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This is an edited translation by the U.S. Air Force Foreign Technology Division, dated 9 September 1983, of a 1982 Chinese magazine article by Long Ruyi. It describes a huge spiral UFO seen by some 10,000,000 people across Sichuan, Yunnan and other parts of China on 24 July 1981. The article rejects the meteor theory using observatory calculations and notes witness reports of hovering. It concludes that proof of an alien source is lacking and returns to the spy plane hypothesis.
This is a Freedom of Information Act request to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, dated 23 December 1985 and logged as FOIA-85-848. The requester asks for all records of "Unusual Events" and possible security threats at the Indian Point nuclear power plant around 24 July 1984, including any violations of the plant's airspace. Two newspaper clippings are attached. One is a National Enquirer story in which security guards and police describe a huge diamond-shaped UFO over the plant. The other covers an October 1985 earthquake that the plant classified as an Unusual Event.
This is a confidential occurrence report dated 2 June 1986, sent by Brigadier José Pessoa Cavalcanti de Albuquerque, acting commander of COMDA, to the Air General Command. It records radar detections, light sightings and fighter interceptions from Santa Cruz and Anápolis air bases on the night of 19 to 20 May 1986, centred on São José dos Campos and Anápolis. The report concludes that the phenomena were solid and showed some intelligence, since they could follow observers, keep their distance and fly in formation, though not necessarily crewed.
This is a CIA STARGATE remote viewing session record, released through archive.org, dated 26 January 1988. It documents a Stage IV to V training session in which viewer GP, with interviewer ED, worked site 0243, which is identified as the Cash-Landrum object. The handwritten notes describe a black, glossy, curved flying object with a pointed end, standing inside a hangar-like structure with wheeled scaffolding, pipes and toxic gases. They also mention Edwards AFB, Vandenberg and NASA.
This FBIS report dated 22 November 1989 reviews Soviet newspaper and journal coverage of a growing number of UFO sightings across the USSR. It notes that a permanent center for UFO study was set up in Moscow. It summarizes reports on the Dalnegorsk Hill 611 crash debris, a Borisov aircraft encounter, landings in Voronezh and Perm Oblast, and an Omsk sighting. Scientists who believe the objects are extraterrestrial are set against skeptics who point to rocket launches, ball lightning and mass hysteria.
This July 1994 report from the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force (SAF/AAZ) was prepared in response to a General Accounting Office audit that Congressman Steven Schiff requested about the 1947 Roswell Incident. The report describes Air Force searches of records and interviews with people involved, including Sheridan Cavitt. It found no records of a cover-up, alien bodies or extraterrestrial materials. It concludes that the debris found near Roswell most likely came from a Project Mogul balloon that was never recovered.
The Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert was published by Headquarters United States Air Force in 1995. The Black Vault distributes this copy. It reproduces the report by Col. Richard L. Weaver and the synopsis by 1st Lt. James McAndrew, both written after a General Accounting Office inquiry requested by Representative Steven Schiff. The Air Force search found no evidence of an extraterrestrial craft or crew. It concluded that the Roswell debris most likely came from NYU Flight No. 4, a Project MOGUL balloon train.
This July 28, 1995 report by the U.S. General Accounting Office to Representative Steven H. Schiff sets out the results of a search for government records on the 1947 crash near Roswell, New Mexico. GAO found that some Roswell Army Air Field records had been destroyed without a stated authority. Only two 1947 records turned up: a 509th Bomb Group history and an FBI teletype, and both describe a radar-tracking or weather balloon. The report also notes the Air Force conclusion that the wreckage most likely came from Project MOGUL.
This 1997 study by Gerald K. Haines, National Reconnaissance Office historian, traces CIA interest in UFOs from the late 1940s to 1990 using Agency records compiled after DCI R. James Woolsey ordered a 1993 file review. It covers Air Force projects SIGN, GRUDGE and BLUE BOOK, the 1953 Robertson panel, U-2 and OXCART flights mistaken for UFOs, and disputes with Keyhoe and Davidson. It concludes that Agency concern was substantial until the early 1950s and limited and peripheral since.
The Roswell Report: Case Closed is a 1997 US Air Force report written by Captain James McAndrew, with a foreword by Secretary of the Air Force Sheila E. Widnall. It follows up the 1994 report, which found that the 1947 debris came from the balloon project MoGUL. It concludes that the reported alien bodies were probably anthropomorphic test dummies dropped from high altitude balloons. It attributes the hospital body claims to a 1956 KC-97 crash and a 1959 manned balloon mishap.
