1960s: declassified UAP incidents — timeline.
32 UAP cases
The 1960s account for 32 UAP cases in this archive — 19 documents, 5 images, and 8 audio recordings — released by CIA, Department of State, Department of War, and 2 more agencies under the PURSUE program. Reported locations from the decade include Low Earth Orbit, Moon, and North Atlantic Ocean, among others; some incidents carry no usable location and are excluded from the map. Every year below links to the cases reported in it, and years with enough declassified material get their own dedicated timeline page, linked from the heading. Use the interactive map to see where these incidents cluster, or the knowledge graph to follow a witness, mission or aircraft type across the rest of the archive.
1969 — 8 UAP cases
NASA-UAP-D008, Apollo 12 Medical Debriefing - Tape 12, 1969
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, Apollo 12 Transcript, 1969
This is a NASA air-to-ground transcript excerpt from the Apollo 12 mission (November 1969), covering communications between the Command Module Pilot (CMP, Richard Gordon in Yankee Clipper), the Commander/LM Pilot in the Lunar Module Intrepi
NASA-UAP-D004, Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing, 1969
This is an 11-page NASA document titled as an Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing (1969), part of the NASA UAP declassification release. The PDF consists entirely of scanned page images with no embedded OCR/text layer, so no machine-readabl
NASA-UAP-VM001, Apollo 12, 1969
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, Apollo 12, 1969
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, Apollo 12, 1969
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, Apollo 12, 1969
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, Apollo 12, 1969
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
1968 — 1 UAP case
CIA-UAP-016, Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects in Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan
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
1967 — 2 UAP cases
DOW-UAP-D092, Department of the Air Force Committee to Review Project Bluebook, 1966-1967
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, Report on Conversations with Soviet Scientists on Subject of Unidentified Flying Objects in the USSR
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
1966 — 1 UAP case
NASA-UAP-D022, Gemini 9 Debriefing, 1966
This document is an administrative case file (not a crew debriefing transcript) documenting the science/experiments side of the Gemini 9-A mission (June 1966, astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan), assembled by NASA's Manned Flight
1965 — 9 UAP cases
CIA-UAP-D022, Unidentified Flying Object Reported near Puerto Rico, 1965
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,
NASA-UAP-D016, Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965
NASA-UAP-D016 is a large (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 post-flight debriefing of
NASA-UAP-D017, Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965
This is 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. It records astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White dis
NASA-UAP-D018, Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967
This document bundles several NASA Gemini 4 (GT-4) planning and post-flight materials: a May-June 1965 Mission Operation Report (No. M-913-65-04) describing mission objectives, the added EVA/rendezvous flight plan, the new G4C spacesuit, cr
NASA-UAP-D019, Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965
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 mission. Prep
NASA-UAP-D020, Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965
Part II of the preliminary Gemini 5 (GT-5) technical debriefing transcript, prepared by NASA's Spacecraft Operations Branch, Flight Crew Support Division, September 2, 1965, covering Command Pilot Gordon Cooper and Pilot Pete Conrad's post-
NASA-UAP-D021, Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965
Preliminary technical debriefing transcript of the Gemini 7 (GT-7) crew — Command Pilot Frank Borman and Pilot Jim Lovell — recorded December 19-21, 1965 at Crew Quarters, Cape Kennedy, following their record 14-day mission (rendezvous targ
NASA-UAP-D003, Gemini 7 Transcript, 1965
Gemini 7 was the tenth crewed American spaceflight. This document is a transcript of communications between the flight crew, Astronauts James “Jim” Lovell and Frank Borman, and the Manned Flight Center (now known as Johnson Space Center) in
NASA-UAP-D003A, Gemini 7 Audio Excerpt, 1965
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,
1963 — 6 UAP cases
DOS-UAP-D001, Diplomatic Cable, Brazil, November 14, 1963
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 repeated to the American Consulate in Salvador (designated Salvador 94, Rio 1054), signed by
DOS-UAP-D002, Diplomatic Cable, Brazil, November 20, 1963
This unclassified U.S. Department of State airgram (A-628), sent November 20, 1963, from the Embassy in Rio de Janeiro to the Department of State with an information copy to the Consulate in Salvador, reports on an inquiry into a UFO report
EOP-UAP-D001, NASC Inquiry into Bahia, Brazil Incident, November 13, 1963
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
NASA-UAP-D010, Mercury Atlas 9 Audio Excerpt, May 15, 1963
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, Mercury Atlas 9 Audio Excerpt, May 15, 1963
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
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A 6-page "Official Use Only" memorandum dated 18 July 1963 from the Executive Office of the President, National Aeronautics and Space Council, addressed to Mr. Robert F. Packard of the Office of International Scientific Affairs, State Depar
1962 — 4 UAP cases
NASA-UAP-D015, Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963
NASA-UAP-D015 is a large (216-page) 1962-1963 NASA compilation of scientific debriefing memoranda and technical analyses following early Mercury program astronaut flights (this excerpt covers pages 1-60). Rather than describing a single UAP
NASA-UAP-D023, Interview Excerpt with Astronaut Gordon Cooper, 1962
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, Mercury Atlas 8 Audio Excerpt, October 3, 1962
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, Mercury Atlas 7, May 24, 1962
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
1961 — 1 UAP case
NASA-UAP-D014, Mercury-Redstone 4, July 21, 1961
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