1970s: declassified UAP incidents — timeline.
17 UAP cases
The 1970s account for 17 UAP cases in this archive — 11 documents, 1 image, and 5 audio recordings — released by CIA, Department of Energy, FBI, and 1 more agency under the PURSUE program. Reported locations from the decade include Texas, USSR, and Moon, 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.
1976 — 1 UAP case
UFO files: CIA report on Aeroflot crew fatigue, 1976
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, country USSR, subject 'Combating Fatigue in Crewmembe
1974 — 1 UAP case
FBI correspondence on UFO sightings, 1967-1974
This 5-page FBI file contains two unrelated pieces of UFO-related correspondence handled by the FBI's Chicago field office, spanning 1967-1974. The first item is a 22 September 1967 memorandum from Special Agent Leonard Trevirianus document
1973 — 5 UAP cases
Sary Shagan test range and UFO phenomena, CIA, 1973
CIA-UAP-011 is a CIA Intelligence Information Report, "The Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range" (USSR, period of information November 1972 to November 1973, acquired in Germany from a former Soviet citizen). It is marked as an information rep
UFO file: CIA report on USSR, Sary Shagan range, 1973
A declassified CIA Intelligence Information Report (Report No. FIRK-311/01638-77, DOI November 1972-November 1973, distributed December 1977) based on debriefing of a former Soviet citizen source regarding the Sary Shagan weapons testing ra
UFO Files: Apollo 17 Crew Debriefing for Science, 1973
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
UFO Files: Apollo 17 Technical Crew Debriefing, 1973
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
UFO Files: Skylab Technical Crew Debriefings, 1973
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
1972 — 6 UAP cases
UFO files: Apollo 17 medical debriefing, audio 1/2
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
UFO files: Apollo 17 medical debriefing, audio 2/2
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 '
UFO files: CIA report on Kardashev-Sakharov paper, 1972
This is a 2-page CIA Directorate of Intelligence Information Report (no. 00-B-321/07707-72, distributed 10 April 1972), marked as unevaluated information. Its source is a U.S. citizen, and the report consists of edited abstracts of a letter
UFO audio: Apollo 17 crew sees bright particles, 1972
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
UFO Files: NASA Apollo 17 Air-to-Ground Transcript, 1972
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
UFO Photo from Apollo 17: Three Dots in Lunar Sky, 1972
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.
1971 — 3 UAP cases
UFO files: Apollo 14 crew debriefing, audio 1/2
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
UFO files: Apollo 14 crew debriefing, audio 2/2
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
Australian Defence paper on UFOs and Blue Book, 1971
CIA-UAP-019 is a 19-page Australian Department of Defence, Joint Intelligence Organization minute paper (reference 3092/2) titled "Scientific and Intelligence Aspects of the UFO Problem", with a covering note signed by O.H. Turner, Hd. Nucl
1970 — 1 UAP case
UFO letters to Los Alamos physicist James Tuck, 1970s
A four-page file of correspondence. Pages 1-2 are a reply to a "Mr. Tuck" (handwritten "BL 11-23-70"): the writer, whose signature is redacted, cannot fill out an attached form because times and dates escape them, but recalls that between 1