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State Department UAP Cable 3, Tbilisi, Georgia, October 30, 2001

Department of State5 pagesMay 8, 2026RELEASE-01-FILE-153-STATE-DEPARTMENT-UAP-CABLE-3-TBILISI-GEORGIA-OCTOBER-30-2001

This October 2001 State Department cable concerns disputed reports that Russian aircraft violated Georgian airspace and bombed the Kodori Gorge. Its “UFO” language appears in a Russian official’s denial, while the cable’s own comment rejects that framing and sharply criticizes the Russian explanation.

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Link to the Doc: here - English Translation Russian Version (Original): here Looks like a newly released (declassified) Russian UFO doc that George Knapp shared. It’s tied to a Ministry of Defense era UFO investigation from the late 70s into the 80s. Supposedly the case files were passed to Soviet scientific orgs for analysis. A lot of the witnesses are military, and the reports describe the usual “how is that possible” stuff: irregular movement, shape and colour changes, objects breaking int...