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…
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This document is a U.S. Department of War Intelligence Division (WDGS) SECRET intelligence review, released within the Department of War UAP records collection…
According to the releasing agency, this file is a collection of U.S. Government memoranda and correspondence concerning 'Project Sign,' a 1948 U.S. Air Force p…
According to the releasing agency (U.S. Department of War), this document is a War Department General Staff Intelligence Division review assessing incidents in…
This file is a declassified transcript, transmitted under a 22 March 1949 U.S. Atomic Energy Commission letter (Santa Fe Directed Operations), of a Secret conf…
This CIA reading room document (CIA-RDP96-00792R000500300001-9) is the fourth of four takes of an FBIS translation from a June 1994 Der Spiegel article on Max…
This file is the master index (Everything.20171105.hash_index.txt) for the CIA's November 2017 release of the Abbottabad compound material — the trove of digit…
SF-2026-001050
Anomalous Mental Phenomena Research in Russia and the Former Soviet Union: A Follow Up
This document is a scientific review paper titled 'Anomalous Mental Phenomena Research in Russia and the Former Soviet Union: A Follow Up,' authored by Larissa…
This U.S. Air Force document is Status Report No. 2 of Project Grudge (Project No. 10073), authored on or near 31 December 1951 by the Air Technical Intelligen…
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 declassified CIA document, hosted in the CIA Reading Room (DOC_0000015338), is a compilation of 1952 memoranda, draft National Security Council directives…
According to the releasing agency, this file is a transcript of a 1949 conference convened at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (now Los Alamos National Laborat…
This CIA information report, dated 4 February 1953, aggregates unevaluated accounts drawn from French daily and thrice-weekly newspapers published between 3 Ju…
SF-2026-000075
UFOs Incident Reports, 1948
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 file is a CIA internal handbook annex describing the '201 System,' the Agency's method for identifying, filing, and controlling information on persons of…
SF-2026-001075
Global Mind Change — From Vision to Reality: First International Conference of the Institute of Noetic Sciences
This declassified CIA-held document is the full program brochure for the Institute of Noetic Sciences' (IONS) first international conference of members, collea…
This CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence memorandum for record, dated 18 December 1952 and signed by H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of Scientific I…
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…
This file is part of a U.S. Department of War UFO records release (war.gov) and consists of consecutively numbered incident summaries (173–233) built around a…
SF-2026-000751
CIA Office Memorandum: 'Flying Saucers' (15 March 1949)
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…
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-2026-000079
UFO Check-List Incident Summaries 1–100
This file is a compilation of standardized 'Check-List – Unidentified Flying Objects' forms documenting UFO sightings, predominantly from the summer of 1947. A…
This CIA memorandum, dated 1 August 1952 and authored by the Acting Chief of the Weapons & Equipment Division, responds to a request for an overall evaluation…
SF-2026-000276
1948 DOW 101-172, UFO Report Incident Summaries
Includes a "Check-List - Unidentified Flying Objects" that contains details about the incident. Many summaries also include witness lists or statements and oth…
