The skies above U.S. airspace during the Cold War were constantly monitored-for bombers, reconnaissance flights, and missiles. But occasionally, trained personnel saw something that didn’t belong to any known category. There’s no date. No follow-up. Just the...
In a quietly compiled Air Force summary titled “Reported Photography of Unidentified Flying Objects,” government analysts reviewed dozens of civilian and military UFO photo submissions from across the United States-seeking hard evidence for the unexplained...
A newly declassified memo shows CIA analysts in the mid-20th century responding internally to a wave of public letters about unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Rather than expressing alarm, the tone is detached-almost dismissive-suggesting the agency had little...
A brief but striking intelligence document confirms that flying saucers were sighted over uranium mines in the Belgian Congo. This location was one of the most strategically critical regions of the mid-20th century. The memo, simply titled "FLYING SAUCERS OVER BELGIAN...
A declassified CIA memo dated 11 August 1952 reveals that reports of "flying saucers" were serious enough to be discussed in a formal Branch Chiefs Meeting. Far from dismissing the phenomena, agency officials expressed concern over both the volume of sightings and...
A CIA memo titled "SIGHTINGS OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS," catalogued as DOC_0000015479, compiles several short reports of UFO activity spanning Sweden, France, and North Africa. Though sparse in detail, the document shows how seriously the agency was taking even...