Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, Report, 1952-1953
This file contains correspondence and reports dated 1952–1953 from the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, convened by the CIA’s Office…
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This file contains correspondence and reports dated 1952–1953 from the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, convened by the CIA’s Office…
This CIA History Staff document chronicles the complete history of the U-2 and OXCART (A-12) high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft programs from 1954 to 1974…
This 1958 CIA memorandum discussing a phone conversation with Dr. Leon Davidson regarding concerns about a destroyed "space message and its transmitter."…
This 1950 CIA Information Report from Chile discusses a German scientist's article theorizing that "Flying Discs" could be explained as a new type of aircraft…
This CIA information report from November 1955 describes a US national's eyewitness account of triangular aircraft with wing lights launch at a steep angle…
This December 1953 memorandum provides a status update on the Air Force's UFO project activities, including ongoing intelligence operations, equipment…
This 1972 CIA Intelligence Information Report summarizes a US attendee's observations of a speculative paper regarding charged mass behavior in space…
This is a 1957 CIA Information Report regarding UFO sightings over Budapest. A more redacted version of this report has been available on CIA's public website.
This CIA document from August 1967 reports on conversations about UFO sightings with Soviet scientists during a US astrophysicist's trip to the USSR.
This CIA Intelligence Information Report from December 1973 provides information on the Soviet Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range, including details about…
This November 1976 CIA Foreign Intelligence Information Report summarizes Soviet Aeroflot's involvement in aerospace medical research, including their methods…
This 1956 CIA Information Report describes flying object sightings reported by a Budapest-based sub-source, including a sketch showing the objects' suspected…
A December 1952 Memo on the activities the British are taking to identify UFOs. The memo references a UFO sighting at an RAF field seen by high officials…
This is the USAF Project Blue Book with a CIA cover sheet stating the document is "Official Record Copy." With the exception of the handwritten note…
A 1968 report about UFO sightings in Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan. Seven UFO sightings are listed that took place between 19 Feb. to 25 Mar.
A never before released July 2008 report on a UFO sighting at the Harare International Airport. Individuals debated if the sighting was an advanced…
A 1955 report on a UFO sighting in Hungary. The information came from a letter between Hungarian relatives, living in the USA and Budapest.
Dated to 1971, an Australian review of the USAF Project Blue Book. This document was released by the National Archives of Australia.
This memorandum summarizes the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office’s (AARO) ongoing analysis of a reported incident near a sensitive national security site…
This image is a notional representation of four incidents reportedly involving unidentified anomalous phenomena in the western United States, as seen…
This memorandum presents the first-hand narrative from Witness 1 provided to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
This memorandum presents the first-hand narrative from Witness 2 provided to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
This memorandum presents the first-hand narrative from Witness 3 provided to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
This memorandum presents the first-hand narrative from Witness 4 provided to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
This memorandum presents the first-hand narrative from Witness 5 provided to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
This file contains an Evaluation Study of the Phenomenon (Flying Saucers) prepared at the request of the Plans & Operations Divisions of the General Staff…
This file contains a copy of the CIA's 1953 "Report of the Scientific Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects" that was sent to the Secretary of Defense.
This document is a memorandum from the Commandant of the 5th Naval District, and it cites a memorandum related to "flying discs" from the Chief of Naval…
Includes a "Check-List - Unidentified Flying Objects" that contains details about the incident.
Includes a "Check-List - Unidentified Flying Objects" that contains details about the incident.
This document is a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) FD-302, a form the FBI uses to record interviews.
This FD-1057 contains a first-hand narrative description of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) reported near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
This image is an artistic interpretation of a 2022 incident potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) reported near Colorado Springs…
This FD-1057 documents the FBI’s contact with a U.S. person in October 2024, during which FBI special agents collected video footage and gathered information…
This FD-1057 documents an October 2024 interview with a US person regarding several incidents potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena…
This FD-1057 documents a November 2024 site survey of a location where a U.S. person reported observing unidentified anomalous phenomena multiple times over…
This FBI FD-1057 documents first-hand observations made by two FBI special agents’ during the course of an ongoing investigation in November 2024.
