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This declassified CIA information report, distributed January 1954, aggregates translated excerpts from foreign daily newspapers reporting sightings of unident…

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…

This CIA memorandum, dated May 1973 and signed by James E. Flannery, Acting Chief of the Western Hemisphere Division, was addressed 'for your information only'…

This single-page CIA memorandum, released by the National Archives on March 18, 2025 under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Act of 1992, doc…

According to AARO, in October 2017 an infrared sensor onboard a force protection aerostat near Al Taqaddum Air Base, Iraq, captured 17 minutes of video of an u…

This is a 3-page LIMITED OFFICIAL USE diplomatic cable dated January 28, 1985, from the U.S. Embassy in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, addressed to USCINCPAC…

This document is a heavily redacted email correspondence chain released by the U.S. Department of War (formerly Department of Defense). The emails describe the…

This two-page, heavily redacted PDF released by the U.S. Department of War contains email correspondence among defense intelligence personnel regarding a missi…

This file is a standardized U.S. Navy 'Range Fouler Debrief' form, used to report unauthorized intrusions into controlled airspace during military operations o…

This declassified CIA document is a memorandum dated 14 August 1995 from Ed May of The Cognitive Sciences Laboratory (330 Cowper Street, Palo Alto, CA) to a re…

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 one-page memorandum, signed by L. Latta of the Plans and Review Group, Central Cover Staff, was prepared in response to a request from the Chief Counsel/D…

This declassified single-page document is a letter from CIA Director Richard Helms to Charles C.F. Spry, Director of the Australian Security Intelligence Organ…

According to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), in 2022 the United States Africa Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomen…

The United States European Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of…

According to the U.S. Department of War, this image is part of a UAP case (designation NASA-UAP-VM006) opened under the PURSUE initiative to review historical…

This is a standardized U.S. Military Mission Report (MISREP), released by the Department of War and approved for release to AARO, recording a UAP incident duri…

This two-page declassified document consists of a cover letter and an enclosure describing the Defense Intelligence Agency's interim response to a Congressiona…

This CIA Reading Room document (DOC_0000015422) is a memorandum to the USAF from the Chief of the Detroit Office, dated 16 December 1960, forwarding a report o…

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 CIA document is a letter addressed to Dr. Thornton Page, a member of the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects convened in January 1953…

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This document is a first-hand account authored by a senior U.S. intelligence official (serving as of May 2026) who, in late 2025, participated in a helicopter…

This file is a standardized U.S. Navy Range Fouler Reporting Form used to document unauthorized intrusions into controlled airspace during military operations.…