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Official reports, hearing transcripts, case files and releases: the paper behind the cases. 2,872 documents, 2,610 mirrored with their text, 53,529 pages indexed, so a search reads inside them and lands on the page.
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This undated statement was prepared for the House Oversight Committee by retired U.S. Navy Commander David Fravor. He recounts his November 2004 encounter near the USS Nimitz with a white Tic Tac shaped object that showed no wings, rotors or infrared plume. He says the object outperformed his F/A-18F and reappeared on the Princeton's radar 60 miles away in under a minute. He says the incident was never investigated and urges congressional oversight of any government programs involving such craft.
This information leaflet, attributed to West Lothian Council and undated, presents case file number 1013 on a UFO encounter at Dechmont Law, West Lothian, on November 9, 1979. It recounts that forestry worker Robert Taylor met a large metallic sphere in a clearing and says two smaller spheres dragged him before he lost consciousness. It also notes the ground marks the police found and the forensic results on his clothing, and it cites Strange Phenomena Investigations' conclusion that he saw something 'not of this Earth'.
This trail map from West Lothian Council shows a way-marked walking trail at Dechmont Law. It uses Ordnance Survey mapping with a 2017 Crown copyright notice. The map invites walkers to learn about an unusual event while enjoying the local woodlands, wildlife and views. It notes that on the morning of 9 November 1979, Dechmont Wood was the site of an unusual encounter known as the 'Robert Taylor' incident.
This Black Vault release contains the Air Force's 2001 response from the 341st Space Wing FOIA office at Malmstrom AFB, Montana, to a request about the 16 March 1967 Echo Flight missile shutdown, with excerpts from 341st Strategic Missile Wing histories covering 1967 to early 1968. The histories say all ten Echo Flight launch facilities lost strategic alert almost simultaneously. Investigators could not find a logical cause and found rumors of UFOs near Echo Flight to be unfounded.
This Internet Archive item compiles 1965 to 1968 records from National Research Council of Canada files (RG 77, Vol. 306) on non-meteoritic sightings. It contains fireball and UFO telex reports from RCAF stations, RCC Vancouver and the RCMP, covering lights seen over Sydney, Vancouver, Cochrane, Toronto, Whitehorse and Shediac. It also includes an RCMP investigation of a 12 July 1968 impact at Tobin Road, Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia, which concluded the object was probably a meteorite, not a UFO.
This is the record (compte rendu no. 35) of the French Assemblée nationale's Commission de la défense nationale et des forces armées session of 28 January 2015, chaired by Patricia Adam. It examines Claude de Ganay's bill creating a specific offence for intrusion into civil nuclear sites, with escalating penalties. The record also discusses 40 illegal drone overflights of 19 nuclear sites since September 2014. The committee adopted the amended bill, including a request for a government report on drone risks by 30 September 2015.
This FOIA release from the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General, dated January 12, 2024, answers John Greenewald of The Black Vault. It releases, in part, 16 pages of records tied to David Grusch. They include a DoD OIG evaluation work paper on a July 2021 interview with Air Force Major David Grusch, the NRO liaison to the UAP Task Force. In the interview he said there was no formal UAP reporting mechanism and called the DNI UAP report analysis not very in-depth. He also proposed a permanent office for strategic anomalies.
This March 7, 2024 letter from the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General answers John Greenewald's FOIA request for all records David Charles Grusch submitted to the DoD Inspector General. It says searches found responsive records. However, 25 pages were withheld in full under FOIA exemptions (b)(3), (b)(5), (b)(6), (b)(7)(C) and (b)(7)(E). Other documents were withheld under exemption (b)(7)(A) because they were compiled for a law enforcement inquiry that is still open. The letter also explains how to appeal.
The Sanctuary of Fátima published this one-volume selection of documents from 1917 to 1930 in 2013. It draws on the fifteen-tome Documentação Crítica de Fátima, which appeared between 1992 and 2013. The selection contains 138 numbered documents. They include the parish priest's and Manuel Nunes Formigão's interrogations of Lúcia, Francisco and Jacinta, witness accounts of the October 1917 solar phenomenon, press coverage and records of the canonical commission. It ends with the bishop of Leiria's 1930 pastoral letter declaring the apparitions worthy of belief.
