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23 of the 28 declassified cases list this as the case's official agency. 5 more cases only mention it in the document text, without it being the official record. Documented incidents span 1947 to 2008.
4 agencies are involved: CIA, Department of State, Department of War, and Executive Office of the President. 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 dated 3 July 2008 (retrieved from the CIA's internal "Trident" document system, printed 6/15/2009), Country: Zimbabwe, Subject: "Placement on High Alert Due to Perceived Ag… |
| 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, sourced from the USSR. Subject: "Combating Fatigue in… |
| CIA-UAP-011 | December, 1973 | CIA | Document | 3/3 | Official | CIA-UAP-011 is a declassified CIA Intelligence Information Report titled "The Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range," covering the period November 1972 to November 1973, sourced from a Soviet citizen via a CIA field office (listed as ACO German… |
| 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, disseminated December 1973/1977) based on debriefing of a former Soviet citizen source regarding the Sary Shagan weapons test… |
| CIA-UAP-008 | 1972 | CIA | Document | 2/2 | Official | This is a 2-page CIA Directorate of Intelligence report (Report No. 00-B-321/07707-72, dated 10 April 1972), consisting of edited abstracts from a letter sent by a reliable U.S. colleague who attended a Conference on the Origins of Life hel… |
| CIA-UAP-019 | 1971 | CIA | Document | 18/19 | Official | CIA-UAP-019 is a declassified Australian Department of Defense/Foreign Affairs assessment titled "Scientific and Intelligence Aspects of the UFO Problem," sourced from the National Archives of Australia (NAA: A1838, 3092/2/00Q). It is a 19-… |
| CIA-UAP-016 | 1968 | CIA | Document | 6/6 | Official | CIA-UAP-016 is a declassified CIA Information Report (referenced telex header mentions Wright-Patterson AFB/FTD search results, doc no. 138501353) titled "Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects in Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan." Countr… |
| DOW-UAP-D092 | 4/17/67 | Department of War | Document | 85/85 | Mentioned | This 85-page document (60 processed) compiles the records of the USAF Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) Ad Hoc Committee to Review Project Blue Book, chaired by Dr. Brian O'Brien, which met in 1966-1967 in response to a request from Maj. Gen.… |
| CIA-UAP-010 | August, 1967 | CIA | Document | 2/2 | Official | CIA-UAP-010 is a short (2-page) declassified CIA Intelligence Information Report titled "Report on Conversations with Soviet Scientists on Subject of Unidentified Flying Objects in the USSR." The scanned copy released has no machine-readabl… |
| 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-D001 | 11/13/63 | Executive Office of the President | Document | 1/1 | Mentioned | A 1-page CIA Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) wire transcript, item "FBIS 03," of a Portuguese-language Radio Tupi broadcast from Rio de Janeiro at 2330 on 8 November 1963, preserved among the files of Edward C. Welsh, Executive… |
| 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 | 1-1 of 1 | Official | This CIA document, titled 'Unknown Flying Objects Observed Over Budapest,' is a 1-page scanned record that contains no usable OCR text layer -- pdf.js extracted only a handful of stray, non-semantic characters from what appears to be a scan… |
| 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," dated around March 1955, with information covering November-March 1955. The s… |
| CIA-UAP-D020 | 1955 | CIA | Document | 3/3 | Official | A 3-page Top Secret CIA memorandum dated 31 October 1955, signed by H.P. Scoville, Jr., Scientific Advisor of the Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI). Per the official description, it summarizes a CIA debriefing of four individuals — in… |
| CIA-UAP-D021 | 1955 | CIA | Document | 4/4 | Official | This 4-page Top Secret CIA document, dated late October/November 1955 and signed by H.P. Scoville, Jr. (Scientific Advisor, Office of Scientific Intelligence), analyzes a dispatch from a CIA station in Manila (dated 13 October 1955) reporti… |
| CIA-UAP-006 | November, 1955 | CIA | Document | 2/2 | Official | This 2-page CIA Information Report (Report No. 00-B-302290) documents a 4 October 1955 sighting near Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR, reported by a 41-year-old American tourist (a publicity/advertising vice president of a large U.S. corporation,… |
| CIA-UAP-018 | 1955 | CIA | Document | 3/3 | Official | CIA-UAP-018 is a declassified CIA Information Report, Report No. DO-B-93674, titled "Report of Unusual Flying Object Sightings and Attendant Scientific Activity," dated 17 April [1955?]. It is a fuller, 3-page version of the same case docum… |
| CIA-UAP-003 | 1954-1974 | CIA | Document | 406/406 | 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 | 1/3 | Official | This December 1953 memorandum provides a status update on the Air Force's UFO project activities, including ongoing intelligence operations, equipment procurement for photographing UFOs, and Canada’s establishment of a "laboratory" for reco… |
| dow-uap-d085-transmission-of-cia-scientific-advisory-panel-rept-1953 | 1953 | Department of War | Document | 1/7 | Mentioned | 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. |
| CIA-UAP-002 | 1952-1953 | CIA | Document | 11/42 | Official | This file contains correspondence and reports dated 1952–1953 from the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, convened by the CIA’s Office of Scientific Intelligence. The panel’s primary conclusion was that “flying saucer… |
| 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… |
| 59-64634-711-5612-7-2852 | 7/28/52 | Department of State | Document | 2/2 | Mentioned | A short 2-page declassified memorandum dated 28 July 1952 (NND 852931). Page 1 is a cover note from an unnamed Air Force staffer to "Mr. Armstrong," relaying that Paul Nitze had asked what the Air Force thought about flying saucers, and for… |
| CIA-UAP-005 | 1950 | CIA | Document | 1/4 | Official | 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 based on aerodynamic principles developed in German research facilities during an… |
| DOW-UAP-D100 | 1947-1948 | Department of War | Document | 239/245 | 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); 239 pages are legible, with 6 blank or redacted and one further page cut… |
| 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 | 312/312 | Official | CIA-UAP-015 is Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14, "Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects," Project No. 10073, dated 5 May 1955, produced by the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, m… |
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