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…
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SF-2026-001142
NASA UAP D030 STS 80 Unidentified Object Image1 1996
According to the source page hosted by the U.S. Department of War, this image (NASA-UAP-D030) is the first of a series of three photographs taken during Space…
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…
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…
This declassified CIA cable, originating from St. Petersburg and addressed to Moscow with the Director for information, documents intelligence gathered from a…
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…
SF-2026-000840
Fast-Moving Flying Objects Over Stalingrad
This Central Intelligence Agency report, released via the CIA Reading Room, transmits an unevaluated firsthand account of an unidentified flying object seen ov…
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 heavily redacted FBI FD-1057 form records the FBI's contact in October 2024 with a U.S. person who reported and video-recorded repeated observations of un…
SF-2026-000242
DOW-UAP-D061 Mission Report, Arabian Gulf, August 2020
This is a redacted Mission Report (MISREP) originating from the 482d Attack Squadron (482ATKS), 432 AEW, operating under USCENTCOM/ACC, describing an ISR sorti…
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…
This CIA record consists of two JFK Assassination System identification forms (record number 104-10130-10085, filed under subject HALL, LORAN EUGENE, from Jerr…
SF-2026-000189
DOW-UAP-D012, Mission Report, Iraq, May 2022
This file is a redacted Mission Report (MISREP), a standardized U.S. Military reporting form used to record the circumstances of operations and, in this case,…
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 file is an FBI FD-1057 (Rev. 5-8-10) 'Electronic communication' form, released via the U.S. Department of War UFO/UAP data release (release 3). According…
This top-secret NSA document (Record Number 124-90039-10005), originated by the NSA and carried in FBI files, is dated 07/24/1967 and was released by the Natio…
SF-2026-000351
COVID-19 Release Part 3 2016 DNI Gabbard
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 aggregates open-source foreign press accounts of unidentified flying objects and unusual aerial phenomena reported betw…
SF-2026-000610
FBI Memorandum on Quintin Pino Machado (124-90141-10015)
This FBI HQ record (Record Number 124-90141-10015, agency file 105-92413-3) is a memorandum dated 11/18/1960 from the SAC, Washington Field Office (WFO, file 1…
This CIA document is page 8 of the Office of Legislative Counsel Journal for Thursday, 2 March 1978, part of CIA record series JFK (record number 104-10146-102…
This declassified CIA Intelligence Information Report, dated 10 April 1972, consists of edited abstracts from a letter received from a reliable US colleague wh…
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…
