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This file is an FBI FD-1057 form — used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to record investigative activity — released by the U.S. Department of War as par…

This 46-page Defense Intelligence Agency document, prepared by the Directorate for Scientific and Technical Intelligence and dated 5 January 1993, reports on a…

This declassified CIA internal memorandum (ORD-374-95), dated 7 June 1995, updates senior officials on the status of Star Gate, the government's paranormal rem…

This declassified CIA cable, preserved as two overlapping copies, documents internal correspondence about a man named Davidson who wrote an article and forward…

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

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 document is a standardized Mission Report (MISREP) used by the U.S. Military to record operational circumstances, in this case reporting Unidentified Anom…

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

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

This standardized Mission Report (MISREP), classified SECRET//NOFORN and approved for release to AARO, records an ISR sortie flown 9 November 2023 in Syria und…

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…

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…

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 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 CIA document, released through the agency's online reading room, consists of an internal letter dated around 29 May 1958 addressed to a scientist (apparen…

This CIA internal memorandum, circulated by buckslip, concerns Dr. Leon Davidson and his latest publication on 'space saucers' titled 'The Air Force and the Sa…

This document is a single-page 'Service to Service' intelligence letter dated 10 May 1982, apparently addressed within a Western intelligence liaison channel (…

According to the releasing source, this CIA History Staff document chronicles the complete history of the U-2 and OXCART (A-12) high-altitude reconnaissance ai…

According to the releasing agency, this declassified FBI office memorandum, dated April 17, 1958, was authored by Special Agent Robert Reynolds of the Detroit…

According to the U.S. Department of War release (attributed on the hosting page to the Department of State), this two-page memorandum dated July 28, 1952 relat…

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 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 record consists of two JFK Assassination System identification forms (record number 104-10130-10085, filed under subject HALL, LORAN EUGENE, from Jerr…

According to the releasing source, this archival photograph depicts the lunar surface as viewed from the Apollo 12 landing site (1969). The image includes a hi…