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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 Federal Bureau of Investigation file section (62-HQ-83894, Section 8) collects 1954 and 1957 memoranda, letters and teletypes on flying saucer matters. It includes a Cincinnati report on Thomas Eickhoff's concerns about lectures by Truman Bethurum and George Hunt Williamson, a Milford, Ohio sighting, and a Navy officer's account of Mrs. Frances Swan's claimed messages from outer space. It also records a 1957 Detroit interview with a former prisoner of war who described a circular vehicle that stalled a tractor engine in Germany in 1944.
This section of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's flying saucer file 62-HQ-83894 holds FBI correspondence from 1957 to 1966. It includes a November 1957 memo saying Air Force Intelligence found the post-Sputnik sightings nonauthentic, and a Havana report of a hat-shaped disc over Matahambre, Cuba. It also has inquiries into Robert T. Stone's Inter Continental Aerial Research Foundation, a Torrington, Connecticut sighting referral, and replies to members of the public. The replies say UFOs are not within FBI jurisdiction and refer writers to the Air Force.
This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section (62-HQ-83894, Section 10) holds UFO-related correspondence from 1966 to 1977. In a 1966 letter, Florence C. Dow of Goffstown, New Hampshire asked whether subscribing to the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America journal might link her to communists. J. Edgar Hoover replied that the Bureau does not evaluate organizations, and a copy of the journal is enclosed. Other items include a 1977 Air Force fact sheet on the end of Project Blue Book and a White House inquiry answered by the FBI, which said it had no jurisdiction over UFO sightings.
This FBI file serial collects 1947 Army Air Forces reports on flying disc sightings. It includes Air Defense Command interviews from September 1947 with Pan American pilot Alpheus Powell and navigator Walter White about orange objects seen near Boston on 4 August 1947. It also holds a Birmingham, Alabama report with a photograph, newspaper clippings and a sergeant's sworn statement, Newfoundland and Alaska sighting reports, notes on an instrument found in Illinois, and a Weather Bureau memo on a metallic disk.
This undated Federal Bureau of Investigation record, Serial 153 in file 62-HQ-83894, comes from the Knoxville office's file on "flying saucers" seen over the Oak Ridge area, handled as an internal security matter. It sent the Bureau two photographs of supposed flying saucers seen at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in July 1947. A photostat of a Knoxville News-Sentinel clipping was also enclosed. The clipping reports that resident W. R. Presley photographed a flying saucer over the town.
This FBI file serial from case 62-HQ-83894 holds several copies of Air Intelligence Requirements Memorandum Number 4, "Unconventional Aircraft." Major General C. P. Cabell, Director of Intelligence at Headquarters United States Air Force, issued the memorandum on 15 February 1949. It sets continuing Air Force requirements for information on unidentified flying objects, including "Flying Discs," and tells commands to send reports to Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson AFB. It also includes a detailed checklist covering sighting details, observers, radar data and physical evidence, and the FBI Director appears on its distribution list.
This FBI file item, Serial 220 of file 62-HQ-83894, holds an English translation by Sophia Saliba of a letter dated March 19, 1950. Miguel Angel Garcia Macias of Veracruz wrote it to the President of a United States scientific investigation commission in New York. He lists his claimed inventions and describes atomic-powered "stratospheric aerostats," or flying saucers, with diagrams. The item also includes a translated news caption about photographs of a flying saucer that engineering student German Horacio Robles Jr. took over Durango.
This FBI headquarters file record, serial 403 in file 62-HQ-83894, is undated and contains the dust jacket text of Gray Barker's book They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, published by University Books of New York. The jacket says three men in dark suits silenced leading saucer researchers. It describes Barker as a Clarksburg, West Virginia film booking businessman who began investigating in 1952, when a saucer reportedly landed near his home. It also notes that he publishes The Saucerian.
