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40 of the 63 declassified cases list this as the case's official agency. 23 more cases only mention it in the document text, without it being the official record. Documented incidents span 1961 to 2011.
5 agencies are involved: Department of State, Department of War, Executive Office of the President, NASA, and U.S. Government. The case files here include documents, images, and audio recordings. 21 cases carry visible redactions.
Cases
| File ID | Date | Agency | Type | Pages read | Official | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOW-UAP-D152 | 1/3/11 | Department of War | Document | 42/43 | Mentioned | This is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIRD) titled "Negative Mass Propulsion," prepared by the Technology Warning Division (DWO-4), Defense Warning Office, Defense Intelligence Agency, dated 3 January 2011 (ICOD 30 August 2010,… |
| DOW-UAP-D120 | 1/12/10 | Department of War | Document | 27/27 | Mentioned | This is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIRD) titled "Materials for Advanced Aerospace Platforms" (DIA-08-0912-008), dated 12 January 2010 (ICOD 1 December 2009), produced by the Acquisition Support Division (DWO-3) of the Defens… |
| DOW-UAP-D123 | 3/2/10 | Department of War | Document | 35/35 | Mentioned | This is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIRD) titled "Positron Aerospace Propulsion" (DIA-08-1003-002), dated 2 March 2010 (ICOD 1 December 2009), produced by the Acquisition Support Division (DWO-3) of the Defense Intelligence A… |
| DOW-UAP-D124 | 3/8/10 | Department of War | Document | 56/56 | Mentioned | This is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIRD), "Space Access: Where We've Been . . . and Where We Could Go" (DIA-08-1001-006), dated 8 March 2010 (ICOD 1 December 2009), prepared by the Acquisition Support Division (DWO-3) of the… |
| DOW-UAP-D125 | 3/10/10 | Department of War | Document | 72/72 | Mentioned | This is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIRD) titled "Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion" (DIA-08-1003-006), dated 10 March 2010, produced by the Acquisition Support Division (DWO-3) of the Defense Intelligence Agency's De… |
| DOW-UAP-D131 | 3/23/10 | Department of War | Document | 16/16 | Mentioned | This is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIRD) prepared by the Acquisition Support Division (DWO-3), Defense Warning Office, Defense Intelligence Agency, dated 23 March 2010 (ICOD 1 December 2010, document number DIA-08-1003-013),… |
| DOW-UAP-D134 | 3/30/10 | Department of War | Document | 19/19 | Mentioned | This is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIRD) prepared by the Acquisition Support Division (DWO-3), Defense Warning Office, Directorate for Analysis, Defense Intelligence Agency, dated 30 March 2010 (ICOD 1 December 2009, documen… |
| DOW-UAP-D136 | 3/31/10 | Department of War | Document | 45/45 | Mentioned | This is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIRD) prepared by the Acquisition Support Division (DWO-3), Defense Warning Office, Defense Intelligence Agency, dated 31 March 2010 (ICOD 1 December 2009, document number DIA-08-1003-020),… |
| DOW-UAP-D140 | 4/6/10 | Department of War | Document | 57/57 | Mentioned | This is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIRD) titled "High-Frequency Gravitational Wave Communications," prepared by the Acquisition Support Division (DWO-3), Defense Warning Office, Directorate for Analysis, Defense Intelligence… |
| DOW-UAP-D142 | 4/6/10 | Department of War | Document | 56/57 | Mentioned | This is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIRD) prepared by the Acquisition Support Division (DWO-3), Defense Warning Office, Defense Intelligence Agency, dated 6 April 2010 (ICOD 1 December 2009, document number DIA-08-1004-007),… |
