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This is a 2021 US Nuclear Regulatory Commission response to FOIA request NRC-2021-000177 from John Greenewald, published by The Black Vault. The request sought UAP and UFO records collected since 1975. Only NRC Region I found responsive records. The release includes a 1984 request from Citizens Against UFO Secrecy about a reported July 14, 1984 boomerang-shaped object over the Indian Point nuclear plant, along with the NRC's reply that it had no such documents. It also contains 2015 NRC emails about an unidentified object seen near the Pilgrim plant.
On 21 May 2018, the National Security Agency's FOIA/PA Office sent this letter to John Greenewald Jr. of The Black Vault under FOIA Case 104228. He had asked for the Intellipedia entry on the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP). NSA said a thorough search of Intellipedia files found no responsive records. It noted that Intellipedia pages are not coordinated Intelligence Community positions and explained how to appeal the adverse determination within 90 days.
This is an April 5, 2022 Department of the Navy FOIA response to John Greenewald of The Black Vault on case DON-NAVY-2022-001613. It releases one partially redacted four-page document from the Navy Office of Legislative Affairs. The document describes a January 2019 meeting at which an F/A-18 pilot from VFA-103 briefed Senate Armed Services Committee staffers on an anomalous aerial vehicle detection event in 2015 off the U.S. east coast. According to the record, staffers were disappointed that the Navy did not act.
This Black Vault release contains two Department of the Navy FOIA response letters dated October 10, 2024, sent to John Greenewald. Both direct him to a redacted NASA briefing in the Navy's online Reading Room. Also included are September 2020 emails between the UAP Task Force and NASA's interagency liaison, and the UAPTF's redacted slide deck dated 31 August 2020. The slides describe the 2020 NDAA mandate, the effort to de-stigmatize reporting, partner agencies, and the 2004 Nimitz "Tic Tac" case.
This Black Vault mirror compiles heavily redacted, SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY Navy "Range Fouler Reporting Forms" dated from 2004 to 2021. The first form covers a 14 November 2004 event about 30 nautical miles off Mexico, southwest of San Diego, involving the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group. It describes a solid white, smooth object about 46 feet long with no wings, and notes that reporting ended at 3rd Fleet. Later forms describe unidentified small aircraft, suspected UAS and a near mid-air collision.
This FAA file, released through the National Archives and The Black Vault, collects 1987 newspaper clippings about Japan Air Lines Flight 1628. Capt. Kenju Terauchi reported that lights and a huge walnut-shaped object followed his 747 cargo jet over Alaska on November 17, 1986. The articles quote FAA spokesman Paul Steucke saying the radar returns were a split image and military clutter, and report Philip Klass's explanation that Terauchi saw Jupiter and Mars. Terauchi's second sighting in January was attributed to village lights reflecting off ice crystals.
This is a NewsNation article dated June 11, 2023, entered into the U.S. House Committee Repository by Rep. Luna. It profiles David Grusch, a former Air Force intelligence officer and member of the UAP Task Force. Grusch claims the United States runs a crash retrieval program holding non-human vehicles and possibly bodies, and that he filed a whistleblower complaint which the inspector general found urgent and credible. The article notes that he has no smoking-gun documents and no official confirmation.
This combined PDF of newspaper clippings, attributed to NICAP and the USAF with no date given, reports Lt. George Gorman's October 1 night encounter over Fargo, North Dakota. Gorman, of the North Dakota Air National Guard's 178th Fighter Squadron, said a small lighted object outran and outmaneuvered his F-51 for nearly half an hour, making head-on passes before climbing out of sight. Two control tower operators and a Cub pilot, optometrist Dr. A. E. Cannon, supported his account.
This Black Vault copy reproduces an article by Captain Henry S. Shields of HQ USAFE/INOMP titled "Now You See It, Now You Don't!" It recounts a late-1976 episode near Tehran in which two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 crews chased a bright object. Both jets lost instruments or communications, and one crew watched smaller objects detach, with one coming down to the ground. The article says no further explanation came, and it notes that the results of later radiation tests were never reported.
This is an article by Captain Henry S. Shields of HQ USAFE/INOMP, here in a copy held by the National Security Agency. It recounts how two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom crews encountered UFOs near Tehran in late 1976. The crews reported losing instruments, communications and weapons control. They said a smaller object detached and chased one jet, and that another object came down and lit the ground. A helicopter search the next day found nothing unusual, and the results of later tests were not reported.
