Declassified CIA FBIS Digests: Soviet Crop Circles, UFOs, and a 'Thermoplane'

Declassified CIA Media Digests: UFO Lines, a Soviet 'Thermoplane,' and the 21 December 1990 Moscow Consolidated Takeall

A merged reading of declassified CIA Foreign Broadcast Information Service media-monitoring products released through The Black Vault, centered on the 21 December 1990 'TAKEALL' Moscow Consolidated digest (C05516659 / C00174709) and its single crop-circle and UFO listener item, alongside a 1992 TASS report on a saucer-shaped Soviet 'thermoplane.'

Published

September 25, 2026

Declassified

Date not listed

Source agency

The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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Opening summary

Declassified CIA Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) media-monitoring products, released through The Black Vault FOIA archive, each contain at most a single anomalous, saucer-shaped, or otherwise notable line buried inside hundreds of pages of routine Cold War and post-Cold War broadcast traffic.

' It carries the AFSN TB2212120090C and the internal identifier C00174709, spans pages 66-75 of a 149-page file, and is labeled Document 25. It catalogs 122 numbered broadcast items organized by geographic and topical sections, dominated by coverage of Eduard Shevardnadze's resignation, the 4th Congress of USSR People's Deputies, the new union treaty, the Persian Gulf crisis, and international diplomacy. S.

speculation they could be caused by winds, pranksters, or even UFOs, and commenting on changing Soviet attitudes toward UFOs with increasing interest on a scientific basis. The document contains no UAP incident reports, no crash-retrieval content, and no psychic/remote-viewing program material.

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All documents referenced are declassified CIA Foreign Broadcast Information Service media-monitoring products released through The Black Vault FOIA archive. The newly integrated document is cataloged as C05516659 and carries the internal identifier C00174709 and the AFSN TB2212120090C; it is marked UNCLASSIFIED and 'Approved for Release.' The prior documents carry their own identifiers and markings as described in the text. No facts, quotes, dates, agencies, or URLs have been invented beyond what the source brief and document chunks support. Official source documents referenced in this article: - https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/ufos-the-central-intelligence-agency-cia-collection/

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