This DoD Washington Headquarters Services FOIA release (case 25-F-2554) collects emails and records about Luis Elizondo's role in AATIP, dated 2017 to 2021. It includes Elizondo's June 2019 letter disputing Pentagon statements about him, and his 2017 emails to Neill Tipton about transferring the portfolio. OSD Public Affairs and Navy officials discuss whether AATIP ended in 2012 or continued informally. The release also contains 2021 personnel database printouts and a Public Affairs email sending material to the DoD OIG.
This is an English translation of Captain Kenju Terauchi's personal statement about the November 17, 1986 sighting by Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 over Alaska. Sayoko Mimoto of the FAA Alaskan Region translated it, and the FAA received it on January 2, 1987. Terauchi describes two lights pacing the Boeing 747 cargo jet, square spaceships stopping in front of the aircraft, a green object on the plane's weather radar, and a gigantic mothership seen near Fairbanks. He says the encounter lasted about 50 minutes and ended north of Talkeetna.
This FAA FOIA release answers John Greenewald of The Black Vault's February 24, 2021 request for records on the February 21, 2021 encounter between American Airlines Flight 2292 and an unknown object over New Mexico. Dennis Hill, Deputy Director of Air Carrier Safety Assurance, signed the cover letter. It encloses internal emails in which Air Force representatives to the FAA arranged an investigation and asked for a radar playback. The FAA says further responsive records belong to the Department of Defense.
This FAA Form 8020-5 aircraft incident record, filed by Jerry Paterson of FAA office AAL-207 and dated January 26, 1987, covers Japan Airlines Flight 1628. The all-cargo Boeing 747 was flying from Keflavik, Iceland to Anchorage, Alaska on November 17, 1986, near Fort Yukon. The captain reported unidentified traffic at his altitude that stayed near the aircraft through a descent and turns. The traffic was seen on weather radar and at times by Anchorage Center and military radar. The attachments include crew interview transcripts, Captain Terauchi's drawing and ATC tapes.
This set of Federal Aviation Administration Alaskan Region news releases and notes, dated December 1986 to March 1987, covers the Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 sighting of November 17, 1986. It includes interview notes with Captain Kenjyu Terauchi's crew. The FAA said it could not confirm the event and attributed the second radar target to a split radar return from the 747. The releases also describe an Alaska Airlines weather radar sighting and Terauchi's January 1987 lights, which were attributed to ice crystals.
This compilation, released through The Black Vault, holds Federal Aviation Administration replies to John Greenewald, Jr.'s FOIA requests about the November 17, 1986 sighting involving flight JL1628. A June 2001 Alaskan Region letter offered about 107 pages outside FOIA and warned they would be destroyed. Letters from August and September 2009 say the records were destroyed under FAA Order 1350.15C. The only record found was a two-page ASIAS Brief Report noting unidentified traffic seen on radar by the crew and ATC near Fort Yukon.
This Brazilian Air Force (FAB) CENDOC file, released via The Black Vault, collects UFO papers from 1977 and 1978. It includes a Salvador Air Base transcription of a 16 December 1977 mission report, in which the crew of C-95 2162 near Vitória saw a large luminous ball and ATC described a mothership with smaller craft. It also holds Ann Schwinn's letter to President Geisel, forwarded with UFO Education Center material promoting George Adamski. Rounding out the file are 24th NORAD Region log extracts on the November 1975 Montana missile-site sightings and Brazilian press clippings.
This FAB CENDOC file, released through The Black Vault, holds material from 1978. Part of it is an issue of International UFO Reporter, edited by J. Allen Hynek, with a long report on the October 21, 1978 disappearance of pilot Fred Valentich over Bass Strait. That report includes his radio transcript, the search, and the competing explanations. The file also has a Brazilian newspaper clipping and a Fourth Regional Air Command investigation of a July 1978 landing report by eleven-year-old Dalton Legnaioli in Penha, São Paulo.
This is a reserved-classification compilation prepared at CINDACTA I in Brasília and signed by 1st Lt. Ademis Freitas, dated 6 August 1978, summarizing known UFO cases involving that air defense and traffic control center. It records pilot, controller and radar reports from 1977 to 1979 with star charts, deliberately without explanations or conclusions. It also includes I COMAR's register of UFO observations from Pará in 1977, including Colares and Santo Antônio do Tauá, plus 1978 O Estado do Pará press clippings.
This Brazilian Air Force CINDACTA file from 1978, released via The Black Vault, collects confidential reports on events at the DPV-DT/61 Gama site near Brasilia on the night of 20 June 1978. Officers, sergeants, soldiers and guards describe a silent, multicolored luminous object making fast maneuvers, along with stones thrown at the THF station and warning shots fired. Radar showed nothing conclusive. The file also contains air traffic control transcripts of airliner crews reporting luminous objects on 23 August and 6 December 1978.
