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This is a July 28, 1995 report from the General Accounting Office to Representative Steven H. Schiff on its search for government records about the July 1947 crash near Roswell, New Mexico. The GAO found only two records from 1947: a July 1947 history of the 509th Bomb Group and Roswell Army Air Field, and a July 8 FBI teletype. Both describe the object as a radar-tracking or weather balloon. The report also says some Roswell Army Air Field administrative records and outgoing messages were destroyed without any recorded authority.
This Joint Chiefs of Staff message, released by the National Security Agency, forwards a September 1976 intelligence report from the US Defense Attache Office in Tehran about a UFO sighting over Tehran on 19 September 1976. It says citizens in the Shemiran area reported strange objects, and two F-4 jets were then scrambled. Both jets lost instruments or communications as they approached the object, and a second object came out of the first and headed toward one of them. The report adds that the landing area and the aircraft were being checked for radiation.
This file combines a Defense Intelligence Agency routing and transmittal slip from Louis E. Foster with a US Defense Attache Office Tehran report dated 22 September 1976, released by the National Security Agency. The report describes a UFO sighting over Tehran on 19 September 1976. Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4s were scrambled, and both lost instrumentation or communications as they approached the object. The report also describes smaller objects coming out of the main object, one apparently landing, and a later helicopter search of the area.
This is a short State Department cable from the American Embassy in Tunis to the American Embassy in Algiers, dated March 1975. It was also sent to the Secretary of State in Washington, the Embassy in Rabat and US military European commands, and is filed among National Security Agency records. The cable says Tunisia has had no recent reports of UFO sightings. It adds that the embassy can shed no light on the phenomena described in the referenced telegram.
This National Security Agency release is a COMNAVSECGRU report of a visual sighting. The report is undated, and the document was declassified by COMNAVSECGRU on April 30, 1979. It describes a light that pulsed at first and then gave off concentric rings, followed by a reddish-green beam like a searchlight. The beam and core then formed a nebulous cloud that drifted south and faded after about 14 minutes. Weather data are included, and an electrical storm was noted over a city whose name is garbled.
This is an affidavit by Eugene F. Yeates, Chief of the National Security Agency's Office of Policy, filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia in Citizens Against Unidentified Flying Objects Secrecy v. NSA, Civil Action No. 80-1562, and sworn in September 1980. It traces the plaintiff's FOIA requests for NSA's UFO records and the CIA referrals of NSA documents. Yeates says the COMINT reports stay classified in full, and he describes four non-COMINT records that were released in part or found not responsive.
This National Security Agency release, of unknown date, collects communications intelligence (COMINT) message excerpts classified Secret Spoke and Top Secret Umbra. The messages report radar tracking of unidentified flying objects, giving times, directions of movement, distances and altitudes ranging from about 10,000 to 100,000 feet. Most entries describe the objects as probably balloons. The locations of the tracking are redacted, and some serial lines refer to March and April 1979.
This National Security Agency release, Part B of a set of Communications Intelligence (COMINT) reports, carries no date. It is a heavily redacted collection of intercepted message traffic classified Top Secret Umbra. The messages log radar tracking of unidentified flying objects, noting times, counts, directions of travel and altitudes from about 8,200 to 88,000 feet. Nearly every object is labeled as probably a balloon, and most moved slowly toward the west.
This National Security Agency release gathers COMINT message traffic classified up to Top Secret Umbra, including a message dated August 1978, and one message cites COS Taipei. The messages list radar tracking of unidentified flying objects by time window, count, direction of movement and altitude. Most entries describe the objects as probably balloons moving slowly toward the west, at altitudes from about 6,500 to 100,000 feet. The released text has the place names redacted.
This National Security Agency release, Part D of a series of Communications Intelligence (COMINT) reports, is undated and heavily redacted. It is made up of intercepted message sections classified Top Secret Umbra and Secret Spoke. Most entries describe radar tracking of unidentified flying objects, usually labeled as probable balloons, with times, numbers of objects, headings and altitudes between about 25,500 and 95,300 feet. One fragment mentions an increase in flying saucer activity linked to an unnamed plan.
