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This undated chart, released through The Black Vault, is a radar flight path chart prepared at the FAA's Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center. The surviving text is its legend. The legend defines radar return categories: beacon with merged primary, beacon with offset primary, split primary returns and split beacon returns. It lists the chart's preparers as cartographer Phil Shutt, automation specialist Manfred F. Keller and quality assurance specialist Anthony M. Wylie. The text reaches no conclusions and does not name any incident.
This is a CIA Information from Foreign Documents or Radio Broadcasts item, report number 00-W-23682, marked as unevaluated information and dated 9 July 1952, with Greek listed as the source language. It relays the sworn testimony that Oscar Linke, a former mayor of Gleimershausen, and his 11-year-old daughter Gabriella gave to a judge. They described two men in shiny metallic clothing beside a frying-pan-shaped object about 15 meters across, which took off from a forest clearing near Hasselbach in the Soviet Zone.
This Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library file holds 1966 press releases and letters on UFOs from House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford. In March 1966 Ford asked the House Armed Services or Science and Astronautics Committee to hold hearings. He called the Air Force's swamp gas explanation for the Michigan sightings flippant. Later statements say the Air Force had agreed to fund an independent scientific study. An October 7, 1966 release announces that the University of Colorado, under Dr. Edward U. Condon, had been chosen to do it.
This Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library file holds 1966 press releases on UFOs from House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford. In a March 28, 1966 letter, Ford asks the House Armed Services and Science and Astronautics Committees to hold hearings, calling the Air Force's swamp gas explanation of the Michigan sightings flippant. In April statements, Ford says the Air Force has agreed to a university study. The file also contains the October 7, 1966 Air Force announcement choosing the University of Colorado, with Dr. Edward U. Condon as director.
This file from the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, digitized by the Internet Archive, holds Congressman Gerald R. Ford's Fifth District weekly radio scripts from January to June 1966, plus several National Republican Congressional Committee scripts. They deal with President Johnson's budget, inflation, four-year House terms, electoral college reform, foreign aid, the Vietnam War, rent subsidies and Memorial Day. The extracted text does not discuss UFOs.
This is a Truth in Testimony Disclosure Form for the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. Witness David Fravor, CDR USN (Ret), completed it for a hearing on 26 July 2023 about government transparency and accountability of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) programs. He answered no to the question of whether he is a fiduciary of any organization with an interest in the hearing's subject. The form also restates the House rules for witness disclosures and warns that knowingly giving false statements is a crime. It is signed and dated 22 July 2023.
This undated biography of David Fravor comes from the U.S. House Committee Repository. It describes him as a retired naval pilot and former Commander of VFA-41, "The Black Aces," and as one of the primary witnesses in the 2004 USS Nimitz UFO incident. His military career lasted 24 years, 18 of them as a Navy pilot, and included five tours to the Persian Gulf. He commanded a squadron of 12 airplanes and 330 people and retired in 2006.
This is a written statement by retired U.S. Navy Commander David Fravor to the House Oversight Committee. Fravor describes his November 2004 encounter, while commanding VFA-41 aboard the USS Nimitz, with a white Tic Tac shaped object that outmaneuvered his F/A-18F and reappeared 60 miles away in under a minute. He says the incident was never investigated. He also calls for congressional oversight of any government programs that may possess such craft.
This FAA memorandum from Quentin J. Gates, Air Traffic Manager at the Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center, is dated January 9, 1987. It certifies a transcript of radio and interphone communications about Japan Airlines Flight 1628 on November 18, 1986, from 0214 to 0259 UTC. The crew reports unidentified traffic nearby. Military radar notes intermittent primary returns. United Airlines Flight 69 and a military C-130 are vectored to look, but neither sees any other aircraft near the 747.
In July 1995 the U.S. General Accounting Office issued report GAO/NSIAD-95-187 to Representative Steven H. Schiff on its search for government records about the 1947 crash near Roswell, New Mexico. GAO found that some Roswell Army Air Field records, including outgoing messages from 1946 to 1949, had been destroyed with no stated authority. Only two 1947 records turned up: a 509th Bomb Group history and an FBI teletype. Both describe the recovered object as a radar-tracking or weather balloon.
