This CIA memorandum for the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (D/CI) provides a chronological review of the Air Force's requests to declassify CIA materi…
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25 files in the public archive.
SF-2026-000164
1971 Australian Dept of Defence — Scientific and Intelligence Aspects of the UFO Problem
According to the releasing agencies, this is a 1971 Australian Department of Defence intelligence and scientific review of the United States Air Force Project…
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 two-page CIA memorandum, dated 29 May 1953, discusses questions received from Leo (Leon) Davidson directed at Bob Robertson and 'Lloyd' regarding their ac…
This two-page CIA Memorandum for Record, dated 30 January 1953, records a briefing of the Office of National Estimates (ONE) Board concerning Unidentified Flyi…
SF-2026-000152
CIA Scientific Advisory Panel on UFOs Report, 1952-1953
According to the releasing agency (U.S. Department of War, sourcing the CIA), this file contains 1952–1953 correspondence and reports from the Scientific Advis…
This CIA/OSI memorandum for file, dated 21 January 1953, documents the meeting of an ad hoc scientific advisory panel — later known as the Robertson Panel — co…
SF-2026-000770
Memorandum for Record: Flying Saucers (3 December 1952)
This CIA memorandum for record, dated 3 December 1952, recounts the author's meetings the previous morning with Dr. Julius A. Stratton (Executive Vice Presiden…
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…
SF-2026-000125
1953 IAC Report of Scientific Panel on UFOs
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…
SF-2026-000797
1953 CIA Memo from Chief, Physics and Electronics Division on Current Status of UFOB Project
,4C CIA memter internal memPhysics and Electronics division memto the assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, dated December 1953, summarizing the curr…
SUBJECT: Mestirg with. Air Force Personnel” Concerning Scientific
This document is a heavily OCR-corrupted CIA correspondence letter, apparently dated May 1953, addressed to 'Dr. Luis W. Alvarez' at the University of Californ…
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…
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 two-page CIA internal memorandum, dated April 1958 and released via the CIA Reading Room, records discussions about answering letters concerning Unidentif…
SF-2026-000762
CIA Memorandum on National Security Implications of Unidentified Flying Objects (Flying Saucers)
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 CIA correspondence, addressed to MIT Provost Dr. Julius A. Stratton and signed by Assistant Director R. Marshall (H. Marshall) Chadwell, updates the recip…
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…
SF-2026-000739
CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90
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 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 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…
A 32-page declassified document from the CIA reading room recording the proceedings of a scientific advisory panel — historically known as the Robertson Panel…
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…
