Intelligence Information Report USSR 1973

Summary

CIA Intelligence Information Report, doc number CIA-UAP-D001, three pages, marked CONFIDENTIAL and approved for release in 2026 in batch R2. The report, with an information date of November 1973 and distribution the following December, concerns the Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range and rests on a source acquired in Germany, described as a former Soviet citizen. Beyond facilities, security fencing, and warhead data for System-75 (SA-2) and System-300/Aldan missiles, the summary includes unidentified aerial phenomenon. Item 14 recounts that one evening in late summer 1973 the source, at Site 7, saw an unidentified bright green circular object or mass about 70 degrees up in a cloudless sky; within 10 to 15 seconds it widened and several green concentric circles formed around it before the coloring faded within minutes, with no sound.