This is a 1978 investigation report by GEPAN, the unidentified aerial phenomena study group of France's CNES, about the 29 August 1967 sighting at Cussac, Cantal. It was published in 2005 by the Démocratie soucoupique site with CNES approval. Investigators questioned two child witnesses, a gendarme, and neighbours, and ran theodolite reconstructions and odour tests. The report finds the accounts coherent and rejects the helicopter explanation. It concludes that the witnesses saw the hurried departure of an unknown crewed vehicle.
This is a statement for the congressional record by George Knapp, chief investigative reporter for KLAS TV in Las Vegas, submitted to Rep. Burchett and his committee; the text gives no date. Knapp describes his UFO reporting since 1987, his work with Senator Harry Reid and Robert Bigelow's NIDS, and Russian military UFO studies he learned about in Moscow in 1993. He says the $22 million secured by Reid funded AAWSAP, a DIA program, rather than AATIP. He adds that AAWSAP's reports, including one on the 2004 Tic Tac case, have never been made public.
This is a Truth in Testimony Disclosure Form filed with the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability for its July 26, 2023 hearing, "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency." Witness Ryan Graves appeared as Executive Director of Americans for Safe Aerospace and also listed his role as CEO and podcast host of Merged Point. He reported no federal grants or contracts and no foreign government payments. The form is signed and dated July 24, 2023.
This undated biography of Ryan Graves comes from the U.S. House Committee Repository. It describes him as a former U.S. Navy lieutenant and F/A-18F pilot who served for a decade and was the first active duty pilot to speak publicly about regular UAP sightings. He founded and leads Americans for Safe Aerospace and is the first Chair of the AIAA UAP Integration and Outreach Committee. The biography also notes his earlier work on military autonomy at BAE Systems FAST Labs.
This is the written testimony of Ryan Graves, a former Navy F/A-18 pilot and founder of Americans for Safe Aerospace, to the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs at its first public UAP hearing. He describes regular UAP sightings by squadron VFA-11 off Virginia Beach from 2014, including a near miss with a cube inside a sphere in Warning Area W-72. He argues that UAP are underreported and stigmatized, that the data is overclassified, and that commercial pilots need a way to report them.
This Truth in Testimony Disclosure Form was filed with the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability's Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs. It covers the July 26, 2023 hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) whistleblowers. The witness is David Charles Grusch, a former Senior Intelligence Officer with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and Chief Operating Officer of The Sol Foundation for Advanced Studies. He reports no foreign or federal grants or contracts, and the form is signed and dated 7/23/23.
This undated biography, a resume of David C. Grusch, comes from the U.S. House Committee Repository. It lists his active TOP SECRET//SCI clearance, his education and his professional certifications. It also covers his career as a U.S. Air Force intelligence officer, as a DoD-contracted technical advisor, and at the NRO and the NGA, where he was the lead for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena and Trans-Medium issues. Since May 2023 he has been Chief Operating Officer of The Sol Foundation.
This is the written statement David Charles Grusch submitted to a U.S. House committee, with his opening and closing remarks. The document is undated. Grusch describes himself as a former Air Force intelligence officer and NGA UAP co-lead who served on the UAP Task Force. He says he learned in the course of his duties of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program, was denied access to it, filed a whistleblower complaint, and suffered retaliation. He asks Congress to investigate.
This is the printed record of a July 26, 2023 hearing of the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, published by the U.S. Government Publishing Office as Serial No. 118-53. Witnesses Ryan Graves, David Grusch and retired Commander David Fravor testified about unidentified anomalous phenomena. Members pressed for government transparency, criticized AARO's classified budget and stigma against reporting, and Graves described a near miss with a dark cube inside a clear sphere.
This memorandum from committee staff to members of the House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs is dated July 21, 2023. It announces a July 26, 2023 hearing in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building on unidentified anomalous phenomena and their implications for national security, public safety, and government transparency. The hearing was to examine firsthand accounts from pilots and officials and how pilots report UAP. Witnesses listed are Ryan Graves, David Grusch, and retired Commander David Fravor.
This notice was sent by James Comer, Chairman, to members of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability on July 19, 2023. It announces a hearing of the Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs titled "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency." The hearing was set for July 26, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2154 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The notice also explains how members could submit materials for the hearing record.
This FAA Inspection and Surveillance Record, Form 3112, is dated 11/17/86 and comes from the Anchorage district office AAC-ASDO-63. Inspector Jack Wright wrote it after interviewing the crew of JAL Boeing 747 cargo Flight 1628 from Iceland to Anchorage. Captain Terauchi reported an object with lights that was bigger than the 747 and followed the aircraft for about 55 minutes after it crossed the Canadian-Alaskan border. The crew also saw it on weather radar. The inspector described the crew as shaken but professional and noted that tapes were requested to be saved.