On 1 May 1997 the records management office of the 56th Fighter Wing at Luke AFB, Arizona, sent John Greenewald, Jr. a letter answering his Freedom of Information Act request. The letter says no responsive records exist. It says Luke's F-16 training aircraft had no involvement in the lights seen over Phoenix on 13 March 1997, and that base staff never told the Strange Universe program the lights were flares. It also explains how to appeal to the Secretary of the Air Force.
This is a NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project transcript of astronaut James A. McDivitt, interviewed by Doug Ward at Elk Lake, Michigan, on 29 June 1999. McDivitt talks about flying F-86s in Korea, test pilot work at Edwards, and his first class at the Aerospace Research Pilot School. He also covers turning down Dyna-soar, joining NASA in 1962 and learning to be an Apollo Program Manager. He describes the Change Board and says decisions were not second-guessed.
The National Archives (UK) issued this highlights guide in March 2009 to help readers navigate a newly released batch of Ministry of Defence UFO files. It explains how to use the PDF bookmarks and lists key stories highlighted by Dr David Clarke in files DEFE 24/1938 and DEFE 31/176 to 31/181. These include the Calvine diamond-shaped UFO photographs, RAF Tornado crews overtaken over Germany in November 1990 by what was later found to be Soviet rocket debris, and a Heathrow boomerang sighting. It ends with an index of reports by region.
The National Archives issued this highlights guide in August 2009 to help readers navigate newly released Ministry of Defence UFO files. It explains how to use the PDF bookmarks and lists key stories highlighted by Dr David Clarke. These include the Rendlesham Forest incident, the 1989 to 1990 Belgian wave, the 1993 Cosford sightings (attributed to a re-entering Cosmos 2238 rocket), a Virgin airship over London, aircraft encounters and Bonnybridge. It also gives a regional index of file references to reports.
This is the script of an August 2009 podcast from The National Archives in which consultant David Clarke introduces the fourth release of Ministry of Defence UFO files. The release has 14 files, just over 4,000 pages, covering 1981 to 1996. The files include MoD correspondence on the Rendlesham Forest incident, the Belgian wave, the 1993 Cosford flap and London sightings of an advertising airship. The MoD judged Rendlesham of no defence significance and found most Cosford sightings were caused by a Russian rocket re-entry.
This is a New Zealand Defence Force public release of RNZAF file AIR 39/3/3, "Flying Saucers," which covers 1952 to 1955 and was declassified in September 2010 under the Official Information Act. It collects sighting reports from the public and military personnel, press clippings, and a table of 1952 sightings. It also holds Carter Observatory opinions attributing some reports to meteors. A large part covers the inquiry into lights seen from National Airways Corporation Flight 108 on 31 October 1955, which the RNZAF could not fully explain as Venus.
The National Archives issued this UFO research briefing guide, written by Dr David Clarke of Sheffield Hallam University in March 2008 and revised in August 2011. It traces British government interest in UFOs from the 1909 phantom airships and wartime foo fighters through the 1951 Flying Saucer Working Party, Air Ministry and MoD investigations, and the 1979 House of Lords debate. It lists key files held at Kew, including Rendlesham Forest papers, plus suggestions for further reading.
These handwritten notes, released by the CIA Reading Room in a sanitized copy approved for release on 1 December 2011, are mostly an informal chronology of Soviet parapsychology research. They list Leningrad State University telepathy work, researchers such as L. L. Vasilyev and E. K. Naumov, and US remote viewing work at SRI. The final pages describe a Texas close encounter case with medical effects, a vehicle, lights and a fleet of 23 helicopters, and mention a planned trip to Houston to see the patient.
This is the annual activity report for 2012 of the Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, discussed by its Academic Council on 10 January 2013 and signed by director Ya. S. Yatskiv. It describes the observatory's structure and lists its main scientific results, including star cluster catalogues, galaxy spectroscopy, black hole merger modelling, GNSS data processing and comet polarimetry. It also covers publications, international cooperation, equipment purchases and staffing tables. It does not discuss UFOs.
This press release from The National Archives, dated 21 June 2013, announces the final tranche of Ministry of Defence UFO files: 25 files and 4,400 pages covering the UFO desk's last two years, from late 2007 until it closed in November 2009. The files show that sighting reports trebled to over 600 in 2009. Officials said no report in more than 50 years had revealed an extra-terrestrial presence or a military threat. Chinese lanterns are cited as a likely cause of the surge.
