CIA Memo Logs Global UFO Sightings from Early 1954
A declassified CIA report titled "SIGHTINGS OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS, 19 JANUARY–15 MAY 1954", catalogued as DOC_0000015478, compiles a string of UFO sightings logged across Europe, Asia, and Africa during the first half of 1954. The memo contains no...
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...
Cold War CIA Memo Reveals Mounting Concerns Over UFO Sightings
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...
