A heavily redacted but telling document reveals how Major Donald E. Keyhoe, a former Marine Corps pilot and one of the earliest public UFO investigators, triggered an internal scramble within the U.S. Air Force over what could be said, what should be hidden, and who...
A short intelligence memo titled "UFOs Sighted, Photographed in Sweden; Unidentified Satellite Seen" captures a moment in 1954 when military and scientific observers in Sweden witnessed multiple unidentified flying objects, triggering not only public interest-but...
The location was removed. The witnesses were not named. But the object-fast, low-flying, and seen by multiple observers-was real enough for the CIA to file a report. In this one-page intelligence brief, titled simply "Observation of Flying Object Near [Deleted]," the...
Long before the term "UAP" was in vogue, U.S. military pilots were encountering-and failing to identify-objects in the sky that didn’t belong to any known arsenal. This document, a quiet yet sobering Air Force intelligence summary titled "Sightings of Unidentified...
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...