This CIA-released document is an internal memorandum written by Edwin C. May, Ph.D., of the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory at Science Applications International…
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This CIA memorandum, addressed to the Director of Central Intelligence and signed by Herbert Scoville Jr. (Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence), offers…
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…
SF-2026-000837
CIA Memorandum on Flying Saucers (26 March 1956)
This CIA memorandum, dated 26 March 1956, was authored by Robert Amory, Jr., Deputy Director/Intelligence, and addressed to the Assistant Director/Scientific I…
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-2026-000742
History and Origin of KONA BLUE
According to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), this document explains the history and origin of KONA BLUE, which AARO learned about through inte…
SF-2026-000125
1953 IAC Report of Scientific Panel on UFOs
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…
SF-2026-000079
UFO Check-List Incident Summaries 1–100
This file is a compilation of standardized 'Check-List – Unidentified Flying Objects' forms documenting UFO sightings, predominantly from the summer of 1947. A…
SF-2026-001039
STARGATE Congressionally Directed Action: Interim Response to Senate Armed Services Committee
This two-page declassified document consists of a cover letter and an enclosure describing the Defense Intelligence Agency's interim response to a Congressiona…
SF-2026-001002
SAIC Experiment Database Memorandum (1991–1994)
This three-page CIA-released memorandum, dated 25 July 1995 and faxed on 27 July 1995, was authored by Edwin C. May, Ph.D., of the Cognitive Sciences Laborator…
This declassified CIA Foreign Intelligence Information Report (Domestic Collection Division), dated 18 November 1976, recounts an unusual aerial observation re…
SF-2026-000781
CIA Letter to Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner on Declassification of the Robertson Panel UFO Report
This CIA document is a letter to Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner regarding the report of the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, convened in January…
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…
This document is a single-page 'Service to Service' intelligence letter dated 10 May 1982, apparently addressed within a Western intelligence liaison channel (…
This eight-page file reproduces a CIA Office of Security memorandum dated 11 June 1976 from Jerry G. Brown, Deputy Chief of the Security Analysis Group, to the…
SF-2026-000238
DOW-UAP-D058, Range Fouler Debrief, NA, October 2020
This file is a standardized U.S. Navy Range Fouler Debrief Form, used to record the circumstances of an unauthorized intrusion into controlled airspace during…
SF-2026-000222
Vandenberg AFB Launch Summary, 1958–2000
This document is the official registry of all major launch operations conducted from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, prepared by the 30th Space Wing Off…
SF-2026-000069
Air Force intelligence reports relating to UFOs
According to the releasing agency (U.S. Department of War / Air Force Directorate of Intelligence), this declassified Top Secret file compiles USAFE intelligen…
SF-2026-001003
SAIC Anomalous Cognition Experiment Database (1991–1994)
This memorandum, dated 25 July 1995 and authored by Edwin C. May, Ph.D., catalogs a complete list of experiments conducted at Science Applications Internationa…
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
This two-page CIA internal memorandum, dated April 1958 and released via the CIA Reading Room, records discussions about answering letters concerning Unidentif…
SF-2026-000845
Unknown Flying Objects Observed Over Budapest
This declassified Central Intelligence Agency report, marked 'unevaluated information,' recounts a source's account of unidentified flying objects observed ove…
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…
SF-2026-000628
Memorandum for the Special Group (Augmented): Stepped Up Course B (Operation Mongoose)
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.…
