This CIA report (No. 00-W-30367) summarizes several foreign press items concerning 'flying saucers.' A Paris-Dakar article (12 Dec 1953) describes a piece in t…
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This unevaluated CIA intelligence report gathers translated newspaper accounts of unidentified flying object ('flying saucer') sightings published in various f…
This 55-page FBI file, released by the U.S. Department of War, details the Bureau's Seattle office handling of civilian and military reports of Unidentified Fl…
This 406-page CIA History Staff monograph, authored by Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach and published by the CIA History Staff in Washington, D.C. in…
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 file is Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14, dated 5 May 1955 and produced by the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base…
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…
This unevaluated CIA information report aggregates open-source foreign press accounts of unidentified flying objects and unusual aerial phenomena reported betw…
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…
SF-2026-000840
Fast-Moving Flying Objects Over Stalingrad
This Central Intelligence Agency report, released via the CIA Reading Room, transmits an unevaluated firsthand account of an unidentified flying object seen ov…
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…
This 205-page PDF is Section 7 of the FBI's central UFO case file (62-HQ-83894), released by the U.S. Department of War / FBI. According to the releasing agenc…
This CIA 'Information from Foreign Documents or Radio Broadcasts' report (No. OO-W-30883, date of information 1954, distributed 25 August 1954) aggregates tran…
This declassified CIA report, dated 30 July 1954 and drawn from foreign newspapers published between 19 January and 15 May 1954, aggregates unidentified flying…
This CIA memorandum, marked Confidential/Secret and dated 27 January 1978, was authored by H. Clark Schor, Chief of the Plans and Review Group of the Central C…
The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying di…
This declassified CIA information report, distributed January 1954, aggregates translated excerpts from foreign daily newspapers reporting sightings of unident…
SF-2026-000740
The Investigation of UFO's
This unclassified extract from the CIA journal Studies in Intelligence, authored by Major Hector Quintanilla, Jr., surveys the history and methodology of offic…
s ie CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO. OO-w-29903 - INFORMATION FROM . FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS = CD NO. --
This CIA memorandum, dated 18 December 1975, concerns a Freedom of Information Act appeal filed by John W. Donovan (case number 75-577), stemming from an origi…
