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42 declassified cases mention this, always in the body of the document rather than as an official record field. Documented incidents span 1947 to 2023.
6 agencies are involved: CIA, Department of Energy, Department of State, Department of War, FBI, and NASA. The case files here include documents. 8 cases carry visible redactions.
Cases
| File ID | Date | Agency | Type | Pages read | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOW-UAP-D080 | October, 2023 | Department of War | Document | 8/8 | DOW-UAP-D080 is an UNCLASSIFIED memorandum for record from the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Intelligence and Security, dated 02 June 2026, presenting the first-hand narrative of 'Witness 2' to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution O… |
| DOW-UAP-D033 | 10/27/23 | Department of War | Document | 7/7 | This is a USCENTCOM mission report (MISREP 9329374, MDR 26-0019), originated by the 33 SOS (27 SOW) and declassified on 22 January 2026 by Maj. Gen. Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, and approved for release to AARO. It covers… |
| DOW-UAP-D035 | 10/29/23 | Department of War | Document | 7/7 | Declassified USCENTCOM mission report (MISREP 9337873, MDR 26-0019) from the 33rd Special Operations Squadron / 27th Special Operations Wing, documenting an ISR mission flown 28-29 October 2023 from LGLR, Greece, with takeoff at 1504Z and l… |
| DOW-UAP-D038 | 5/14/20 | Department of War | Document | 1/1 | Declassified single-page 'Range Fouler Debrief Form' (a standardized SPEAR/Navy-style UAP reporting questionnaire), submitted for an encounter on 14 May 2020 at 2040Z (night) in the Middle East (working area code 28314; the form's latitude… |
| DOW-UAP-D044 | 10/15/20 | Department of War | Document | 1/1 | Declassified single-page 'Range Fouler Reporting Form,' a standardized SPEAR UAP reporting questionnaire submitted by an aircrew member (rank O-2, 'Other' crew position) of the 172nd Attack Squadron (172 ATKS). The encounter occurred on 15… |
| CIA-UAP-017 | July, 2008 | CIA | Document | 3/3 | 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-016 | 1968 | CIA | Document | 5/6 | 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… |
| FBI memo: UFO with a crystal dome, Detroit, 1958 | 4/17/58 | FBI | Document | 1/1 | A single-page FBI Office Memorandum dated 17 April 1958, from SA Robert Ross Reynolds to the SAC, Detroit (file 100-DE-18221, serial 844), headed "Unidentified Flying Objects". It records that David Weaver of Detroit, Michigan, telephoned t… |
| FBI interview on a 1944 UFO in Germany, Detroit, 1957 | 11/7/57 | FBI | Document | 14/15 | A 15-page FBI Detroit file (100-26505, "Unidentified Flying Objects; IS-X", 1957 with a 1966 addition). On 6 November 1957 the Director sent an urgent teletype to the SAC, Detroit: Wladyslaw Krasuski of 5457 Jos. Campau, Detroit, had writte… |
| CIA-UAP-D021 | 1955 | CIA | Document | 3/4 | 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-014 | December, 1952 | CIA | Document | 2/2 | 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 | 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… |
| DOW-UAP-D098 | 1950, 1952 | Department of War | Document | 9/23 | This 23-page document (stamped "DECLASSIFIED Authority: NND 67905") has a Bureau of Aeronautics route sheet (pages 1-2, received stamp 14 May 1953), a seven-page progress report dated 4 May 1953 (pages 3-9) and enclosure charts and graphs (… |
| CIA-UAP-005 | 1950 | CIA | Document | 4/4 | 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… |
| DOE-UAP-D004 | 3/22/49 | Department of Energy | Document | 25/25 | This document is a declassified transcript of a March 1949 U.S. Atomic Energy Commission memorandum forwarding minutes of a conference on "Aerial Phenomena" held 16 February 1949 at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. Convened amid a wave of… |
