CIA Logs UFO Sighting Over Budapest During Cold War Tensions
A short but officially recorded CIA memo, titled "UNKNOWN FLYING OBJECTS OBSERVED OVER BUDAPEST" and catalogued as DOC_0000015281, documents a Cold War-era UFO sighting in the Hungarian capital. While the memo itself contains no descriptive detail beyond the...
CIA Briefing Reveals U.S. Strategy for Handling UFO Reports
A declassified CIA memo titled CURRENT STATUS OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFOB) PROJECT, filed under DOC_0000015365, provides a rare internal snapshot of how the U.S. Air Force was managing growing concern over unidentified aerial sightings by the mid-1950s. The...
CIA Memo Records UAP Sightings Tied to ‘Scientific Activity’
A declassified CIA entry titled "REPORT OF UNUSUAL FLYING OBJECT SIGHTINGS AND ATTENDANT SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY", catalogued as DOC_0000015279, adds a rare dimension to early Cold War UFO records: a link between aerial anomalies and nearby scientific operations. Though...
Declassified CIA Memo Outlines Who Handles UFO Intelligence
A declassified document titled "INTELLIGENCE RESPONSIBILITIES FOR NON-CONVENTIONAL TYPES OF AIR VEHICLES," catalogued as DOC_0000015367, outlines the formal structure the U.S. intelligence community used to determine how information about unidentified aerial...
CIA Logs Unconventional Flying Object Near Baku Azerbaijan
A declassified CIA document, catalogued as DOC_0000015386, records the tabulated transmission of an "unconventional flying object" sighted near Baku, the capital of Soviet Azerbaijan. Though the document contains only a title-"TRANSMITTAL OF TABULATION ON...
