OtherUnknownConventional
Rocket explosion kills dog — Mapasal/Turkey-Iran border, May 1948
~May 1948Mapasal area / Turkey-Iran frontier, near 'Alegoz' station (approx.)
Analysis — our summary
A report noted that a rocket exploded in the Mapasal area near the Turkey-Iran frontier, killing a dog. The document speculates this may be connected with Russian rocket experiments at a station referred to as 'Alegoz' near the Iranian frontier. No technical data on the object's characteristics were recoverable from the OCR-degraded text.
As reported — verbatim from the document
“Report of rocket that exploded, killed a dog, possibly connected with Russian experiments at 'Alegoz' station near the Iranian frontier.”
Analyst notes — caveats & confidence
Heavily OCR-degraded. Location name 'Mapasal' may be garbled. The reference to Russian experiments near the Iranian frontier suggests a conventional military rocket test interpretation. Very low confidence due to poor OCR and speculation in the original document.
Provenance
Source document38_143685_box7_Incident_Summaries_101-172.pdf
Document typeincident summary compilation
Reporting agencyOther
Source pages178
DeclassifiedFirst public at this release (2026)
Held classified~78 years (≥, to this release)
Extraction confidence LowHow cleanly this record could be parsed from the source — driven by legibility & redaction. It is not a measure of how credible or anomalous the sighting is.