This National Security Agency release, Part E of a series of Communications Intelligence (COMINT) reports, is undated and heavily redacted. It contains classified message traffic marked Secret Spoke and Top Secret Umbra. The messages record radar tracking of unidentified flying objects, often several at a time, at altitudes from about 500 to 88,500 feet. Most entries describe the objects as probably balloons. Locations, sources and many dates have been removed.
This National Security Agency release, Part F of a series of Communications Intelligence (COMINT) reports, collects heavily redacted intercept messages with no stated date. Most entries record radar tracking of unidentified flying objects by altitude, speed, heading and time, often in groups, and most are marked as probably or believed to be balloons, inferred from appearance and altitude. One message describes a large white semicircular object seen for about ten minutes before it moved west.
This National Security Agency release, labeled Part G of its Communications Intelligence (COMINT) reports, contains undated, heavily redacted message traffic. The intercepts record radar tracking of unidentified flying objects, usually several at a time, moving westward at altitudes of roughly 5,000 to 99,000 feet. Many are marked as probable balloons, and one entry names Makung and objects crossing a strait. One report describes two unidentifiable objects flying at about 930 km/h on 5 June and says it could not be determined whether they were aircraft, missiles or something else.
This National Security Agency release, Part H of a series of Communications Intelligence (COMINT) reports, is undated and marked Top Secret Umbra. It is a set of heavily redacted message excerpts reporting radar tracking of unidentified flying objects. The entries give times, headings, distances in nautical miles and altitudes that reach about 100,000 feet. Several of the objects are labeled as probable balloons. Locations and sources are withheld, and the text reaches no broader conclusions.
This National Security Agency release, Part I of a set of Communications Intelligence (COMINT) reports, carries no date. It holds heavily redacted intercept excerpts, and most of them record radar tracking of unidentified flying objects, with times, bearings, distances and altitudes. Many of these tracks are labeled as believed or probable balloons. Other excerpts describe visual sightings, including 14 objects flying in groups of three and a luminous spiral object that observers took for a guided missile.
This National Security Agency release, Part J of a series of Communications Intelligence (COMINT) reports, is undated. It gathers heavily redacted intercept and message fragments that describe radar tracking of unidentified flying objects, with times, bearings, altitudes and speeds. One intelligence summary (INTSUM 33-68) reports radar and visual UFO sightings and says a five-man electronics team is being sent to investigate. It adds that reliable American observers believe the objects were satellites or space debris, and that propaganda balloons are also possible.
This unclassified Department of State airgram, drafted by First Secretary of Embassy C. A. Squire in March 1968 and held in NSA files, forwards a Moskovskiy Komsomolets article of February 16, 1968 by Novosti science commentator Villen Lyustiberg. The article says flying saucers do not exist. It attributes the Mantell death to a Navy balloon and calls Adamski a fraud. It argues that Western businessmen and statesmen use saucer stories to distract the public. The embassy notes that the article contradicts earlier Soviet coverage.
This Department of State airgram, released by the National Security Agency, reports Luanda press accounts of two possible "flying saucers" seen on December 7 by passengers and crew of a TAP flight from Beira to Luanda. The captain reported two lights beside his aircraft. The objects gave off an orange glow and made swift dives and climbs until they vanished near touchdown. TAP headquarters in Lisbon later stated there was no reason to consider the phenomena demonstrable proof of flying objects.
This airgram, released by the National Security Agency and sent from the U.S. Embassy in Montevideo, reports a visit from Ismael Reyes Febles, an amateur astronomer who runs the private Antares Observatory. He showed an Embassy Officer twenty color slides of the November 12 solar eclipse, and a saucer-like object appears in each one. Reyes offered them to a U.S. scientific agency and seemed to expect payment. Uruguayan scientists told the Embassy he has no standing in the scientific community, but the officer thought the slides might show a real aerial phenomenon.
