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This is the final highway accident report (NTSB-HAR-71-1) from the National Transportation Safety Board, adopted in December 1970. It covers the collapse of the U.S. 35 bridge between Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and Kanauga, Ohio, on December 15, 1967, which killed 46 people. The Board found that the cause was a cleavage fracture in eyebar 330 at joint C13N. That fracture grew from a flaw produced over 40 years by stress corrosion and corrosion fatigue, in a spot that could not be seen or found by inspection.
This document, released by the Central Intelligence Agency and held by the National Archives of Australia, is an Australian Department of Defence paper from about 1971 on the scientific and intelligence aspects of the UFO problem. It traces the history of US official handling of UFOs through Projects Sign, Grudge and Blue Book, the Robertson panel and the Condon report, and it argues that a covert programme and gravity research continued. It recommends that another Australian government department take over UFO investigation from the RAAF.
This file contains segment 2 of 2 of the Apollo 14 post-mission crew debriefing at the Manned Spacecraft Center (now Johnson Space Center), Houston, Texas. In this continued segment, crew members and debriefers further discuss the “light flash phenomena,” a then novel, now well-documented biological effect where high-energy cosmic rays pass through the eye and strike the retina, causing the perception of light streaks or flashes.
This file contains segment 1 of 2 of the Apollo 14 post-mission crew debriefing at the Manned Spacecraft Center (now Johnson Space Center), Houston, Texas. In the recording, crew members and debriefers discuss the “light flash phenomena,” a then novel, now well-documented biological effect where high-energy cosmic rays pass through the eye and strike the retina, causing the perception of light streaks or flashes. The questioners attempt to distinguish the characteristics of the observed phenomena. The debriefing continues in the next file (NASA-UAP-D027), which contains some overlapping audio content.
These are the minutes of a Board of Directors meeting of a pilots association affiliated with the International Federation of Air Line Pilots Associations. The meeting was held in Bangkok on October 2 and 3, 1971, and the CIA released the minutes in 2023. The board discussed labor matters: pilot seniority and furloughs, grievances including the Bailey, Stuart and Stensloff cases, excessive flight time, message restrictions at Udorn, the wage price freeze and constitutional revisions. The document does not mention UFOs.
This NASA document contains excerpts from the Apollo 17 air-to-ground voice transcription from 1972. The crew reports bright, jagged fragments drifting past the spacecraft after S-IVB separation, and later describes a distant flashing, rotating object that Jack thinks is the S-IVB. Gene also describes light flashes he saw with his eyes closed. Other passages cover weather over Hawaii and the Solomon Islands, and a flash seen on the lunar surface north of Grimaldi.
As part of the review of historical UAP materials under PURSUE, DOW has opened a case to investigate the accompanying NASA photograph from the Apollo 17 mission, taken December 1972. The image contains three “dots” in a triangular formation in the lower right quadrant of the lunar sky that is clearly visible upon magnification of the image. While this photo has been previously released and discussed by keen observers, there is no consensus about the nature of the anomaly. New preliminary US government analysis suggests the image feature is potentially the result of a physical object in the scene. Additionally, as part of this investigation, the government has obtained the original film from the Apollo 17 mission and the results of the full NASA and DOW analysis will be released when completed.
This Central Intelligence Agency intelligence information report, dated April 1972, relays unevaluated information from a US citizen about the Conference on the Origins of Life in Yerevan, Armenia, held 6 to 8 September 1971. It describes a speculative paper by N. S. Kardashev and Andrei Sakharov on how a charged mass collapsing in space might bounce back into a different part of space time. A US attendee found the paper somewhat fantastic but grounded in sound physics.
This Central Intelligence Agency translation, dated 2 February 1972, reproduces a Soviet bibliography on parapsychology (psychoenergetics) and related subjects compiled in Moscow in 1971, with E. K. Naumov named as the contact address. It lists Soviet works on telepathy, mental suggestion, the biophysical effect, dermo-optic sensitivity, bioelectric fields, yoga, autogenic training and heliobiology. It also includes foreign literature, a list of parapsychology journals, and foreign writings about Soviet research. The publication states that its contents do not represent U.S. Government views.
This Central Intelligence Agency document, dated 1972 and later approved for release, is a short, partly redacted report about a Soviet member of a USSR committee set up to investigate unusual phenomena, meaning flying saucers. According to the report, the man gave a talk that was meant seriously but came across as humorous, and other Soviets present joked and laughed. A source said the committee consists mostly of politicians, theorists and historians and has little if any scientific talent.
