File Explorer

According to the releasing agency (U.S. Department of War), this file primarily contains incident reports on Unidentified Flying Objects written in compliance…

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

This CIA correspondence, addressed to MIT Provost Dr. Julius A. Stratton and signed by Assistant Director R. Marshall (H. Marshall) Chadwell, updates the recip…

This CIA memorandum for record, authored by F.C. Durant, recounts a 1430-hour telephone call to Dr. John A. Wheeler at Princeton, New Jersey. Durant thanked Wh…

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…

All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) An AARO Information Paper Effect of Forced Perspective and Parallax View on UAP Observations

This unclassified extract from the CIA journal Studies in Intelligence, authored by Major Hector Quintanilla, Jr., surveys the history and methodology of offic…

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 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 image is a digital rendering released by the U.S. Department of War as part of a UAP data release (release 3). According to the source page, it is an arti…

According to the releasing agency, this JPEG image is an artistic interpretation of a reported incident near a sensitive national security site in the western…

This file is a digital rendering released by the U.S. Department of War as part of a UAP data disclosure. According to the source page, the image is an artisti…

Includes a "Check-List - Unidentified Flying Objects" that contains details about the incident. Many summaries also include witness lists or statements and oth…

This image is a notional (illustrative, not-to-scale) representation released by the U.S. Department of War depicting four UAP incidents reportedly witnessed b…

This document is a standardized Mission Report (MISREP) used by the U.S. Military to record operational circumstances, in this case reporting Unidentified Anom…

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 file is a CIA internal dispatch classified SECRET, dated 10 October 1968 (FAMA 5803), circulated among the Chief of Station Bangkok, Chief of Station Rang…

According to AARO, in October 2017 an infrared sensor onboard a force protection aerostat near Al Taqaddum Air Base, Iraq, captured 17 minutes of video of an u…

This image is an artistic digital rendering released by the U.S. Department of War as part of a UAP data disclosure. According to the source page, it is an art…

This image file is an artistic interpretation of a reported unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) incident near a sensitive national security site in the west…

This 5-page redacted Department of War memorandum records the personal account of 'Witness 5,' a federal law enforcement special agent who, with a partner spec…

This unclassified memorandum for record, dated 02 June 2026 and signed by Jon T. Kosloski, Director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), present…

This memorandum for record, signed by AARO Director Jon T. Kosloski and issued by the Office of the Under Secretary of War (Intelligence and Security), transmi…

This file is a July 1995 Scientific American profile of James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge), a former professional magician who became a leading i…