This Federal Bureau of Investigation report from Albuquerque, New Mexico, dated May 8, 1964, deals with an unidentified flying object at Socorro, New Mexico, on April 24, 1964. Special Agent D. Arthur Byrnes, Jr. describes visiting the site and finding four depressions, burned grass and circular marks in the ground. The report also records Officer Lonnie Zamora's account of a roar and a flame, a shiny object standing on legs with two people in white coveralls beside it, and the object's departure. The document states that it contains no recommendations or conclusions.
This is an FBI file serial containing an October 3, 1966 memo from the Los Angeles SAC to the Director. It reports that the Philadelphia Division forwarded Issue No. 24 (July 1966) of Flying Saucers International, the journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America. A subscriber believed an article in it followed the Communist Party line. That article was a message said to come from Korendor via Bob Renaud's radio. Los Angeles had no record of Renaud and planned no further action. Attached newspaper clippings cover sightings including the Wanaque Reservoir UFOs and an 1896 Oakland airship.
This is a 28 July 1995 report from the US General Accounting Office to Representative Steven H. Schiff about government records on the July 1947 crash near Roswell, New Mexico. It is filed with a Clinton Library NSC routing record. GAO found only two 1947 records: a 509th Bomb Group and RAAF history and an FBI teletype. Both describe the object as a radar-tracking or weather balloon. The report also notes that some RAAF administrative records and outgoing messages were destroyed without any stated authority.
This Clinton Presidential Library file (NSC Records Management, record 9506127) holds 1995 correspondence from Steven M. Greer and his Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) asking President Clinton to meet with them and to issue an executive order declassifying UFO materials and releasing witnesses from their security oaths. It includes the Project Starlight Coalition letter of June 4, 1995, a list of 35 enclosed documents, CSETI strategy papers and biographies, and a White House reply of August 3, 1995 that forwarded the meeting request.
This 1995 Clinton Presidential Library file contains Presidential Determination No. 95-45, signed by President Clinton on September 29, 1995, and its supporting papers. The determination exempts the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, from any hazardous waste law requirement to disclose classified information, following the lawsuits Kasza v. Browner and Frost v. Perry. The file also includes Air Force Secretary Sheila Widnall's unclassified declaration invoking the military and state secrets privilege, along with recommendation memos from Widnall, Deputy Secretary of Defense White and Anthony Lake.
This Clinton Presidential Library file from the National Security Council holds Presidential Determination 95-45, signed September 29, 1995. The determination exempts the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, from hazardous waste disclosure rules that would require releasing classified information. It came out of the lawsuits Kasza v. Browner and Frost v. Perry. The file also includes Anthony Lake's decision memo, Secretary Sheila Widnall's declaration claiming the military and state secrets privilege, and a Deputy Secretary of Defense recommendation.
This Clinton Presidential Library file contains a National Security Council tracking profile and a 25 September 1995 memorandum to President Clinton from John White, routed through Mr. Lake. It concerns classified information about the Air Force operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada. A federal court ruling had raised whether properly classified documents must be disclosed under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. White recommends a presidential exemption, and a draft memorandum exempts the site from any disclosure of classified information for one year.
This Clinton Presidential Library release from the NSC Records Management UFO files (FOIA case 2006-0474-F) contains an October 19, 1995 letter from Steven M. Greer, director of CSETI, to President Clinton, asking to meet Administration officials and seeking protection for witnesses to government UFO operations. The file includes NSC routing sheets, a withdrawal marker for a partly redacted page, and Greer's August 1995 briefing arguing that covert management of the UFO/ETI subject threatens national security.
This Clinton Presidential Library file of White House and National Security Council records from January 1996 concerns President Clinton's report to Congress under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. It contains NSC routing sheets, memoranda from James Baker, Anthony Lake, Patrick Griffin and the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and letters to Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate President Albert Gore. The letters give notice of Presidential Determination 95-45 of September 29, 1995. That determination exempted the Air Force operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, from waste laws that would require disclosure of classified information.