This Central Intelligence Agency release, dated 28 March 1972, contains a translated Soviet bibliography on parapsychology (psychoenergetics) and related subjects. E. K. Naumov and L. V. Vilenskaya compiled it in Moscow in 1971. It lists Soviet and foreign works on telepathy, bioenergetics, dermo-optic sensitivity, yoga and autogenic training, followed by a list of journals and foreign writing on Soviet research. Appended is a 1952 CIA foreign-press report from Vienna's Die Presse on two fiery disks over the Belgian Congo uranium mines, which Commander Pierre chased in a fighter.
This is Volume Three of the CIA Directorate of Science and Technology Historical Series on the Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI), 1949 to 1968, written by Karl H. Weber in June 1972 and approved for release in 2008. It holds three annexes, on OSI publications, OSI's external assistance and contracting program, and OSI's interaction with the National Security Agency. The released text covers production planning, review boards, current intelligence periodicals and future threat forecasting. It does not discuss UFOs.
During the eleventh and final crewed mission in the Apollo program, Apollo 17 Commander Gene Cernan, Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, and Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans report seeing small lights outside the Apollo spacecraft during transit to the moon. The crew describe bright “particles” or “fragments” as being “jagged,” “angular,” and drifting near the Apollo spacecraft and the separated Saturn S-IVB stage. The Apollo 17 crew speculate that paint chips or ice chips are likely the source of these lights and note that they “twinkle” and move away from the Saturn S-IVB stage.
This file contains segment 2 of 2 of the Apollo 17 post-mission medical debriefing at the Manned Spacecraft Center (now Johnson Space Center), Houston, Texas. In this continued segment, crew members and debriefers further discuss the “light flash phenomena,” a then novel, now well-documented biological effect where high-energy cosmic rays pass through the eye and strike the retina, causing the perception of light streaks or flashes. Two of the three crew members reported observing these flashes at various points during the mission, including in lunar orbit and while on the lunar surface.
This file contains segment 1 of 2 of the Apollo 17 post-mission medical debriefing at the Manned Spacecraft Center (now Johnson Space Center), Houston, Texas. In the recording, crew members discuss the “light flash phenomena,” a then novel, now well-documented biological effect where high-energy cosmic rays pass through the eye and strike the retina, causing the perception of light streaks or flashes. Two of the three crew members reported observing these flashes at various points during the mission, including in lunar orbit and while on the lunar surface. The debriefing continues in the next file (NASA-UAP-D029).
This is the Apollo 17 Crew Debriefing for Science, document MSC-07632, issued by NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston and dated January 8, 1973. The extracted pages record a scientist named Henry reporting ultraviolet spectrometer results. These include a search for ionized hydrogen in the Coma cluster that found none. They also cover ultraviolet light at high galactic latitudes, possibly reflected by interstellar dust or extragalactic in origin, and Lyman-alpha hydrogen inside the solar system. The pages contain no UFO content.
The Training Office of NASA's Crew Training and Simulation Division at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston prepared this Apollo 17 technical crew debriefing, dated January 4, 1973. The extract covers Evans describing a fireball seen through the rendezvous window. Cernan says the only unusual sighting he recalls during landing or recovery was the CMP spotting an aircraft carrier's superstructure. Schmitt reports light flashes nearly the whole flight while dark adapted, with none seen during the ALFMED blindfold period.
This Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Operations intelligence information report covers November 1972 to November 1973 and is based on a former Soviet citizen who served at the Sary Shagan weapons testing range in the USSR. It gives limited information on the range's facilities, security, a warhead checkout unit and the System-75 (SA-2) and System-300/Aldan (ABM-1 GALOSH) warheads, and passes on rumors of laser research. It also describes the source's late summer 1973 sighting of a silent green circular mass that formed concentric circles and faded within minutes.
This NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center release collects excerpts from the Skylab 1/2, 1/3 and 1/4 technical crew debriefings, dated June 30, 1973, October 4, 1973 and February 22, 1974. The Skylab 2 crew describe light flashes they saw with their eyes closed and link some of them to cosmic particles. The Skylab 3 crew describe a bright reddish, rotating object that they tracked for about 10 minutes in an orbit close to their own and ask to have it identified. The Skylab 4 crew report lights outside that they took to be Skylab debris or other satellites.
This undated CIA memorandum for the Deputy Director for Administration, catalogued with an estimated date of 1973, reviews the agency's past drug research under the OFTEN and CHICKWIT projects run by its Office of Research and Development. It concludes that no drug programs remain undiscovered and that the planned agency-funded human testing of the chemical EA 3167 at Edgewood Arsenal never took place before the program ended in January 1973. It finds that only Edgewood could identify test subjects or evaluate the chemical's long-term effects.
