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This declassified CIA document, hosted in the CIA Reading Room (DOC_0000015338), is a compilation of 1952 memoranda, draft National Security Council directives…

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…

This two-page CIA memorandum, apparently dated around 10 December 1951, documents an interview between a CIA officer and an unnamed individual who held photogr…

This CIA memorandum, dated 26 March 1956, was authored by Robert Amory, Jr., Deputy Director/Intelligence, and addressed to the Assistant Director/Scientific I…

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

According to the releasing agency (U.S. Department of War / Air Force Directorate of Intelligence), this declassified Top Secret file compiles USAFE intelligen…

This three-page Office Memorandum, dated 8 August 1955, was authored by the Chief of the Physics and Electronics Division (P&E) of the CIA's Office of Scientif…

This document is Serial 153 within FBI Headquarters classified case file 62-HQ-83894, an internal-security-classified matter concerning "flying saucers"/Uniden…

This two-page CIA internal memorandum, dated April 1958 and released via the CIA Reading Room, records discussions about answering letters concerning Unidentif…

This CIA document, released through the agency's electronic reading room, is an early-1950s internal memorandum examining the national security dimensions of u…

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 file combines a page of an international UFO-research organization directory with an article titled 'The U.S. Government & The Iran Case' and a verbatim r…

This declassified memorandum, released by the U.S. Department of War as part of a UAP records release, was written on July 18, 1963 by Maxwell W. Hunter, II, a…

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…

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 correspondence, addressed to MIT Provost Dr. Julius A. Stratton and signed by Assistant Director R. Marshall (H. Marshall) Chadwell, updates the recip…

This monograph, authored by NRO historian Gerald K. Haines and released via a Black Vault FOIA-related archive, chronicles CIA engagement with the UFO phenomen…

This cable, drafted at the U.S. Embassy in Ashgabat on November 12, 2004 and signed by Jacobson, describes the Union of UFOlogists (UOU) of Turkmenabat as one…

This file is a declassified confidential diplomatic cable from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to the Secretary of State, transmitted October 30, 2001 (RN '01 MOSCO…

This file is a single-page letter to members of the Pajarito Astronomers club (P.O. Box 1092, Los Alamos, NM 87544). Dated Tuesday, May 20, 1986, the letter an…

A 32-page declassified document from the CIA reading room recording the proceedings of a scientific advisory panel — historically known as the Robertson Panel…

This 51-page PDF is a folder from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library digital textual collections (WHORM Subject File FE010-01). Its principal thread is a F…

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This five-page cable from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to the Secretary of State, drafted October 30, 2001 and signed by Ambassador Vershbow, documents diplomati…