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This NICAP compilation gathers Air Force Project Blue Book and related records on a 24 April 1949 sighting three miles north of Arrey, New Mexico, where a balloon crew from White Sands Proving Ground tracked a white ellipsoid object with a theodolite for about 60 seconds. It includes the observer's statement, a Project 10073 record card concluding UNIDENTIFIED, a 17 May 1949 OSI special inquiry report from Kelly AFB, and a completed investigation questionnaire. It also contains extracts from the Project Grudge report, including Dr. Hynek's incident index.
This document is a 20 May 1949 cover letter from the Commanding Officer of the Navy's Special Devices Center at Sands Point, Long Island, to the Chief of Naval Operations (Office of Naval Intelligence), with a copy sent to the CIA. It forwards C. B. Moore's statement on an object he tracked by theodolite on 24 April 1949, three miles north of Arrey, New Mexico. Moore describes a white ellipsoid that was seen for about 60 seconds. He concludes that it was not a balloon, and the letter says its motion might indicate controlled flight.
This NICAP compilation gathers National Military Command Center memoranda, DDO updates and OPREP-3 messages from October and November 1975 reporting unidentified helicopters and low-flying aircraft near weapons storage areas at Loring AFB, Maine and Wurtsmith AFB, Michigan, plus radar and visual UFO contacts at Malmstrom AFB, Montana. Pursuit attempts by an Army National Guard helicopter and a KC-135 tanker failed. The file also includes a 1976 USDAO Tehran report on an F-4 encounter, 1965 Blue Book statistics and an American Meteor Society fireball form.
This is volume 1 of Autos Findos 908/1997, a military police inquiry (IPM No. 18/97) opened on 29 January 1997 by the commander of the Brazilian Army's Escola de Sargentos das Armas in Três Corações. The inquiry targeted the book "Incidente em Varginha" by Vitório Pacaccini and Maxs Portes, which an officer said spread false claims harmful to the Armed Forces. The volume includes a May 1996 sindicância in which soldiers testified that nothing unusual happened when EsSA trucks traveled to Varginha for routine maintenance, along with pages copied from the book.
This second volume of a Brazilian military court case file, archived by the Superior Tribunal Militar in 1997, holds the Army's Military Police Inquiry into the book "Incidente em Varginha" by Vitório Pacaccini and Maxs Portes. The file reproduces pages of the book, including the claimed 1962 abduction of soldier Geraldo Bichara at the sergeants' school in Três Corações. The military prosecutor called the claims of a 1996 creature capture untrue but found no crime, and the judge ordered the case archived in July 1997.
This Black Vault compilation contains a September 1997 reply from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense to John Greenewald's FOIA request, enclosing its UFO records. The enclosures include a Navy information sheet dismissing the Philadelphia Experiment and an Air Force UFO fact sheet listing 12,618 Project Blue Book sightings, 701 of them unidentified. They also include the National Academy of Sciences review endorsing the University of Colorado report and the concluding pages of a 1994 Air Force Roswell report attributing the wreckage to Project MOGUL.
This NICAP-hosted file reproduces USAF Project Blue Book records on a radar and fighter intercept near Bellefontaine, Ohio, on 1 August 1952. Ground radar near Wright-Patterson AFB tracked an object moving at 400 knots. Two F-86s from the 97th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron were sent to intercept it and filmed a silver round object, but the gun camera film was too indistinct. The file includes a completed radar data sheet, a request from the Air Technical Intelligence Center, and a memo about releasing film frames to TRUE magazine. Early analyses ruled out a balloon, but a later conclusion identified the object as an upper air research balloon cluster.
This NICAP-hosted compilation of USAF Project Blue Book records covers the radar-visual intercept of 1 August 1952 near Bellefontaine, Ohio. It holds a press clipping, the ATIC case summary, correspondence between the Air Technical Intelligence Center and the 664th AC&W Squadron, and a completed radar data sheet. Two F-86s from Wright-Patterson took gun camera film of the object. The early evaluation lists it as unknown, but other pages attribute the sighting to a jet on radar and a research balloon seen by the pilots.