This FBI FD-1057 documents a December 2024 site survey of a location where two FBI special agents had previously observed unidentified anomalous phenomena.
This FD-302 records a February 2026 interview with a U.S. person, in which they described incidents potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena.
This FD-302 records an interview with a U.S. person regarding their first-hand account of an incident potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena.
This collection of documents contains correspondence between the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), J. Edgar Hoover, and Rev.
This file details a special inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Newark Field Office of various reported sightings of unidentified flying objects…
This file details an investigation of various sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) in Washington state between July 1952 and August 1960.
This image is an artistic interpretation of a reported incident near a sensitive national security site in the western United States involving unidentified…
This image is an artistic interpretation of a reported incident near a sensitive national security site in the western United States involving unidentified…
This image is an artistic interpretation of a reported incident near a sensitive national security site in the western United States involving unidentified…
This image is an artistic interpretation of a reported incident near a sensitive national security site in the western United States involving unidentified…
This image is an artistic interpretation of a reported incident near a sensitive national security site in the western United States involving unidentified…
This image is an artistic interpretation of a reported incident near a sensitive national security site in the western United States involving unidentified…
This image is an artistic interpretation of a reported incident near a sensitive national security site in the western United States involving unidentified…
This image is an artistic interpretation of a reported incident near a sensitive national security site in the western United States involving unidentified…
This image is an artistic interpretation of a reported incident near a sensitive national security site in the western United States involving unidentified…
This image is an artistic interpretation of a reported incident near a sensitive national security site in the western United States involving unidentified…
In November 2021, at approximately 0500 local time in the northeastern United States, an eyewitness observed a bright light source near the horizon…
In March 2022, at approximately 1920 local time in the northeastern United States, an eyewitness observed two bright red luminous light sources hovering near…
In October 2024, at approximately 1851 local time in the northeastern United States, an eyewitness observed a light source below the horizon, hovering above…
In July 2025, at approximately 2100 local time in the northeastern United States, an eyewitness observed an intense bright light in their backyard as they…
This video is an artistic interpretation of a reported incident near a sensitive national security site in the western United States involving unidentified…
This video is an artistic interpretation of a reported incident near a sensitive national security site in the western United States involving unidentified…
This document contains analysis by an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) Intelligence Community (IC) partner to account for a 2022 incident involving…
This file contains memoranda, correspondence, reports, and other materials relating to contemporary scientific interest in investigating the nature…
This document is a preliminary transcript (Part I) derived from voice recordings of the Gemini 4 flight crew debriefing taken aboard the recovery ship, USS…
This document is a preliminary transcript (Part II) derived from voice recordings of the Gemini 4 flight crew debriefing taken aboard the recovery ship, USS…
Gemini IV was the second crewed mission of the Gemini series. Astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White successfully completed the four-day flight between…
This document is a preliminary transcript (Part I) derived from voice recordings of the Gemini 5 flight crew technical debriefing.
This document is a preliminary transcript (Part II) derived from voice recordings of the Gemini 5 flight crew technical debriefing.
This document is a preliminary transcript derived from voice recordings of the Gemini 7 flight crew debriefing conducted December 19-21, 1965, at the Crew…
Gemini IX (renamed Gemini IX-A) was the seventh crewed flight of the Gemini series, launched on June 3, 1966.
In November 1962, journalist Walter Cronkite interviewed astronaut Gordon Cooper. In this excerpt from that interview, Cronkite asks Cooper about his views…
This debriefing includes presentations from principal investigators of various Apollo experiments.
At 32:41, the speaker makes an off-handed comment, “Could be an alien starbase or something, I don’t know” when discussing correlations between experimental…
This collection of documents, primarily from 1998, contains draft and final correspondence from the White House and the offices of members of Congress…
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