Cable 2 Kazakhstan January 1994

Summary

Diplomatic cable from the American Embassy in Dushanbe dated January 31, 1994, record DOS-UAP-D2, carrying the subject Tajik Air Pilots Report Unidentified Flying Object. It states that Tajik Air chief pilot Ed Rhodes, a U.S. citizen, and two American colleagues reported on January 29 that they had encountered a UFO four days earlier while flying a Boeing 747SP at 41,000 feet. The location given is latitude 45 north and longitude 55 east over Kazakhstan, where the pilots first encountered the object as a bright light of enormous intensity. Distribution included Washington, Moscow, Tashkent, Almaty, Beijing, Bishkek, CIA, and DIA.