debris, were adamant the object was not a meteor and expressed the opinion it was extraterrestrial and under intelligent control.

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