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...
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...
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 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...