This CIA memorandum, addressed to the Director of Central Intelligence and signed by Herbert Scoville Jr. (Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence), offers…
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SF-2026-000196
DOW-UAP-D018, Mission Report, Iraq, December 2022
This file is a standardized U.S. Military Mission Report (MISREP) covering an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) mission flown under Operatio…
SF-2026-000200
DOW-UAP-D020, Mission Report, Iraq, 2023
This document is a standardized Mission Report (MISREP) used by the U.S. Military to record operational circumstances, in this case reporting Unidentified Anom…
SF-2026-000740
The Investigation of UFO's
This unclassified extract from the CIA journal Studies in Intelligence, authored by Major Hector Quintanilla, Jr., surveys the history and methodology of offic…
SF-2026-000713
Operation Dominic, Fish Bowl Series — Project 6.7: Debris Expansion Experiment (Extracted Version)
This 69-page technical report, authored by project officer P. Dyal and Capt. W. Simmons of the Air Force Weapons Laboratory (Kirtland AFB, NM), details Project…
This two-page CIA Office Memorandum, dated 3 July 1953, was authored by the Chief of the Physics & Electronics Division of the Office of Scientific Intelligenc…
SF-2026-000075
UFOs Incident Reports, 1948
This 178-page file, released by the U.S. Department of War (via war.gov) in release 3 of its UFO document collection, compiles unidentified flying object incid…
This is a standardized U.S. Military Mission Report (MISREP) approved for release to AARO and declassified by USCENTCOM. During Operation ENDURING SENTINEL, a…
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…
detailed factual archival summary. ...The is a CIA internal memorand, dated 25 January1965...
This file is Section 5 of the FBI's central UFO/flying-disc case file, 62-HQ-83894, published by the U.S. Department of War (via war.gov) as part of a UAP reco…
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 two-page CIA memorandum, dated 29 May 1953, discusses questions received from Leo (Leon) Davidson directed at Bob Robertson and 'Lloyd' regarding their ac…
SF-2026-000873
CIA Memorandum on Dr. Leon Davidson's Saucer Publication
This CIA internal memorandum, circulated by buckslip, concerns Dr. Leon Davidson and his latest publication on 'space saucers' titled 'The Air Force and the Sa…
SF-2026-000389
FBI-UAP-D012, Newark Field Office, 1952-1967
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…
SF-2026-000252
DOW-UAP-D074, Mission Report, Syria, November 2023
This standardized Mission Report (MISREP), classified SECRET//NOFORN and approved for release to AARO, records an ISR sortie flown 9 November 2023 in Syria und…
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 unevaluated CIA intelligence report gathers translated newspaper accounts of unidentified flying object ('flying saucer') sightings published in various f…
According to the releasing source, this CIA History Staff document chronicles the complete history of the U-2 and OXCART (A-12) high-altitude reconnaissance ai…
gy rpens _ Reported Photography of Unidentifiea Flying Objects _
This CIA document, released through the agency's online reading room, consists of an internal letter dated around 29 May 1958 addressed to a scientist (apparen…
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…
SF-2026-000770
Memorandum for Record: Flying Saucers (3 December 1952)
This CIA memorandum for record, dated 3 December 1952, recounts the author's meetings the previous morning with Dr. Julius A. Stratton (Executive Vice Presiden…