This is a letter dated August 8, 2013 from Lisa L. Bentley, FOIA Manager for the 355th Communications Squadron at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, to John Greenewald. It answers his July 2013 request for all documents supporting the theory that A-10s dropped leftover flares, rather than a UFO being seen, on March 13, 1997. The base found no records because such operational data is kept for only six months and the documents had been destroyed. The letter explains how to appeal.
This is a September 30, 2020 FAA FOIA Program Management Division response to John Greenewald, Jr. of The Black Vault. His February 22, 2014 request (2014-009122) asked for the FAA's FOIA case log for 2013. The FAA released one 176-page record, the FY 2013 FOIA log. It withheld third-party names under Exemption 6. The log lists requests by number, requester, organization, date and subject. Most concern airman files, accidents and enforcement records, and one seeks FAA correspondence with Bigelow Aerospace and the National UFO Reporting Center.
This Project Blue Book case file, digitized by the Internet Archive, covers Incident 144: two Eastern Airlines pilots reported that a wingless, cigar-shaped object with a flaming exhaust passed their DC-3 about 20 miles southwest of Montgomery, Alabama, on 24 July 1948. The file includes an OSI interview with a Robins Air Force Base employee who saw a similar object, negative aircraft traffic reports from many bases, and later correspondence. A December 1948 intelligence report found fairly consistent descriptions across four related sightings.
This Internet Archive upload holds declassified Canadian records sent to the National Research Council's Meteor Centre, which filed them as non-meteoritic sightings. Most are RCAF and Canadian Forces message reports from 1965 on lights and objects seen over Vancouver, Toronto, Sydney, Cochrane, Whitehorse and other places. The later material dates from 1968. It includes RCMP reports from Shediac and Sydney Mines. The police concluded the Sydney Mines object that hit power lines was probably a meteorite.
This 12 October 2016 criminal judgment from the Tribunal de grande instance de Bourges concerns two drone and model-making enthusiasts. In October and November 2014 they flew drones inside the prohibited five-kilometre zone around the Belleville-sur-Loire nuclear power plant. The court found them guilty of negligently overflying a prohibited zone, noting that they had been filming a remote-controlled boat at a time of controversy over multiple drone overflights of nuclear plants. It waived any penalty, ordered their drones confiscated, and required them to pay EDF one symbolic euro plus 500 euros in costs.
This declassified CIA memorandum, dated 16 February 1953, reports on the Office of Scientific Intelligence Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, which met January 14 to 18, 1953. It gives a session-by-session history of the meetings, along with panel comments left out of the formal report, including a critique of the Navy's analysis of the Tremonton film. The appended panel report, signed by chairman H. P. Robertson and others, found no direct threat to national security. It recommended stripping UFOs of their special status and starting a public education and debunking program.
Senate Resolution 8648, adopted by the Washington State Senate on April 18, 2017, marks the seventieth anniversary of the June 21, 1947 Maury Island Incident and the "Summer of the Saucers." It recounts Harold Dahl's sighting, Kenneth Arnold's Mt. Rainier sighting, and the FBI's conclusion that Dahl's hoax claim was itself a fabrication. The resolution honors intelligence officers Davidson and Brown, who died in a B-25 crash near Kelso after interviewing Dahl.
The Comisión de Estudio de Fenómenos Aeroespaciales (CEFAe) of the Fuerza Aérea Argentina, directed by Com. (R) Rubén Lianza, issued this annual report for 2018. It analyzes 21 sighting reports received that year, plus two historical cases: Campo de Mayo (1972), attributed to a barium cloud for ionospheric experiments, and Bariloche (1995), attributed to a sky tracer searchlight reflecting off clouds. All 22 analyzed cases were resolved, mostly as birds, insects, optical reflections, balloons and satellites.
This page of the Congressional Record for the House of Representatives, published by the U.S. Congress on April 9, 2018, records the House adjourning and lists executive communications referred to committees. Most items are routine agency reports and final rules. One entry, No. 4381, is a letter from the Defense Intelligence Agency's Congressional Relations Division sending the Committee on Armed Services a list of all products produced under the Advanced Aerospace Threat and Identification Program contract.
This Internet Archive upload by Paul Galante reproduces the FBI's 2017 FOIA release to John Greenewald Jr. of The Black Vault about George Adamski. The release contains 281 previously processed pages. It includes 1954 Detroit field office memoranda on the Flying Saucer Club of Detroit, on informants who worried that its anti-hydrogen-bomb messages were political propaganda, and on a July 1954 meeting presided over by Adamski. Later items cover Joseph Perry's 1960 Grand Blanc saucer photograph, which was passed to the Air Force, and a 1960 Detroit sighting report.