This file is an inventory of audio cassettes attributed to the FAA and released through the National Archives and The Black Vault. It has no date. The extracted text holds only The Black Vault's cover page, which says John Greenewald, Jr. made the document available through FOIA declassification research. None of the inventory itself or any case details came through in the extracted text.
This is a Historic American Buildings Survey data page for the Japhet Leeds House in Leeds Point, Atlantic County, New Jersey, held by the Library of Congress under survey number NJ-399. Supervising historian Walter E. Rutt of Newark dated the entry April 26, 1959. It records that Japhet B. Leeds built the stone house in 1814 and that a frame addition was made in 1858. It names Jesse Mathis as the owner at the time and cites record searches at Mays Landing and Woodbury.
This Black Vault compilation gathers records tied to Jimmy Carter and UFOs. It contains NICAP and International UFO Bureau sighting forms, filled out in 1973, on Carter's October 1969 sighting at Leary, Georgia. He described a bright object, bluish then reddish, that about ten Lions Club members watched for 10 to 12 minutes. The file also holds White House, OSTP, NASA and NSC letters and memos from 1977 and 1978. In them, NASA declines to open a new UFO investigation and agrees to handle public inquiries.
This memorandum opinion by U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, dated March 27, 2007, rules in Leslie Kean's FOIA suit against NASA over records about the object said to have crashed in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania on December 9, 1965. The court found NASA had not shown its searches were adequate and noted likely overlooked Cosmos 96 records. It upheld NASA's withholding of two emails under Exemption 5 and ordered the parties to propose new search procedures.
This FAA file, released through The Black Vault, collects correspondence and memos about the Japan Air Lines flight 1628 UFO report over Alaska on November 17, 1986. It includes Philip J. Klass's 1987 Skeptical Inquirer article, which attributes the sighting to Jupiter, Mars and moonlit ice clouds, and FAA Alaskan Region public affairs memos on the premature release of investigation material. It also contains Richard F. Haines's request for the case file and Paul Steucke's reply explaining the radar returns as uncorrelated targets.
This is a June 24, 2009 letter from U.S. Senator Harry Reid to Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn III. Reid writes that the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) has produced several highly sensitive, unconventional aerospace-related findings. He asks for a Restricted Special Access Program with a Bigoted Access List to protect parts of the program, including its methods, personnel and industry partners. An attachment lists proposed program details and personnel, among them Luis Elizondo and Hal Puthoff.
This illustrated dossier from the Comune di Firenze, edited by R. Martellacci and E. Pieri, covers the Stadio Giovanni Berta (now Artemio Franchi) in the Campo di Marte district of Florence. It does not give a date. Engineer Pier Luigi Nervi designed the stadium, which was built between 1930 and 1932. The dossier places it among Florence's fascist-era architecture and describes its reinforced concrete structures and the renovation done for Italia '90. It ends with a bibliography and a list of archival sources.
This Project Blue Book index page, hosted by NICAP and undated, lists UFO reports by location, observer and Air Force evaluation. Entries run from Tempe, Arizona and Oak Ridge, Tennessee to Newfoundland, Alaska, China and California. Evaluations include Insufficient Data, Balloon, Meteor, Hoax, Fireworks, Chaff and several UNIDENTIFIED. Some cases are marked missing, some are kept in separate folders, and a note says no physical specimens are included.
This is a Reagan Library topic guide on Operation Majestic 12 (the MJ-12 document), prepared by Ronald Reagan Presidential Library staff. It is a finding aid, not a record of events. It lists where related material is held: case files in the White House Office of Records Management subject files and the files of White House Science Advisor George A. Keyworth III (1981 to 1985). It notes that some material may still be withheld under Freedom of Information Act restrictions.
This is a Ministry of Defence reply to a request for current information on two alleged UFO incidents: the Berwyn Mountains in Wales and Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk. The MOD dates the Berwyn events to 24 January 1974. It says UFO records for that period are open at The National Archives, Kew, and names files AIR 2/18873 and AIR 2/18874. It adds that all MOD records on the Rendlesham Forest incident are in its Freedom of Information Publication Scheme online.
