Kazakhstan Bullet UAP at 100,000 Feet, 1994
Tajik pilot and three Americans tracked bright light making impossible maneuvers over Kazakhstan.
Jan 27, 1994
Kazakhstan
PURSUE Program
AI Disclosure Brief
AI assistedReported Object Read
A bright light of enormous intensity approached over the horizon from the east at great speed and much higher altitude than a 747 at 41,000 feet. It resembled a bullet in flight, made 90-degree turns, corkscrews, and circled at great rates of speed, leaving contrails estimated at 100,000 feet.
Notable Characteristics
- Luminosity: bright light of enormous intensity
- Altitude: 100,000 feet (contrail estimate)
- Environment: sky
Reported Motion
- 90-degree turns, corkscrews, circular maneuvers at high speed
Evidence Notes
- Witnessed by Tajik pilot and three U.S. citizens
- Several photographs taken
Diplomatic cable documents eyewitness accounts and photos of high-altitude object with extreme maneuvers, reported too high for conventional contrails.
Cigar
visual, photographic
85%
Prosaic Leads
- Possible rocket launch or missile test misidentified
- High-altitude weather phenomenon
Anomalous Indicators
- 90-degree turns and corkscrews at extreme altitude
- Contrails at 100,000 feet beyond ordinary aircraft capability
- Photographic evidence noted
Evidence Gaps
- No access to photographs for analysis
- No radar or instrumental data
- Witness identities not specified
Evidence Quotes // source statements
Open archive"Several pictures were taken of the craft making 90 degree turns, doing corkscrews and maneuvering in circles a great rates of speed."
Unknown speaker / U.S. Embassy Dushanbe
Maneuver description.
Source"Object was a bright light of enormous intensity and approached over the horizon to the east at great speed and a much higher altitude."
Unknown speaker / U.S. Embassy Dushanbe
Description of UAP approach.
Source"Object was reported as resembling a bullet in flight. Visual estimation of the contrails were at 100,000 feet, which was too high to leave contrails by ordinary aircraft."
Unknown speaker / U.S. Embassy Dushanbe
Shape and altitude details.
SourcePattern Mesh // linked sightings
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