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

This FBIS London message (DTG 26 June 1996) transmits an FBIS-translated ITAR-TASS World Service report by Vladas Burbulis, datelined Vilnius, 26 June. Accordi…

This two-page CIA document, hosted in the CIA FOIA Reading Room, reports the observation of an unidentified flying object near the Iranian frontier. According…

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…

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

This unevaluated CIA information report aggregates open-source foreign press accounts of unidentified flying objects and unusual aerial phenomena reported betw…

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…

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 CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence memorandum for record, dated 18 December 1952 and signed by H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of Scientific I…

This three-page document is the minutes of a meeting held at 0835 on 21 August 1952 in Mr. Steele's office, with a quorum including Mr. Sullivan (Chairman), Mr…

This document is an excerpt from the Apollo 17 Technical Air-to-Ground Voice Transcription of December 1972, released by NASA and posted by the U.S. Department…

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…

This CIA memorandum, dated 1 August 1952 and authored by the Acting Chief of the Weapons & Equipment Division, responds to a request for an overall evaluation…

Includes a "Check-List - Unidentified Flying Objects" that contains details about the incident. Many summaries also include witness lists or statements and oth…

This declassified CIA Foreign Intelligence Information Report (Domestic Collection Division), dated 18 November 1976, recounts an unusual aerial observation re…

According to the releasing agency (FBI), this file compiles materials from a November 1957 investigation prompted after Wladyslaw Krasuski of Detroit, Michigan…

This diplomatic cable, released in full by the U.S. Department of State, documents a UFO report relayed by Tajik Air chief pilot and American citizen Ed Rhodes…

This CIA information report, sourced from the Norwegian four-times-weekly newspaper Harstad Tidende (published 20 September 1952), relays an unevaluated accoun…

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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 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…

According to the releasing agency (U.S. Department of War), this file primarily contains incident reports on Unidentified Flying Objects written in compliance…

This CIA 'Information from Foreign Documents or Radio Broadcasts' report (No. OO-W-30883, date of information 1954, distributed 25 August 1954) aggregates tran…