Tajik Air 747SP over Kazakhstan: "under intelligent control"
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On 27 January 1994, a Tajik Air Boeing 747SP cruising at 41,000 ft over Kazakhstan was observed by three American pilots to be tracking a brilliantly bright object that closed from the eastern horizon at extreme speed. Over 40 minutes the object executed 90-degree turns, spirals and circles under very high G-loads. Captain Ed Rhodes documented several photos with a pocket Olympus camera. The crew noted contrails at roughly 100,000 ft (impossible at that altitude) and likened the object's signature to a bullet's bow-wave in high-speed photography. Captain Rhodes — formerly with Pan Am — concluded the object was "EXTRATERRESTRIAL AND UNDER INTELLIGENT CONTROL".
Key quotes
“"The object was EXTRATERRESTRIAL AND UNDER INTELLIGENT CONTROL."
From dos-kazakhstan-1994 page —
“"They flew under its contrails at approximately 100,000 feet, where there is too little air to enable contrails by ordinary aircraft propulsion."
From dos-kazakhstan-1994 page —
“"Resembling a high-speed photo of a bullet in flight, with a much larger trailing wave of heat/light."
From dos-kazakhstan-1994 page —
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From the source documents
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TAJIK AIR PILOTS REPORT UNIDENTIFIED FL YING OBJECT UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 01 DUSHAN 00259 310310Z ACTION OES-09 INFO LOG-00 AID-01 AMAD-01 OASY-00 DOTE-00 EAP-01 EB-01 EUR-01 FAAE-00 TEDE-00 INR-00 ADS-00 NSAE-00 SSO-00 SNIS-00 NISC-02 /016W --1FA298 310310Z/38 R 310258Z JAN 94 FM AMEMBASSY DUSHANBE TO SECSTATE WASHDC 2…
THEY FIRST ENCOUNTERED THE OBJECT AS A BRIGHT LIGHT OF ENORMOUS INTENSITY, APPROACHING THEM FROM OVER THE HORIZON TO THE EAST AT A GREAT RATE OF SPEED AND AT A MUCH HIGHER ALTITUDE THAN THEIR OWN
UNCLASSIFIED CSP-2025-00040 B-00002707028 "UNCLASSIFIED" 3/2/2026 NNNN Dissemination Rule
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Related documents
DOS Kazakhstan Cable (Jan 1994)
dos-uap-d2-cable-2-kazakhstan-january-1994.pdf