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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…

The 1993 Defense News investticarticle reports Russian government efforts to perfect 'acoustic psycho-correction' — a mind-control technology purportedly devel…

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 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…

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

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

This declassified CIA memorandum, dated 9 January 1953, addresses the recruitment of two scientists as ad hoc consultants to the Office of Scientific Intellige…

This four-page slide deck, declassified and approved for public release by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on 23 April 2026, accompanies a…

This document is a standardized U.S. Military Mission Report (MISREP), number 4472514, recording a reconnaissance mission in support of NAVCENT in the Arabian…

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

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…

This declassified CIA/DIA document responds to Senate Select Committee on Intelligence budget questions (Question #15 and sub-parts) concerning Project STAR GA…

This single-page memorandum, dated 23 May 1994, documents a request by PAG-TA on behalf of the program's external contractor, Science Applications Internationa…

This three-page CIA document, released through the CIA Reading Room, centers on an internal memorandum dated April 17, 1995 regarding the 'Star Gate Customer B…

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

This U.S. Air Force fact sheet (95-03), current as of June 1995, describes Project Blue Book, the Air Force program that investigated Unidentified Flying Objec…

According to AARO, U.S. European Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon consisting of approximately six seconds of infrared video f…

According to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), this file consists of forty-three seconds of silent infrared video footage captured by a sensor a…

This CIA-declassified file contains two memoranda from Ed May of the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). Th…