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This undated NICAP file holds a handwritten personal statement about a UFO sighting at Edwards AFB, California, around July or August 1964. The writer was senior officer on alert that night. They say the SAGE center in San Bernardino called at about 0200 about UFO reports and asked for an F-106A to be launched, then declined to authorize it. The writer and three others watched a pulsating light turn 90 degrees and climb until it seemed to go out into space. Edwards approach control reported no radar contact.
This handwritten Japanese statement with sketches, released by the FAA and republished by The Black Vault, is Captain Terauchi's first-hand account of Japan Air Lines cargo flight JL1628 on 17 November 1986. It tells how the Boeing 747 left Keflavik, Iceland, on a special wine cargo flight and, over Alaska, was accompanied for about 50 minutes by two small spaceships and one huge mothership. It describes the lights, the onboard weather radar return, Anchorage Center's exchanges and a United Airlines flight's attempt to see the object.
This Air Intelligence Information Report was issued by the Technical Intelligence Division at Wright-Patterson AFB under Project SIGN and dated 20 December 1948. It analyzes reports of unidentified flying objects seen on 24 and 26 July 1948 across Alabama, Georgia and Virginia, among them the cigar-shaped object that Eastern Airlines pilots Chiles and Whitted saw near Montgomery. The report treats some of the sightings as meteors. It concludes the Chiles-Whitted object was not a meteor and remains unidentified as to origin, construction and power source.
This NICAP case file compilation (Dan Wilson) collects material on the July 1948 Chiles-Whitted sighting near Montgomery, Alabama. It includes a NICAP note naming Eastern Air Lines Captain Clarence S. Chiles a special adviser, an exhibit list, and Air Force Office of Special Investigations reports dated November 1949. In those reports Chiles describes a lighted, cigar-shaped object with a red exhaust flame traveling at least 500 miles per hour. Atlanta Journal article extracts are also included.
This Federal Aviation Administration memorandum from the Air Traffic Manager of Anchorage ARTCC, dated December 18, 1986, forwards a chronology of Japan Airlines Flight 1628's reported sightings of unidentified traffic on November 18, 1986. The chronology records the pilot's reports of lights and the course changes that followed, along with contacts with the military ROCC, Fairbanks Approach and a United flight. It concludes that Anchorage Center radar data did not confirm any traffic near the aircraft.
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 FAA compilation, released through the National Archives and The Black Vault, covers Japan Airlines Flight 628's sighting over Alaska on January 11, 1987. It includes an FAA incident report dated February 1987, a chronology of the communications between the crew and Anchorage ARTCC, and statements from controllers and a meteorologist. Radar showed no traffic near the aircraft apart from weather clutter. The report says Captain Terauchi later believed the lights were village lights distorted by ice crystals.
This FAA compilation, released through The Black Vault, covers an incident on January 29, 1987 involving Alaska Airlines Flight 53. The Boeing 737 was flying from Nome to Anchorage when its crew saw a fast-moving target on their weather radar about 60 miles west of McGrath, Alaska. The file includes an incident record, a certified controller transcript, the FAA's crew interview statement and a news release. Anchorage Center's radar data showed no such aircraft, and the USAF reported no military traffic in the area.
This compilation of Project Blue Book microfilm pages from Roll 92 covers the reported UFO sighting near Levelland, Texas, on the night of 2 to 3 November 1957. It includes a letter from the Air Force Office of Special Investigations district office at Carswell AFB, which says Reese AFB reported the event and that ADC investigator S/Sgt Norman P. Barth looked into it for ATIC. OSI opened no investigation of its own. A teletype message describes a fiery object that sounded like thunder and landed in an open field.
This is Volume 2 of the Ministry of Defence report 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region', Defence Intelligence Staff Scientific and Technical Memorandum 55/2/00, dated February 2000 and received 7 December 2000. It gathers 25 working papers on natural and man-made phenomena, meant as a reference for analysing UAP reports. The papers cover ball lightning, radar detection, balloons, satellites, mirages, plasma and similar subjects. One paper compares magnetic field experiments on human volunteers with close encounter reports. It concludes that effects from such fields are 'uncannily similar' to what witnesses describe.
This Defense Intelligence Agency contract file covers contract HHM402-08-C-0072, awarded to Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies on September 22, 2008, with a total award amount of $10,000,000. The firm fixed price contract lists monthly status reports, a project management plan and a research report for Tasks 3.a.1 to 3.a.12, a comprehensive integrated threat assessment, travel and other direct costs. Modification P00001, dated September 2009, extends the period of performance and exercises the option year, subject to the availability of funds.
