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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 FBI office memorandum from the San Antonio Special Agent in Charge to the Director, dated January 31, 1949, reports on Fourth Army intelligence talks about unidentified aerial phenomena. It describes a July 1948 Eastern Airlines sighting over Montgomery, Alabama, and a run of green light sightings near Los Alamos in December 1948 and January 1949. According to the memo, the objects are either unknown natural phenomena or man made, and G-2 and OSI are investigating while the San Antonio office is not.
This declassified CIA document, released through The Black Vault, reports on the meetings of the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, which the Office of Scientific Intelligence convened on January 14 to 18, 1953. It includes a history of the sessions and the panel's informal comments, and it appends the formal report signed by H. P. Robertson and others. The panel found no evidence of a direct threat to national security. It recommended stripping UFOs of their special status and starting a public education program.
This is a case resolution report from the U.S. Department of Defense's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), dated February 6, 2025. It covers the January 2015 "Go Fast" infrared video that a Navy F/A-18F recorded off Florida. AARO worked only from the public video and found the object was at about 13,000 feet, not near the ocean surface, and moved at roughly 5 to 92 mph. The report attributes the apparent high speed to motion parallax and states with high confidence that the object showed no anomalous performance.
This FOIA release comes from the Department of Defense Freedom of Information Division. It answers request 24-F-0266 from John Greenewald of The Black Vault, and the response is dated March 21, 2024. It holds 26 partly redacted pages, including a January 8, 2024 AARO memorandum for record on repeated invitations to interview David Grusch, along with text messages, emails and authorization memos from DoD and ODNI. AARO concluded that Grusch had no intention of giving it information about his claims.
This is a Foreign Technology Division edited translation, dated September 1983 and approved for public release. It translates Long Ruyi's article "First UFO Incident for Our Country" from the Chinese journal Hangtian (No. 4, 1982). The article describes a huge spiral-shaped UFO that some 10,000,000 people across southwest and northwest China saw on 24 July 1981. It weighs meteor, aircraft and flying saucer explanations, rejects the meteor theory, and leans toward a spy craft while calling the proof lacking.
This Black Vault compilation contains a September 1997 reply from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense to John Greenewald's FOIA request, enclosing its UFO records. The enclosures include a Navy information sheet dismissing the Philadelphia Experiment and an Air Force UFO fact sheet listing 12,618 Project Blue Book sightings, 701 of them unidentified. They also include the National Academy of Sciences review endorsing the University of Colorado report and the concluding pages of a 1994 Air Force Roswell report attributing the wreckage to Project MOGUL.
This CIA document, released through The Black Vault, holds Foreign Press Note FB PN 90-123. It is document 4 of 9 in a set of concatenated PROD reports from 1988 to 1994. The note reviews Soviet press coverage of UFO sightings. It centers on a RABOCHAYA TRIBUNA report of 21 March sightings near Pereslavl-Zalesskiy, with pilot and radar accounts and comments from Colonel General Igor Maltsev of the Air Defense Forces. It also summarizes other Soviet articles, including the Belgian sightings and a Japanese expedition to Tunguska.
This FBIS translation of an article published in the Moscow newspaper TRUD on 30 January 1985 reports a UFO sighting by the crew of Aeroflot Tu-134 Flight 8352, commanded by Igor Cherkashin, about 120 kilometers from Minsk. The crew saw a light beam, then a green cloud that paced the aircraft to Tallin. Minsk controllers, a Leningrad crew and the Tallin radar also saw or tracked it. N. Zheltukhin of the Commission on Aerodynamic Phenomena concluded that the crew had dealt with a UFO.
This CIA document, released through The Black Vault, holds F. C. Durant's memorandum of 16 February 1953 on the Office of Scientific Intelligence Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, which met from January 14 to 18, 1953 under Dr. H. P. Robertson. The panel found no evidence of a direct threat to national security. It rejected the Navy analysis of the Tremonton film and recommended an educational program. The file also contains an Air Force statistical study summary from 1955 that calls advanced unknown technology highly improbable.
This Department of Defense FOIA release (case 23-F-0946), published by The Black Vault, is the reply to a June 2023 request and is dated September 18, 2023. It contains 15 pages from the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review about David Grusch's submissions for public release. In April 2023 the office cleared his "Speaker/Author Summary" and a set of interview questions about recovered physical material and UAP programs. Personal details were withheld under exemption (b)(6).
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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 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.
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 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 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 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 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.
The Roswell Report: Case Closed was published by Headquarters United States Air Force and written by Capt. James McAndrew. It follows up the July 1994 report, which traced the 1947 debris to Project MOGUL balloon trains. The report says the reported alien bodies were probably anthropomorphic test dummies dropped from high altitude balloons. It also says the accounts of bodies at the Roswell Army Air Field hospital probably merged two separate events: a 1956 KC-97 crash and a 1959 manned balloon mishap.
This Black Vault copy of "U.F.O. Files: The Untold Story," an article by freelance writer Patrick Huyghe that was held by the NSA, reviews U.S. government UFO records released under the Freedom of Information Act. It quotes a 1975 Defense Department message about unknown objects over Loring, Wurtsmith and Malmstrom bases. It also traces Projects Sign and Grudge, the 1952 Washington radar sightings, the Robertson Panel's debunking program, CIA interest in NICAP and the Condon study. It argues that federal agencies still monitor the phenomenon.
This Black Vault release reproduces US Air Force official photographs from File 8766, covering the April 24, 1964 event at Socorro, New Mexico. The extracted text contains only cover sheets for two photo sets, one listing 16 photos and the other 22 photos, plus a standard Black Vault notice crediting John Greenewald, Jr. The text contains no captions, findings or conclusions.
This is an article by New York attorney Peter Gersten, who has pursued Freedom of Information Act lawsuits for Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS); the Black Vault copy is undated. Drawing on about three thousand pages of released government documents, it argues that some UFOs are unconventional craft that threaten national security and that the government has misinformed the public. It cites a 1952 CIA memorandum, the late-1975 sightings over nuclear-weapons sites, a Cuban MiG-21 encounter and a 1976 Iranian jet case.
The Department of Defense All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) issued Volume I of its Historical Record Report in February 2024, reviewing U.S. government involvement with UAP since 1945. It found no evidence that any government investigation confirmed extraterrestrial technology, and no empirical evidence of hidden reverse-engineering programs. It says interviewee claims came from misidentified real classified programs or circular reporting. It also names KONA BLUE as an unapproved proposal and identifies an alleged crash sample as a terrestrial alloy.