This Project Blue Book case file covers the 7 January 1948 incident at Godman Field, Fort Knox, Kentucky, which the file itself calls the famous "Mantell case." It holds control tower witness statements describing a large, bright object and the three P-51s sent to pursue it, whose flight leader, Mantell, stopped answering after climbing past 15,000 feet. It also includes weather data and Air Materiel Command correspondence. One analysis concludes that the object was not Venus and that the sighting must be considered unexplained.
This NICAP compilation lists Project Blue Book cases from June through December 1947. The date it was prepared is not given. Arranged by month, it gives each sighting's incident number, date, location, observer type and the Air Force evaluation. Evaluations include balloons, meteors, aircraft, birds, contrails, hoaxes and insufficient data, and several cases are marked unidentified. Locations include Muroc AFB, Rogers Dry Lake, Emmett, Twin Falls, Phoenix and Newfoundland, and some entries note that the case file is missing.
This NICAP compilation of US Air Force Project Blue Book records covers the Exeter, New Hampshire sighting of 3 September 1965. It includes the Pease AFB initial report, Eighth Air Force details on the operation "Big Blast" B-47 flights, and letters from Patrolmen Eugene Bertrand and David Hunt disputing the aircraft explanation. There is also correspondence with John G. Fuller and a 1965 Pease AFB request for speakers. Blue Book listed the sighting as unidentified because no aircraft could be placed in the area at 0200.
This NICAP compilation of USAF Project Blue Book records covers the 3 September 1965 sighting near Exeter, New Hampshire. It holds signed statements from patrolmen Eugene Bertrand and David Hunt and from Norman Muscarello, the officers' UFO data sheets, and press clippings. It also includes the Air Force evaluation, which cites B-47 activity from Pease AFB during Operation Big Blast. The Air Force judged conventional aircraft a possible cause but listed the case as unidentified for statistical purposes.
This NICAP compilation contains a report dated 15 September 1965 from NICAP investigator Raymond E. Fowler to Project Blue Book on UFO sightings in the Exeter, New Hampshire area on 3 September 1965. It includes newspaper clippings, a summary sheet, and signed data sheets from Exeter patrolmen Eugene Bertrand and David Hunt, who with Norman Muscarello saw a silent, house-sized object with pulsating red lights over a field on Route 150 in Kensington. Fowler judged the reports probably genuine.
This file, from NICAP and CUFOS, collects US Air Force Office of Special Investigations records from 1949 on a Project Grudge special inquiry into a sighting at Rogue River, Oregon, on 24 May 1949. NACA Ames Laboratory employees Gilbert Rivera and Don Heaphy described a silvery pancake-shaped object about 30 feet across that sped off like a jet. An annotated analysis that follows rejects the radar kite explanation and concludes that the case must remain unexplained.
This NICAP-hosted Blue Book file, credited to Brad Sparks, collects 1949 US Air Force Office of Special Investigations reports on a disc seen over the Rogue River near Gold Beach, Oregon, on 24 May 1949. It includes signed statements from fishing party members, among them staff from the NACA Ames Laboratory at Moffett Field, along with character references and interview forms. The witnesses describe a silvery circular object with a fin that flew silently. Investigators noted that radar test kites might have drifted that far north.
This undated Project Blue Book microfilm case document from the U.S. Air Force, released through the Internet Archive, covers files 1377 and 1415 dated July 7, 1952. It records CPO Delbert C. Newhouse's two photos of a group of objects milling about in rough formation, taken 7 miles north of Tremonton, Utah, at 1110 MST on 2 July 1952 after his wife noticed them. The record notes there were no reference points and that the images showed no detail. It gives the explanation as pillow balloons or birds.
This is an Air Intelligence Information Report dated 22 July 1952 and prepared by Capt. Benjamin L. Berkon, USAF Director of Intelligence, Headquarters Command. It records interviews with control tower operators at Washington National Airport about unidentified objects on 19 and 20 July 1952. Five unidentified targets appeared on radar over Andrews Air Base, and Andrews tower confirmed seeing three objects. Controllers also saw an orange disk, and a Bolling AFB tower operator saw a roundish object drifting low in the sky.
