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This CIA-declassified file contains two memoranda from Ed May of the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). Th…

This CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence memorandum for record, dated 18 December 1952 and signed by H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of Scientific I…

This unevaluated CIA intelligence report gathers translated newspaper accounts of unidentified flying object ('flying saucer') sightings published in various f…

This CIA document, released via the CIA Reading Room, is an internal memorandum framed around three questions concerning UFOs, using the answers as sub-heading…

This declassified memorandum, dated 19 October 1955 and released via the CIA reading room, discusses a reported sighting of two unconventional aircraft. The ob…

This CIA memorandum, marked Confidential/Secret and dated 27 January 1978, was authored by H. Clark Schor, Chief of the Plans and Review Group of the Central C…

The United States European Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of…

This document is an excerpt from the Apollo 17 Crew Debriefing for Science, held January 8, 1973, at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas (document n…

According to the releasing source, this CIA History Staff document chronicles the complete history of the U-2 and OXCART (A-12) high-altitude reconnaissance ai…

This file is Section 5 of the FBI's central UFO/flying-disc case file, 62-HQ-83894, published by the U.S. Department of War (via war.gov) as part of a UAP reco…

This file assembles local television news transcripts (KTVU Channel 2, Oakland; KPIX Channel 5, San Francisco) and San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle newspap…

This standardized Mission Report (MISREP), classified SECRET//NOFORN and approved for release to AARO, records an ISR sortie flown 9 November 2023 in Syria und…

This two-page CIA internal memorandum, addressed to the Deputy Director for Coordination and signed within the Office of Scientific Intelligence, follows up on…

The United States European Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of…

This image is a notional (illustrative, not-to-scale) representation released by the U.S. Department of War depicting four UAP incidents reportedly witnessed b…

According to the releasing agency, this PDF contains a digital rendering — an artistic interpretation — of a 2022 incident potentially involving unidentified a…

This file is a single still frame drawn from an infrared video, published by the U.S. Department of War as part of its 'Presidential Unsealing and Reporting Sy…

This unclassified document is a Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) wire reprint of a feature article, 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Psi,' by Jim Schnabel…

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…

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…

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…

This two-page document is email correspondence, released by the U.S. Department of War, describing the content of a mission report and requesting clarification…

This document is an excerpt from the Apollo 17 Technical Air-to-Ground Voice Transcription of December 1972, released by NASA and posted by the U.S. Department…