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US government officials regarded as highly reliable claimed to have spotted two UFOs hovering close
to a train line, but their superiors allegedly covered up the truth about the incident.
Alien researchers obtained X-files detailing the account of senior Senator Richard B Russell and two
aides about seeing flying saucers taking off.
Nearly 60 years ago, Sen. Russell was on a Soviet-era train during a fact-finding mission to Russia.
Russell was a chairman of the Armed Services Committee and considered as one of the most influential
senators of the U.S. until he passed away in 1971 after 38 of service.
According to the Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR), they obtained documents revealing that Sen. Russell
was travelling on October 4, 1955 at around 7 pm together with his two aides in the Transcaucasus
region when the incident took place.
Sen. Russell is said to have looked out of the window and saw two disc-shaped UFOs taking off from an
area close to the railway tracks. He then reportedly called over interpreter Ruben Efron and aide Lt
Col Hathaway to the window, with them both witnessing the two aerial objects took off.
He and the aides told the US Air Force and security agencies at the US embassy in Prague about their
sighting. They also reported the same thing in Czechoslovakia, but the report was kept confidential.
After meeting them, US embassy air attaché Lt Col Thomas Ryan filed a top secret Air Force
intelligence report about the incident on October 14, 1955.
Lt Col Ryan described the witnesses as highly reliable American observers who saw an unconventional
craft. According to the report, a disc ascended almost vertically at relatively slow speed. Its outer
surface seemed to revolve slowly to the right while at 6,000 feet above the ground. The unusual
craft’s speed increased as it headed north. The second flying disc-shaped object was seen making the
same actions approximately a minute later. Its take off area was around 1 to 2 miles south of the
rail line.