This is a CIA-held foreign press translation record, dated 1 April 1973, of an article titled "Short Review of Radiation Energy" by Henry Moray, taken from the publication UFO-Nachrichten. The index entry was prepared by the Air Force Foreign Technology Division (report AIR/FTD-HC-23-29074), runs 8 pages, and is marked For Official Use Only. Copyright requests are referred to FTD. The record holds only catalog metadata and none of the article's content.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency catalog record for a translated article dated 30 April 1973 and titled "Wernher Von Braun Warns and Advanced Propulsion Concepts Project Outgrowth." According to the record, the article came from UFO Nachrichten and was translated under Air Force Foreign Technology Division reference FTD-HC-23-287-74. The record says the translation runs six pages, is marked For Official Use Only and carries copyright notes. The extracted text has only index fields and does not include the body of the article.
This Central Intelligence Agency catalog record describes a translated article titled "My First Contact with Friends from Space," dated 1 October 1973. The article appeared in the publication UFO-Nachrichter, and the record lists three pages. The translation was held under reference AIR/FTD-HC-23-288-74, and copyright questions were referred to FTD. It is marked For Official Use Only. The extracted text holds only index data and does not include the article itself, so its content cannot be summarized.
This Central Intelligence Agency Intelligence Information Report, distributed in December 1973, relays information from a former Soviet citizen about the Sary Shagan weapons testing range in the USSR. It covers the range's facilities, security, headquarters and warhead checkout unit, along with warheads for the System-75 (SA-2) and System-300/Aldan (ABM-1 GALOSH) missiles and rumored laser research. It also reports that in late summer 1973 the source saw a silent bright green circular object at Site 7 that formed concentric circles and faded within minutes.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency letter from Lowe to Brad C. Sparks of Berkeley, California. It answers Sparks's letter of 21 October 1974. It encloses the minutes of the Intelligence Advisory Committee's 4 December 1952 meeting on unidentified flying objects, along with the 17 January 1953 "Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" written by a panel of selected scientists. The letter says the panel found no sign that the phenomena posed a direct physical threat to national security, so no National Security Council Intelligence Directive was drafted.
This Federal Bureau of Investigation file from the Chicago office holds UFO correspondence from 1967 and 1974. A 1967 memo records an eleven-year-old Chicago boy's report of a weird noise and a flash of light moving north, which was passed to an Air Force radar squadron. In 1974 researcher Larry W. Bryant asked for FBI records on an April 8, 1954 occupied UFO landing. Special Agent in Charge Richard G. Held replied that the FBI had no information and does not investigate UFO sightings.
This is a CIA letter dated 5 November 1974 from Bruce A. Lowe, Executive Secretary, to Mr. Sparks, answering his letter of 21 October 1974. It encloses the minutes of the Intelligence Advisory Committee's 4 December 1952 meeting on unidentified flying objects. It also encloses the 17 January 1953 "Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" from a review by selected scientists. Because that panel found no sign of a direct physical threat to national security, no National Security Council Intelligence Directive was drafted.
This is a letter dated 24 December 1974 from CIA Director W. E. Colby to the President, with annexes attached. It responds to a New York Times article about CIA domestic intelligence activity. The letter denies that the Agency ran a "massive" domestic effort. It traces a counterintelligence program on foreign links with American dissidents, which ran from 1967 until it was ended in March 1974, and admits improper actions such as mail opening, break-ins and the surveillance of reporters. The attached memoranda restrict such activities.
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated 9 February 1978, was sent by the Chief of the Minneapolis Office to the Chief of the Domestic Collection Division. It reports that a source, whose name is redacted, saw an odd object coming down in the sky on 27 January 1978. The source thought it might relate to the Soviet satellite that fell in Canada on 24 January. The memo gives no description of the object and says the information would be passed to the Air Force.
This Central Intelligence Agency document, dated 4 April 1975, is a short and heavily redacted report on UFO sightings, filed under a USSR heading. It records a conversation in which a source was asked whether a U.S. forecast center had ever dealt with UFO sightings. The source said the center had once been plagued with calls about sightings, some prompted by its scientific balloon flights. The source added, half jokingly, that the calls had stopped because someone must have made a political decision.
This Central Intelligence Agency compilation of translated Argentine press and radio items, dated 15 May 1975 on its title record, gathers news reports from May 1978. One EFE report from Salta says the object people saw falling near the Argentine-Bolivian border on 6 May was an artificial satellite. It fell on Taire Mountain in Bolivia, where authorities located it and the government declared an emergency zone. Other items cover nuclear plans, detainees, a YPF credit and telecommunications.
This Central Intelligence Agency personality (201) dossier on Sandelio Herminio Diaz Garcia holds material dated from November 1956 to August 1975 and was approved for release in 2025. It contains 1966 intelligence cables on a 29 May 1966 exile infiltration attempt near Havana, in which Diaz was reported killed while trying to assassinate Fidel Castro. It also includes a report on cancelled assassination plans, 1973 traces linking a Herminio Diaz to narcotics trafficking, and FBI file listings. The dossier contains no UFO material.
