This declassified CIA document, hosted in the CIA Reading Room (DOC_0000015338), is a compilation of 1952 memoranda, draft National Security Council directives…
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SF-2026-000152
CIA Scientific Advisory Panel on UFOs Report, 1952-1953
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…
SF-2026-000133
1953 ATIC Project Status on UFOBs
This December 1953 memorandum provides a status update on the Air Force's UFO project activities, including ongoing intelligence operations, equipment procurem…
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-2026-000790
1953 CIA Memo from Chief, Physics and Electronics Division on Responsibility of UFOB Project
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…
SF-2026-000797
1953 CIA Memo from Chief, Physics and Electronics Division on Current Status of UFOB Project
,4C CIA memter internal memPhysics and Electronics division memto the assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, dated December 1953, summarizing the curr…
SF-2026-000487
Western U.S. Objects
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…
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-2026-000845
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…
SF-2026-000048
Northeastern 'Yellow Ball' Orb Sighting
This file is a redacted FBI FD-302 interview report (form FD-302-71) recording a witness's account of unidentified luminous objects. According to the document,…
This CIA information report, dated 4 February 1953, aggregates unevaluated accounts drawn from French daily and thrice-weekly newspapers published between 3 Ju…
SF-2026-000491
Unresolved Case: Navy 2021 "Flyby"
This entry is a silent video file released by the U.S. Department of Defense's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) via its Official UAP Imagery collect…
SF-2026-000459
USPER Statement about UAP Sighting (FBI 302, Redacted)
Released by the U.S. Department of War (via war.gov) as part of a UAP disclosure release, this file is an FBI 302 interview conducted with a senior U.S. intell…
SF-2026-000242
DOW-UAP-D061 Mission Report, Arabian Gulf, August 2020
This is a redacted Mission Report (MISREP) originating from the 482d Attack Squadron (482ATKS), 432 AEW, operating under USCENTCOM/ACC, describing an ISR sorti…
This two-page CIA Memorandum for Record, dated 30 January 1953, records a briefing of the Office of National Estimates (ONE) Board concerning Unidentified Flyi…
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…
According to the CIA, this August 1967 document reports on conversations held with Soviet scientists on the subject of unidentified flying objects during a US…
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 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…
SF-2026-000840
Fast-Moving Flying Objects Over Stalingrad
This Central Intelligence Agency report, released via the CIA Reading Room, transmits an unevaluated firsthand account of an unidentified flying object seen ov…
According to the U.S. Department of War release (attributed on the hosting page to the Department of State), this two-page memorandum dated July 28, 1952 relat…
This CIA memorandum for the record, dated 23 February 1967, recounts the 20 February 1967 visit of Dr. Edward U. Condon and four members of his University of C…
