CIA Memo Catalogues Reports of "Flying Saucers or Unconventional Aircraft"
A declassified CIA document from the early Cold War era, catalogued as DOC_0000015382 and titled "SIGHTINGS OF FLYING SAUCERS OR UNCONVENTIONAL AIRCRAFT," reveals continued intelligence monitoring of unidentified aerial phenomena across several U.S. installations...
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...
Quiet Correspondence Reveals Air Force Still Involved with UAP Inquiries
A fragmentary yet revealing letter from Philip Strong to physicist Thornton Page suggests that, despite the public winding down of military UFO studies, interest continued behind the scenes. This document, titled only "Untitled," is short-barely a paragraph-but it...
The CIA’s Hidden Hand in UFO Investigations During the Cold War
As sightings of unidentified flying objects surged in the early 1950s, internal concerns at the highest levels of U.S. intelligence began to take shape. A declassified summary of the Intelligence Advisory Committee’s (IAC) UFO deliberations reveals how seriously the...
