PURSUE Release 01 identifies this as Department of State material concerning Georgia, with an incident date range of October 28-29, 2001 and a released PDF asset numbered 059UAP00011.12
The record is a U.S. Embassy Moscow cable sent on October 30, 2001 to the Secretary of State, with Embassy Tbilisi, USUN New York, the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, and regional posts copied for information.2 It reports Ambassador Alexander Vershbow's meeting with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mamedov after Georgian allegations that Russian aircraft violated Georgian airspace and bombed positions in the Kodori Gorge.2
Mamedov, citing the Russian Ministry of Defense, denied that Russian planes were involved.2 Russian MFA Georgia Desk Chief Tereoken repeated that denial, said there were credible reports of Abkhaz helicopters bombing areas "where the terrorists were," and suggested that reports of planes might as well have been about "UFOS."2
That is the cable's UAP-relevant claim: not a witness report of unknown craft, not a sensor record, and not a technical investigation, but a diplomatic record preserving a Russian official's deflection from aircraft allegations into unidentified or unverifiable activity.2 Tereoken also said Moscow lacked the technical capability to determine whether foreign planes were in the region and allowed that "any side" could have sent planes over Kodori.2
The Embassy did not treat the UFO explanation as evidence of anomalous objects. Its comment judged the Russian denial difficult to accept, read the aircraft issue as pressure on Georgians and Chechens in the gorge, and described the denial as a "bold lie."2
The record matters because it shows UAP language entering a high-level diplomatic cable as part of an information dispute during the Abkhazia conflict. For researchers, its value is contextual: it documents how an official UFO reference could function as denial, ridicule, or uncertainty in foreign-policy reporting rather than as a confirmed anomalous aerospace event.2