This FBI file, released in July 2021 to John Greenewald Jr. of The Black Vault, concerns United Nuclear Scientific Supplies. The FBI reviewed 165 pages and released 48. A 2008 New York memo asks for a case on an unknown caller who tried to buy a concentrated Polonium-210 solution and asked how to get around NRC licensing rules. A 2010 memo closes that case because no criminality was established. The remaining 2003 and 2004 records cover CART forensic exams of computers received from the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
This Defense Intelligence Agency FOIA release to John Greenewald of The Black Vault is dated January 16, 2019. It contains a 5-page document, with personal information withheld under Exemption 6. The document is a January 9, 2018 DIA letter to Senate Armed Services Committee leaders John McCain and Jack Reed. The letter lists 38 reports produced under the AATIP contract, which it says investigated foreign advanced aerospace weapon threats. Topics include warp drive, antigravity, traversable wormholes and high energy laser weapons.
This Department of Defense FOIA release to John Greenewald of The Black Vault (case 18-F-0644) includes the DOPSR cover letters dated August 2019 and 16 pages of records. It contains Luis Elizondo's August 2017 DD Form 1910 clearance request for the videos "GoFast," "Gimble" and "FLIR1," filed under a research purpose involving UAS threats. The file also holds his emails with DOPSR reviewer Michael Russo and a form stamp showing the videos were cleared for open publication on August 24, 2017.
This is a July 27, 2021 FOIA response from NASA's Office of Communications to John Greenewald, Jr. It covers records from Leslie Kean's lawsuit against NASA seeking Kecksburg documents. NASA released 207 pages in full, 7 in part and withheld 31, noting that most of the lawsuit case files had been destroyed under records retention rules. The enclosures include court declarations, a 2003 appeal decision ordering a broader search, a 2019 FOIA response, and Stan Gordon's account of the missing NASA fragology files.
This preliminary assessment was issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on 25 June 2021 and prepared for the congressional intelligence and armed services committees. It reviews 144 US government reports of unidentified aerial phenomena from 2004 to 2021. Only one of them, a deflating balloon, was identified with high confidence. The report proposes five explanatory categories, says UAP pose a flight safety issue and possibly a national security challenge, and recommends standardized reporting, expanded collection and more investment.
This letter from the Department of the Navy's DON FOIA/PA Program Office, dated September 6, 2022, responds to John Greenewald of The Black Vault regarding his FOIA request for all "Range Fouler" debrief forms filed with the U.S. Navy since January 1, 2017. The office says it contacted the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force and will release the forms on a rolling basis in the DON FOIA Reading Room. It also waives processing fees and explains dispute resolution options.
This Department of the Navy FOIA release, dated January 2023, collects heavily redacted Range Fouler Reporting Forms marked SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY. The first form covers 14 November 2004. It lists the Nimitz strike group and describes a solid white, smooth object about 46 feet long seen off Mexico, southwest of San Diego. It also says reporting stopped at 3rd Fleet. The later forms, numbered 2014 through 2021, describe unidentified aircraft, suspected small drones and a near mid-air collision. Most details are redacted.
This is an FBI Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts release to John Greenewald Jr. of The Black Vault, dated March 29, 2023, covering United Nuclear Scientific Supplies. It was the first interim release: of 517 pages reviewed, 119 were released. The records come from the FBI Albuquerque JTTF and describe a 2006 case. An unidentified caller asked the company for chemicals that could serve as Sarin precursors, then turned up in person at the business. The file also contains grand jury subpoenas and interview notes.
This is a written statement to Congress by George Knapp, chief investigative reporter for KLAS TV in Las Vegas, addressed to Rep. Burchett and a committee and dated July 2023. Knapp describes his 1993 interviews in Moscow about a ten-year Soviet military UFO study, including a reported incident at an ICBM base in Ukraine. He also explains that Senator Reid's $22 million funded AAWSAP, a DIA program run with Bigelow's contractor, and not AATIP. He urges Congress to seek AAWSAP's unreleased research papers.
This memorandum from committee staff, dated July 21, 2023, was sent to members of the House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs. It announces a July 26, 2023 hearing in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building titled "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency." It says the hearing will examine firsthand pilot and official accounts, how pilots report UAP, and government transparency. The listed witnesses are Ryan Graves, David Grusch and Commander David Fravor (Ret.).