This 5-page redacted Department of War memorandum records the personal account of 'Witness 5,' a federal law enforcement special agent who, with a partner spec…
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According to the releasing agency, this declassified FBI office memorandum, dated April 17, 1958, was authored by Special Agent Robert Reynolds of the Detroit…
This heavily redacted FBI FD-1057 form records the FBI's contact in October 2024 with a U.S. person who reported and video-recorded repeated observations of un…
SF-2026-000808
Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects, 10 June–15 July 1954 (Finland, Norway, Austria)
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…
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…
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 document is a set of FBI reports dated May 8, 1964 from the Albuquerque, New Mexico field office concerning an unidentified flying object seen at Socorro,…
SF-2026-000276
1948 DOW 101-172, UFO Report Incident Summaries
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…
This CIA information report, sourced from the Norwegian four-times-weekly newspaper Harstad Tidende (published 20 September 1952), relays an unevaluated accoun…
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…
SF-2026-000928
1960 CIA Correspondence on Detroit UFO Sighting, meteor-like, extremely large and almost like a disc with greenish light
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…
SF-2026-000925
1960 CIA Intel Report on UFO’s Sighted, Photographed in Sweden; Unidentified Satellite Seen
UFO's Sizhted, vaotosrasteain= Sweden; Unidentified Satellite Seen
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…
This CIA 'Information from Foreign Documents or Radio Broadcasts' report (No. OO-W-30883, date of information 1954, distributed 25 August 1954) aggregates tran…
SF-2026-000111
1947 Flying Saucers observed over Oak Ridge, TN
This document is Serial 153 within FBI Headquarters classified case file 62-HQ-83894, an internal-security-classified matter concerning "flying saucers"/Uniden…
This record combines a NARA JFK Assassination System Identification Form with an FBI airtel classified as a 'Weekly Summary' on subject SANTO TRAFFICANTE, JR.…
SF-2026-000258
DOW-UAP-D078, Notional Map: Western United States Event
This document is a notional (illustrative, not literal) aerial map created by the U.S. Department of War as part of a UAP data release. According to the releas…
This CIA Information Report, distributed 11 February 1952 and derived from a reinterrogation of the informant of report SO-49149x, describes light phenomena ob…
SF-2026-000915
Flying Saucers Seen Over Sweden
This two-page CIA reading-room document reproduces a translated account originating from the Swedish newspaper Stockholms-Tidningen, page 1, dated 20 January 1…