This is an Internet Archive mirror of the FBI Vault web page for Majestic 12, captured on March 19, 2016. The page says that in 1988 two FBI offices received similar versions of a memo titled "Operation Majestic 12" that claimed to be a highly classified government document. The memo appeared to brief newly elected President Eisenhower on a secret committee formed to exploit a recovered extraterrestrial aircraft and hide that work from the public. An Air Force investigation found the document to be a fake.
This FBI file, mirrored by The Black Vault, collects Bureau records on the Majestic 12 document. It opens with a Dallas communication from 1988 about local publicity and a 1952 briefing paper for President-elect Eisenhower that claims a crashed disc and four bodies were recovered near Roswell. The file also holds a later FBIHQ teletype and a 1991 Salt Lake City airtel. The FBI teletype reports that Air Force OSI called the document fabricated and "completely bogus" and orders Dallas to close the case.
This FBI Dallas teletype, released through The Black Vault, was sent to the Director and the Cincinnati SAC. It reports that the Eighth Air Force had advised by telephone that an object purporting to be a flying disc had been recovered near Roswell, New Mexico. The object was hexagonal and hung by cable from a balloon about twenty feet in diameter, and it resembled a high altitude weather balloon with a radar reflector. The disc and balloon were being flown to Wright Field for examination.
This FBI teletype from the Dallas office went to the Director and the Cincinnati Special Agent in Charge and was recorded in July 1947. Eighth Air Force had told the Dallas office by telephone that an object said to be a flying disc was recovered near Roswell, New Mexico. The teletype says the object was hexagonal, hung by cable from a balloon about twenty feet across, and looked like a high altitude weather balloon with a radar reflector. It was being flown to Wright Field for examination.
This FBI file, released by The Black Vault, collects July 1947 Bureau memoranda, teletypes and newspaper clippings about flying disc reports. The memos record a disc found in a Twin Falls, Idaho back yard, a hexagonal object recovered near Roswell that Eighth Air Force said looked like a weather balloon with a radar reflector, and hoax discs at Laurel, Maryland, Black River Falls, Wisconsin, and Shreveport, Louisiana. It also contains Father Brasky's circular saw disc from Grafton, Wisconsin, and Kenneth Arnold's statement about his sighting.
This is section 1 of FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894 on flying discs, compiled in July and August 1947. It collects press clippings, including a report of a disc found by a priest in Grafton, Wisconsin, that a Milwaukee memo treats as a prank involving a circular saw. It also holds a Milwaukee report on a disc found near Black River Falls, a Portland teletype about a pilot's sighting over Myrtle Creek, Oregon, citizen letters, and Hoover's correspondence forwarding material to the War Department.
This FBI file section, serial 448 onward of 62-HQ-83894, gathers UFO correspondence from 1966 to 1977. It includes J. Edgar Hoover's reply to Florence C. Dow of Goffstown, New Hampshire, who had asked whether the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America was backed by communists. Her enclosed July 1966 issue of the AFSCA journal is also in the file. Later items are a 1977 Air Force UFO fact sheet on the end of Project Blue Book and a White House inquiry, to which the FBI replied that it has no jurisdiction over UFO sightings.
This section of FBI file 62-HQ-83894 collects Bureau correspondence on flying disks from 1949 and 1950. Most of it concerns a letter to Walter Winchell, passed on by Ernest Cuneo, from Peter Camerlon Jones, who said he saw a top-shaped silver object in the mountains near Los Angeles in August 1947. Los Angeles agents could not find Jones, and Hoover suggested the letter might be a prank. The file also holds a Navy intelligence report on 6 or 7 discs seen over southern Oregon on 27 May 1949, plus letters from members of the public about Chicago and Toronto.
This section of FBI file 62-HQ-83894 collects Bureau correspondence and memoranda on flying saucers from 1952 to 1954. It holds letters from the public, which J. Edgar Hoover forwarded to the Air Force's Office of Special Investigations, and a 1952 teletype about a saucer-shaped light over the Savannah River Plant. It also includes an FBI Laboratory examination of the burned cap of scoutmaster D. S. DesVergers, which found no identifying residue, and instructions to field offices to refer disc reports to the Air Force.