This undated NICAP (Barry Greenwood) release reproduces Blue Book radar pages 968 to 970. They contain an unclassified report by Senior Controller Harry S. Barnes of the Washington Air Route Traffic Control Center on the targets seen overnight on July 19 to 20, 1952. Barnes describes eight or more slow-moving radar targets and an orange object near Andrews seen by tower staff. He also records pilot reports of lights and says it was unclear who should report the targets or order an intercept.
This Brazilian Navy General Staff report, released via NICAP, examines unidentified flying objects sighted at the Island of Trinidad between 12/5/57 and 1/16/58. It gathers statements from the oceanographic station commandant, CC Bacellar, and from photographer Almiro Barauna, who took photographs aboard the ship Almirante Saldanha. The negatives were examined by DHN and Cruzeiro do Sul technicians, who found no sign of later montage. The report concludes that the testimony is fallible but admits there are indications that UFOs exist.
This undated brochure from Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base describes the military airspace its tenant units use for training. It explains Special Use Airspace, Military Operating Areas and Military Training Routes. It then details the Navy-owned Brownwood MOA and the Air Force-owned Brady MOA, which lie about 70 nautical miles southwest of the base and are scheduled by the 301st Fighter Wing. The brochure also profiles the F-16C, FA-18 and C-130 aircraft stationed there. It contains no UFO material.
This Wikimedia Commons file holds a transcribed parish burial register from 1764, written in French. The poorly transcribed text records several burials. One is dated 3 June 1764 and mentions a victim taken by the beast ("la bette"). Another is dated 18 September 1764, and a third records a sudden death. The legible text does not clearly give Jeanne Boulet's name, although the title says the record is hers.
This Brazilian Air Force (FAB) envelope, released through The Black Vault, collects UFO material from the 1950s to 1972. It includes a 1971 Second Air Zone report on luminous objects over Recife and Olinda, with newspaper clippings, and an informant report on an oval object over Varginha and Três Corações. It also holds witness letters from Guaratinguetá, a clipping on a suspected Navy weather balloon at Barra de Itapemirim, and pages from CICOANI's December 1971 field investigation manual with size-estimation tables.
This CIA document, released through The Black Vault, holds Foreign Press Note FB PN 90-123. It is document 4 of 9 in a set of concatenated PROD reports from 1988 to 1994. The note reviews Soviet press coverage of UFO sightings. It centers on a RABOCHAYA TRIBUNA report of 21 March sightings near Pereslavl-Zalesskiy, with pilot and radar accounts and comments from Colonel General Igor Maltsev of the Air Defense Forces. It also summarizes other Soviet articles, including the Belgian sightings and a Japanese expedition to Tunguska.
This 22 November 1989 report, released as CIA document 0000042346, covers a wave of Soviet media stories about UFO sightings across the USSR. It says a permanent UFO study center has been set up in Moscow. It reviews claims about the Hill 611 crash at Dalnegorsk, a pilot injury over Borisov, the Voronezh park landing and an Omsk sighting reported by a military officer. The report also sets skeptics, who point to rocket launches, ball lightning and mass hysteria, against enthusiasts who compare Dalnegorsk with Roswell.
This FBIS translation of an article published in the Moscow newspaper TRUD on 30 January 1985 reports a UFO sighting by the crew of Aeroflot Tu-134 Flight 8352, commanded by Igor Cherkashin, about 120 kilometers from Minsk. The crew saw a light beam, then a green cloud that paced the aircraft to Tallin. Minsk controllers, a Leningrad crew and the Tallin radar also saw or tracked it. N. Zheltukhin of the Commission on Aerodynamic Phenomena concluded that the crew had dealt with a UFO.
This CIA document, released through The Black Vault, holds F. C. Durant's memorandum of 16 February 1953 on the Office of Scientific Intelligence Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, which met from January 14 to 18, 1953 under Dr. H. P. Robertson. The panel found no evidence of a direct threat to national security. It rejected the Navy analysis of the Tremonton film and recommended an educational program. The file also contains an Air Force statistical study summary from 1955 that calls advanced unknown technology highly improbable.
