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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 IDDateAgencyTypePages readExcerpt
DOW-UAP-D080October, 2023Department of WarDocument8/8DOW-UAP-D080 is an UNCLASSIFIED memorandum for record from the Office of the Under Secretary of War, Intelligence and Security, dated 02 June 2026, presenting the verbatim first-hand narrative of "Witness 2" (partner of Witness 1 in some in…
DOW-UAP-D03310/27/23Department of WarDocument7/7Declassified USCENTCOM Mission Report (MDR 26-0019), 33rd Special Operations Squadron / 27 SOW, documenting a 13-hour-30-minute ISR sortie flown 26-27 October 2023 from Larissa Air Base (LGLR), Greece, transiting to and landing at a base in…
DOW-UAP-D03510/29/23Department of WarDocument7/7Declassified USCENTCOM Mission Report (MDR 26-0019), 33rd Special Operations Squadron / 27 SOW, documenting a 20-hour-1-minute ISR/armed-overwatch sortie flown 28-29 October 2023 from Larissa Air Base (LGLR), Greece. The aircraft (likely an…
DOW-UAP-D0385/14/20Department of WarDocument1/1Declassified 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, coordinates approxim…
DOW-UAP-D04410/15/20Department of WarDocument1/1Declassified 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-017July, 2008CIADocument3/3CIA-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-0161968CIADocument6/6CIA-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…
65-hs1-101634279-100-de-18221-serial-8444/17/58FBIDocument1/1A single-page FBI Office Memorandum dated 17 April 1958, from SA Robert Ross Reynolds to SAC, Detroit (file 100-DE-18221, serial 844). It records that a caller, Weaver, of Detroit, Michigan, telephoned the FBI office at 4:08 that day report…
65-hs1-101634279-100-de-2650511/7/57FBIDocument15/15A 15-page FBI file (Detroit field office, file 100-26505, "Flying Objects; IS-X," late 1957-1966) documenting an interview with Wladyslaw (aka Walter) Krasuski, a Polish immigrant in Detroit. Krasuski had written to Robert Cutler, Special A…
CIA-UAP-D0211955CIADocument4/4This 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-014December, 1952CIADocument2/2CIA-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…
59-64634-711-5612-7-28527/28/52Department of StateDocument2/2A 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…
DOW-UAP-D0981950, 1952Department of WarDocument20/23A 23-page "Confidential — Security Information" report, later declassified (stamped "DECLASSIFIED MVD 67905"), of which 20 pages are legible; the rest are charts, graphs, and photographic plots that resisted OCR, including three blank or to…
CIA-UAP-0051950CIADocument1/4This 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…
DOE-UAP-D0043/22/49Department of EnergyDocument25/25This 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-D0944/28/49Department of WarDocument34/34This 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-D09312/10/48Department of WarDocument47/67This is a declassified 10 December 1948 U.S. Air Force study, "Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the United States" (Study No. 203), produced by the Air Intelligence Division under Project Sign. It analyzes approximately 240 reported s…
DOW-UAP-D0171948-1950Department of WarDocument115/116This 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…
18-6369445-general-1948-vol-16/15/48Department of WarDocument7/28This file contains memorandums, correspondence, and forms related to the reporting of information on flying discs and investigations into sightings.
DOW-UAP-D1001947-1948Department of WarDocument239/245A 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…
18-100754-general-1946-7-vol-212/30/47Department of WarDocument5/28This file contains memorandums and correspondence related to flying disc/saucer sightings and that those are a matter of concern for the Air Materiel Command.
