This declassified memorandum, dated 19 October 1955 and released via the CIA reading room, discusses a reported sighting of two unconventional aircraft. The ob…
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This CIA document reproduces information drawn from foreign newspapers and radio broadcasts summarizing numerous 'flying saucer' and unidentified flying object…
This CIA memorandum, addressed to the Director of Central Intelligence and signed by Herbert Scoville Jr. (Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence), offers…
SF-2026-000439
AARO Case Resolution: "Atmospheric Wakes"
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…
SF-2026-000413
NASA-UAP-D006, Apollo 17 Technical Crew Debriefing, 1973
This declassified NASA document is an excerpt from the Apollo 17 Technical Crew Debriefing conducted January 4, 1973, prepared by the Crew Training and Simulat…
This document is an excerpt from the Apollo 17 Technical Air-to-Ground Voice Transcription of December 1972, released by NASA and posted by the U.S. Department…
Office Memorandum * UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO ‘Assistant Director, Sclentific Intelligenca = DATE: April 1958
This two-page CIA record, released via the CIA Reading Room, concerns photographs of an unidentified flying object captured by Ralph L. Mayher on 16mm movie fi…
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 unevaluated CIA information report aggregates open-source foreign press accounts of unidentified flying objects and unusual aerial phenomena reported betw…
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…
This declassified CIA document, hosted in the CIA Reading Room (DOC_0000015338), is a compilation of 1952 memoranda, draft National Security Council directives…
SF-2026-000715
Jack Anderson Column: 'Yes, Psychic Warfare Is Part of the Game' (Washington Post, 5 Feb 1981)
This single-page document is a sanitized CIA Reading Room clipping of a Jack Anderson newspaper column, 'Warfare Is Part of the Game,' printed in The Washingto…
SF-2026-000485
Puerto Rico Object (Aguadilla UAP Video)
This silent infrared video, published by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) as part of its Official UAP Imagery collection, documents a UAP event…
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 CIA Information Report, dated 1968 and classified Confidential/No Foreign Dissem/Controlled Dissem, compiles particulars of seven sightings of unidentifie…
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…
This 214-page PDF is Section 4 of the FBI's central-records UFO case file 62-HQ-83894 (serials 131–185), part of a larger file the releasing agency describes a…
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-2026-000808
Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects, 10 June–15 July 1954 (Finland, Norway, Austria)
This unevaluated CIA information report, distributed 22 September 1954, aggregates open-source newspaper reports of UFO sightings across Northern and Central E…
The file documents a paired remote-viewing session in which psychic Harold Sherman (in Mountain View, Arkansas) and psychic Ingo Swann (on the West Coast) atte…
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…