This unclassified National Security Agency article by Dr. Howard H. Campaigne, date unknown, follows a piece by Lambros D. Callimahos in the NSA Technical Journal, Vol. XI, No. 1, on extraterrestrial intelligence. It presents a series of radio messages said to have been heard from outer space. Their repeated units are transcribed as letters of the alphabet. Offered as puzzles to test the reader's ingenuity, the numbered messages appear to build up counting and arithmetic step by step. The text reports no UFO sightings.
This undated National Security Agency file reviews a June 1978 report by GEPAN, the French government's UFO study group, which covers its work in the first half of 1978. GEPAN examined 11 high-credibility, high-strangeness cases in France in detail. Only one had a conventional explanation. In the other 10, investigators concluded that the witnesses saw a material phenomenon that was neither natural nor a human device. The review, submitted by Ron Westrum, also notes that GEPAN's report covers the Teheran case.
This is a National Enquirer article by Thomas L. Muldoon, dated 27 November 1979, about a heavily censored 1968 National Security Agency report that the paper obtained through Freedom of Information Act appeals. According to the article, the report concludes that UFOs are not all hoaxes and cites Air Force records of unexplained sightings. It also warns that contact with a technologically superior civilization could threaten human survival. The report compares an unprepared nation to the surprise at Pearl Harbor and urges a more urgent, survival-minded approach to the UFO problem.
This is an in camera affidavit by Eugene F. Yeates, Chief of the National Security Agency's Office of Policy, sworn in October 1980 in the case Citizens Against Unidentified Flying Objects Secrecy v. NSA, Civil Action No. 80-1562. It says NSA located 239 documents and explains why it withheld 156 communications intelligence reports produced between 1958 and 1979. It also explains the deletions in two released staff papers. The affidavit concludes that disclosure would reveal intelligence sources and methods, so the records are exempt under FOIA.
This NSA file preserves pages from a May-June 1981 magazine that include the article "Is the CIA Stonewalling?" by Richard Hall, a former NICAP Assistant Director. Using 892 pages of CIA documents released to lawyer Peter Gersten, Hall argues that the CIA's claimed lack of interest in UFOs is untrue and that the agency monitored reports over many years. Other pages argue that the government misinformed the public about UFO threats to national security and quote a 1968 NSA report on UFOs and survival.
JANAP 146 is a joint US and Canadian communications publication, released here by the National Security Agency, that sets out uniform instructions for reporting vital intelligence sightings to military authorities. It covers CIRVIS reports from aircraft and land observers and MERINT reports from vessels. Unidentified flying objects appear among the reportable items, along with missiles, hostile aircraft and submarines. The document also covers message precedence, report contents, routing to CINCONAD and RCAF Air Defense Command, security penalties for unauthorized disclosure, evaluation categories and charges.
This unclassified article by H. Campaigne, published in the NSA Technical Journal, Vol. XIV, No. 1, gives a key to a series of 31 hypothetical radio messages from outer space that Campaigne had presented earlier. Step by step it decodes symbols for numbers, arithmetic, logic, set theory, octal notation, the rational and real numbers, limits, and finally the periodic table of the elements. The article concludes that any civilization able to send messages across space would share basic concepts of number, sets and physical constants.
This is a Memorandum and Order in Citizens Against UFO Secrecy v. National Security Agency, Civil Action No. 80-1562, signed by a United States District Judge on November 18, 1980. The plaintiff sought all NSA records on UFOs under the Freedom of Information Act. The court reviewed a public affidavit and a 21-page top secret in camera affidavit from NSA official Eugene Yeates. It found that the withheld communications intelligence reports and portions of four other documents were properly exempt, granted summary judgment to the NSA, and dismissed the case.
This undated National Security Agency memorandum for the record, addressed to D4, contains a chronology written by an employee who checked in at Fort Meade in July 1978. The employee reports telling NSA officials about their UFO interests and attending the Mutual UFO Network 1978 UFO Symposium in Dayton, Ohio. There they judged letters shown publicly by Robert Barry to be fraudulent, and NSA later confirmed this. The memo also describes a phone call in which a UFO researcher asked for help finding UFO information inside NSA. The employee says they turned the request down.
