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
CIA-UAP-012, Combating Fatigue In Crewmembers
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, sourced from the USSR. Subject: "Combating Fatigue in
1974 — 1 UAP case
FBI-UAP-D014, Correspondence Relating to 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
CIA-UAP-011, The Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range
CIA-UAP-011 is a declassified CIA Intelligence Information Report titled "The Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range," covering the period November 1972 to November 1973, sourced from a Soviet citizen via a CIA field office (listed as ACO German
CIA-UAP-D001, Intelligence Information Report, USSR, 1973
A declassified CIA Intelligence Information Report (Report No. FIRK-311/01638-77, DOI November 1972-November 1973, disseminated December 1973/1977) based on debriefing of a former Soviet citizen source regarding the Sary Shagan weapons test
NASA-UAP-D005, 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
NASA-UAP-D006, Apollo 17 Technical Crew Debriefing, 1973
This is a 2-page NASA document titled as an Apollo 17 Technical Crew Debriefing (1973), part of the NASA UAP declassification release. The PDF consists of scanned page images with no embedded OCR/text layer, so no machine-readable text coul
NASA-UAP-D007, Skylab Technical Crew Debriefing 1973
Compilation of excerpts from Skylab 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4 Technical Crew Debriefings (JSC-08053, JSC-08478, JSC-08809), dated June 30 1973 through February 22 1974, prepared by the NASA Johnson Space Center Training Office. Skylab 2 crew (Conra
1972 — 6 UAP cases
NASA-UAP-D028, Apollo 17 Crew Medical Debriefing, 1972
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, Apollo 17 Crew Medical Debriefing (Continued), 1972
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 '
CIA-UAP-008, Speculative Paper By N Kardashev and A Sakharov on Charged Mass in Space at Conference on Origins Of Life, Armenia, 6-8 September 1971/Low Scientific Level Of Other Soviet Papers
This is a 2-page CIA Directorate of Intelligence report (Report No. 00-B-321/07707-72, dated 10 April 1972), consisting of edited abstracts from a letter sent by a reliable U.S. colleague who attended a Conference on the Origins of Life hel
NASA-UAP-D009, Apollo 17 Audio Excerpt, December 7, 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
NASA-UAP-D002, Apollo 17 Transcript, 1972
NASA Apollo 17 air-to-ground voice transcript (December 1972), covering translunar coast through lunar orbit. Early pages (Tape 5) describe the crew observing a debris field of bright, jagged, flake-like tumbling fragments after S-IVB separ
NASA-UAP-VM006, Apollo 17, 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
NASA-UAP-D026, Apollo 14 Debriefing, 1971
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, Apollo 14 Debriefing (Continued), 1971
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
CIA-UAP-019, Australian Dept of Defense Scientific and Intel Aspects of the UFO Problem
CIA-UAP-019 is a declassified Australian Department of Defense/Foreign Affairs assessment titled "Scientific and Intelligence Aspects of the UFO Problem," sourced from the National Archives of Australia (NAA: A1838, 3092/2/00Q). It is a 19-
1970 — 1 UAP case
DOE-UAP-D002, James Tuck Correspondence, 1970s
A short 4-page correspondence file involving physicist James L. Tuck (a Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist known for fusion/plasma research) from the 1970s, touching on UFO-adjacent scientific topics. In the first letter, Tuck writes