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CIA
23 of the 31 declassified cases list this as the case's official agency. 8 more cases only mention it in the document text, without it being the official record. Documented incidents span 1947 to 2008.
5 agencies are involved: CIA, Department of State, Department of War, Executive Office of the President, and U.S. Government. The case files here include documents. 3 cases carry visible redactions.
Cases
| File ID | Date | Agency | Type | Pages read | Official | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CIA-UAP-017 | July, 2008 | CIA | Document | 3/3 | Official | CIA-UAP-017 is a declassified SECRET//NOFORN CIA Information Report (not finally evaluated intelligence) distributed 3 July 2008 (message 031710Z), printed on 6/15/2009 from a Trident document page and marked "Approved for Release 2026 Unde… |
| CIA-UAP-012 | November, 1976 | CIA | Document | 2/2 | Official | CIA-UAP-012 is a declassified CIA Foreign Intelligence Information Report (Domestic Collection Division, Directorate of Operations), report no. DO-B-321/33474-76, dated 10 November 1976, country USSR, subject 'Combating Fatigue in Crewmembe… |
| CIA-UAP-011 | December, 1973 | CIA | Document | 3/3 | Official | CIA-UAP-011 is a CIA Intelligence Information Report, "The Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range" (USSR, period of information November 1972 to November 1973, acquired in Germany from a former Soviet citizen). It is marked as an information rep… |
| CIA-UAP-D001 | 12/20/73 | CIA | Document | 3/3 | Official | A declassified CIA Intelligence Information Report (Report No. FIRK-311/01638-77, DOI November 1972-November 1973, distributed December 1977) based on debriefing of a former Soviet citizen source regarding the Sary Shagan weapons testing ra… |
| CIA-UAP-008 | 1972 | CIA | Document | 2/2 | Official | This is a 2-page CIA Directorate of Intelligence Information Report (no. 00-B-321/07707-72, distributed 10 April 1972), marked as unevaluated information. Its source is a U.S. citizen, and the report consists of edited abstracts of a letter… |
| CIA-UAP-019 | 1971 | CIA | Document | 19/19 | Official | CIA-UAP-019 is a 19-page Australian Department of Defence, Joint Intelligence Organization minute paper (reference 3092/2) titled "Scientific and Intelligence Aspects of the UFO Problem", with a covering note signed by O.H. Turner, Hd. Nucl… |
| CIA-UAP-016 | 1968 | CIA | Document | 5/6 | Official | CIA-UAP-016 is a CIA Information Report (distributed 11 April 1968; country India/Nepal/Bhutan/China; period of information February-March 1968) titled "Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects in Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan," preceded… |
| DOW-UAP-D092 | 4/17/67 | Department of War | Document | 63/85 | Mentioned | An 85-page file of USAF Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) records on its Ad Hoc Committee to Review Project Blue Book, with 63 pages legible and the rest blank or redacted scans. The review was requested by Maj. Gen. E.B. LeBailly (Director o… |
| CIA-UAP-010 | August, 1967 | CIA | Document | 2/2 | Official | CIA-UAP-010 is a declassified 2-page CIA Intelligence Information Report (No. OO-B-321/23490-67, distributed 18 August 1967) titled "Report on Conversations with Soviet Scientists on Subject of Unidentified Flying Objects in the USSR." Its… |
| CIA-UAP-D022 | 2/1/65 | CIA | Document | 6/6 | Official | A six-page Top Secret CIA memorandum package, handled under the BYEMAN control system within the OXCART project compartment, concerns an unidentified object tracked by radar and observed visually near Puerto Rico during 18-24 November 1964,… |
| EOP-UAP-D002 | 5/29/63 | Executive Office of the President | Document | 1/1 | Mentioned | This is a one-page memorandum dated 29 May 1963, addressed to "Dr. Welsh" titled "Conference with Frutkin -- Fragments." The writer reports meeting Frutkin of NASA and his assistant Marvin Robinson for over an hour on 28 May about a project… |
| EOP-UAP-D001 | 11/13/63 | Executive Office of the President | Document | 1/1 | Mentioned | This is a one-page declassified (Authority: NND 968063) wire transcript, item "FBIS 03," of a Portuguese-language Radio Tupi broadcast from Rio de Janeiro at 2330 on 8 November 1963. The text reports that in the municipality of Conde, in "B… |
| USG-UAP-D002 | 1962-1964 | U.S. Government | Document | 72/72 | Mentioned | This 72-page file from the LBJ Library collects U.S. government correspondence from 1962 to 1964 on how to handle fragments of space vehicles that fall to Earth. Most of it comes from the National Aeronautics and Space Council in the Execut… |
| CIA-UAP-004 | 1958 | CIA | Document | 1/1 | Official | This is a single-page CIA internal memorandum, dated 9 January 1958, from the Chief, Support Branch, Contact Division to the Chief, Chicago Office, titled 'Case 17708 (Closed) and Dr. Leon Davidson' (reference CII-58-17). It documents a tel… |
| CIA-UAP-009 | 1957 | CIA | Document | 0/1 | Official | 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. |