| DOW-UAP-D143 | 11/1/10 | Department of War | Document | 76/77 | Mentioned | This is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIRD) prepared by the Technology Warning Division (DWO-4), Defense Warning Office, Defense Intelligence Agency, dated 1 November 2010 (ICOD 30 August 2010, document number DIA-08-1011-001),… |
| DOW-UAP-D144 | 11/1/10 | Department of War | Document | 57/57 | Mentioned | This is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIRD) prepared by the Technology Warning Division (DWO-4), Defense Warning Office, Defense Intelligence Agency, dated 1 November 2010 (ICOD 8 July 2010, document number DIA-08-1011-002), pr… |
| DOW-UAP-D145 | 11/1/10 | Department of War | Document | 48/50 | Mentioned | This is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIRD) titled "Aneutronic Fusion Propulsion," prepared by the Technology Warning Division (DWO-4), Defense Warning Office, Defense Intelligence Agency, dated 1 November 2010, produced under… |
| DOW-UAP-D146 | 11/1/10 | Department of War | Document | 35/36 | Mentioned | This is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIRD) titled "(U) Aneutronic Fusion Propulsion," prepared by the Technology Warning Division (DWO-4), Defense Warning Office, Defense Intelligence Agency, dated 1 November 2010 (ICOD 20 Jul… |
| DOW-UAP-D148 | 11/20/10 | Department of War | Document | 45/46 | Mentioned | This is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIRD) titled "Detection and High Resolution Tracking of Vehicles at Hypersonic Velocities," prepared by the Technology Warning Division (DWO-4), Defense Warning Office, Defense Intelligence… |
| DOW-UAP-D149 | 11/21/10 | Department of War | Document | 32/32 | Mentioned | This is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document titled "MHD Air Breathing Propulsion and Power for Aerospace Applications," prepared by the Technology Warning Division (DWO-4), Defense Warning Office, Directorate for Analysis, Defense Int… |
| DOW-UAP-D150 | 12/10/10 | Department of War | Document | 54/54 | Mentioned | This is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIRD) titled "Quantum Computing and Utilizing Organic Molecules in Automation Technology," prepared by the Technology Warning Division (DWO-4), Defense Warning Office, Defense Intelligence… |
| DOW-UAP-D151 | 12/15/10 | Department of War | Document | 30/31 | Mentioned | This is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIRD) titled "Cognitive Limits on Simultaneous Control of Multiple Unmanned Spacecraft," prepared by the Technology Warning Division (DWO-4), Defense Warning Office, Defense Intelligence Ag… |
| DOW-UAP-D118 | 12/14/09 | Department of War | Document | 20/20 | Mentioned | This is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIRD) titled "Aerospace Applications of Programmable Matter" (DIA-08-0911-016), dated 14 December 2009, produced by the Acquisition Support Division (DWO-3) of the Defense Intelligence Agen… |
| USG-UAP-D001 | 1998 | U.S. Government | Document | 82/86 | Mentioned | This is a 1998 NASA Headquarters Office of Legislative Affairs case file (Headquarters Action Tracking System / HATS logs) documenting how NASA handled constituent correspondence about UFOs that had been forwarded through members of Congres… |
| NASA-UAP-D030 | 1996 | NASA | Image | — | Official | Photograph taken through a Space Shuttle window looking down at Earth. Bright white cloud cover fills the left half, with the dark silhouette of the window frame and orbiter structure on the right. A small thin elongated white object is vis… |
| NASA-UAP-D031 | 1996 | NASA | Image | — | Official | View from a Space Shuttle window over a bright white cloud-covered Earth, with the orbiter window frame and interior hardware dark against the right side. A small white speck sits below the center of the frame above the cloud deck. Red tele… |
| NASA-UAP-D032 | 1996 | NASA | Image | — | Official | Orbital photograph showing the curved limb of Earth capped with white cloud against the black of space. The Space Shuttle window frame and cabin hardware occupy the lower right, catching greenish reflections. Small red telemetry marks are v… |