This is a CIA Office of Research and Reports contribution to National Intelligence Estimate 11-14-64, dated 6 October 1964, on the capabilities of Soviet general-purpose forces from 1964 to 1970. It updates evidence on Soviet doctrine for theater warfare, the effect of low wartime birth rates on military conscription and the labor supply, tactical missile systems, the Soviet and Satellite tactical air forces, and Soviet naval submarine, surface and air forces. The report does not mention unidentified flying objects.
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office issued this information paper in December 2024 on how sunlight reflecting off Starlink and other Low Earth Orbit satellites can be mistaken for UAP. It explains the difference between diffuse and specular reflection, Starlink trains, and flares, and it gives a step-by-step method for predicting flare windows. The method is shown with AARO photographs taken near Sidney, Nebraska, and applied to a 2022 airline pilot report near Gallup, New Mexico. AARO concluded that the lights in that report were very likely satellite flares.
This Federal Aviation Administration file, released through The Black Vault, collects FAA Alaskan Region records on the UFO sighting reported by Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 on November 17, 1986. It includes a February 1987 FOIA route slip, an alert report to the Administrator, handwritten notes on calls with the Air Force, a duty officer checklist and a table of contents. According to the records, the crew followed lighted traffic for over 350 miles, while the Air Force treated its radar returns as clutter or spurious signals.
This FAA release, obtained through The Black Vault, contains Air Transportation Security interview notes on FAA Form 1600-32. They cover the November 17, 1986 interview in Anchorage, Alaska, of the crew of JAL Flight 1628. Captain Kenju Terauchi and his crew reported yellow, amber and green lights ahead of and beside their Boeing 747, and the object also showed on the onboard radar. The notes add that Anchorage center and NORAD had radar targets, and that the only system problem was VHF static.
This scan from the Arquivo Nacional holds a 22 May 1996 article from the Brazilian magazine ISTOÉ by Luiza Villaméa about the Varginha ET case. It recounts the claim by three young women that they saw a creature in Jardim Andere on 20 January 1996, a farm couple's sighting of an object, and ufologists' allegations that the Army captured the beings. The Army denies this. A sidebar covers the unresolved 19 May 1986 air force chase of objects near São José dos Campos.
This is a Defense Intelligence Agency FOIA response letter to John Greenewald, dated March 25, 2022, answering his January 2018 request for Defense Intelligence Reference Documents tied to Bigelow Aerospace, BAASS or the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program. DIA located 37 documents totaling 1473 pages and released them with portions withheld under FOIA Exemptions 3 and 6. An enclosed inventory lists the titles, including warp drive, antigravity and invisibility cloaking.
This Black Vault release of Defense Intelligence Agency message traffic holds several attaché intelligence reports on UFO sightings. A 1987 report from the US defense attaché in Ghana describes a large metallic object seen over Accra and the Volta Region on 27 July 1987, including a detailed account from a Ghana Air Force pilot. A 1982 message covers lights in the sky east of Finland. A 1980 report from Lima says Peruvian Air Force Su-22 jets tried without success to intercept a UFO near Mariano Melgar Air Base, La Joya.
This declassified Defense Intelligence Agency routing slip and message, released through The Black Vault, carries a report from the US Defense Attache Office in Tehran dated 23 September 1976 and prepared under Col. Frank B. McKenzie. It describes a UFO sighting over Tehran on 19 September 1976, when two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4s were scrambled. The crews reported losing instruments and communications near a brilliant object, seeing smaller objects separate from it, and later detecting a beeper signal near the apparent landing site.
This is a CIA-released, unclassified translation of an article from Moscow Pravda dated 15 April 1991, carried in a message titled "Diverging Opinions on Cause of Sasovo Explosion" and approved for release in May 2000. It describes a powerful midnight explosion on 12 April near Sasovo in Ryazan Oblast. The blast damaged roofs and windows and left a crater 28 meters wide and about 4 meters deep. Local explanations ranged from old munitions, an air bomb, a meteorite and UFOs to the military's view that ammonium nitrate exploded. The cause remained unresolved.
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 undated statement was prepared for the House Oversight Committee by retired U.S. Navy Commander David Fravor. He recounts his November 2004 encounter near the USS Nimitz with a white Tic Tac shaped object that showed no wings, rotors or infrared plume. He says the object outperformed his F/A-18F and reappeared on the Princeton's radar 60 miles away in under a minute. He says the incident was never investigated and urges congressional oversight of any government programs involving such craft.
This information leaflet, attributed to West Lothian Council and undated, presents case file number 1013 on a UFO encounter at Dechmont Law, West Lothian, on November 9, 1979. It recounts that forestry worker Robert Taylor met a large metallic sphere in a clearing and says two smaller spheres dragged him before he lost consciousness. It also notes the ground marks the police found and the forensic results on his clothing, and it cites Strange Phenomena Investigations' conclusion that he saw something 'not of this Earth'.
