This two-page memorandum for the record, dated 8 May 1967, was released through the CIA's electronic reading room. It documents a UFO briefing presented at 070…
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This document is the image file index (Images.20171021.hash_index.txt) accompanying the CIA's November 2017 release of digital material seized from Osama bin L…
This two-page CIA Memorandum for Record, dated 30 January 1953, records a briefing of the Office of National Estimates (ONE) Board concerning Unidentified Flyi…
SF-2026-000770
Memorandum for Record: Flying Saucers (3 December 1952)
This CIA memorandum for record, dated 3 December 1952, recounts the author's meetings the previous morning with Dr. Julius A. Stratton (Executive Vice Presiden…
SF-2026-000840
Fast-Moving Flying Objects Over Stalingrad
This Central Intelligence Agency report, released via the CIA Reading Room, transmits an unevaluated firsthand account of an unidentified flying object seen ov…
SF-2026-000212
DOW-UAP-D035, Mission Report, Greece, October 2023
This declassified Mission Report (MISREP 9337873) documents an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) sortie flown by the 33rd Special Operations…
SF-2026-000172
1986 'Why Should a Scientist be Concerned about UFOs?', by Pajarito Astronomers Club in Los Alamos, NM
This file is a single-page letter to members of the Pajarito Astronomers club (P.O. Box 1092, Los Alamos, NM 87544). Dated Tuesday, May 20, 1986, the letter an…
According to the releasing agency, this file is a transcript of a 1949 conference convened at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (now Los Alamos National Laborat…
SF-2026-000790
1953 CIA Memo from Chief, Physics and Electronics Division on Responsibility of UFOB Project
This two-page CIA memorandum, signed by H. Marshall Chadwell (Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence) and addressed to the Chief of the Physics and Electr…
Office Memorandum * UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO ‘Assistant Director, Sclentific Intelligenca = DATE: April 1958
SF-2026-000628
Memorandum for the Special Group (Augmented): Stepped Up Course B (Operation Mongoose)
This 26-page Top Secret document, dated 8 August 1962 and prepared for a policy meeting of the Special Group (Augmented), was authored by Brig. Gen. Edward G.…
SF-2026-000250
DOW-UAP-D065, Mission Report, Arabian Gulf, July 2020
This document is a standardized U.S. Military Mission Report (MISREP), number 4472514, recording a reconnaissance mission in support of NAVCENT in the Arabian…
SF-2026-000189
DOW-UAP-D012, Mission Report, Iraq, May 2022
This file is a redacted Mission Report (MISREP), a standardized U.S. Military reporting form used to record the circumstances of operations and, in this case,…
SF-2026-000079
UFO Check-List Incident Summaries 1–100
This file is a compilation of standardized 'Check-List – Unidentified Flying Objects' forms documenting UFO sightings, predominantly from the summer of 1947. A…
The file documents a paired remote-viewing session in which psychic Harold Sherman (in Mountain View, Arkansas) and psychic Ingo Swann (on the West Coast) atte…
SF-2026-001027
Shannon Entropy: A Possible Intrinsic Target Property
This document is a scientific paper prepared by the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in Menlo Park, Calif…
This declassified CIA cable, originating from St. Petersburg and addressed to Moscow with the Director for information, documents intelligence gathered from a…
This CIA document, released through the agency's online reading room, consists of an internal letter dated around 29 May 1958 addressed to a scientist (apparen…
This CIA memorandum for the record, dated 23 February 1967, recounts the 20 February 1967 visit of Dr. Edward U. Condon and four members of his University of C…
This National Archives file, part of the March 2025 JFK Assassination Records release, is a CIA Counterintelligence Staff memorandum dated 16 February 1978 tit…
SF-2026-000610
FBI Memorandum on Quintin Pino Machado (124-90141-10015)
This FBI HQ record (Record Number 124-90141-10015, agency file 105-92413-3) is a memorandum dated 11/18/1960 from the SAC, Washington Field Office (WFO, file 1…
This CIA record consists of two JFK Assassination System identification forms (record number 104-10130-10085, filed under subject HALL, LORAN EUGENE, from Jerr…
This file is an FBI FD-1057 (Rev. 5-8-10) 'Electronic communication' form, released via the U.S. Department of War UFO/UAP data release (release 3). According…
SF-2026-000242
DOW-UAP-D061 Mission Report, Arabian Gulf, August 2020
This is a redacted Mission Report (MISREP) originating from the 482d Attack Squadron (482ATKS), 432 AEW, operating under USCENTCOM/ACC, describing an ISR sorti…
