Incident or event

Green mass over Sary Shagan (1973)

Name: Green mass over Sary Shagan (1973)
Start: 1973-09-01

1973-09-01what this date marks, in the notes below

One paragraph inside a CIA Intelligence Information Report whose subject is otherwise Soviet SA-2 and ABM-1/GALOSH warhead handling. The source - who worked checking warheads at the range - stepped outside during a televised Canada-USSR sports match one evening in late summer 1973 and "observed an unidentified sharp (bright) green circular object or mass in the sky", west of the site at about 70 degrees elevation. "Within 10 to 15 seconds of observation, the green circle widened and within a brief period of time several green concentric circles formed around the mass. Within minutes the coloring disappeared. There was no sound, such as an explosion, associated with the phenomenon." The report adds that the source "had no opinion as to what this phenomenon was" and that there were "no resultant rumors". IT IS HERE BECAUSE OF WHAT IT SITS BESIDE: a green object of unexplained kind, over a nuclear-weapons installation, on the other side of the Cold War from the New Mexico green fireballs.

In the UAP recordThe report heads the paragraph "an unidentified phenomenon at Site 7".

3 of 3 connections resolve to a document you can open.

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Documents2 behind these connections

Documents behind these connections

The Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range 1977-01-01
The Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range 1973-12-20

3 connections

→ Central Intelligence Agency

the observation survives only inside a CIA report on Soviet warhead handling

The Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range
printed p. 5 · PDF p. 3 checked against the page
→ PURSUE

released through it in the second tranche

same document as the row above
PDF p. 1 checked against the page
→ Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range

happened there - the range the report names in its own subject line

The Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range
printed p. 1 · PDF p. 1 checked against the page

Notes on this record

The date

The source places it in "late Summer 1973" and gives no date. 1 September is this file's placeholder for a season-known date and asserts nothing narrower.

The incident

A green object at a Soviet test range, in a CIA report about warhead handling.