This material from the Haines papers at the American Heritage Center contains US Air Force Office of Special Investigations reports from November 1949. They cover a special inquiry into unconventional aircraft. An Eastern Air Lines captain was interviewed in Atlanta on 6 October 1949. He described a wingless, cigar-shaped object with two rows of lighted windows and a red flame, seen at 0340 on 23 July 1948 southwest of Montgomery, Alabama. A follow-up report closed the inquiry.
This undated NICAP file holds a handwritten personal statement about a UFO sighting at Edwards AFB, California, around July or August 1964. The writer was senior officer on alert that night. They say the SAGE center in San Bernardino called at about 0200 about UFO reports and asked for an F-106A to be launched, then declined to authorize it. The writer and three others watched a pulsating light turn 90 degrees and climb until it seemed to go out into space. Edwards approach control reported no radar contact.
This handwritten Japanese statement with sketches, released by the FAA and republished by The Black Vault, is Captain Terauchi's first-hand account of Japan Air Lines cargo flight JL1628 on 17 November 1986. It tells how the Boeing 747 left Keflavik, Iceland, on a special wine cargo flight and, over Alaska, was accompanied for about 50 minutes by two small spaceships and one huge mothership. It describes the lights, the onboard weather radar return, Anchorage Center's exchanges and a United Airlines flight's attempt to see the object.
This Air Intelligence Information Report was issued by the Technical Intelligence Division at Wright-Patterson AFB under Project SIGN and dated 20 December 1948. It analyzes reports of unidentified flying objects seen on 24 and 26 July 1948 across Alabama, Georgia and Virginia, among them the cigar-shaped object that Eastern Airlines pilots Chiles and Whitted saw near Montgomery. The report treats some of the sightings as meteors. It concludes the Chiles-Whitted object was not a meteor and remains unidentified as to origin, construction and power source.
This NICAP case file compilation (Dan Wilson) collects material on the July 1948 Chiles-Whitted sighting near Montgomery, Alabama. It includes a NICAP note naming Eastern Air Lines Captain Clarence S. Chiles a special adviser, an exhibit list, and Air Force Office of Special Investigations reports dated November 1949. In those reports Chiles describes a lighted, cigar-shaped object with a red exhaust flame traveling at least 500 miles per hour. Atlanta Journal article extracts are also included.
This Federal Aviation Administration memorandum from the Air Traffic Manager of Anchorage ARTCC, dated December 18, 1986, forwards a chronology of Japan Airlines Flight 1628's reported sightings of unidentified traffic on November 18, 1986. The chronology records the pilot's reports of lights and the course changes that followed, along with contacts with the military ROCC, Fairbanks Approach and a United flight. It concludes that Anchorage Center radar data did not confirm any traffic near the aircraft.
This FAA compilation, released through the National Archives and The Black Vault, covers Japan Airlines Flight 628's sighting over Alaska on January 11, 1987. It includes an FAA incident report dated February 1987, a chronology of the communications between the crew and Anchorage ARTCC, and statements from controllers and a meteorologist. Radar showed no traffic near the aircraft apart from weather clutter. The report says Captain Terauchi later believed the lights were village lights distorted by ice crystals.
This FAA compilation, released through The Black Vault, covers an incident on January 29, 1987 involving Alaska Airlines Flight 53. The Boeing 737 was flying from Nome to Anchorage when its crew saw a fast-moving target on their weather radar about 60 miles west of McGrath, Alaska. The file includes an incident record, a certified controller transcript, the FAA's crew interview statement and a news release. Anchorage Center's radar data showed no such aircraft, and the USAF reported no military traffic in the area.
This compilation of Project Blue Book microfilm pages from Roll 92 covers the reported UFO sighting near Levelland, Texas, on the night of 2 to 3 November 1957. It includes a letter from the Air Force Office of Special Investigations district office at Carswell AFB, which says Reese AFB reported the event and that ADC investigator S/Sgt Norman P. Barth looked into it for ATIC. OSI opened no investigation of its own. A teletype message describes a fiery object that sounded like thunder and landed in an open field.