This Ministry of Defence file, released through The National Archives and published by The Black Vault, holds the MOD's 2002 handling of Dr David Clarke's requests for UFO documents under the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information. It includes the MOD's 9 December 2002 reply, which covered reports from 1976, 1980, 1993 and 1996 and charged £260. It also contains internal emails and file requisitions, plus Foreign Office and United Nations papers from 1978 on Grenada's proposal for UFO research.
This is an 1880 book, The Apparitions and Miracles at Knock, prepared and edited by John MacPhilpin of Tuam and published in Dublin by M. H. Gill and Son. The Internet Archive holds a Google scan of the Harvard College Library copy. It reprints Tuam News accounts and the official depositions of eye-witnesses to the apparition of 21 August 1879 on the sacristy gable of Knock Church, County Mayo. It argues that natural light could not have caused the apparition and lists cures recorded in Archdeacon Cavanagh's diary.
This FAA Alaskan Region compilation, released through the National Archives and The Black Vault, collects the media inquiries about the November 17, 1986 sighting reported by the crew of Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 over Alaska. It includes call logs, a tally of newspaper articles, a public affairs management report citing 101 inquiries, and press releases. The FAA's March 5, 1987 release concluded that the second radar target was a split return from the JAL Boeing 747 and said no further investigation was planned.
This is an attendance roster kept by the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability's Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs in the 118th Congress. It covers the July 26, 2023 hearing "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency," which convened at 10:06 a.m. and adjourned at 12:22 p.m. The roster marks which Republican and Democratic members attended, including Chairman Grothman, Ranking Member Garcia and several members who waived on.
This FAA Alaskan Region file, released through The Black Vault, collects public affairs material on the November 17, 1986 sighting by the crew of Japan Airlines flight 1628. It includes a 1987 Alaska PRSA Aurora Award entry and Paul Steucke's January 5, 1987 memo, which planned a single release of all data at a March 5, 1987 press conference. It also contains UFO group contact sheets, a Phenomena Research Report newsletter and Anchorage Times clippings, including one attributing a flash over Alaska to Soviet rocket fuel.
This U.S. Navy FOIA email chain from June and July 2020 covers the handling of request DON-NAVY-2020-007330. That request sought records on the history and custody of videos of two F-18 Hornets tracking a UFO, which were cited in AFOSI file 3290517356125. NAWCAD records staff, N2N6's Joe Gradisher and several Navy judge advocates discuss which office should answer it, and staff identify the footage as the Gimbal video from VFA-11. Carrier Strike Group Eight, CVW-1 and VFA-11 found no responsive records, so a no-records response was prepared.
This National Military Command Center memorandum for record, signed by the NMCC Deputy Director for Operations and made available through NICAP, records phone reports from the NORAD Command Director about unidentified objects near Malmstrom AFB, Montana. Heightfinder radar tracked the objects while personnel at several SAC sites saw lights and heard jet-like engine noise. Two F-106 interceptors were scrambled but could not intercept them, and witnesses said the lights went off whenever the fighters arrived. NORAD ruled out Northern Lights and listed the incident as an unknown fade.
This memorandum for record comes from the Deputy Director for Operations of the National Military Command Center (NMCC), a US Army brigadier general. It records NORAD phone reports of lights, jet engine sounds and height-finder radar returns at Malmstrom AFB and nearby SAC sites in Montana, including over Lewistown. Two F-106 interceptors were scrambled but could not intercept the objects, which reportedly turned their lights off while the fighters were present. NORAD ruled out Northern Lights and carried the incident as a fade remaining unknown.
This U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission FOIA release contains a November 9, 1984 request from Lawrence Fawcett of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy, along with the NRC's reply. The request describes a July 14, 1984 report by Power Authority Police of a boomerang-shaped object with 12 lights hovering near Reactor 3 at the Indian Point Nuclear Power Station in Buchanan, New York. In a November 21, 1984 letter, the NRC said it had found no documents on the matter.
This Black Vault release contains the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's March 23, 2017 response to John Greenewald's FOIA request 2017-0368 for UFO records collected since 1975. The NRC withheld identifying information. The records cover three allegation files. The first is a 2010 Region IV case about a former security officer who said a triangular UFO hovered over the protected area at Cooper Nuclear Station between 1986 and 1989. The other two are a 1997 letter claiming DoD flew nuclear-powered craft from New Mexico and a 1998 California complaint.