This declassified Navy intelligence report, found among National Security Agency records, was prepared by LCDR J. Giacomuzzi at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay and dated 13 August 1968. It describes a UFO that numerous personnel aboard ships and on the base saw on 11 August 1968. The object glowed brightly and left what looked like a spiral trail of smoke or vapor. The report suggests it may have been the decaying Cosmos 234 satellite, and it says crew members aboard USS Barry and USS LaSalle photographed it.
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 a Defense Documentation Center report bibliography, prepared under DoD Instruction 5100.38 and released by the National Security Agency, with no date given. It lists technical reports on unidentified flying objects. The entries cover the three volumes of the University of Colorado's Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects directed by Edward U. Condon, the National Academy of Sciences panel review that agreed with its findings, a UFO bibliography by Lynn Catoe and a perception paper by Michael Wertheimer.
This National Security Agency release begins with an 18 July 1955 cover letter from the Air Force Special Security Office, Northeast Air Command, sending the Director of NSA reports on UFOB sightings in the NEAC area. It contains RB-47 radar and visual contacts over the Canadian Arctic in June 1955, plus signed statements on a July 1955 KC-97 and radar sighting near Harmon AFB, Newfoundland. The release also includes a 1958 intelligence report on unexplained radar tracks in the Panama Canal Zone and a later mission report noting a bright light.
This National Security Agency file contains two news wire stories. A Reuters report says the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal released a study by Phillip J. Klass calling the Majestic 12 documents, which claimed a 1947 saucer and alien bodies were recovered, clumsy counterfeits. A UPI story describes Citizens Against UFO Secrecy asking the Supreme Court to order the NSA to release 135 UFO-related documents, after lower courts upheld the agency's refusal.
This undated item in the National Security Agency's files is an excerpt from a May-June 1981 magazine article. It argues that the federal government has misinformed the public by debunking UFO reports and ignoring official reports that suggest some UFOs threaten national security. It cites documents on sightings near military installations, the 1976 Iranian F-4 encounter, and a 1968 NSA report on UFOs and survival. It also includes part of Richard Hall's article "Is the CIA Stonewalling?"
This document, filed under the National Security Agency, is a page from IUR (International UFO Reporter) with no date given. It reprints a teletype message about the Iranian UFO sighting of 19 September 1976 that researcher Charles Huffer obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The message describes two F-4 jets scrambled over Tehran that lost instruments and communications, and smaller objects that separated from a bright main object. IUR says the military told it that everything sent from the Middle East routinely reaches senior agencies.
This file, held in the National Security Agency's UFO releases, is a magazine article titled "U.F.O. Files: The Untold Story" by Patrick Huyghe, a freelance writer in New York. The article argues that declassified CIA, FBI, Air Force and other agency documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show extensive government concern about UFOs despite official denials. It covers the 1975 base overflights, projects Sign and Grudge, the Condon study, CIA interest in NICAP, and the Ground Saucer Watch lawsuit against the CIA.
This undated excerpt, filed by the National Security Agency, reproduces pages from a May-June 1981 magazine article arguing that the federal government has misinformed the public about UFOs as a national security threat. It cites DIA, State Department, CIA, FBI and Air Force documents on sightings near military installations, the September 1976 Iranian F-4 encounter, and November 1978 Kuwaiti oil field incidents. It quotes a 1968 NSA report, UFO Hypothesis and Survival Question, and includes Richard Hall's piece on CIA UFO files.
This draft monograph from the National Security Agency, classified SECRET and undated, looks at what the main hypotheses about UFOs would mean for human survival. It argues that UFOs are unlikely to be all hoaxes or all hallucinations. It warns that natural phenomena could trigger false missile attack reports and that secret earth projects or extraterrestrial intelligence could pose threats. It urges an urgent survival-minded investigation rather than a leisurely scientific approach.