This CIA memorandum for the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (D/CI) provides a chronological review of the Air Force's requests to declassify CIA materi…
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This unclassified CIA document (sequence CSB91554381) is a translated/abstracted foreign-press report drawn from the Soviet newspaper Pravda Vostoka. It report…
This unevaluated CIA intelligence report gathers translated newspaper accounts of unidentified flying object ('flying saucer') sightings published in various f…
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 declassified CIA memorandum, dated 9 January 1953, addresses the recruitment of two scientists as ad hoc consultants to the Office of Scientific Intellige…
SF-2026-000723
1947-1969 USAF UFOs and Air Force Project Blue Book
This U.S. Air Force fact sheet (95-03), current as of June 1995, describes Project Blue Book, the Air Force program that investigated Unidentified Flying Objec…
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This two-page CIA Memorandum for Record, dated 30 January 1953, records a briefing of the Office of National Estimates (ONE) Board concerning Unidentified Flyi…
SF-2026-000152
CIA Scientific Advisory Panel on UFOs Report, 1952-1953
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…
According to the CIA, this August 1967 document reports on conversations held with Soviet scientists on the subject of unidentified flying objects during a US…
This CIA/OSI memorandum for file, dated 21 January 1953, documents the meeting of an ad hoc scientific advisory panel — later known as the Robertson Panel — co…
SF-2026-000075
UFOs Incident Reports, 1948
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…
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…
SF-2026-000133
1953 ATIC Project Status on UFOBs
This December 1953 memorandum provides a status update on the Air Force's UFO project activities, including ongoing intelligence operations, equipment procurem…
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-2026-000786
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…
This file is part of a U.S. Department of War UFO records release (war.gov) and consists of consecutively numbered incident summaries (173–233) built around a…
gy rpens _ Reported Photography of Unidentifiea Flying Objects _
This CIA document reproduces information drawn from foreign newspapers and radio broadcasts summarizing numerous 'flying saucer' and unidentified flying object…
Office Memorandum * UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO ‘Assistant Director, Sclentific Intelligenca = DATE: April 1958
This CIA Information Report, dated 1968 and classified Confidential/No Foreign Dissem/Controlled Dissem, compiles particulars of seven sightings of unidentifie…
SF-2026-000125
1953 IAC Report of Scientific Panel on UFOs
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…
SF-2026-000079
UFO Check-List Incident Summaries 1–100
This file is a compilation of standardized 'Check-List – Unidentified Flying Objects' forms documenting UFO sightings, predominantly from the summer of 1947. A…
This unevaluated CIA information report aggregates open-source foreign press accounts of unidentified flying objects and unusual aerial phenomena reported betw…
