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This one-page memorandum, signed by L. Latta of the Plans and Review Group, Central Cover Staff, was prepared in response to a request from the Chief Counsel/D…

This declassified single-page document is a letter from CIA Director Richard Helms to Charles C.F. Spry, Director of the Australian Security Intelligence Organ…

This CIA internal memorandum, dated 11 June 1976 and authored by Jerry G. Brown (Deputy Chief, Security Analysis Group), documents the Agency's handling of a c…

This declassified CIA document is a memorandum dated 14 August 1995 from Ed May of The Cognitive Sciences Laboratory (330 Cowper Street, Palo Alto, CA) to a re…

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This single-page CIA document, released through the agency's online reading room, summarizes Soviet press and radio treatment of the 'flying saucer' phenomenon…

This one-page document, released by the National Archives on 18 March 2025 as part of the JFK Assassination Records 2025 release (Record Number 104-10009-10222…

This declassified CIA information report, distributed January 1954, aggregates translated excerpts from foreign daily newspapers reporting sightings of unident…

This CIA Information Report, distributed 11 February 1952 and derived from a reinterrogation of the informant of report SO-49149x, describes light phenomena ob…

This document is a clipping from the Arizona Republic newspaper reporting on remarks by Dr. James E. McDonald, senior physicist in the Institute of Atmospheric…

This CIA memorandum, dated May 1973 and signed by James E. Flannery, Acting Chief of the Western Hemisphere Division, was addressed 'for your information only'…

This CIA memorandum, dated 18 December 1975, concerns a Freedom of Information Act appeal filed by John W. Donovan (case number 75-577), stemming from an origi…

This CIA document (Record Number 104-10004-10143, C06932208) is a two-page memorandum dated 1 June 1964 from the Agency's Soviet Russia (SR) Division, titled '…

UFO's Sizhted, vaotosrasteain= Sweden; Unidentified Satellite Seen

This two-page CIA Foreign Documents Division (FDD) note, dated March 1959, presents the full-text translation of a report from the Oslo conservative newspaper…

SUBJECT: Mestirg with. Air Force Personnel” Concerning Scientific

This CIA-prepared and disseminated report, obtained from the agency's online Reading Room (DOC_0000015266), is titled 'Report of Unidentified Flying Objects' a…

This document, released through the CIA's electronic reading room (CREST/FOIA), is an internal memorandum whose text has been substantially corrupted by optica…

i PEMORANDUY FOR RECORD SUBJ Flying Saucers Prodl 1. Ab an informal discussion between Poy, “AD/IG, “and Acting GY AD/SI, it was agreed that_the saucer v prodl…

This CIA document is a letter addressed to Dr. Thornton Page, a member of the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects convened in January 1953…

This file is a July 1995 Scientific American profile of James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge), a former professional magician who became a leading i…

This three-page Office Memorandum, dated 8 August 1955, was authored by the Chief of the Physics and Electronics Division (P&E) of the CIA's Office of Scientif…

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This CIA Reading Room document (DOC_0000015422) is a memorandum to the USAF from the Chief of the Detroit Office, dated 16 December 1960, forwarding a report o…