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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…

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…

This declassified file, released by the U.S. Department of War in its fourth UAP records batch, gathers reports, memoranda, and correspondence on then-developm…

This 85-page compilation, released by the U.S. Department of War as part of its UAP records release, documents the work of the USAF Scientific Advisory Board's…

Released by the U.S. Department of War as item DOW-UAP-D096, this file contains correspondence concerning Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's UFO investiga…

This file assembles U.S. Air Force and joint U.S.-Canadian materials from 1954-1955 on developmental VTOL aircraft and associated UFO reporting. A central comp…

This U.S. Air Force fact sheet (95-03), current as of June 1995, describes Project Blue Book, the Air Force program that investigated Unidentified Flying Objec…

This UNCLASSIFIED Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) report, filed from Abidjan on 25 January 1996 and later approved for release by the CIA in March…

According to the releasing agencies, this is a 1971 Australian Department of Defence intelligence and scientific review of the United States Air Force Project…

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…

Leading Soviet newspapers and journals have recently begun publishing an increasing number of articles and news reports on sightings of unidentified flying obj…

This unclassified CIA document (sequence CSB91554381) is a translated/abstracted foreign-press report drawn from the Soviet newspaper Pravda Vostoka. It report…

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

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 file combines a page of an international UFO-research organization directory with an article titled 'The U.S. Government & The Iran Case' and a verbatim r…

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 unevaluated CIA intelligence report gathers translated newspaper accounts of unidentified flying object ('flying saucer') sightings published in various f…

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

This December 1953 memorandum provides a status update on the Air Force's UFO project activities, including ongoing intelligence operations, equipment procurem…

,4C CIA memter internal memPhysics and Electronics division memto the assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, dated December 1953, summarizing the curr…

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…

According to the CIA, this August 1967 document reports on conversations held with Soviet scientists on the subject of unidentified flying objects during a US…