The 1953 Shakhty Sighting: An Unknown Craft Over Soviet Skies
In the summer of 1953, Soviet officials in the city of Shakhty-located in the Rostov Oblast near the Ukrainian border-reported seeing unidentified flying objects in the night sky. The CIA intercepted and translated the report, filing it as part of its broader...
Soviet Pilots Reported Impossible Flying Objects Over Stalingrad in 1954
In the spring of 1954, Soviet fighter pilots stationed near Stalingrad witnessed something they could not explain: fast-moving aerial objects flying at extreme altitude and speeds beyond the known capabilities of any aircraft in the USSR or the West. The report was...
Inside the NSA’s UFO/UAP Intelligence Vault
In a sealed courtroom in 1980, Eugene F. Yeates-then Chief of Policy at the NSA-filed a classified affidavit defending why the Agency refused to release 156 documents related to unidentified flying objects. The lawsuit, brought by Citizens Against Unidentified Flying...
EXCLUSIVE: MKULTRA Was Bigger Than Anyone Thought
In the summer of 1977, a joint Senate hearing on intelligence and health research cracked open one of the CIA’s most infamous black programs: MKULTRA. The revelations were worse than anticipated. Not only had the CIA secretly administered LSD to U.S. citizens without...