| NASA-UAP-D005 | 1973 | NASA | Document | 3/3 | Official | This document is NOT about UAP. It is a 3-page excerpt (pages 119-120 of the original, dated January 8, 1973, MSC-07632) from an Apollo 17 'Crew Debriefing for Science' press-style briefing held at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston. The… |
| NASA-UAP-D006 | 1973 | NASA | Document | 2/2 | Official | This 2-page excerpt from NASA document MSC-07631, "Apollo 17 Technical Crew Debriefing (U)," dated January 4, 1973 and prepared by the Training Office, Crew Training and Simulation Division, Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, was originally… |
| NASA-UAP-D007 | 1973 | NASA | Document | 11/11 | Official | Compilation of excerpts from the Skylab 1/2, 1/3 and 1/4 Technical Crew Debriefings (JSC-08053, JSC-08478 and JSC-08809), dated 30 June 1973 to 22 February 1974 and prepared by the NASA Johnson Space Center Training Office. In the Skylab 2… |
| NASA-UAP-D028 | 12/21/72 | NASA | Audio | — | Official | This recording is segment 1 of 2 of the Apollo 17 crew's post-mission technical and medical debriefing at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, held shortly after splashdown. The three crew members work through a checklist covering lunar-o… |
| NASA-UAP-D029 | 12/21/72 | NASA | Audio | — | Official | This is segment 2 of 2 of the Apollo 17 post-mission technical/medical debriefing at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston. Unlike a multi-party discussion, this segment is largely a solo, structured debrief by Lunar Module Pilot Harrison '… |
| NASA-UAP-D009 | 12/7/72 | NASA | Audio | — | Official | This brief Apollo 17 air-to-ground audio excerpt, recorded December 7, 1972 during transit to the Moon, captures a crew member (Commander Gene Cernan, Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, or Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans) reporting brig… |
| NASA-UAP-D002 | 1972 | NASA | Document | 16/16 | Official | NASA Apollo 17 air-to-ground voice transcript (1972), excerpts from Tapes 5, 46, 47, 59 and 60. In Tape 5, around MET 00 03 34 during a spacecraft maneuver, the crew sees very bright, jagged, angular fragments drifting past, flat, flake-lik… |
| NASA-UAP-VM006 | 1972 | NASA | Image | — | Official | Apollo 17 photograph looking across a rolling lunar horizon of grey regolith under a teal-tinted black sky. A yellow callout box in the upper right magnifies a small cluster of faint blue-white points above the horizon. |
| NASA-UAP-D026 | 2/18/71 | NASA | Audio | — | Official | This is segment 1 of 2 of the Apollo 14 post-mission crew debriefing at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston. A NASA physician (addressed as Dr. Berry) and other debriefers question the three-man crew in a Q&A format. Roughly the first 90… |
| NASA-UAP-D027 | 2/18/71 | NASA | Audio | — | Official | This audio continues (segment 2 of 2) the Apollo 14 post-mission crew debriefing at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, with Commander Alan Shepard, CMP Stuart Roosa, and LMP Edgar Mitchell discussing the light flash phenomenon with flig… |
| NASA-UAP-D008 | 1969 | NASA | Audio | — | Official | This is an audio recording of a NASA medical debriefing session with the Apollo 12 crew — Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad, Command Module Pilot Richard "Dick" Gordon, and Lunar Module Pilot Alan Bean — discussing light flashes and streaks t… |
| NASA-UAP-D001 | 1969 | NASA | Document | 4/4 | Official | This is an excerpt from the NASA Apollo 12 air-to-ground transcript (tape pages 742, 743, 748 and 778), covering ground elapsed times from 5 days 19:14 to 6 days 00:23. It involves Mission Control (CC), the Command Module Pilot in Yankee Cl… |