This is the restricted record of a confidential hearing held on 24 November 2014 by the French Parliament's Office parlementaire d'évaluation des choix scientifiques et technologiques (OPECST), chaired by Jean-Yves Le Déaut. The hearing examined unidentified drones flying over French nuclear installations. SGDSN head Louis Gautier reported 40 overflights of 19 sites since 10 September, including six plants overflown at once on 31 October. Industry and military speakers judged the drones to be misused civilian models, and officials said helicopters had never seen one.
This is the official record (compte rendu no. 56) of a public hearing held by the French Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices (OPECST) on 24 November 2014, chaired by deputy Jean-Yves Le Déaut. The hearing covered drone overflights of French nuclear installations: at least twenty drones had flown over nuclear sites in violation of the law. Drone makers, operators, regulators and nuclear safety officials took part. The chair concluded that the flights looked like an organised operation and that some changes to the law might be needed.
This is the official transcript of a July 26, 2023 hearing held by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Accountability's Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs. The hearing was titled "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency." Ryan Graves, David Grusch and retired Commander David Fravor testified. Members pressed for transparency and whistleblower protections, and Graves described a near miss involving a dark cube inside a clear sphere.
This is the official transcript of a July 26, 2023 hearing held by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability's Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, titled "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency." Witnesses Ryan Graves, David Grusch and retired Commander David Fravor testified under oath. Members pressed for transparency, and Graves described a near midair encounter with a cube inside a clear sphere.
This French Gendarmerie procès-verbal, no. 600 of 1990, is held in the GEIPAN (CNES) files. It records two farmers who phoned the gendarmerie on 6 November 1990 and were formally heard on 14 November. Both saw a luminous trail on 5 November 1990 around 18:30 to 19:00: a round red or orange object topped by a small light, moving west to east for 20 to 40 seconds. Press clippings are attached, and the report notes NASA's conclusion that the lights were a Soviet rocket third stage re-entering the atmosphere.
This package was compiled by the FAA Alaskan Region Public Affairs Office in Anchorage and sent to FAA managers with a memo from Paul Steucke dated March 5, 1987. It gathers material on the November 17, 1986 sighting by the crew of Japan Air Lines flight 1628: a news release, pilot and controller transcripts, crew interviews and radar analysis. The FAA concluded that it could not confirm the event. It attributed the second radar target to a split, uncorrelated return from the JAL Boeing 747 and planned no further investigation.
This NICAP extract, compiled by Dan Wilson and undated, collects the statements of Eastern Air Lines pilot Capt. Clarence S. Chiles and co-pilot John B. Whitted on Trip 576, together with an Air Force check-list for unidentified flying objects. The pilots describe a wingless, cigar-shaped object about 100 feet long that passed their DC-3 near Montgomery, Alabama, at 2:45 AM in July 1948. They report two rows of lit windows and a flame exhaust. The object made no sound and pulled up into clouds.
This release from the Federal Aviation Administration, made public through The Black Vault, is a set of FAA Form 7230-10 position logs from the Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center dated November 17, 1986, with a November 18, 1986 stamp. The handwritten forms show controller initials and the times they signed on and off sectors such as Sector 15. Codes mark whether a controller, a supervisor or a trainee held each position. The logs contain no narrative or conclusions.
This document, released as additional information for Australian Senate Estimates, reproduces the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's Preliminary Assessment on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, dated 25 June 2021. It was prepared for congressional committees under Senate Report 116-233 and covers mostly US Government reports from November 2004 to March 2021. It finds that limited data hampers firm conclusions and that most UAP are probably physical objects. It proposes five explanatory categories and concludes that UAP pose a flight safety issue and possibly a national security challenge.
This US Air Force Project Blue Book file, hosted by the Sign Historical Group, centres on a 13 November 1968 letter from Lt Col Hector Quintanilla, Jr., chief of the Aerial Phenomena Branch, evaluating the 24 October 1968 UFO sightings at Minot AFB. It attributes the ground sightings to the star Sirius and a B-52, and the B-52 radar contact and radio loss possibly to a plasma. It also includes a sequence of events, witness summaries, star tables, an Eielson AFB case card and notes on autokinesis.
