PURSUE archive · catalogue card
CIA-UAP-D001
Intelligence Information Report, USSR, 1973
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- Agency
- CIA
- Incident date
- Dec 20, 1973As the catalogue writes it: “12/20/73”
- Place
- USSR (unspecified)As the catalogue writes it: “USSR”See the area on the globe →
- Published in PURSUE
- May 22, 2026
- Records
- 1 record · Document
- Redactions
- Redacted passages in 1 of 1 records
01 Official description
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.
02 Catalogue records · 1
CIA-UAP-D001 · Document · CIA · May 22, 2026
Intelligence Information Report, USSR, 1973
12/20/73 · USSR
03 Related cases
Other catalogue cards from the same area or the same decade.
04 Sources
- [1]
Record · U.S. Department of War
Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE)
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