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This three-page document from the CIA's electronic reading room profiles the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), characterizing it 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 two-page CIA internal memorandum, addressed to the Deputy Director for Coordination and signed within the Office of Scientific Intelligence, follows up on…

This is a partially redacted Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) memorandum bearing the control number S-23,039/PAX-TA, sent from DIA in Washington, D.C. to the…

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 single-page letter, dated February 23, 1995, is from Harold Rosenbaum, President of Defense Group Inc. (DGI) of Burlington, MA, addressed to Glenna Hughes…

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…

This single-page document is a sanitized CIA Reading Room clipping of a Jack Anderson newspaper column, 'Warfare Is Part of the Game,' printed in The Washingto…

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…

This single-page Statement of Work, part of the CIA STAR GATE collection released via the CIA Reading Room, specifies six tasks in support of an ongoing anomal…

This document is a heavily OCR-corrupted CIA correspondence letter, apparently dated May 1953, addressed to 'Dr. Luis W. Alvarez' at the University of Californ…

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…

This two-page CIA internal memorandum, dated April 1958 and released via the CIA Reading Room, records discussions about answering letters concerning Unidentif…

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…

This Central Intelligence Agency report, released via the CIA Reading Room, transmits an unevaluated firsthand account of an unidentified flying object seen ov…

This document is a clipping from the San Francisco Examiner (Page 3, Friday, August 5, 1977), preserved in the CIA's CREST archive. It reports that CIA Directo…

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…

This single-page leaflet, produced by the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC), claims that on December 29 the NCLC 'uncovered a vicious CIA scheme' to u…

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 23-page file, hosted in the CIA Electronic Reading Room, survives only as a poorly-scanned, heavily OCR-corrupted document. The recoverable text is fragme…

A 32-page declassified document from the CIA reading room recording the proceedings of a scientific advisory panel — historically known as the Robertson Panel…