This 92-page Project Blue Book file, released through The Black Vault, covers the 7 January 1948 sighting at Godman Field, Fort Knox, Kentucky. It holds control tower witness reports, a record of the P-51 pursuit led by Captain Thomas Mantell, AMC requests for theodolite readings and weather data, and astronomical tables for Venus and the Moon. One analysis concludes the object was not Venus and calls the sighting unexplained. The file also includes a 1964 letter to the Simpson County coroner about Mantell's death.
This Project Blue Book file, released through The Black Vault, collects US Air Force records from 1950 to 1959 on the movie film Nicholas Mariana shot at Great Falls, Montana on 15 August 1950. It includes the OSI interview report, letters about borrowing and copying the film, and a 1956 Douglas Aircraft analysis. Blue Book's own findings were not consistent: one letter lists the cause as unknown, while later memos conclude the objects were probably two F-94 jets.
This Project Blue Book file on the Socorro, New Mexico sighting, held by the Internet Archive, collects Air Force records and 1964 press clippings. It covers policeman Lonnie Zamora's April 24, 1964 report of an egg-shaped object with four legs, the scorched brush and ground depressions, and Dr. J. Allen Hynek's investigation. An Air Force summary says soil and brush analysis found no radiation or propellant and the case stayed open. Later New Mexico reports were judged known objects or hoaxes.
This Black Vault release compiles 1964 newspaper and wire service clippings plus a Project Blue Book summary on the Socorro, New Mexico sighting by policeman Lonnie Zamora on April 24, 1964, when an egg-shaped object left four depressions and burned brush. It covers J. Allen Hynek's site visit, APRO and NICAP comment, and related New Mexico reports at La Madera, Edgewood and Albuquerque. The Air Force summary reports that soil and brush analysis found no radiation or propellant, and the case remained open.
This Project Blue Book file on the Socorro, New Mexico sighting of 24 April 1964 compiles an Air Force record card and a large set of press clippings. The clippings cover policeman Lonnie Zamora's report of an egg-shaped object with four landing marks and scorched brush, plus J. Allen Hynek's investigation and follow-up reports from La Madera, Edgewood and elsewhere. An Air Force summary says soil and brush analysis found no foreign material, radiation or propellant, that the case remains open, and that later related sightings were explained or found to be hoaxes.
This is Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14, "Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects," Project No. 10073, dated 5 May 1955. The study reduced about 4,000 sighting reports received by the U.S. Air Force between June 1947 and December 1952 to IBM punched cards and analyzed them statistically, including chi square tests comparing knowns with unknowns. It concludes that the reports very probably do not represent technological developments beyond present scientific knowledge, and it notes that no case produced physical evidence.
This Project Blue Book case file compilation, hosted by NICAP, covers Rex Heflin's photographs of a UFO taken near Santa Ana, California, on 3 August 1965. It includes an Air Force investigation report by Captain Charles F. Reichmuth, a USMC El Toro G-2 report, an FTD photo analysis dated 14 August 1965, correspondence with Ralph Rankow and Congressman James B. Utt, and newspaper clippings. The analysis concluded the object was about one to three feet in diameter, close to the camera, and could not be the size reported.
This Project Blue Book case file, released through The Black Vault, collects records on the 24 July 1948 sighting by two Eastern Airlines pilots of a wingless object about 20 miles southwest of Montgomery, Alabama. It contains teletype replies from military bases reporting no aircraft movements, a 1948 Project Sign special investigation report with an interview of a Robins Air Force Base witness, and a December 1948 intelligence report. It also includes newspaper extracts, a Harvard College Observatory letter and Hynek's Project Grudge evaluation index.
This US Air Force Project Blue Book case file on Kenneth Arnold's sighting of nine objects near Mount Rainier, Washington, on 24 June 1947 was released through The Black Vault. It contains the Project 10073 record card, which concludes the objects were a mirage, plus Arnold's telegram, questionnaire data and interview notes. It also includes J. Allen Hynek's analysis arguing the objects were closer and slower than Arnold estimated. Other items are David Johnson's sworn statement on a Boise sighting, a Tacoma investigation telegram and news clippings.
This 81-page Project Blue Book case file covers the Levelland, Texas sightings of the night of 2 to 3 November 1957. It holds the record card, Air Force teletype reports from the 1006th AISS and radar units, witness questionnaires, press clippings about the White Sands sightings, and analyst memos. Several witnesses said a bluish-white oval object stopped their car engines. The Air Force concluded the cause was ball lightning in stormy weather, with wet or faulty ignition systems explaining the engine failures.
