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This December 1953 memorandum provides a status update on the Air Force's UFO project activities, including ongoing intelligence operations, equipment procurem…

,4C CIA memter internal memPhysics and Electronics division memto the assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, dated December 1953, summarizing the curr…

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…

This three-page document from the CIA's electronic reading room profiles the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), characterizing it a…

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 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…

This document is a single-page 'Service to Service' intelligence letter dated 10 May 1982, apparently addressed within a Western intelligence liaison channel (…

According to the U.S. Department of War release (attributed on the hosting page to the Department of State), this two-page memorandum dated July 28, 1952 relat…

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 a CIA internal handbook annex describing the '201 System,' the Agency's method for identifying, filing, and controlling information on persons of…

Released as part of a U.S. Department of War (war.gov) UAP records disclosure, this 66-page file documents the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Newark Field O…

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 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…

IN THE lobby of the Flamingo Hilton, Las Vegas, slot machines—one armed bandits—stretch in serried ranks to the far horizon. Hanging over the machines nearest…

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 declassified memorandum, dated 19 October 1955 and released via the CIA reading room, discusses a reported sighting of two unconventional aircraft. The ob…

This National Archives file, part of the March 2025 JFK Assassination Records release, is a CIA Counterintelligence Staff memorandum dated 16 February 1978 tit…

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 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 unevaluated CIA information report, distributed 22 September 1954, aggregates open-source newspaper reports of UFO sightings across Northern and Central E…

This FBI Headquarters memorandum, dated 06/20/1962 and originally classified Top Secret, transmits CIA liaison material regarding a subject named George Spellm…

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…

This CIA record consists of two JFK Assassination System identification forms (record number 104-10130-10085, filed under subject HALL, LORAN EUGENE, from Jerr…

The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying di…