Document · 30 January 1985
Trud, 30 January 1985: "At 4:10 Precisely" (Aeroflot flight 8352), English translation released by the CIA
An English translation of a Soviet newspaper article: the Trud report of 30 January 1985 on what the crew of Aeroflot flight 8352, a Tu-134 from Tbilisi via Rostov to Tallinn, saw near Minsk, followed by a commentary from the deputy chairman of a Soviet scientific commission on anomalous phenomena. The CIA released it in its UFO collection (document 0005516658, control number C00174708). Its page number and "CSO" line suggest it comes from a Joint Publications Research Service translation series.
The article is a correspondent's retelling of the crew's account, not an official investigation report. It names the four crew members and describes the controllers' remarks; it does not give the date of the flight.
Sources: CIA Reading Room 0005516658 (our copy OCR'd from the released scan)
Facts and claims
- documented The translation, headed "AIRLINER CREW REPORTS UFO SIGHTING", renders the report by Trud special correspondent V. Vostrukhin (Trud, 30 January 1985, p. 3) and a commentary by N. A. Zheltukhin, deputy chairman of the Commission on Aerodynamic Phenomena of the All-Union Council of Scientific and Technical Societies and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Source: doc-cia-trud-1985-01-30-aeroflot-8352.pdf
- claimed Zheltukhin said the sighting had been investigated by the commission's Estonian section (I. Volke, E. Parve and others) and concluded: "the Tallin crew dealt with what we call a UFO." Source: doc-cia-trud-1985-01-30-aeroflot-8352.pdf
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- Aeroflot flight 8352 light near Minsk (1984) (documents)
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- Central Intelligence Agency (published by)
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