This CIA Central Intelligence information report (No. 00-W-23682), dated 5 August 1952, reproduces a foreign-document translation drawn from the Athens Greek-l…
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SF-2026-000751
CIA Office Memorandum: 'Flying Saucers' (15 March 1949)
This two-page CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence memorandum, dated 15 March 1949, is addressed to Dr. Machle from Dr. Stone and concerns the subject of 'Fly…
SF-2026-000719
1950s Magazine Flying Saucers UFO Reports
PLUS: Features-Photos- Current Sightings Answers to Your Questions
SF-2026-000718
"Magician" Walks Into the Laboratory — CIA Translation of Soviet Kirlian Photography Article
This nine-page document is a CIA translation of a Soviet popular-science article originally published in 'TM' (Tekhnika Molodezhi), No. 3, 1969. It narrates th…
SF-2026-000701
Usama Bin Ladin's Journal (Abbottabad Compound Material)
According to the releasing agency (CIA), this file (Journal.20171025.zip) contains photographs of a personal journal recovered from Usama Bin Ladin's compound…
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…
SF-2026-000657
CIA Copenhagen Station Cable on Release of Classified Oswald Traces Document (104-10014-10051)
This one-page document is a declassified CIA cable (SLUGS: WNINTEL RYBAT) sent from the Copenhagen station to CIA Headquarters/Director on 8 February 1996, con…
This one-page document, released by the National Archives on 18 March 2025 as part of the JFK Assassination Records 2025 release (Record Number 104-10009-10222…
This document (Record Number 104-10003-10041) is a partially handwritten CIA routing and record sheet, marked Confidential, released by the National Archives o…
This CIA record consists of two JFK Assassination System identification forms (record number 104-10130-10085, filed under subject HALL, LORAN EUGENE, from Jerr…
CIA MICHAEL E. MER SUBJECT: SNYDER, RICHARD EDWARD. 05/28/1976
SF-2026-000141
1973 Intel Report on Soviet Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range, Rumored Laser Research and UAP
This CIA Intelligence Information Report, dated December 1973 and classified CONFIDENTIAL/sensitive at origin, provides limited information on the Soviet Sary…
This file, released by the U.S. Department of War, comprises CIA memoranda exchanged between the Assistant Director for Special Activities (AD/SA) and the Assi…
Registre Adon diatiae 220010 Gar @ AMVAR GFAP 1R000200280002-5 16 May 1995
SF-2026-000912
UFO's Observed Over Norway (FDD Note, March 1959)
This two-page CIA Foreign Documents Division (FDD) note, dated March 1959, presents the full-text translation of a report from the Oslo conservative newspaper…
SF-2026-000832
CIA Reading Room Document DOC_0000015460
This 23-page file, hosted in the CIA Electronic Reading Room, survives only as a poorly-scanned, heavily OCR-corrupted document. The recoverable text is fragme…
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This document, released through the CIA's electronic reading room (CREST/FOIA), is an internal memorandum whose text has been substantially corrupted by optica…
This three-page CIA memorandum, dated 8 December 1953 and originating from the Office of Scientific Intelligence (O/SI), reports on a consultant's review of th…
This unevaluated CIA foreign-document report, distributed 20 August 1953, translates a Morgon-Tidningen article (Stockholm, 13 July 1953) datelined Copenhagen,…
SF-2026-000790
1953 CIA Memo from Chief, Physics and Electronics Division on Responsibility of UFOB Project
This two-page CIA memorandum, signed by H. Marshall Chadwell (Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence) and addressed to the Chief of the Physics and Electr…
SF-2026-000765
Memorandum for Record: Flying Saucers Problem (CIA)
i PEMORANDUY FOR RECORD SUBJ Flying Saucers Prodl 1. Ab an informal discussion between Poy, “AD/IG, “and Acting GY AD/SI, it was agreed that_the saucer v prodl…
SF-2026-000759
CIA Report on Soviet Press Coverage of Flying Saucers
This single-page CIA document, released through the agency's online reading room, summarizes Soviet press and radio treatment of the 'flying saucer' phenomenon…
This document is a clipping from the Arizona Republic newspaper reporting on remarks by Dr. James E. McDonald, senior physicist in the Institute of Atmospheric…