This Clinton Presidential Library file holds National Security Council records from January 1996. They concern a report to Congress under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act about Presidential Determination 95-45 of September 29, 1995. That determination exempted the Air Force operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, from waste disposal laws that could require disclosure of classified information. The file includes the determination, memos from the NSC and the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and letters to Speaker Gingrich and Vice President Gore, and it cites the Kasza v. Browner litigation.
This Clinton Presidential Library file holds National Security Council records on Presidential Determination No. 96-54, signed around September 28 to 30, 1996. The Determination renewed for one year an exemption under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. The exemption covers the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, and applies to any requirement to disclose classified information, not to environmental standards. It was issued while the Kasza v. Browner and Frost v. Perry litigation was on appeal. Supporting memos from Anthony Lake, the Deputy Secretary of Defense and NSC staff recommend the renewal.
This file comes from the Clinton Presidential Library's National Security Council records. It holds Presidential Determination No. 96-54, dated September 1996, together with the memoranda that led to it. The determination renews for one year an exemption under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act for the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada. The exemption shields classified information from disclosure during the Kasza v. Browner and Frost v. Perry litigation, which was on appeal, but it does not waive environmental standards.
This Clinton Presidential Library file contains White House and National Security Council records from January 1997. They cover the President's annual report to Congress under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act about Presidential Determination 96-54 of September 28, 1996. That determination exempted the Air Force operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, from waste disposal laws that would require disclosure of classified information, in connection with the Kasza v. Browner and Frost v. Perry litigation. The file includes the letters to Speaker Gingrich and Vice President Gore.
This Clinton Presidential Library file from the National Security Council holds a January 31, 1997 action memorandum from Samuel Berger and John Hilley to President Clinton, which recommends he sign letters to Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate President Albert Gore Jr. The letters are the required report to Congress under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. They cover Presidential Determination 96-54 of September 28, 1996, which exempted the Air Force operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada from waste disposal laws that would require disclosing classified information.
This Clinton Presidential Library file holds National Security Council tracking records and a January 30, 1997 memorandum from the Deputy Secretary of Defense to President Clinton. The memorandum recommends that the President report to Congress, under section 6001(a) of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the exemption he granted in Presidential Determination 96-54 of September 1996. That exemption protects classified information about the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada. The file also contains draft letters to Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate President Albert Gore, Jr., and the Federal Register text of the determination, which cites Kasza v. Browner.
This Clinton Presidential Library file holds National Security Council tracking sheets and a January 30, 1997 memorandum from the Deputy Secretary of Defense to President Clinton. The memo recommends that the President report to Congress, under section 6001(a) of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the exemption he granted in Presidential Determination 96-54 of September 1996. That determination exempts the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, from waste laws that could require disclosure of classified information. Draft letters to Speaker Gingrich and Vice President Gore and the Federal Register notice are attached.
This Clinton Presidential Library release holds the National Security Council file for Presidential Determination No. 97-35, which President Clinton signed on September 26, 1997. The determination renewed for one more year an exemption under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. The exemption keeps classified information about the Air Force operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, from public disclosure while Kasza v. Browner is on appeal. The file also contains supporting memos from Secretary of the Air Force Widnall, the Deputy Secretary of Defense and Samuel Berger.
This Clinton Presidential Library file from the National Security Council holds Presidential Determination No. 97-35, dated September 26, 1997. It renews the exemption for the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. The file also contains memoranda from Samuel Berger, James Baker, the Deputy Secretary of Defense and Air Force Secretary Sheila Widnall. They describe the Kasza v. Browner litigation and say the exemption shields classified information from disclosure but leaves environmental standards in force.
This declassified National Security Council file from the Clinton Presidential Library covers a draft Presidential Determination dated 20 September 1997, which John Hamre sent to President Clinton through Mr. Berger. The determination would renew for one year an exemption under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. The exemption shields classified information about the Air Force operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, from disclosure during the Kasza v. Browner and Frost v. Perry litigation. EPA and Justice concurred.
