Sighting of an Unconventional Aircraft Filed by the CIA

Sighting of an Unconventional Aircraft Filed by the CIA

The skies above U.S. airspace during the Cold War were constantly monitored-for bombers, reconnaissance flights, and missiles. But occasionally, trained personnel saw something that didn’t belong to any known category. There’s no date. No follow-up. Just the...
CIA Memo Mentions Request for Translation of ‘Space’ Message

CIA Memo Mentions Request for Translation of ‘Space’ Message

A declassified CIA document, catalogued as DOC_0000015243, contains a brief yet intriguing entry: a request from someone named Davidson for a "verbatim translation of the ‘space’ message." While the document includes almost no surrounding context-no location, no date,...
The Russian Visitor Who Asked One Too Many Questions

The Russian Visitor Who Asked One Too Many Questions

Document 206-10001-10003, newly released in the 2025 JFK files, contains a short CIA memo from September 1962 about a Soviet national in Mexico City who raised quiet alarms by asking unusually specific questions about U.S. embassy operations. At the time, it seemed...