This CIA memorandum, addressed to the Director of Central Intelligence and signed by Herbert Scoville Jr. (Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence), offers…
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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 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 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…
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…
SF-2026-000459
USPER Statement about UAP Sighting (FBI 302, Redacted)
Released by the U.S. Department of War (via war.gov) as part of a UAP disclosure release, this file is an FBI 302 interview conducted with a senior U.S. intell…
SF-2026-000048
Northeastern 'Yellow Ball' Orb Sighting
This file is a redacted FBI FD-302 interview report (form FD-302-71) recording a witness's account of unidentified luminous objects. According to the document,…
SF-2026-000075
UFOs Incident Reports, 1948
This 178-page file, released by the U.S. Department of War (via war.gov) in release 3 of its UFO document collection, compiles unidentified flying object incid…
This CIA information report, dated 4 February 1953, aggregates unevaluated accounts drawn from French daily and thrice-weekly newspapers published between 3 Ju…
This CIA report, dated 2 September 1952, aggregates unevaluated eyewitness accounts of unidentified flying objects published in French daily newspapers from Da…
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…
According to the CIA, this August 1967 document reports on conversations held with Soviet scientists on the subject of unidentified flying objects during a US…
SF-2026-000389
FBI-UAP-D012, Newark Field Office, 1952-1967
Released as part of a U.S. Department of War (war.gov) UAP records disclosure, this 66-page file documents the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Newark Field O…
This CIA Information Report, prepared in the USSR foreign-intelligence collection stream, records the unevaluated eyewitness account of a 41-year-old US nation…
SF-2026-000444
ODNI-UAP-D001, USPER Narrative, Senior USIC Official
This document is a first-hand account authored by a senior U.S. intelligence official (serving as of May 2026) who, in late 2025, participated in a helicopter…
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 file is Section 5 of the FBI's central UFO/flying-disc case file, 62-HQ-83894, published by the U.S. Department of War (via war.gov) as part of a UAP reco…
This unevaluated CIA intelligence report gathers translated newspaper accounts of unidentified flying object ('flying saucer') sightings published in various f…
detailed factual archival summary. ...The is a CIA internal memorand, dated 25 January1965...
This CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence memorandum for record, dated 18 December 1952 and signed by H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of Scientific I…
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 two-page CIA Memorandum for Record, dated 30 January 1953, records a briefing of the Office of National Estimates (ONE) Board concerning Unidentified Flyi…
SF-2026-000770
Memorandum for Record: Flying Saucers (3 December 1952)
This CIA memorandum for record, dated 3 December 1952, recounts the author's meetings the previous morning with Dr. Julius A. Stratton (Executive Vice Presiden…
SF-2026-000790
1953 CIA Memo from Chief, Physics and Electronics Division on Responsibility of UFOB Project
This two-page CIA memorandum, signed by H. Marshall Chadwell (Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence) and addressed to the Chief of the Physics and Electr…