This section of FBI file 62-HQ-83894 collects Bureau correspondence on flying saucers from 1957 to 1966. It includes a 1957 memo on the rise in UFO reports after Sputnik, in which the Air Force told the FBI that the recent sightings were nonauthentic. It also holds a Havana report of a disc over Matahambre, Cuba, and inquiries about Robert T. Stone's Inter Continental Aerial Research Foundation and a Torrington, Connecticut sighting. Hoover's replies state that UFOs were never within FBI jurisdiction.
This FBI Central Records Center serial 153 from file 62-HQ-83894 comes from the Knoxville field office, file 65-11. It concerns "flying saucers" seen over the Oak Ridge area and is marked Internal Security - X. The enclosures sent to the Bureau were two photographs of reputed flying saucers seen at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in July 1947, and a copy of a Knoxville News-Sentinel clipping. The clipping reports that W. R. Presley photographed an apparent flying saucer over the mountain from his home.
This FBI file serial 164 in 62-HQ-83894 holds several copies of Air Intelligence Requirements Memorandum Number 4, "Unconventional Aircraft," issued 15 February 1949 by the Directorate of Intelligence, Headquarters United States Air Force. Major General C. P. Cabell signed it. It sets out continuing Air Force requirements for information on unconventional aircraft and unidentified flying objects, including "Flying Discs," and tells commands and outside agencies to send reports to the Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson AFB. It also lists detailed reporting questions on sightings, observers, radar data and physical evidence.
This FBI file serial is a 3 October 1966 memo from the Los Angeles office to the FBI Director about Issue No. 24 (July 1966) of Flying Saucers International, the journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America. A Philadelphia IRS employee had sent the issue in, believing an article attributed to a being from the planet Korendor followed the Communist Party line. Los Angeles found no information on the article's recipient, Bob Renaud, and planned no further action. The file also contains the magazine, a convention program and news clippings.
This FBI file on Daniel Fry, released under FOI/PA with 33 pages withheld, collects 1963 memoranda between the New York and Los Angeles field offices. New York found a 1962 letter and agreement signed by Daniel W. Fry about articles for "Understanding" magazine. Los Angeles reported that Fry was president of the Understanding movement and was trying to set up a utopian community at Merlin, Oregon, and it enclosed his book "The White Sands Incident". None of the index references to him were derogatory.
This FBI file, a report from the Seattle field office to the FBI Director dated August 1947, covers the Maury Island flying disc story told by Fred Crisman and Harold Dahl. It says Kenneth Arnold looked into the story for Ray Palmer, and that Army Intelligence officers Davidson and Brown died when their B-25 crashed at Kelso carrying the supposed fragments. The FBI found no sign of sabotage. Crisman and Dahl admitted the material had no connection to discs, and the report names Crisman as the most likely anonymous caller.
This is an FBI FOIA release sent to John Greenewald Jr. of The Black Vault on September 16, 2020, under request 1474900-000. It contains 1964 Albuquerque field office teletypes, airtels and memoranda on Officer Lonnie Zamora's report of an oval object with a red insignia that rose with a roar and flame near Socorro, New Mexico, on April 24, 1964. Agent D. Arthur Byrnes Jr. noted four indentations and burned patches. Kirtland AFB officers said they could not explain Zamora's observations, and the FBI did not investigate.
This is a June 7, 2021 FBI response letter to William Ross Puckett of Helena, Montana, answering FOIPA Request No. 1490770-000 on American Airlines Flight 2292. The FBI says it reviewed 4 pages and is releasing all 4. It notes that some material came from other government agencies and has been referred to them or is under consultation. The letter includes the standard FBI FOIPA Addendum and an Explanation of Exemptions.
This is an FBI FOIA response dated July 11, 2018, sent to Emma Best of MuckRock News and signed by David M. Hardy. It answers a request about Fred Lee Crisman. The FBI reviewed six pages and released one. The other five were referred to the Air Force FOIA Office. The released page is a September 1947 memo from SAC San Francisco on reports of flying discs. It forwards Hamilton Field A-2 letters about sightings on Guam and an investigation at Tacoma and Kelso, Washington.
This is a letter the FBI sent Michael Best on May 11, 2017, answering FOIA request 1347908-000 about Fred Lee Crisman. It releases 9 pages after consulting the CIA. The release includes a March 10, 1970 Seattle FBI memo calling Crisman a scoundrel and doubting that he had any CIA tie. It also includes an anonymous file claiming Crisman was a CIA "Disruption Agent" and a March 1970 FBI transmittal passing that material to the CIA.