This is Volume 2 of the Ministry of Defence report 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region', Defence Intelligence Staff Scientific and Technical Memorandum 55/2/00, dated February 2000 and received 7 December 2000. It gathers 25 working papers on natural and man-made phenomena, meant as a reference for analysing UAP reports. The papers cover ball lightning, radar detection, balloons, satellites, mirages, plasma and similar subjects. One paper compares magnetic field experiments on human volunteers with close encounter reports. It concludes that effects from such fields are 'uncannily similar' to what witnesses describe.
This Federal Aviation Administration file, released through The Black Vault, collects FAA Alaskan Region records on the UFO sighting reported by Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 on November 17, 1986. It includes a February 1987 FOIA route slip, an alert report to the Administrator, handwritten notes on calls with the Air Force, a duty officer checklist and a table of contents. According to the records, the crew followed lighted traffic for over 350 miles, while the Air Force treated its radar returns as clutter or spurious signals.
This FAA release, obtained through The Black Vault, contains Air Transportation Security interview notes on FAA Form 1600-32. They cover the November 17, 1986 interview in Anchorage, Alaska, of the crew of JAL Flight 1628. Captain Kenju Terauchi and his crew reported yellow, amber and green lights ahead of and beside their Boeing 747, and the object also showed on the onboard radar. The notes add that Anchorage center and NORAD had radar targets, and that the only system problem was VHF static.
This scan from the Arquivo Nacional holds a 22 May 1996 article from the Brazilian magazine ISTOÉ by Luiza Villaméa about the Varginha ET case. It recounts the claim by three young women that they saw a creature in Jardim Andere on 20 January 1996, a farm couple's sighting of an object, and ufologists' allegations that the Army captured the beings. The Army denies this. A sidebar covers the unresolved 19 May 1986 air force chase of objects near São José dos Campos.
This is a Defense Intelligence Agency FOIA response letter to John Greenewald, dated March 25, 2022, answering his January 2018 request for Defense Intelligence Reference Documents tied to Bigelow Aerospace, BAASS or the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program. DIA located 37 documents totaling 1473 pages and released them with portions withheld under FOIA Exemptions 3 and 6. An enclosed inventory lists the titles, including warp drive, antigravity and invisibility cloaking.
This Black Vault release of Defense Intelligence Agency message traffic holds several attaché intelligence reports on UFO sightings. A 1987 report from the US defense attaché in Ghana describes a large metallic object seen over Accra and the Volta Region on 27 July 1987, including a detailed account from a Ghana Air Force pilot. A 1982 message covers lights in the sky east of Finland. A 1980 report from Lima says Peruvian Air Force Su-22 jets tried without success to intercept a UFO near Mariano Melgar Air Base, La Joya.
This declassified Defense Intelligence Agency routing slip and message, released through The Black Vault, carries a report from the US Defense Attache Office in Tehran dated 23 September 1976 and prepared under Col. Frank B. McKenzie. It describes a UFO sighting over Tehran on 19 September 1976, when two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4s were scrambled. The crews reported losing instruments and communications near a brilliant object, seeing smaller objects separate from it, and later detecting a beeper signal near the apparent landing site.
This is a CIA-released, unclassified translation of an article from Moscow Pravda dated 15 April 1991, carried in a message titled "Diverging Opinions on Cause of Sasovo Explosion" and approved for release in May 2000. It describes a powerful midnight explosion on 12 April near Sasovo in Ryazan Oblast. The blast damaged roofs and windows and left a crater 28 meters wide and about 4 meters deep. Local explanations ranged from old munitions, an air bomb, a meteorite and UFOs to the military's view that ammonium nitrate exploded. The cause remained unresolved.
This Department of Defense FOIA release (case 23-F-0946), published by The Black Vault, is the reply to a June 2023 request and is dated September 18, 2023. It contains 15 pages from the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review about David Grusch's submissions for public release. In April 2023 the office cleared his "Speaker/Author Summary" and a set of interview questions about recovered physical material and UAP programs. Personal details were withheld under exemption (b)(6).