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

This two-page CIA memorandum, signed by H. Marshall Chadwell (Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence) and addressed to the Chief of the Physics and Electr…

This two-page CIA memorandum, dated 29 May 1953, discusses questions received from Leo (Leon) Davidson directed at Bob Robertson and 'Lloyd' regarding their ac…

This declassified Central Intelligence Agency report, marked 'unevaluated information,' recounts a source's account of unidentified flying objects observed ove…

This declassified CIA cable, preserved as two overlapping copies, documents internal correspondence about a man named Davidson who wrote an article and forward…

This CIA information report, dated 4 February 1953, aggregates unevaluated accounts drawn from French daily and thrice-weekly newspapers published between 3 Ju…

This unclassified extract from the CIA journal Studies in Intelligence, authored by Major Hector Quintanilla, Jr., surveys the history and methodology of offic…

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

This two-page CIA document, hosted in the CIA FOIA Reading Room, reports the observation of an unidentified flying object near the Iranian frontier. According…

This is a standardized U.S. Military Mission Report (MISREP), a form used to record the circumstances of military operations, in this case an aerial ISR/reconn…

This two-page CIA Office Memorandum, dated 3 July 1953, was authored by the Chief of the Physics & Electronics Division of the Office of Scientific Intelligenc…

This three-page document from the CIA's electronic reading room profiles the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), characterizing it a…

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…

This FBIS London message (DTG 26 June 1996) transmits an FBIS-translated ITAR-TASS World Service report by Vladas Burbulis, datelined Vilnius, 26 June. Accordi…

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

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

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 internal memorandum, circulated by buckslip, concerns Dr. Leon Davidson and his latest publication on 'space saucers' titled 'The Air Force and the Sa…

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

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