A declassified report titled "Sighting of Unusual Object" captures a fleeting but intense moment in Cold War-era Washington, D.C., when an unexplained object prompted immediate attention from U.S. Air Force authorities. Though the report is brief, it reflects the...
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...
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...
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 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...