State Department UAP Cable 3, Tbilisi, Georgia, October 30, 2001
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On October 28-29, there was an incident alleged by the Georgian Foreign Ministry that Russian aircraft had violated Georgian airspace and bombed areas of the Kodori Gorge. Russians denied any of the claims and said that it could have been UFOs. Cable authors note that Russians typically engage in the “bold lie” when they wish to conceal actions.
Anomalousness Index: 50/100
Evidentiary weight that this encounter remains unexplained after conventional analysis. Not a probability of extraterrestrial origin.
🤖 AI-ASSISTED SCORING · methodology
sensor quality (eyewitness_only)
30 × 0.25 = 7.5
witness credibility (civilian_credentialed)
50 × 0.2 = 10.0
corroboration (single_witness_instrument)
60 × 0.2 = 12.0
kinematic anomaly (no_kinematic_data)
30 × 0.15 = 4.5
mundane explanation available (weak_mundane_candidate)
70 × 0.1 = 7.0
official disposition (open_after_review)
90 × 0.1 = 9.0
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Verification
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