This Clinton Presidential Library FOIA release (case 2006-0527-F, NSC Records Management, Area 51 folder) contains January 1998 National Security Council records. They concern President Clinton's annual report to Congress under section 6001(a) of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. The file includes NSC routing memos, staff clearance emails, and letters dated January 31, 1998 to Newt Gingrich and Al Gore. It also holds Presidential Determination No. 97-35, which exempted the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada from disclosing classified information under hazardous waste laws.
This Clinton Presidential Library NSC records folder from January 1998 holds the paperwork behind President Clinton's report to Congress on Presidential Determination No. 97-35, issued September 26, 1997. The determination exempted the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, from hazardous and solid waste laws that could require disclosure of classified information. The file includes letters to Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate President Albert Gore, NSC clearance emails, and withdrawal sheets. It also notes that the Kasza v. Browner appeal was dismissed as moot.
This file from the Clinton Presidential Library, dated September 1998, holds National Security Council records for Presidential Determination 98-36. President Clinton signed the determination on September 25, 1998. It renews for one year an exemption under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, so classified information about the Air Force operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, does not have to be disclosed. The litigation behind it is Kasza v. Browner and Frost v. Perry. Also included are memos from James Baker and Samuel Berger recommending renewal, with EPA and Justice concurring.
This Clinton Presidential Library file holds National Security Council records on Presidential Determination No. 98-36, which President Clinton signed on September 25, 1998. The determination renews for one year an exemption that keeps classified information about the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, out of hazardous waste disclosure rules under RCRA. Supporting memos from James Baker and Samuel Berger say the exemption has been in place since 1995 and grew out of the Kasza v. Browner and Frost v. Perry litigation.
This Navy report, filed in 1959 under the heading "Information, Collection of," went from a commanding officer to the Commandant, Eleventh Naval District, and was signed by direction by C. J. Economou. Its two enclosures describe night sightings of four round, silvery-white objects near San Cayetano Mountain. One witness was Police Officer Orville Clinton of Fillmore, California. The other was Police Sergeant D. A. Kelly of Santa Paula, with Officer Paul Lydick as a second witness. The air traffic control officer at NAS Point Mugu, who prepared the enclosures, called the cause undetermined.
This Memorandum for Record from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), dated January 8, 2024, lists AARO's repeated efforts between June 2023 and January 2024 to interview David Grusch for its congressionally directed Historical Record Report. Grusch agreed to an interview on November 14, 2023, but did not appear, and he cited concerns about classified information. AARO concluded he had no intention of providing information. The release also includes email threads, text messages and authorization memoranda from DoD and ODNI.
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 January 2026 supplement from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) adds historical context to an Oak Ridge National Laboratory analysis of a metallic specimen. The specimen was reportedly recovered in the mid-1990s from private property near Flint Ridge State Park, Ohio, after the owner saw a large unidentified airborne object. ORNL found it consistent with an ordinary aluminum alloy and detected no radioactivity. AARO concurs and assesses that the specimen is most likely a conventionally manufactured aluminum-silicon alloy, possibly from casting, recycling or an automotive fire.
This July 2024 report from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office supplements Oak Ridge National Laboratory's April 2024 analysis of a magnesium alloy specimen. The specimen had been publicly alleged to come from a crashed extraterrestrial vehicle in 1947 and to work as a terahertz waveguide. AARO agrees with ORNL that the specimen's isotopic composition shows it is terrestrial and that it could not function as a waveguide. AARO judges it is probably a test object or manufacturing byproduct from mid-20th century magnesium alloy research.
This Defense Intelligence Agency read-ahead briefing paper prepared DIA officials for a meeting with Senator Harry Reid on 19 November 2009 at the Capitol. Senator Reid had written on 24 June 2009 asking that the Advanced Aerospace Threat and Identification Program (AATIP) be placed under a restricted Special Access Program. DIA concluded that the FY09 and expected FY10 contract deliverables did not justify a SAP under DoD 5200.1-R. It also noted that outside experts had reviewed eleven first-year technical reports favorably.
