The Train from Baku

The Train from Baku

In October 1955 four Americans on a train from Baku to Tiflis saw lights rise from an airfield between the line and the Caspian Sea. Within six weeks the CIA had written three documents about it: a memorandum after interviewing one of them, a memorandum after interviewing all four, and an unevaluated information report from one of the party. The four described four different things. The CIA found that only one account supported an unconventional aircraft, that the rest could probably be explained as steep-climbing aircraft or missiles, and that the evidence was not firm enough to conclude the Soviets had a radically new type of aircraft.

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