| DOW-UAP-D094 | 4/28/49 | Department of War | Document | 26/34 | This is Air Intelligence Report No. 100-203-79 / Air Intelligence Division Study No. 203, titled "Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S.," dated 10 December 1948 and jointly issued by the Directorate of Intelligence, Headquarters U… |
| DOW-UAP-D093 | 12/10/48 | Department of War | Document | 40/67 | Study No. 203, "Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the United States," dated 10 December 1948, was prepared by the Air Intelligence Division (DI/USAF-ONI) and later declassified. It examines reported "flying saucer" sightings to judge w… |
| DOW-UAP-D017 | 1948-1950 | Department of War | Document | 100/116 | This is a substantial (116-page) collection of official 1948-1950 U.S. Air Force correspondence and reports concerning the famous 'green fireball' phenomena observed in the New Mexico area near Los Alamos, Sandia Base, and Kirtland Air Forc… |
| Project Sign UFO file: Flying Discs, 1948 | 6/15/48 | Department of War | Document | 28/28 | This 28-page file collects Air Force "Flying Discs" correspondence from February to June 1948, with a few earlier items, and several index forms name it "Project SIGN". A disposition form dated 27 February 1948 states that it is Air Force p… |
| DOW-UAP-D100 | 1947-1948 | Department of War | Document | 236/245 | 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… |
| UFO Flying Discs file: Twining letter, 1947 | 12/30/47 | Department of War | Document | 28/28 | This 28-page file collects Army Air Forces and Air Materiel Command (AMC) correspondence on "Flying Discs" from August to December 1947. Its core is the 23 September 1947 letter from Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining, commanding AMC, to Army Air F… |
| CIA-UAP-015 | No date | CIA | Document | 296/312 | 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… |
| DOW-UAP-D086 | No date | Department of War | Document | 2/3 | 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 Operations. The memorandum requests that naval stations report incidents to the nearest… |
| COMETA report: UFOs and Defense (1999) | No date | NASA | Document | 92/94 | 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… |
| UFO incident summaries 101-172, Air Force, late 1940s | N/A | Department of War | Document | 158/178 | A batch of standardized Air Force "Incident Summary Sheet" and "Check-List — Unidentified Flying Objects" forms (Project Blue Book-style intake documents) from the Box 7 case files (Exhibit #530, Authority NND 917033), covering numbered inc… |
| UFO incident summaries 173-233, Air Force, 1948 | N/A | Department of War | Document | 142/144 | Continuation of the Box 7 Air Force "Incident Summary Sheet" / Check-List UFO case files (Authority NND 917033), covering numbered incidents roughly #173-233, mostly from September-November 1948. Many forms are severely OCR-garbled, but sev… |
| UFO incident summaries 1-100, Air Force, 1947-1948 | N/A | Department of War | Document | 183/209 | Earliest set of Box 7 "Check-List — Unidentified Flying Objects" case files (Authority NND 917033), dated from late June 1947 through 7 January 1948, the classic early wave of U.S. "flying disc" reports following the Kenneth Arnold sighting… |
| FBI Flying Discs UFO file, Part 1 (1947) | N/A | FBI | Document | 129/185 | Section 1 (serials 1-52) of the FBI Headquarters "Flying Discs" file 62-HQ-83894, covering early July to early August 1947; many pages are blank backs or stamped enclosures. Press coverage of the first national wave (36 to 39 states, Army a… |
| FBI Flying Discs UFO file, Part 4 (1947-1949) | N/A | FBI | Document | 149/214 | Section 4 of file 62-HQ-83894 covers October 1947 to July 1949 and shows the FBI settling into a policy of not investigating flying discs. It includes reports from Portland (a sighting of 11 September 1947) and Anchorage (a pilot's near-col… |
| FBI Flying Discs UFO file, Part 5 (1949-1950) | N/A | FBI | Document | 139/209 | Section 5 of file 62-HQ-83894 covers July 1949 to September 1950; the FBI keeps passing sightings to Air Force OSI and answers citizens with standard replies. In July 1949 Ernest Cuneo, linked to columnist Walter Winchell, relayed a letter… |
