This CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence memorandum for record, dated 18 December 1952 and signed by H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of Scientific I…
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This CIA memorandum, marked Confidential/Secret and dated 27 January 1978, was authored by H. Clark Schor, Chief of the Plans and Review Group of the Central C…
This is a one-page poster published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) presenting the Principles of Intelligence Transparency for th…
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-2026-000770
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-2026-000628
Memorandum for the Special Group (Augmented): Stepped Up Course B (Operation Mongoose)
This 26-page Top Secret document, dated 8 August 1962 and prepared for a policy meeting of the Special Group (Augmented), was authored by Brig. Gen. Edward G.…
This four-page redacted PDF, released by the U.S. Department of Energy through the Department of War's UAP disclosure portal, compiles personal correspondence…
SF-2026-001027
Shannon Entropy: A Possible Intrinsic Target Property
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 Foreign Intelligence Information Report (Domestic Collection Division), dated 18 November 1976, recounts an unusual aerial observation re…
SF-2026-000079
UFO Check-List Incident Summaries 1–100
This file is a compilation of standardized 'Check-List – Unidentified Flying Objects' forms documenting UFO sightings, predominantly from the summer of 1947. A…
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…
SF-2026-000216
DOW-UAP-D042, Range Fouler Debrief, Japan, 2023
This file is a standardized U.S. Navy 'Range Fouler Debrief Form' used to record circumstances surrounding an unauthorized intrusion into controlled airspace d…
SF-2026-001024
Star Gate Customer Base Memorandum
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 Intelligence Information Report, dated 10 April 1972, consists of edited abstracts from a letter received from a reliable US colleague wh…
SF-2026-000115
Mexican inventor Miguel Macias proposing atomic-powered 'stratospheric aerostat' (flying saucer) designs
This file is part of the FBI Headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894, which the releasing agency describes as containing investigative records, eyewitness testimoni…
This five-page cable from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to the Secretary of State, drafted October 30, 2001 and signed by Ambassador Vershbow, documents diplomati…
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 CIA information report, dated 3 July 2008 and classified SECRET//NOFORN, describes an unidentified object observed over Harare International Airport, Zimb…
SF-2026-001074
Contract Modification P00003 — SAIC (STAR GATE Program)
This CIA-released record is a Standard Form 30 'Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract,' modification number P00003 with an effective date of 30 Ju…
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…
SF-2026-000786
1953 CIA Correspondence from Physics and Electronics Division on Current Status of UFOB Project
This CIA office memorandum, dated 31 March 1953 and authored by C. Durant for addressee P.G. Strenz, addresses the administrative handling of Unidentified Flyi…
This document is a heavily redacted email correspondence chain released by the U.S. Department of War (formerly Department of Defense). The emails describe the…
SF-2026-000623
Transmittal of Guantanamo Navy Reports on Cuban Counterrevolutionary Activities (Califano to Crimmins, 1963)
This file, released by the U.S. National Archives on March 18, 2025 as part of the JFK Assassination Records 2025 collection, is a one-page Department of the A…
This unevaluated CIA foreign-document report, distributed 20 August 1953, translates a Morgon-Tidningen article (Stockholm, 13 July 1953) datelined Copenhagen,…
