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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.
New in the library The PURSUE files The Department of War's UAP release, mirrored in full: the videos, recordings and images, each beside its case file.Documents53 records · page 2
This undated National Security Agency paper, released by the NSA in 2017 under a Mandatory Declassification Review, argues that people's reactions to UFO sightings expose an intelligence community weakness: analysts cannot process surprising or deceptive data objectively. Citing Dr. Jacques Vallee, it describes how the mind reacts with shock and imaginative distortion as observations grow stranger. It recommends selecting and training analysts for special surprise alert teams. An appendix lists historical military defeats blamed on blindness to surprise.
USAF Fact Sheet 95-03, current as of June 1995, describes the Air Force's Project Blue Book, which investigated UFOs from 1947 until its termination on Dec. 17, 1969. Of 12,618 sightings reported, 701 remained unidentified. It states that no UFO threatened national security or showed evidence of advanced technology or extraterrestrial vehicles. It adds that the records were transferred to the National Archives and that the Air Force was unlikely to resume UFO investigations.
This article by New York attorney Peter A. Gersten appeared in a copy of an NSA release. Its date is not given. It argues that about three thousand pages of formerly classified UFO documents, most released through FOIA suits by agencies including the CIA, FBI, NSA and DIA, show that some UFOs are unconventional craft that threaten national security. It cites a 1952 CIA memo, the 1975 sightings over nuclear facilities at Loring, Malmstrom and Minot, a Cuban MiG-21 encounter and the 1976 Iranian jet case, and it accuses the CIA of stonewalling.