This CIA document reproduces information drawn from foreign newspapers and radio broadcasts summarizing numerous 'flying saucer' and unidentified flying object…
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SF-2026-000719
1950s Magazine Flying Saucers UFO Reports
PLUS: Features-Photos- Current Sightings Answers to Your Questions
This two-page CIA internal memorandum, dated April 1958 and released via the CIA Reading Room, records discussions about answering letters concerning Unidentif…
The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying di…
SF-2026-000781
CIA Letter to Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner on Declassification of the Robertson Panel UFO Report
This CIA document is a letter to Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner regarding the report of the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, convened in January…
SF-2026-000087
1944 Mysterious Rocket in Texas causing engines to stall
According to the releasing agency (FBI), this file compiles materials from a November 1957 investigation prompted after Wladyslaw Krasuski of Detroit, Michigan…
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…
The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying di…
SF-2026-000111
1947 Flying Saucers observed over Oak Ridge, TN
This document is Serial 153 within FBI Headquarters classified case file 62-HQ-83894, an internal-security-classified matter concerning "flying saucers"/Uniden…
This document is a clipping from the Arizona Republic newspaper reporting on remarks by Dr. James E. McDonald, senior physicist in the Institute of Atmospheric…
SUBJECT: Mestirg with. Air Force Personnel” Concerning Scientific
This CIA-prepared and disseminated report, obtained from the agency's online Reading Room (DOC_0000015266), is titled 'Report of Unidentified Flying Objects' a…
This three-page Office Memorandum, dated 8 August 1955, was authored by the Chief of the Physics and Electronics Division (P&E) of the CIA's Office of Scientif…
SF-2026-000766
1952 CIA Memo on Flying Saucers, ATIC study since 1947
PROTON ET TINT STET: BEPC INT ETOP LTe PRT Te OO CNPC P POR TS OTP TPTE PT ETH
This CIA document is a letter addressed to Dr. Thornton Page, a member of the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects convened in January 1953…
SF-2026-000832
CIA Reading Room Document DOC_0000015460
This 23-page file, hosted in the CIA Electronic Reading Room, survives only as a poorly-scanned, heavily OCR-corrupted document. The recoverable text is fragme…
This CIA 'Information from Foreign Documents or Radio Broadcasts' report (No. OO-W-30883, date of information 1954, distributed 25 August 1954) aggregates tran…
According to the releasing agency (U.S. Department of War), this file primarily contains incident reports on Unidentified Flying Objects written in compliance…
The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying di…
Includes a "Check-List - Unidentified Flying Objects" that contains details about the incident. Many summaries also include witness lists or statements and oth…
