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...
In the early years of the Cold War, as the U.S. focused on atomic weapons and espionage threats, it also began logging something far less explainable: unidentified flying objects. While the public saw flying saucers as science fiction, military and intelligence...