| FBI Flying Discs UFO file, Part 6 (1950-1952) | N/A | FBI | Document | 207/271 | Section 6 of file 62-HQ-83894 covers August 1950 to August 1952. It opens with an FBI memo of 23 August 1950 on about 150 aerial phenomena recorded near sensitive New Mexico sites since 1948, chiefly green fireballs and discs. Dr. Lincoln L… |
| FBI Flying Discs UFO file, Part 7 (1952-1954) | N/A | FBI | Document | 152/205 | Section 7 of the FBI Headquarters flying saucer file (62-HQ-83894) runs from August 1952 to June 1954, from the peak of the 1952 saucer wave into the contactee era. It opens with an urgent teletype from Savannah (9 Aug 1952): the Atomic Ene… |
| FBI Flying Discs UFO file, Part 8 (1954-1957) | N/A | FBI | Document | 152/217 | Section 8 of the FBI Headquarters flying saucer file (62-HQ-83894) runs from July 1954 to November 1957 and shows the Bureau treating saucers as a matter for the Air Force rather than for itself. The first part concerns the contactee circui… |
| FBI Flying Discs UFO file, Part 9 (1957-1966) | N/A | FBI | Document | 197/290 | Section 9 of the FBI Headquarters flying saucer file (62-HQ-83894) spans November 1957 to July 1966 and documents the Bureau's settled policy of not investigating sightings and forwarding them to the Air Force. The early pages follow the po… |
| FBI Flying Discs UFO file, Serial 130 (1947) | N/A | FBI | Document | 121/126 | Serial 130 of the FBI master file 62-HQ-83894 is a 126-page set of Army Air Forces and Air Defense Command intelligence reports on "flying disc" sightings, mostly from June to August 1947. It opens with two Air Defense Command reports (12 a… |
| FBI UFO file: Oak Ridge flying saucer photos, 1947 | N/A | FBI | Document | 2/9 | FBI Central Records Center file 62-HQ-83894, Serial 153, a 9-page item. Its only typed text is a cover note headed "Knoxville File #65-11 RE: 'Flying Saucers' observed over Oak Ridge area, Internal Security - X", listing the enclosures sent… |
| FBI UFO file: USAF Unconventional Aircraft memo, 1949 | N/A | FBI | Document | 119/137 | Serial 164 of FBI file 62-HQ-83894 is an enclosure-behind-file envelope holding 17 copies of Air Intelligence Requirements Memorandum Number 4, "Unconventional Aircraft," issued by the USAF Directorate of Intelligence in Washington on 15 Fe… |
| FBI UFO file: letters from Mexico, Serial 220, 1950 | N/A | FBI | Document | 11/15 | FBI Central Records Center file 62-HQ-83894, Serial 220, a 15-page item of Mexican material translated for the FBI (stamped FBI New York, 7 April 1950), followed by the Spanish originals. The first piece is a letter dated Veracruz, 19 March… |
| FBI UFO file: Gray Barker book jacket, Serial 403 | N/A | FBI | Document | 2/3 | FBI Central Records Center file 62-HQ-83894, Serial 403, a 3-page item. Page 1 is the file-folder cover sheet; pages 2 and 3 carry the front and back flap text of the dust jacket of "They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers" by Gray Barker (… |
| FBI UFO file: Flying Saucers International magazine, 1966 | N/A | FBI | Document | 18/18 | FBI Los Angeles memorandum to the Director dated 10/3/66 (Los Angeles file 100-24442, Serial 449) forwarding Issue No. 24 (July 1966) of "Flying Saucers International", official journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc… |
| FBI UFO file: flying saucer press clippings, Sub A | N/A | FBI | Document | 122/124 | Sub-file A of FBI file 62-HQ-83894 is a 124-page scrapbook of newspaper clippings about flying saucers, interleaved with FBI routing slips, arranged largely in reverse chronological order. The first pages (stamped 1957-1960) carry clippings… |
| DOW-UAP-D008 | N/A | Department of War | Document | 7/7 | U.S. Department of War UAP Mission Report, document D-8, for a 2025 mission in Djibouti, classified SECRET//REL TO USA, FIN, SWE, FVEY, NATO. This 7-page report is heavily redacted under exemption 1.4(a): pages 1-6 contain only the redactio… |
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