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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 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 file is a scanned three-page document hosted in the CIA's public Electronic Reading Room (FOIA/CREST collection). The optical character recognition of the…

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…

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 three-page CIA document, released through the CIA Reading Room, centers on an internal memorandum dated April 17, 1995 regarding the 'Star Gate Customer B…

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 file is part of the FBI Headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894, which the releasing agency describes as containing investigative records, eyewitness testimoni…

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

This CIA office memorandum, dated 31 March 1953 and authored by C. Durant for addressee P.G. Strenz, addresses the administrative handling of Unidentified Flyi…

This nine-page document is a CIA translation of a Soviet popular-science article originally published in 'TM' (Tekhnika Molodezhi), No. 3, 1969. It narrates th…

This file, released by the U.S. National Archives on March 18, 2025 as part of the JFK Assassination Records 2025 collection, is a one-page Department of the A…

This file is a compilation of standardized 'Check-List – Unidentified Flying Objects' forms documenting UFO sightings, predominantly from the summer of 1947. A…

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 CIA memorandum, marked Confidential/Secret and dated 27 January 1978, was authored by H. Clark Schor, Chief of the Plans and Review Group of the Central C…

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…

This is a one-page poster published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) presenting the Principles of Intelligence Transparency for th…

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…

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 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 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 declassified CIA Foreign Intelligence Information Report (Domestic Collection Division), dated 18 November 1976, recounts an unusual aerial observation re…

This three-page CIA memorandum, dated 8 December 1953 and originating from the Office of Scientific Intelligence (O/SI), reports on a consultant's review of th…

This unevaluated CIA foreign-document report, distributed 20 August 1953, translates a Morgon-Tidningen article (Stockholm, 13 July 1953) datelined Copenhagen,…