This CIA report reproduces translated excerpts from Greek, French, and Persian newspapers published in Athens, Brazzaville, and Tehran between 1 March and 20 M…
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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…
SF-2026-000871
CIA Support Cable re: Davidson Article (Case Closed)
This declassified CIA cable, preserved as two overlapping copies, documents internal correspondence about a man named Davidson who wrote an article and forward…
SF-2026-001045
1994 CIA Memo SAIC Dolin's Training Technique
This memorandum from Science Applications International Corporation's (SAIC) Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, dated 14 February 1994, summarizes the training met…
This declassified CIA cable, released via the CIA Reading Room, reports on a face-to-face contact with Leon Davidson while he was in Chicago for a scientific m…
SF-2026-000854
CIA Document DOC_0000015394 (UFO Subject, Garbled OCR)
This file is a scanned three-page document hosted in the CIA's public Electronic Reading Room (FOIA/CREST collection). The optical character recognition of the…
This CIA document reproduces information drawn from foreign newspapers and radio broadcasts summarizing numerous 'flying saucer' and unidentified flying object…
This CIA memorandum, addressed to the Director of Central Intelligence and signed by Herbert Scoville Jr. (Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence), offers…
SF-2026-000780
CIA Assessment of NICAP Structure and Operations
This three-page document from the CIA's electronic reading room profiles the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), characterizing it a…
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…
SF-2026-000947
Sighting of Unusual Phenomenon Near Iranian/USSR Border
WASECT--- Sighting of Unusual Paenorencn on ~~ ~~ DATE OSTE, b 2.3 SE? & noriton hear Iraniar/USSR Border - ne HO PACES
gy rpens _ Reported Photography of Unidentifiea Flying Objects _
Office Memorandum * UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO ‘Assistant Director, Sclentific Intelligenca = DATE: April 1958
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 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…
SF-2026-000786
1953 CIA Correspondence from Physics and Electronics Division on Current Status of UFOB Project
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…
come) LeRG) Office Memorandum + UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO 1 assistant for Uperations, Ol _ = pate: 9 February 1953 a r er, Hayden Chennimi Reds art aw 2 FROM…
SF-2026-000740
The Investigation of UFO's
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 one document in the National Archives' 2025 release of records under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Act of 1992, assigned NAR…
This document is a single-page 'Service to Service' intelligence letter dated 10 May 1982, apparently addressed within a Western intelligence liaison channel (…
This CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence memorandum for record, dated 18 December 1952 and signed by H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of Scientific I…
SF-2026-001004
Proposed Downgrading of Classified Documents for Cognitive Sciences Laboratory (Index)
This two-page document is an UNCLASSIFIED index compiled under the subject 'Proposed Downgrading of Classified Documents for Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, Vol…
SF-2026-001002
SAIC Experiment Database Memorandum (1991–1994)
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…
This declassified CIA Foreign Intelligence Information Report (Domestic Collection Division), dated 18 November 1976, recounts an unusual aerial observation re…