This 217-page Project Blue Book desk file on the 24 April 1964 Socorro, New Mexico sighting by policeman Lonnie Zamora comes from the Rob Mercer collection. It contains the Blue Book record card, which carries the case as unidentified pending more data, along with Foreign Technology Division messages and resumes and a narrative of the sighting. It also holds inquiries about lunar modules, helicopters and VTOL craft, soil and radiation findings, and a letter by J. Allen Hynek rejecting Donald Menzel's hoax hypothesis.
This NICAP compilation by Dan Wilson gathers Project Blue Book records on the sighting of 24 February 1959, when American Airlines Flight 139, flying from Newark to Detroit, and two United Airlines crews saw three lights over Pennsylvania and Ohio. It includes the record card, pilot statements, Air Force letters and correspondence with an Akron UFO committee. The Air Force concluded that the lights came from three B-47s refueling from KC-97 tankers. Book excerpts disputing Captain Killian's later claims are also included.
This file of USAF Project Blue Book records, released through NICAP, covers a sighting at New Delhi, India on 15 March 1951. It holds a Project record card, a 21 May 1952 message, and an Air Intelligence Information Report of 26 March 1951 from the US Air Attache. That report describes a cigar-shaped object seen over Safdarjang Airdrome by the Delhi Flying Club chief engineer and about 25 witnesses. Blue Book listed the case as UNIDENTIFIED.
This secret Project Blue Book investigation report, numbered T53-11156, covers a combined air-visual, ground-visual, air-radar and ground-radar sighting near Rapid City and Blackhawk, South Dakota, on 5 August 1953. It records interviews with the radar controller and two F-84 pilots who chased a light, checks of weather balloon tracks, and comments on how reliable each witness was. It suggests that a balloon, a star such as Capella, or an equipment malfunction may explain the sighting, but it carries the incident as Unsolved.
This U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book case file, hosted by The Black Vault, covers a fireball seen on 9 December 1965 over Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Canada, and concludes it was a meteor. It holds memos on calls about Acme, Pennsylvania, where a search from the Oakdale Radar Site found nothing, plus letters from witnesses and a photographer. It also includes a Sky and Telescope article on the Great Lakes fireball and letters identifying material found in Lapeer County as chaff.
This Project Blue Book file, released through The Black Vault, covers the RB-47 encounter of 17 July 1957 over Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma. It includes the record card, which lists the sighting as identified as American Airlines flight 655, and Air Defense Command correspondence that carried the sighting as unknown. There is also Major Lewis D. Chase's observer data sheet and an electronic analysis finding it difficult to conclude nothing was present. James McDonald's reconstructed account is included, along with a CAA letter about airliner incidents.
This USAF Project Blue Book file, distributed by NICAP, covers the radar and visual sightings at Bentwaters and Lakenheath, England, on 13 and 14 August 1956. It contains the record card, Air Intelligence Information Reports, ATIC correspondence with Dr. J. Allen Hynek, and a retired controller's later letter to the University of Colorado describing an RAF interceptor being tailed. The Air Force attributed the radar returns to anomalous propagation and meteors, and the visual sighting to Mars.
This Project Blue Book file, released through NICAP, covers the August 1956 radar and visual UFO sightings at RAF Bentwaters and Lakenheath, England. It contains radar operator statements, pilot intercept accounts, weather data and USAF teletype messages. It also includes ATIC analyses suggesting weather returns or Perseid meteors, and an October 1956 memorandum by Dr. J. Allen Hynek. Hynek judged the meteor explanation unlikely, called for better data and relayed Dr. Whipple's proposal for camera sky patrols.
This Project Blue Book file from the USAF, released via The Black Vault, covers the 16 January 1958 sighting at Trindade Island. Its record card says two Rio de Janeiro newspapers printed photos of an alleged flying saucer taken from a Brazilian naval ship, and that ONI analysis judged them a hoax. The file also holds galley proofs from a Menzel book arguing the Barauna photographs were faked, plus APRO Bulletin and NICAP material.
This 1976 National Archives guide describes microfilm publication T1206, which holds the textual records of Project Blue Book, the US Air Force's investigations of unidentified flying objects. Names of people involved in sightings are removed. The records are on 94 rolls of 35 mm microfilm and include administrative files, case files arranged by date from 1947 to 1969, and Office of Special Investigations files. The guide lists the contents of each roll and of each administrative box, including the Sign, Grudge and Twinkle reports and Special Report No. 14.