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Leading Soviet newspapers and journals have recently begun publishing an increasing number of articles and news reports on sightings of unidentified flying obj…

This CIA memorandum, addressed to the Director of Central Intelligence and signed by Herbert Scoville Jr. (Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence), offers…

This CIA Reading Room document is a one-page memorandum dated 9 December 1952, authored by W. E. Graham and addressed to DAD/SI, on the subject of 'FCC Monitor…

This CIA report, dated 2 September 1952, aggregates unevaluated eyewitness accounts of unidentified flying objects published in French daily newspapers from Da…

This declassified CIA memorandum, dated 9 January 1953, addresses the recruitment of two scientists as ad hoc consultants to the Office of Scientific Intellige…

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 U.S. Air Force document is Status Report No. 2 of Project Grudge (Project No. 10073), authored on or near 31 December 1951 by the Air Technical Intelligen…

This unclassified CIA document (sequence CSB91554381) is a translated/abstracted foreign-press report drawn from the Soviet newspaper Pravda Vostoka. It report…

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 December 1953 memorandum provides a status update on the Air Force's UFO project activities, including ongoing intelligence operations, equipment procurem…

This image is a page from DOW-UAP-D094, a USAF Air Intelligence Division study titled 'Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the United States,' Study No. 203…

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…

According to the releasing agency, this file is an initial progress report produced by the Air Materiel Command concerning Project Sign, a 1948–1949 U.S. Air F…

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

According to the releasing agency (U.S. Department of War, sourcing the CIA), this file contains 1952–1953 correspondence and reports from the Scientific Advis…

This CIA report reproduces translated excerpts from Greek, French, and Persian newspapers published in Athens, Brazzaville, and Tehran between 1 March and 20 M…

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, signed by H. Marshall Chadwell (Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence) and addressed to the Chief of the Physics and Electr…

This unevaluated CIA intelligence report gathers translated newspaper accounts of unidentified flying object ('flying saucer') sightings published in various f…

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

This AARO-released silent video, titled 'Western U.S. Objects,' depicts several distant unidentified aerial objects moving across the sky as seen through an in…

This declassified Central Intelligence Agency report, marked 'unevaluated information,' recounts a source's account of unidentified flying objects observed ove…

This CIA information report, dated 4 February 1953, aggregates unevaluated accounts drawn from French daily and thrice-weekly newspapers published between 3 Ju…

This is a redacted Mission Report (MISREP) originating from the 482d Attack Squadron (482ATKS), 432 AEW, operating under USCENTCOM/ACC, describing an ISR sorti…