This is a FOIA response letter the FBI sent to Michael Best on November 21, 2016, signed by David M. Hardy, about request 1347908-000 on Fred Lee Crisman. The FBI reviewed 53 pages and released 37, with redactions under exemptions (b)(6), (b)(7)(C) and (b)(7)(D). Some material was referred to the Air Force. Other records were transferred to the National Archives, and one record was destroyed in 1977. The letter also explains how to appeal.
This MuckRock release pairs a 29 March 2017 CIA FOIA response letter to Michael Best with a 10 April 1970 CIA memorandum to the FBI Director about Fred Lee Crisman, an author from Tacoma, Washington. The FBI had found the memo and referred it to the CIA, which released it in full. In the memo, CIA Director of Security Howard J. Osborn says a check of Agency records turned up no connection between Crisman and the CIA or its predecessors. He adds that the only reference to Crisman was in Joachim Joesten's 1968 "Truth Letter."
This CIA file, released in 2001, gathers 1952 memoranda from H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of the Office of Scientific Intelligence, to the Director of Central Intelligence, along with draft letters to the Secretary of Defense and the NSC and a briefing on the Air Force position. It concludes that flying saucers carry national security implications, namely mass panic and air defense vulnerability. It recommends expanded scientific research, a public information policy and study of Soviet interest, noting that about 20 percent of roughly 1500 Air Force reports remained unexplained.
This FOIA release from DoD Washington Headquarters Services collects 2017 memoranda by Garry Reid, Director for Defense Intelligence in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. The memoranda concern the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) and former employee Luis Elizondo. According to Reid, Elizondo had no AATIP job responsibilities and inflated his role, and the program ended in 2012. The release also includes both of Elizondo's resignation letters and notes that AFOSI opened an inquiry into whether he mishandled classified information.
This FBI FOIA release, obtained via MuckRock, contains a July 11, 2018 FBI referral letter to the Air Force about Emma Best's request for records on Fred Lee Crisman. The referred material is a 1947 Army Air Forces A-2 intelligence investigative report on a flying disc incident reported at Tacoma, Washington. The agent inspected Dahl's boat and found no trace of damage. The file also holds a July 22, 1947 Venture Press letter asking a pilot to investigate the Maury Island story.
The National Security Agency sent this FOIA response on 6 September 2019 in case 105997, answering John Greenewald's request of 21 December 2018 for Intellipedia entries on Moscovium, Element 115 and Bob Lazar. NSA released three versions of the Intellipedia page on ununpentium, with some material withheld under FOIA exemptions (b)(3) and (b)(6). The pages cover the synthesis, properties and isotopes of element 115. They say Bob Lazar's account of the element is considered pseudoscience and that no openly available empirical evidence supports his claims.
This Department of Defense Freedom of Information Division case file, released to John Greenewald of The Black Vault, covers FOIA requests for DD Form 1910 prepublication review records tied to Luis Elizondo and AATIP. It includes the final response letters, internal memos and request information sheets, along with Elizondo's August 2017 emails to the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review. The file also contains the DD 1910 for the GoFast, Gimbal and FLIR videos, stamped cleared for open publication on August 24, 2017.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued this preliminary assessment on unidentified aerial phenomena, dated 25 June 2021 and released on 24 March 2022 under FOIA case DF-2021-00275. Prepared for congressional committees with the UAP Task Force, it reviews mostly US government reports from November 2004 to March 2021. It finds that limited high-quality data prevents firm conclusions, that UAP clearly pose a flight safety issue, and it proposes five explanatory categories and better standardized reporting.
This FAA record of interview documents a session held January 5, 1987, at the Federal Building in Anchorage, Alaska. Inspector Peter E. Beckner of AAL-207 questioned JAL First Officer Takanori Tamefuji, with interpreter Sayoko Mimoto, about the November 17, 1986 sighting. Tamefuji said he saw very bright, multicolored lights resembling head-on traffic for about five to ten minutes, along with a large green echo on the airborne radar. His seat position kept him from seeing it after that. He rejected reflection and weather explanations and said he was certain he saw something.
This FAA interview transcript, released through the National Archives and The Black Vault, records Pete Beckner of the FAA questioning JAL flight engineer Yoshie Tsukuba on January 15, 1987, with Sayoko Mimoto interpreting. The subject is the UFO that Captain Terauchi reported on November 17, 1986. Tsukuba says he saw clusters of white or amber lights ahead of the aircraft for about ten minutes, plus a fainter second light and a return on the weather radar. He adds that he was still unsure whether it was a UFO.