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This three-page document from the CIA's electronic reading room profiles the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), characterizing it a…

This declassified CIA document (Approved for Release 2000/08/10) compiles English translations of Chinese somatic-science papers investigating paranormal abili…

This file is an FBI FD-1057 form — used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to record investigative activity — released by the U.S. Department of War as par…

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 CIA report reproduces translated excerpts from Greek, French, and Persian newspapers published in Athens, Brazzaville, and Tehran between 1 March and 20 M…

This internal CIA memorandum, from the Director of Research and Development, recommends declassifying the previously SECRET association between SRI and CIA reg…

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…

The United States European Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of…

This declassified CIA document, hosted in the CIA Reading Room (DOC_0000015338), is a compilation of 1952 memoranda, draft National Security Council directives…

This AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) Case Resolution report, dated 17 March 2023, addresses the "Southeast Asia Triangles" case. Six dark triangula…

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…

According to the U.S. Department of War release, this file contains memorandums, correspondence, and forms related to the reporting of information on flying di…

This nine-page technical paper, dated 23 March 1994 and produced by the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)…

This declassified CIA/FBIS cable is an editorial report on a Russian-language television program aired on Moscow's Ostankino Television First Program Network a…

This file is a still frame extracted from an infrared (IR) video, released by the U.S. Department of War through its 'Presidential Unsealing and Reporting Syst…

This document is a scanned Defense Electronics magazine article (July 1993, p.17) by Mark Tapscott, held in the CIA's declassified reading room. It reports tha…

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…

This three-page cable, classified SECRET and marked RYBAT/WNINTEL, was sent from the CIA's Denver station to the Director on 22 February 1996. It reports that…

This document is the Year 5 interim progress report for the NIH/NIAID R01 grant 'Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence' (5R01AI110964-05), submit…

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 declassified CIA memorandum, dated 9 January 1953, addresses the recruitment of two scientists as ad hoc consultants to the Office of Scientific Intellige…

This CIA document, released through the agency's electronic reading room, is an early-1950s internal memorandum examining the national security dimensions of u…

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 is a machine-generated integrity index accompanying the CIA's November 2017 release of material seized from Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad,…