Summary
This CIA Intelligence Information Report describes human intelligence gathered in the USSR and is characterized as informational rather than finally evaluated intelligence. In one section, a source recounts observing an airborne, luminous, bright green unidentified object in the summer of 1973, around which concentric circles formed over several minutes before it dissipated. The source reported no accompanying sound and offered no opinion on the object's nature.
Detail
Released through the PURSUE declassification, this document is a CIA Intelligence Information Report (IIR) describing human intelligence gathering activities in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The report characterizes its content as informational rather than as finally evaluated intelligence.
In section 14, the source describes an incident from the summer of 1973 in which he reportedly 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, and noted that no sound accompanied the observation. The source offered no opinion on the nature of the phenomenon and was unable to provide further details.
