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This UNCLASSIFIED Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) report, filed from Abidjan on 25 January 1996 and later approved for release by the CIA in March…

Leading Soviet newspapers and journals have recently begun publishing an increasing number of articles and news reports on sightings of unidentified flying obj…

This unclassified CIA document (sequence CSB91554381) is a translated/abstracted foreign-press report drawn from the Soviet newspaper Pravda Vostoka. It report…

This 55-page FBI file, released by the U.S. Department of War, details the Bureau's Seattle office handling of civilian and military reports of Unidentified Fl…

This December 1953 memorandum provides a status update on the Air Force's UFO project activities, including ongoing intelligence operations, equipment procurem…

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

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 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 CIA report reproduces translated excerpts from Greek, French, and Persian newspapers published in Athens, Brazzaville, and Tehran between 1 March and 20 M…

This file is a still frame extracted from an infrared (IR) video, released by the U.S. Department of War through its 'Presidential Unsealing and Reporting Syst…

This declassified CIA document, hosted in the CIA Reading Room (DOC_0000015338), is a compilation of 1952 memoranda, draft National Security Council directives…

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

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 U.S. Air Force document is Status Report No. 2 of Project Grudge (Project No. 10073), authored on or near 31 December 1951 by the Air Technical Intelligen…

According to the U.S. Department of War release, this file contains memorandums, correspondence, and forms related to the reporting of information on flying di…

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 memorandum, addressed to the Director of Central Intelligence and signed by Herbert Scoville Jr. (Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence), offers…

This file is a digital rendering released by the U.S. Department of War as part of a UAP data disclosure. According to the source page, the image is an artisti…

This file is a standardized U.S. Military Mission Report (MISREP) covering an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) mission flown under Operatio…

This CIA document, released through the agency's electronic reading room, is an early-1950s internal memorandum examining the national security dimensions of u…

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 declassified CIA memorandum, dated 9 January 1953, addresses the recruitment of two scientists as ad hoc consultants to the Office of Scientific Intellige…

According to the releasing agency (U.S. Department of War, sourcing the CIA), this file contains 1952–1953 correspondence and reports from the Scientific Advis…