This Defense Intelligence Agency talking paper, dated 2 January 2009, was prepared ahead of a 5 January 2009 visit so the agency could brief Senator Reid on the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications contract if he raised it. It says Senators Inouye and Reid sponsored 2008 appropriations language directing DIA to study foreign advanced aerospace threats. Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies was the only bidder and won the contract on 22 September 2008. The paper reports the work on schedule and within cost, with technical reports due by July 2009.
This Defense Intelligence Agency talking paper, dated 4 May 2009, prepared the DIA Director for a possible question from Senator Reid on the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications contract. The paper says that Senators Inouye and Reid sponsored 2008 appropriations language directing DIA to study foreign advanced aerospace threats. Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies was the only bidder and received the contract in September 2008. It covers twelve technical areas and is reported to be on schedule, within cost and performing excellently.
This is an edited English translation, dated 11 April 1983, prepared by the Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson AFB, of a September 1982 article by Liu Yan in the Chinese journal Tianwen Aihaozhe. The article covers the spiral luminous object that several million people in western China saw on July 24, 1981. It rejects Zhang Zhousheng's claim that the object was a Cassiopeia meteoroid he had predicted. The author concludes it was most probably a man-made flying machine several hundred km up.
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 document is a NICAP-hosted table of AFOSI raw data summarizing 209 sightings of unknown aerial phenomena, listed from January 1943 through May 1950. Most reports come from New Mexico sites such as Los Alamos, Sandia Base, Albuquerque, Alamogordo and Vaughn, with others from Camp Hood, Texas, and Arizona. For each sighting it records the observers, the reliability rating, direction, color, duration, shape, speed and how the object disappeared. It sorts the cases as green fireball phenomena, disks or variations, or probable meteors.
This is a 26 May 1967 supplement to AFR 80-17, the Air Force regulation on Unidentified Flying Objects, issued by the Oklahoma City Air Materiel Area at Tinker Air Force Base and signed by Major General Melvin F. McNickle. It makes the Service Engineering Division responsible for investigating UFO sightings in the Tinker area and sets out reporting and public information procedures. Attached staffing forms include a 1970 review that marked the supplement for rescission after AFR 80-17 itself was rescinded.
These are two U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) briefing cards, dated November 23 and December 9, 2021, released under FOIA 22-F-0381. They give talking points and prepared answers on the Deputy Secretary's memo creating the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) as successor to the UAPTF, with an executive council for oversight. The cards say data remains insufficient, there is no single explanation for UAP, and AOIMSG will not search for extraterrestrials.
This FAA release from the Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center contains personnel statements dated November 1986 and January 1987 about Japan Airlines Flight 1628 north of Fairbanks, Alaska, on November 18, 1986. Controllers Henley, Rich and Aarnink describe the pilot reporting traffic with white and yellow lights and say they saw intermittent radar returns that the military ROCC also reported. Supervisor Rollins and specialists Keller and Wylie say reviews of the recorded radar data found no target information near the reported traffic.
This unclassified Defense Intelligence Agency briefing, dated 8 May 2009, reports on the status of the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications contract HHM402-08-C-0072. It explains that a July 2008 supplemental appropriation tasked DIA to study foreign advanced aerospace weapon threats out to 40 years ahead, and that Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) won the contract in September 2008. The brief calls the effort on track, on schedule and within cost, lists twelve technical study areas, and plans 24 technical reports.
This Defense Intelligence Agency briefing, dated 8 May 2009, is an unclassified status report on contract HHM402-08-C-0072 for Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications. It says a July 2008 supplemental appropriation tasked DIA with studying foreign advanced aerospace weapon threats out to 40 years ahead. Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies won the contract, which began on 21 September 2008. The briefing reports the work as on track, on schedule and within cost, with 24 technical reports across 12 areas planned for 2009.