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This two-page CIA document, hosted in the CIA FOIA Reading Room, reports the observation of an unidentified flying object near the Iranian frontier. According…

This CIA-declassified file contains two memoranda from Ed May of the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). Th…

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 Central Intelligence Agency report, released via the CIA Reading Room, transmits an unevaluated firsthand account of an unidentified flying object seen ov…

This document is a single-page 'Service to Service' intelligence letter dated 10 May 1982, apparently addressed within a Western intelligence liaison channel (…

According to the releasing source, this CIA History Staff document chronicles the complete history of the U-2 and OXCART (A-12) high-altitude reconnaissance ai…

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…

This three-page unclassified memorandum, dated 12 June 1995, was written by the CIA's Office of Research and Development (ORD) for CIA Public Affairs. It annou…

This file is a CIA internal handbook annex describing the '201 System,' the Agency's method for identifying, filing, and controlling information on persons of…

This file is an FBI FD-1057 (Rev. 5-8-10) 'Electronic communication' form, released via the U.S. Department of War UFO/UAP data release (release 3). According…

This CIA document, released through the agency's online reading room, consists of an internal letter dated around 29 May 1958 addressed to a scientist (apparen…

This unclassified document is a Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) wire reprint of a feature article, 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Psi,' by Jim Schnabel…

This two-page memorandum for the record, dated 8 May 1967, was released through the CIA's electronic reading room. It documents a UFO briefing presented at 070…

This file is one document in the National Archives' 2025 release of records under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Act of 1992, assigned NAR…

This file is Part 3 of a multi-part COVID-19 records release published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and declassified by DNI Tulsi Gab…

According to the releasing agency, this PDF contains a digital rendering — an artistic interpretation — of a 2022 incident potentially involving unidentified a…

This unevaluated CIA information report, distributed 22 September 1954, aggregates open-source newspaper reports of UFO sightings across Northern and Central E…

This document is a scientific paper prepared by the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in Menlo Park, Calif…

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…

This plain-text glossary is part of the CIA's November 2017 release of digital material recovered from the Abbottabad, Pakistan compound where Osama bin Laden…

According to AARO, U.S. European Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon consisting of approximately six seconds of infrared video f…

This file is a redacted FBI FD-1057 form — a document type the FBI uses to record investigative activity. According to the releasing agency, it documents the F…

This heavily redacted FBI FD-1057 form records the FBI's contact in October 2024 with a U.S. person who reported and video-recorded repeated observations of un…

This CIA Information Report, prepared in the USSR foreign-intelligence collection stream, records the unevaluated eyewitness account of a 41-year-old US nation…