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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 four-page CIA cable, transmitted from the Guatemala City station to Director and Mexico City in April 1973, documents a station investigation (run through…

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Central Intelligence Agency report, released via the CIA Reading Room, transmits an unevaluated firsthand account of an unidentified flying object seen ov…

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 file is an archival photograph attributed to NASA's Apollo 12 mission of 1969, showing the lunar surface as viewed from the landing site, including astron…

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

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…

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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…