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…
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SF-2026-000780
CIA Assessment of NICAP Structure and Operations
This three-page document from the CIA's electronic reading room profiles the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), characterizing it a…
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…
SF-2026-000470
PR-005, UAP Report Resolved as a Balloon, Europe 2022
The United States European Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of…
This file is an FBI FD-1057 (Rev. 5-8-10) 'Electronic communication' form, released via the U.S. Department of War UFO/UAP data release (release 3). According…
SF-2026-001004
Proposed Downgrading of Classified Documents for Cognitive Sciences Laboratory (Index)
This two-page document is an UNCLASSIFIED index compiled under the subject 'Proposed Downgrading of Classified Documents for Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, Vol…
This two-page CIA internal memorandum, addressed to the Deputy Director for Coordination and signed within the Office of Scientific Intelligence, follows up on…
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-2026-001032
Shannon Entropy: A Possible Intrinsic Target Property
This document is an academic paper from The Journal of Parapsychology (Vol. 58, December 1994) reproduced in the CIA's declassified STARGATE-era records. The a…
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 CIA document reproduces information drawn from foreign newspapers and radio broadcasts summarizing numerous 'flying saucer' and unidentified flying object…
SF-2026-000439
AARO Case Resolution: "Atmospheric Wakes"
An MQ-9 forward-looking infrared video sensor captured this footage in South Asia as it was recording another MQ-9. After analysis of the full motion video, in…
This two-page CIA record, released via the CIA Reading Room, concerns photographs of an unidentified flying object captured by Ralph L. Mayher on 16mm movie fi…
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…
SF-2026-000837
CIA Memorandum on Flying Saucers (26 March 1956)
This CIA memorandum, dated 26 March 1956, was authored by Robert Amory, Jr., Deputy Director/Intelligence, and addressed to the Assistant Director/Scientific I…
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 declassified CIA document, hosted in the CIA Reading Room (DOC_0000015338), is a compilation of 1952 memoranda, draft National Security Council directives…
SF-2026-000485
Puerto Rico Object (Aguadilla UAP Video)
This silent infrared video, published by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) as part of its Official UAP Imagery collection, documents a UAP event…
SF-2026-000242
DOW-UAP-D061 Mission Report, Arabian Gulf, August 2020
This is a redacted Mission Report (MISREP) originating from the 482d Attack Squadron (482ATKS), 432 AEW, operating under USCENTCOM/ACC, describing an ISR sorti…
The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying di…
SF-2026-000059
Potato shaped UAP observed over Cheyenne Mountain
This file is an FBI FD-1057 form, used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to record investigative activity, containing a first-hand narrative account of un…
SF-2026-000808
Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects, 10 June–15 July 1954 (Finland, Norway, Austria)
This unevaluated CIA information report, distributed 22 September 1954, aggregates open-source newspaper reports of UFO sightings across Northern and Central E…
The file documents a paired remote-viewing session in which psychic Harold Sherman (in Mountain View, Arkansas) and psychic Ingo Swann (on the West Coast) atte…
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…