CIA-UAP-015No dateCIADocument312/312CIA-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…
DOW-UAP-D086No dateDepartment of WarDocument1/3This 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…
255-413270-ufo-s-and-defense-what-should-we-prepare-forNo dateNASADocument1-94 of 94This file is the English translation of the well-known 1999 French 'COMETA Report' ('UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?'), produced by COMETA (an association of retired French generals, engineers, and defense/space officials) dra…
38-143685-box-incident-summaries-101-172N/ADepartment of WarDocument162/178A 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 (Serial 96257, Authority NND 917033), covering numbered inc…
38-143685-box-incident-summaries-173-233N/ADepartment of WarDocument141/144Continuation of the Box 7 Air Force "Incident Summary Sheet" / Check-List UFO case files (Authority NND 917033), covering numbered incidents roughly #173-200, mostly from October 1948. Many forms are severely OCR-garbled, but several narrat…
38-143685-box7-incident-summaries-1-100N/ADepartment of WarDocument186/209Earliest set of Box 7 "Check-List — Unidentified Flying Objects" case files (Authority NND 917033), dated from July 1947 through late 1947/1948, the classic early wave of U.S. "flying disc" reports following the Kenneth Arnold sighting. Mos…
65-hs1-834228961-62-hq-83894-section-001N/AFBIDocument126/185The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying discs documented between June 1947 and July 1968. The records include high-profile…
65-hs1-834228961-62-hq-83894-section-004N/AFBIDocument214/214Section 4 of the FBI Headquarters "Flying Saucers" file (62-HQ-83894), covering serials 131-185, roughly September 1947 through October 1948. Contains the Portland, Oregon police sighting of 11 September 1947: multiple officers (Robert Adai…
65-hs1-834228961-62-hq-83894-section-005N/AFBIDocument159/209Section 5 of the FBI Headquarters "Flying Saucers" file (62-HQ-83894), covering July 1949-March 1950. Key threads: (1) A widely-publicized letter from Peter Camerlon Jones (Los Angeles) to columnist Walter Winchell describing an August 1947…
65-hs1-834228961-62-hq-83894-section-006N/AFBIDocument211/271Section 6 of the FBI Headquarters "Flying Saucers" file (62-HQ-83894), covering serials 246-301, August-October 1950. Centers on "Project Twinkle" and the New Mexico "green fireball" phenomenon. An FBI summary memo (A.H. Belmont to D.M. Lad…
65-hs1-834228961-62-hq-83894-section-007N/AFBIDocument167/205Section 7 of the FBI Headquarters "Flying Saucers" file (62-HQ-83894), covering August-September 1952, the peak of the great 1952 U.S. flying saucer flap (including the Washington D.C. radar/visual sightings). Notable contents: (1) An AEC S…
65-hs1-834228961-62-hq-83894-section-008N/AFBIDocument217/217Section 8 of the FBI Headquarters "Flying Saucers" file (62-HQ-83894), covering serials 344-384, summer-fall 1954 — the period of the international "contactee" movement. Two major threads: (1) Truman Bethurum / George Hunt Williamson / Soul…
65-hs1-834228961-62-hq-83894-section-009N/AFBIDocument223/290Section 9 of the FBI Headquarters "Flying Saucers" file (62-HQ-83894), covering serials in the 400s+, November 1957-January 1958 — the post-Sputnik UFO flap. Key items: (1) A Havana Legal Attaché report (20 Nov 1957) relaying a Cuban newspa…
65-hs1-834228961-62-hq-83894-serial-130N/AFBIDocument118/126A standalone FBI/Air Defense Command file (serial 130 of the 62-HQ-83894 master file) containing two related 1947 investigative threads. (1) Headquarters Air Defense Command (Mitchel Field, NY) intelligence reports (12 and 15 September 1947…
65-hs1-834228961-62-hq-83894-serial-153N/AFBIDocument3/9FBI Central Records Center document, Knoxville File #65-11, filed under FBI Headquarters Case 62-HQ-83894, Serial 153, Section Internal Security - X, concerning reports of "flying saucers" observed over the Oak Ridge, Tennessee area in July…
65-hs1-834228961-62-hq-83894-serial-164N/AFBIDocument137/137FBI Central Records Center file (Case 62-HQ-83894, Serial 164) reproducing the U.S. Air Force Directorate of Intelligence's 'Air Intelligence Requirements Memorandum Number 4: Unconventional Aircraft,' dated 15 February 1949, Washington D.C…
65-hs1-834228961-62-hq-83894-serial-220N/AFBIDocument15/15FBI Central Records Center file, Case 62-HQ-83894, Serial 220, a 15-page item consisting of two translated pieces from Mexico dated around March 1950. The first is a letter from Miguel Angel Garcia Macias of Veracruz, Mexico -- who describe…
65-hs1-834228961-62-hq-83894-serial-403N/AFBIDocument3/3FBI Central Records Center file, Case 62-HQ-83894, Serial 403, a 3-page item consisting of the FBI's copy of the dust-jacket promotional text for Gray Barker's 1956 book "They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers" (University Books, Inc., $3.…
65-hs1-834228961-62-hq-83894-serial-449N/AFBIDocument18/18FBI Los Angeles Field Office memorandum to the Director, dated 10/3/1966 (Los Angeles Case 100-24442, Serial 449), forwarding Issue No. 24 (July 1966) of "Flying Saucers International," the official journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer…
65-hs1-834228961-62-hq-83894-sub-aN/AFBIDocument123/124This is FBI Central Records file 62-HQ-83894, Sub-File A: a large scrapbook-style compilation (124 total pages, 60 captured) of newspaper and wire-service clippings about flying saucers/UFOs gathered by the Bureau from the mid-1950s through…
DOW-UAP-D008N/ADepartment of WarDocument7/7U.S. Department of War UAP Mission Report, document D-8, filed for a 2025 mission in the Djibouti/Horn of Africa area, classified SECRET//REL TO USA, FIN, SWE, FVEY, NATO (a notably broad release list including NATO and Nordic partners, sug…

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