This trail map from West Lothian Council shows a way-marked walking trail at Dechmont Law. It uses Ordnance Survey mapping with a 2017 Crown copyright notice. The map invites walkers to learn about an unusual event while enjoying the local woodlands, wildlife and views. It notes that on the morning of 9 November 1979, Dechmont Wood was the site of an unusual encounter known as the 'Robert Taylor' incident.
This Black Vault release contains the Air Force's 2001 response from the 341st Space Wing FOIA office at Malmstrom AFB, Montana, to a request about the 16 March 1967 Echo Flight missile shutdown, with excerpts from 341st Strategic Missile Wing histories covering 1967 to early 1968. The histories say all ten Echo Flight launch facilities lost strategic alert almost simultaneously. Investigators could not find a logical cause and found rumors of UFOs near Echo Flight to be unfounded.
This Internet Archive item compiles 1965 to 1968 records from National Research Council of Canada files (RG 77, Vol. 306) on non-meteoritic sightings. It contains fireball and UFO telex reports from RCAF stations, RCC Vancouver and the RCMP, covering lights seen over Sydney, Vancouver, Cochrane, Toronto, Whitehorse and Shediac. It also includes an RCMP investigation of a 12 July 1968 impact at Tobin Road, Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia, which concluded the object was probably a meteorite, not a UFO.
This is the record (compte rendu no. 35) of the French Assemblée nationale's Commission de la défense nationale et des forces armées session of 28 January 2015, chaired by Patricia Adam. It examines Claude de Ganay's bill creating a specific offence for intrusion into civil nuclear sites, with escalating penalties. The record also discusses 40 illegal drone overflights of 19 nuclear sites since September 2014. The committee adopted the amended bill, including a request for a government report on drone risks by 30 September 2015.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document from the Defense Intelligence Agency, dated 11 March 2010, was produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It argues that spaceships powered by deuterium thermonuclear reactions could be built with current science and technology. The paper covers ignition by GeV proton beams, magnetic insulation, the Super Marx generator and conjectured chemical superexplosives, and it concludes that such craft could make manned exploration of the entire solar system possible.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, dated 29 March 2010 and prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency, is one of a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2009 under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It uses a metric tensor approach from general relativity to catalog the physical effects of engineering spacetime, such as altered time, mass, light speed and antigravity. It concludes that such concepts, including warp drives, are consistent with physics, but that the energy requirements remain daunting.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency under its Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program and dated 14 December 2009, is a white paper on programmable matter and smart materials. It covers quantum dots, metamaterials, liquid crystals, dynamic windows and spacecraft thermal management, and describes a future space station scenario. It concludes that even partial realization could bring significant gains in spacecraft energy efficiency, safety and mission flexibility.
This Defense Intelligence Agency reference document, dated 11 March 2010, is one of the advanced technology reports produced in FY 2009 under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) program. It introduces the Statistical Drake Equation, which replaces each factor of Frank Drake's 1961 equation with a uniform random variable to estimate how far away the nearest extraterrestrial civilization is. In the worked example, there is a 75% probability that the nearest civilization lies between 1,361 and 3,979 light years from Earth.
This Defense Intelligence Agency reference document, dated 1 November 2010, is one of a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2010 under the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It covers fusion plasma physics, confinement methods, and propulsion concepts that use aneutronic fuels such as hydrogen and boron-11. It concludes that such thrusters may soon replace satellite ion thrusters. It also finds that they will not be practical beyond the solar system without breakthrough propulsion physics.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, dated 1 November 2010, was produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency under its Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It surveys propulsion technologies that include chemical, ion, and nuclear fission rockets, fusion schemes, aneutronic fusion, and antimatter propulsion. It also covers radiation shielding and speculates on research needs over the next 30 years for missions from low Earth orbit to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Alpha Centauri. The document concludes that aneutronic fusion promises to be an important mechanism for future space propulsion.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency in March 2010 under its Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It reviews reported injuries to people exposed at close range to anomalous aerospace vehicles and attributes them mainly to electromagnetic radiation field effects, including burns and neurological effects. The document argues that clinical diagnoses could help infer the characteristics of such systems. Its appendices list historical cases and classify reported physiological effects using ICD codes and Vallee ratings.
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIA-08-1003-018), dated 30 March 2010, was produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency as part of its FY 2009 Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It reviews theoretical approaches to antigravity for aerospace propulsion, drawing on Newtonian physics, general relativity, cosmological dark energy and quantum vacuum effects. The report notes that no current technology can actively control gravity and that many concepts are far from practicable engineering.