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This memorandum, written by Dr. Edwin C. May of Science Applications International Corporation's Cognitive Sciences Laboratory in Palo Alto, California and dat…

This CIA report (No. 00-W-30367) summarizes several foreign press items concerning 'flying saucers.' A Paris-Dakar article (12 Dec 1953) describes a piece in t…

This single-page document, held in the CIA Reading Room and marked 'Approved For Release 2000/08/15,' is an English translation of a Soviet/Russian theoretical…

This document (DT-S-1005-5) is an initial report prepared by the Technology Assessment and Support Office (DT-S) within the Directorate for Scientific and Tech…

This document is a scientific review paper titled 'Anomalous Mental Phenomena Research in Russia and the Former Soviet Union: A Follow Up,' authored by Larissa…

This two-page CIA-released memorandum, dated 15 March 1993, was written by Ed May of the SAIC Cognitive Sciences Laboratory in Menlo Park, California. It repor…

This four-page Department of War memorandum, signed by AARO Director Jon T. Kosloski, updates the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office's analysis of a UAP inci…

According to the releasing agencies, this is a 1971 Australian Department of Defence intelligence and scientific review of the United States Air Force Project…

This document is a deliverable (data item A002) under contract MDA908-93-C-0004, an interim technical report by SAIC's Cognitive Sciences Laboratory in Menlo P…

This CIA memorandum (ORD-0289-95, 20 June 1995) reports on Star Gate, a DIA program using paranormal phenomena—primarily remote viewing—for intelligence collec…

This one-page CIA memorandum, dated 9 January 1958 and originating from the Chicago Office of the Contact Division's Support Branch, documents a telephone conv…

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 declassified CIA-held document is the full program brochure for the Institute of Noetic Sciences' (IONS) first international conference of members, collea…

This UNCLASSIFIED Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) report, filed from Abidjan on 25 January 1996 and later approved for release by the CIA in March…

This two-page internal memorandum from SAIC's Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, authored by Ms. L. Faith and Dr. E. May and dated 14 February 1994, summarizes the…

IN THE lobby of the Flamingo Hilton, Las Vegas, slot machines—one armed bandits—stretch in serried ranks to the far horizon. Hanging over the machines nearest…

Leading Soviet newspapers and journals have recently begun publishing an increasing number of articles and news reports on sightings of unidentified flying obj…

This AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) Case Resolution report, dated 17 March 2023, addresses the "Southeast Asia Triangles" case. Six dark triangula…

This 55-page FBI file, released by the U.S. Department of War, details the Bureau's Seattle office handling of civilian and military reports of Unidentified Fl…

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 document is a scientific paper prepared by the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in Menlo Park, Calif…

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

This UNCLASSIFIED CIA Reading Room document is an English-language extract of an article from the Russian daily Izvestiya (DOC REF IZVESTIYA, 920811, Nr 181),…

This CIA Reading Room document is a one-page memorandum dated 9 December 1952, authored by W. E. Graham and addressed to DAD/SI, on the subject of 'FCC Monitor…