The Central Intelligence Agency comes up again and again in these cases. Usually it appears in the debate afterwards. Kaikōura, 1978. A CIA memo called the sightings unique among civilian UFO reports. Alaska, 1986. After the Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 encounter, FAA official John Callahan said that a CIA officer at a later briefing declared the event never happened. That claim has not been independently confirmed. Over the Milton Torres intercept of 1957, David Clarke pointed to CIA radar jamming work that could create phantom targets. In 2026, Representative Eric Burlison asked the CIA to account for any records on the Varginha Incident.
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