| NASA-UAP-D004 | 1969 | NASA | Document | 11/11 | Official | This is an 11-page excerpt of NASA's 'Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing' dated July 31, 1969 (Mission Operations Branch, Flight Crew Support Division), originally marked CONFIDENTIAL and later reclassified to unclassified. It contains the… |
| NASA-UAP-VM001 | 1969 | NASA | Image | — | Official | Apollo 12 lunar surface photograph with a teal-tinted black sky above the grey regolith. The long shadow of an astronaut and equipment stretches across the foreground. A yellow callout box in the upper area magnifies a faint elongated blue-… |
| NASA-UAP-VM002 | 1969 | NASA | Image | — | Official | Apollo 12 lunar surface image showing grey regolith and the long shadow of an astronaut. Two yellow callout boxes labelled Area 1 and Area 2 magnify faint specks located in the dark teal sky above the lunar horizon. |
| NASA-UAP-VM003 | 1969 | NASA | Image | — | Official | Apollo 12 photograph of the lunar surface with a bright regolith field and a prominent astronaut shadow. A yellow callout box magnifies a single small white point of light in the dark sky above the horizon. |
| NASA-UAP-VM004 | 1969 | NASA | Image | — | Official | Apollo 12 lunar surface photograph with long shadows cast across grey regolith and a glowing bright area near the horizon. A yellow callout box in the upper left magnifies a faint white point in the dark sky. |
| NASA-UAP-VM005 | 1969 | NASA | Image | — | Official | Apollo 12 lunar image annotated with five yellow callout boxes labelled Area 1 through Area 5, each magnifying a faint mark in the dark sky. The largest inset shows an elongated fuzzy white blob. Below, the grey lunar surface shows rocks an… |
| NASA-UAP-D022 | June 3-6, 1966 | NASA | Document | 78/78 | Official | This is a NASA Headquarters file of the Manned Flight Experiments Office (Dr. Jocelyn R. Gill; Director Willis B. Foster) on the scientific experiments of Gemini IX (June 1966, astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan). Its core is the… |
| NASA-UAP-D016 | 6/9/65 | NASA | Document | 333/340 | Official | NASA-UAP-D016 is a 340-page "Preliminary GT-4 Flight Crew Debriefing Transcript, Part I," prepared by the Spacecraft Operations Branch, Flight Crew Support Division, dated June 16, 1965, documenting the raw, verbatim, speaker-attributed pos… |
| NASA-UAP-D017 | 6/9/65 | NASA | Document | 286/290 | Official | This is the complete Part II of the preliminary crew debriefing transcript for Gemini 4 (GT-4), prepared by NASA's Spacecraft Operations Branch, Flight Crew Support Division, dated June 18, 1965, from a debrief conducted aboard the recovery… |
| NASA-UAP-D018 | June 3-7, 1965 | NASA | Document | 182/224 | Official | This 224-page NASA file on the Gemini 4 (GT-4) mission bundles several kinds of material. The first part is the Mission Operation Report M-913-65-04 (24 May 1965) with a June 1965 memorandum on added flight activities: an extravehicular act… |
| NASA-UAP-D019 | August 2 - September 2, 1965 | NASA | Document | 219/223 | Official | Preliminary technical debriefing transcript, Part I, of the Gemini 5 (GT-5) crew — Command Pilot L. Gordon Cooper and Pilot Charles 'Pete' Conrad — recorded August 30-September 1, 1965 at Cape Kennedy following their eight-day, 120-orbit mi… |
| NASA-UAP-D020 | August 30 - September 2, 1965 | NASA | Document | 323/325 | Official | This is the complete Part II of the preliminary Gemini 5 (GT-5) technical debriefing transcript, prepared by NASA's Spacecraft Operations Branch, Flight Crew Support Division, dated September 2, 1965, from a debrief conducted August 30-Sept… |
| NASA-UAP-D021 | December 19-21, 1965 | NASA | Document | 217/222 | Official | Full preliminary transcript (222 pages) of the Gemini 7 (GT-7) technical debriefing of Command Pilot Frank Borman and Pilot Jim Lovell, conducted December 19-21, 1965 at Crew Quarters, Cape Kennedy, following their 14-day mission, which als… |
| NASA-UAP-D003 | 12/5/65 | NASA | Document | 4/4 | Official | NASA Gemini VII/VI flight transcript excerpt (Tape T-00763, 1965), introduced by a Public Affairs Officer (P.A.O.) as containing 'references to sighting not only some particles but as well as an unidentified object plus the booster'. Comman… |
