This CIA/OSI memorandum for file, dated 21 January 1953, documents the meeting of an ad hoc scientific advisory panel — later known as the Robertson Panel — co…
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This file is Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14, dated 5 May 1955 and produced by the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base…
SF-2026-000133
1953 ATIC Project Status on UFOBs
This December 1953 memorandum provides a status update on the Air Force's UFO project activities, including ongoing intelligence operations, equipment procurem…
SF-2026-001032
Shannon Entropy: A Possible Intrinsic Target Property
This document is an academic paper from The Journal of Parapsychology (Vol. 58, December 1994) reproduced in the CIA's declassified STARGATE-era records. The a…
This declassified CIA cable, released via the CIA Reading Room, reports on a face-to-face contact with Leon Davidson while he was in Chicago for a scientific m…
This CIA document reproduces information drawn from foreign newspapers and radio broadcasts summarizing numerous 'flying saucer' and unidentified flying object…
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 CIA document, hosted in the CIA Reading Room (DOC_0000015338), is a compilation of 1952 memoranda, draft National Security Council directives…
SF-2026-000125
1953 IAC Report of Scientific Panel on UFOs
This file compiles the records of the CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence's Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, chaired by H. P. Robert…
SUBJECT: Mestirg with. Air Force Personnel” Concerning Scientific
SF-2026-000797
1953 CIA Memo from Chief, Physics and Electronics Division on Current Status of UFOB Project
,4C CIA memter internal memPhysics and Electronics division memto the assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, dated December 1953, summarizing the curr…
This file is a CIA internal handbook annex describing the '201 System,' the Agency's method for identifying, filing, and controlling information on persons of…
This diplomatic cable, released in full by the U.S. Department of State, documents a UFO report relayed by Tajik Air chief pilot and American citizen Ed Rhodes…
This is a 3-page LIMITED OFFICIAL USE diplomatic cable dated January 28, 1985, from the U.S. Embassy in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, addressed to USCINCPAC…
SF-2026-001003
SAIC Anomalous Cognition Experiment Database (1991–1994)
This memorandum, dated 25 July 1995 and authored by Edwin C. May, Ph.D., catalogs a complete list of experiments conducted at Science Applications Internationa…
This two-page CIA record, released via the CIA Reading Room, concerns photographs of an unidentified flying object captured by Ralph L. Mayher on 16mm movie fi…
SF-2026-000845
Unknown Flying Objects Observed Over Budapest
This declassified Central Intelligence Agency report, marked 'unevaluated information,' recounts a source's account of unidentified flying objects observed ove…
This UNCLASSIFIED memorandum for record, released by the U.S. Department of War as part of a UAP data release, transmits the free-form witness narrative of Wit…
This file is a standardized U.S. Navy 'Range Fouler Debrief' form, used to report unauthorized intrusions into controlled airspace during military operations o…
SF-2026-000111
1947 Flying Saucers observed over Oak Ridge, TN
This document is Serial 153 within FBI Headquarters classified case file 62-HQ-83894, an internal-security-classified matter concerning "flying saucers"/Uniden…
SF-2026-000762
CIA Memorandum on National Security Implications of Unidentified Flying Objects (Flying Saucers)
This CIA document, released through the agency's electronic reading room, is an early-1950s internal memorandum examining the national security dimensions of u…
This three-page document is the minutes of a meeting held at 0835 on 21 August 1952 in Mr. Steele's office, with a quorum including Mr. Sullivan (Chairman), Mr…
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.…
This heavily redacted FBI FD-1057 form records first-hand observations made by two FBI special agents during an ongoing investigation in November 2024 in the n…
