Tajikistan / Kazakhstan border airspace — MAR 1994
PanAm crew at 41,000 ft observed object in 'circles, corkscrews, 90-degree turns' under high G's.
“Possibly extraterrestrial and under intelligent control.”
Incident summary
Commercial PanAm pilot and crew at 41,000 feet reported an object making circles, corkscrews and 90-degree turns at rapid rates of speed and under very high G's. Crew insisted it was nothing like a meteor; pilot assessed it as possibly extraterrestrial and under intelligent control.
Why this case matters
This incident is logged in PURSUE Release 01 — the U.S. Department of War's 2026-05-08 declassified UAP file release — under identifier PURSUE-004. The originating agency is the U.S. Department of State; the case is currently classified DECLASSIFIED and rated ANOMALOUS by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). UAP.WATCH mirrors the original record, adds a geographic and temporal index, and links every claim back to the canonical war.gov source.
Primary-source evidence
Declassified documents
- DOS-UAP-D2 — DIPLOMATIC CABLE // U.S. EMBASSY DUSHANBE // JANUARY 1994 (DOC-004 · CONFIDENTIAL//DECLASSIFIED)