| CIA-UAP-013 | 1956 | CIA | Document | 1/1 | Official | CIA-UAP-013 is a declassified CIA Information Report (Report No. DO-B-93674) titled "Report of Unusual Flying Object Sightings and Attendant Scientific Activity," whose date-of-information field spans November-March 1955. The source is a na… |
| CIA-UAP-D020 | 1955 | CIA | Document | 3/3 | Official | A 3-page CIA memorandum to the Director of Central Intelligence, "Sightings of Flying Saucers or Unconventional Aircraft," dated 31 October 1955 and signed by Herbert Scoville, Jr., Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, preceded b… |
| CIA-UAP-D021 | 1955 | CIA | Document | 3/4 | Official | This 4-page CIA document (page 2 is a "BEST COPY Available" placeholder) is a cover sheet followed by a two-page memorandum to the Director of Central Intelligence, "Flying Saucers or Unconventional Aircraft," signed by Herbert Scoville, Jr… |
| CIA-UAP-006 | November, 1955 | CIA | Document | 2/2 | Official | This 2-page CIA Information Report (Report No. 00-B-3022[illegible], marked unevaluated information and distributed 15 Nov '55) documents a sighting on 4 October 1955, place acquired Azerbaijan SSR, reported by a 41-year-old US national (a… |
| CIA-UAP-018 | 1955 | CIA | Document | 2/3 | Official | CIA-UAP-018 is a declassified CIA Information Report, No. DO-B-93674, titled 'Report of Unusual Flying Object Sightings and Attendant Scientific Activity', country Hungary, dated 17 April (year not legible; the date of information is Novemb… |
| DOW-UAP-D180 | 8/31/54 | Department of War | Document | 287/298 | Mentioned | This 298-page file is the official military personnel record of Colonel Howard M. McCoy, U.S. Air Force, from his commissioning as a second lieutenant in 1930 (he transferred to the Air Corps in 1931-32) to his retirement in 1954. Most of i… |
| CIA-UAP-003 | 1954-1974 | CIA | Document | 382/406 | Official | This document is the CIA History Staff's declassified 1992 official history 'The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and OXCART Programs, 1954-1974' by Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach, a 406-page book… |
| CIA-UAP-007 | December, 1953 | CIA | Document | 3/3 | Official | This is a three-page CIA memorandum dated 17 December 1953 from the Chief, Physics and Electronics (P&E) Division, SI, to the Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence, titled "Current Status of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOB) Project"… |
| Robertson Panel UFO report to Defense Secretary, 1953 | 1953 | Department of War | Document | 6/7 | Mentioned | This 7-page file is the Office of the Secretary of Defense's copy of a 13 March 1953 CIA transmittal of the report of a scientific panel on "Unidentified Flying Objects" ("Flying Saucers"). It contains a divider sheet, an OSD routing slip r… |
| CIA-UAP-002 | 1952-1953 | CIA | Document | 41/42 | Official | This 42-page CIA file documents the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, known as the Robertson Panel, convened by the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence in January 1953 at the direction of Director of Central Inte… |
| CIA-UAP-014 | December, 1952 | CIA | Document | 2/2 | Official | CIA-UAP-014 is a declassified SECRET Security Information memorandum for record dated 18 December 1952, titled "British Activity in the field of 'Unidentified Flying Objects,'" signed by H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director for Scientif… |
| State Department memo on UFO sightings, July 1952 | 7/28/52 | Department of State | Document | 2/2 | Mentioned | A two-page memorandum dated July 28, 1952, stamped SECRET (struck through) and marked DECLASSIFIED NND 852931. Page 1 is a cover note signed "F.H." to "Mr. Armstrong": Paul Nitze asked what the Air Force thought about the flying saucers, an… |
| CIA-UAP-005 | 1950 | CIA | Document | 4/4 | Official | This 4-page CIA Information Report, distributed on 31 July 1950 (Country: Chile/Germany, place acquired Santiago, date of info prior to mid-1950), forwards a translated copy of an article submitted for publication in Condor, a German-langua… |
| DOW-UAP-D100 | 1947-1948 | Department of War | Document | 236/245 | Mentioned | A 245-page dossier of Air Materiel Command / Directorate of Intelligence correspondence on the Air Force's 1947-1948 "flying disc" investigation (later Project SIGN); 237 pages are legible and the rest are blank or redacted scans. Most of t… |
| CIA-UAP-D023 | Undated | CIA | Document | 2/2 | Official | A CIA briefing memorandum prepared for Walter N. Elder, Executive Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence, on an unidentified flying object sighted near Puerto Rico on 16, 17, 18, 19, and 24 November. On 19 November the destroyer… |
| CIA-UAP-015 | No date | CIA | Document | 296/312 | Official | CIA-UAP-015 is Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14, 'Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects' (Project No. 10073, May 1955), prepared by the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and mark… |
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