How a Military Investigator Forced the Air Force to Defend Its UFO Secrecy
A heavily redacted but telling document reveals how Major Donald E. Keyhoe, a former Marine Corps pilot and one of the earliest public UFO investigators, triggered an internal scramble within the U.S. Air Force over what could be said, what should be hidden, and who...
Air Force Pilots Tracked an Unexplained Craft in the Early Cold War
Long before the term "UAP" was in vogue, U.S. military pilots were encountering-and failing to identify-objects in the sky that didn’t belong to any known arsenal. This document, a quiet yet sobering Air Force intelligence summary titled "Sightings of Unidentified...
CIA Document Logs UFO Sightings from Sweden, France & North Africa
A CIA memo titled "SIGHTINGS OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS," catalogued as DOC_0000015479, compiles several short reports of UFO activity spanning Sweden, France, and North Africa. Though sparse in detail, the document shows how seriously the agency was taking even...
CIA Memo Logs Global UFO Sightings from Early 1954
A declassified CIA report titled "SIGHTINGS OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS, 19 JANUARY–15 MAY 1954", catalogued as DOC_0000015478, compiles a string of UFO sightings logged across Europe, Asia, and Africa during the first half of 1954. The memo contains no...
