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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…

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 unclassified extract from the CIA journal Studies in Intelligence, authored by Major Hector Quintanilla, Jr., surveys the history and methodology of offic…

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 file is an FBI FD-1057 (Rev. 5-8-10) 'Electronic communication' form, released via the U.S. Department of War UFO/UAP data release (release 3). According…

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…

According to AARO, U.S. European Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon consisting of approximately six seconds of infrared video f…

This file is a standardized U.S. Military Mission Report (MISREP 4782130) released by the Department of War in its UAP data set. The report records a planned a…

This two-page CIA internal memorandum, addressed to the Deputy Director for Coordination and signed within the Office of Scientific Intelligence, follows up on…

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

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 document is a standardized U.S. military Mission Report (MISREP) covering a Defensive Counter-Air (DCA) sortie flown by a two-ship of F-15E aircraft (389t…

This CIA Information Report, prepared in the USSR foreign-intelligence collection stream, records the unevaluated eyewitness account of a 41-year-old US nation…

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

An MQ-9 forward-looking infrared video sensor captured this footage in South Asia as it was recording another MQ-9. After analysis of the full motion video, in…

This declassified Mission Report (MISREP 9337873) documents an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) sortie flown by the 33rd Special Operations…

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

This document is a Top Secret / Special Handling / NOFORN memorandum from the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the Special Group (Augmented), dated 8 August 1962, prod…

This declassified Mission Report (MISREP) from the 89th Attack Squadron (432 AEW), operating under USCENTCOM/AFCENT during Operation INHERENT RESOLVE, records…

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…

This CIA document, record number 104-10130-10081, is a formerly SECRET cable originating from the CIA station in Guatemala City (cable GUAT 19536, transmitted…

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…

This file is a standardized U.S. Military Mission Report (MISREP) submitted to record the circumstances of an aerial reconnaissance operation and referred to A…