This Central Intelligence Agency file, dated 29 September 1975, collects Office of Security memoranda written while the Senate Select Committee was investigating the Agency. Staff were told to alert former employees about possible committee contact over Project MERRIMAC/RESISTANCE, and the file answers committee questions about Hayes International and Bay of Pigs pilots. It also records staff interviews about CIA name checks at NSA and a Justice Department request for records on domestic electronic surveillance. It contains no material on UFOs.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency Operations Center watch log dated 28 October 1975. Most of its timed entries are blank. The entry at 0610 records that the NMCC representative told the Operations Center that a DDO Talker carried an update on the penetration of Loring AFB, Maine by one or more unidentified helicopters flying out of Canada. The Operations Center received a copy via LDX and disseminated it. The page was approved for release on 9 December 1977 and again in February 2010.
This Central Intelligence Agency information report, dated 15 November 1975, gives a source's account of a sighting from a slow train on 4 October 1955. Four travelers saw a triangular object with a light on each point take off from an air field about two miles from the tracks. It made several fast spirals and then climbed steeply at about 45 degrees while a searchlight followed it. The source described it as more like a missile ejection than an ordinary take-off, and said a steward pulled down the blinds.
This Central Intelligence Agency Domestic Collection Division report on the USSR is dated 10 November 1976 and marked as unevaluated information. It describes how Aeroflot deals with crew fatigue through physical conditioning, preflight medical testing and rest facilities called prophylactoriums at major airports. It also describes an automated prototype that tests pilots' psychomotor function in about three minutes. Radiation biologist Akoyev is reported as explaining that cosmic ray particles make Aeroflot pilots see flashes of light at night. The subject line also lists UFO phenomena.
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 Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated 1976 and approved for release in 1978, reports on a DCD case about UFO research. After consulting the acting Deputy Director for Science and Technology, the office concluded that the government has no apparent program for identifying or solving UFO phenomena, though some Agency offices and personnel were monitoring them unofficially. It recommends developing reporting channels, especially on threat potential or foreign UFO-related research, and keeps the case open.
This is a confidential Central Intelligence Agency cable from April 1976, sent by a Domestic Collection Division field office to DCD headquarters under the subject "Case UFO Research." It refers to an earlier headquarters message and to a UFO study dated 9 April 1976. It says the source asked for the referenced material to be classified confidential and wanted guidance from CIA UFO experts on which parts of his report should stay classified. The cable was approved for release on 17 May 1978.
This Central Intelligence Agency cable, dated 3 April 1976 and approved for release on 17 January 1978, answers a Form 610 of 9 April 1976 that forwarded a UFO study. The sender says analysts are trying to give analytical guidance on the material. It asks the recipient to send the source's full name and affiliation by TWX and to say whether the material was classified confidential at the source's request. Citing the information's unique quality, it asks for a reply as soon as possible.
This is a confidential Central Intelligence Agency cable dated 14 April 1976, sent from a Domestic Collection Division field office to DCD Headquarters under the subject "UFO Research." It cites an earlier headquarters message and a Form 610 dated 9 April 1976 about a UFO study. The cable says the source asked for his material to be classified Confidential. He also wants guidance from CIA UFO experts on which parts of his report should stay classified. The document was approved for release on 17 June 1978.
This Central Intelligence Agency cable, dated 26 April 1976, is a heavily redacted reply to a request for analytical guidance on UFOs in a case involving private UFO research. It reports that an Agency science and technology official found no apparent government program to identify or solve the UFO phenomena. Some Agency offices and personnel were monitoring the subject, but not on an official basis. The official offered to evaluate further information, so the case was kept open.
This heavily redacted Central Intelligence Agency cable, dated 5 May 1976, concerns UFO research and a request from the Office of Research and Development (ORD) for more information. It says ORD is interested in the work of someone whose name is removed, and that a qualified analyst is trying to evaluate a system that is also redacted. The cable notes that earlier correspondence mentioned a possible fuller description of the system and asks to be told of any new developments.
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, heavily redacted and dated 25 June 1976, records a meeting with a representative of the Office of Research and Development (ORD) about that office's possible interest in a UFO case. Copies of a memo and the original were provided on request. The ORD contact thought there could be ongoing interest pending evaluation, asked for more information on the system, and asked that ORD's interest be kept low profile.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency routing and record sheet from the Domestic Collection Division (DCD), dated 27 May 1976. It is addressed to an unnamed doctor and refers to a recent discussion between the sender and that doctor. It says some material the doctor may find interesting is attached, and it points in particular to attachment A, which it says a source obtained. The attachments are not included in the text, and the sheet reaches no conclusions.