A short but striking CIA report, catalogued as DOC_0000015263 and titled "FLYING OBJECT OBSERVED AT ROSTOV," documents a Cold War-era UFO sighting near the strategic Soviet city of Rostov in 1951. The memo notes that U.S. personnel stationed in the region observed an...
A declassified CIA document from the early Cold War era, catalogued as DOC_0000015382 and titled "SIGHTINGS OF FLYING SAUCERS OR UNCONVENTIONAL AIRCRAFT," reveals continued intelligence monitoring of unidentified aerial phenomena across several U.S. installations...
A declassified intelligence summary, catalogued as DOC_0000015481, compiles a series of UFO sightings reported by U.S. military personnel between 1951 and 1956. The incidents span multiple continents and involve trained observers, radar tracking, and objects...
A Cold War-era CIA memo sheds light on how seriously the Danish military regarded unidentified flying objects-well beyond what was ever publicly admitted. The document, labeled DOC_0000015472, summarizes a confidential meeting between a U.S. Embassy official and...
A newly disclosed FOIA response shows how the Pentagon struggled internally to process a request regarding the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), revealing disorganization, confusion, and evasiveness at multiple levels of the Department of...
A declassified CIA memo from the early years of the Cold War reveals how deeply the U.S. intelligence community was concerned about the growing number of unidentified flying object reports-and how quickly that concern turned from investigation to suppression. The...