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This declassified CIA draft memorandum, dated 21 April 1995 (two days after the Oklahoma City Bombing), records that Ed May of Science Applications Internation…

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

This 5-page redacted Department of War memorandum records the personal account of 'Witness 5,' a federal law enforcement special agent who, with a partner spec…

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

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 document is Part II of the preliminary transcript derived from voice recordings of the Gemini 5 flight crew technical debriefing. According to the releasi…

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 two-page classified memorandum, dated 4 March 1994, summarizes three preliminary experimental results obtained by SAIC during FY93 under an external R&D c…

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 unevaluated CIA information report, distributed 22 September 1954, aggregates open-source newspaper reports of UFO sightings across Northern and Central E…

According to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), this file is a silent infrared video, six minutes and forty-two seconds long, captured by an infr…

This CIA document reproduces information drawn from foreign newspapers and radio broadcasts summarizing numerous 'flying saucer' and unidentified flying object…

This FBI HQ record (Record Number 124-90141-10015, agency file 105-92413-3) is a memorandum dated 11/18/1960 from the SAC, Washington Field Office (WFO, file 1…

This two-page document is an UNCLASSIFIED index compiled under the subject 'Proposed Downgrading of Classified Documents for Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, Vol…

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

This CIA Information Report, prepared in the USSR foreign-intelligence collection stream, records the unevaluated eyewitness account of a 41-year-old US nation…

This file is a silent infrared video published in AARO's Official UAP Imagery collection. According to the releasing agency, in 2023 the United States Africa C…

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…

The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying di…

This unevaluated CIA information report aggregates open-source foreign press accounts of unidentified flying objects and unusual aerial phenomena reported betw…

This CIA memorandum, dated 1 August 1952 and authored by the Acting Chief of the Weapons & Equipment Division, responds to a request for an overall evaluation…

According to the releasing agency (AARO), this silent infrared video was submitted by U.S. European Command as a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon…

This declassified CIA Foreign Intelligence Information Report (Domestic Collection Division), dated 18 November 1976, recounts an unusual aerial observation re…