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

According to the releasing agency, this file is a transcript of a 1949 conference convened at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (now Los Alamos National Laborat…

This file compiles the records of the CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence's Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, chaired by H. P. Robert…

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

This UNCLASSIFIED FBIS London cable (serial LD2209194992), transmitted 22 September 1992 and approved for release by the CIA in 2003, reports on a Russian-lang…

This unclassified extract from the CIA journal Studies in Intelligence, authored by Major Hector Quintanilla, Jr., surveys the history and methodology of offic…

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

This three-page SAIC internal memorandum (document ID SAICMP94.004), authored by Dr. Edwin May and marked SECRET/NO FORN, reports preliminary findings from thr…

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…

This three-page document from the CIA's electronic reading room profiles the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), characterizing it a…

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 CIA document, released via the CIA Reading Room, is an internal memorandum framed around three questions concerning UFOs, using the answers as sub-heading…

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 three-page CIA-released memorandum, dated 25 July 1995 and faxed on 27 July 1995, was authored by Edwin C. May, Ph.D., of the Cognitive Sciences Laborator…

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 unclassified document is a Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) wire reprint of a feature article, 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Psi,' by Jim Schnabel…

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 file is Part 3 of a multi-part COVID-19 records release published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and declassified by DNI Tulsi Gab…

This unevaluated CIA information report, distributed 22 September 1954, aggregates open-source newspaper reports of UFO sightings across Northern and Central E…

This CIA memorandum for the record, dated 23 February 1967, recounts the 20 February 1967 visit of Dr. Edward U. Condon and four members of his University of C…

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…

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…