| NASA-UAP-D003A | 12/5/65 | NASA | Audio | — | Official | This recording is a NASA Public Affairs replay of air-to-ground audio from the Gemini 7 mission, played back for the press after a mechanical/line failure delayed the original tape. Roughly 4 hours 24 minutes into the flight, near Antigua,… |
| 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… |
| DOS-UAP-D001 | 11/14/63 | Department of State | Document | 1/1 | Mentioned | An unclassified U.S. Department of State incoming telegram, sent November 14, 1963 from the Embassy in Rio de Janeiro to the Secretary of State and to the American Consulate in Salvador (Salvador 94, Dept 1054), from Science Attaché Simonpi… |
| NASA-UAP-D010 | 5/15/63 | NASA | Audio | — | Official | This short air-to-ground audio excerpt captures Mercury-Atlas 9 (Faith 7) Pilot L. Gordon Cooper Jr., roughly one hour and 21 minutes into the final and longest Project Mercury flight, describing what he calls "John's fireflies" — a referen… |
| NASA-UAP-D011 | 5/15/63 | NASA | Audio | — | Official | This Mercury-Atlas 9 (Faith 7) air-to-ground audio excerpt begins with Pilot L. Gordon Cooper Jr. narrating orbital sunrise — the brilliant blue band of light beneath the atmospheric haze layer as seen from orbit — and reporting small, lumi… |
| 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… |
| NASA-UAP-D015 | 1962-1963 | NASA | Document | 213/216 | Official | NASA-UAP-D015 is a 216-page 1962-1963 NASA compilation of verbatim scientific debriefings and internal technical analyses following the visual observations reported by Mercury-program astronauts, rather than a single UAP encounter. It cover… |
| NASA-UAP-D023 | November, 1962 | NASA | Audio | — | Official | This is an excerpt from a November 1962 television interview in which journalist Walter Cronkite questions Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper about unidentified flying objects. Cronkite notes Cooper's previously expressed interest in the topic… |
| NASA-UAP-D012 | 10/3/62 | NASA | Audio | — | Official | This is an in-flight audio excerpt from Mercury-Atlas 8 (Sigma 7), recorded October 3, 1962. The single speaker is pilot Walter M. "Wally" Schirra Jr., transmitting observations during orbital flight as the spacecraft approaches sunset. Sch… |
| NASA-UAP-D013 | 5/24/62 | NASA | Audio | — | Official | This is an in-flight audio excerpt from Mercury-Atlas 7 (Aurora 7), recorded May 24, 1962, capturing radio communication between pilot Scott Carpenter and ground control (CapCom) during the mission's second orbital pass. Carpenter reports n… |
| NASA-UAP-D014 | 7/21/61 | NASA | Audio | — | Official | This very brief audio excerpt comes from the recovery operation for Mercury-Redstone 4 (Liberty Bell 7), the second crewed Mercury flight, recorded July 21, 1961. The single line captured is a recovery-team radio transmission discussing an… |
| NASA-UAP-D024 | No date | NASA | Audio | — | Official | This is a roughly 96-minute scientific debriefing shortly after Apollo 16 (April 1972), where principal investigators present preliminary experiment results to crew members John Young (CDR), Charlie Duke (LMP), and Ken Mattingly (CMP), part… |
| NASA-UAP-D025 | No date | NASA | Audio | — | Official | This recording is a NASA post-mission scientific debriefing following the Apollo 16 mission, in which mission scientists present preliminary results to program officials and the returning flight crew. Speakers cover orbital photography cove… |
| COMETA report: UFOs and Defense (1999) | No date | NASA | Document | 92/94 | Official | This 94-page file is a copy of the English translation of the 1999 French COMETA report "UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?", an independent, private report by a committee of former auditors of France's Institute for Advanced Nat… |
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