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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 undated National Security Agency file reviews a June 1978 report by GEPAN, the French government's UFO study group, which covers its work in the first half of 1978. GEPAN examined 11 high-credibility, high-strangeness cases in France in detail. Only one had a conventional explanation. In the other 10, investigators concluded that the witnesses saw a material phenomenon that was neither natural nor a human device. The review, submitted by Ron Westrum, also notes that GEPAN's report covers the Teheran case.
This FAA memorandum from Quentin J. Gates, Air Traffic Manager at the Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center, is dated January 9, 1987. It certifies a transcript of radio and interphone communications about Japan Airlines Flight 1628 on November 18, 1986, from 0214 to 0259 UTC. The crew reports unidentified traffic nearby. Military radar notes intermittent primary returns. United Airlines Flight 69 and a military C-130 are vectored to look, but neither sees any other aircraft near the 747.
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 is a 1978 investigation report by GEPAN, the unidentified aerial phenomena study group of France's CNES, about the 29 August 1967 sighting at Cussac, Cantal. It was published in 2005 by the Démocratie soucoupique site with CNES approval. Investigators questioned two child witnesses, a gendarme, and neighbours, and ran theodolite reconstructions and odour tests. The report finds the accounts coherent and rejects the helicopter explanation. It concludes that the witnesses saw the hurried departure of an unknown crewed vehicle.
This is Volume I of III of the Gemini VII voice communications transcript, covering pages 1 to 337 and marked Confidential. It records air-to-ground, ground-to-air and on-board exchanges beginning at lift-off. Early passages cover staging, orbit insertion and stationkeeping with the booster, which the crew reports is venting heavily, and they photograph it. Later passages near 116 hours hold the crew's detailed descriptions of airglow, stars and a sunrise seen from orbit.
This is a statement for the congressional record by George Knapp, chief investigative reporter for KLAS TV in Las Vegas, submitted to Rep. Burchett and his committee; the text gives no date. Knapp describes his UFO reporting since 1987, his work with Senator Harry Reid and Robert Bigelow's NIDS, and Russian military UFO studies he learned about in Moscow in 1993. He says the $22 million secured by Reid funded AAWSAP, a DIA program, rather than AATIP. He adds that AAWSAP's reports, including one on the 2004 Tic Tac case, have never been made public.
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office of the U.S. Department of Defense issued this case resolution on the "Go Fast" video on February 6, 2025. It covers a January 2015 FLIR recording made by a U.S. Navy F/A-18F off Florida's eastern coast. From the public 34-second video, AARO puts the object at about 13,000 feet, moving at 5 to 92 mph relative to the wind. It attributes the apparent high speed to motion parallax and has high confidence the object showed no anomalous performance.
This is a National Enquirer article by Thomas L. Muldoon, dated 27 November 1979, about a heavily censored 1968 National Security Agency report that the paper obtained through Freedom of Information Act appeals. According to the article, the report concludes that UFOs are not all hoaxes and cites Air Force records of unexplained sightings. It also warns that contact with a technologically superior civilization could threaten human survival. The report compares an unprepared nation to the surprise at Pearl Harbor and urges a more urgent, survival-minded approach to the UFO problem.
This is a Truth in Testimony Disclosure Form filed with the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability for its July 26, 2023 hearing, "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency." Witness Ryan Graves appeared as Executive Director of Americans for Safe Aerospace and also listed his role as CEO and podcast host of Merged Point. He reported no federal grants or contracts and no foreign government payments. The form is signed and dated July 24, 2023.
This undated biography of Ryan Graves comes from the U.S. House Committee Repository. It describes him as a former U.S. Navy lieutenant and F/A-18F pilot who served for a decade and was the first active duty pilot to speak publicly about regular UAP sightings. He founded and leads Americans for Safe Aerospace and is the first Chair of the AIAA UAP Integration and Outreach Committee. The biography also notes his earlier work on military autonomy at BAE Systems FAST Labs.
This is the written testimony of Ryan Graves, a former Navy F/A-18 pilot and founder of Americans for Safe Aerospace, to the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs at its first public UAP hearing. He describes regular UAP sightings by squadron VFA-11 off Virginia Beach from 2014, including a near miss with a cube inside a sphere in Warning Area W-72. He argues that UAP are underreported and stigmatized, that the data is overclassified, and that commercial pilots need a way to report them.
This is a Clinton Presidential Library release under FOIA request 2006-0483-F, taken from the WHORM Alpha File folder "Greer, Q-Z [Stephen Greer]". It has withdrawal and redaction sheets for a partial one-page letter dated 08/10/1995 from Steven Greer to Mr. Dorskind, with parts withheld for personal privacy. In the letter, Greer says he has worked with Laurance Rockefeller for over 18 months and has given him a package of evidence to share with the President. He also offers to come to the JY Ranch to brief the President.
This Truth in Testimony Disclosure Form was filed with the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability's Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs. It covers the July 26, 2023 hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) whistleblowers. The witness is David Charles Grusch, a former Senior Intelligence Officer with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and Chief Operating Officer of The Sol Foundation for Advanced Studies. He reports no foreign or federal grants or contracts, and the form is signed and dated 7/23/23.
This undated biography, a resume of David C. Grusch, comes from the U.S. House Committee Repository. It lists his active TOP SECRET//SCI clearance, his education and his professional certifications. It also covers his career as a U.S. Air Force intelligence officer, as a DoD-contracted technical advisor, and at the NRO and the NGA, where he was the lead for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena and Trans-Medium issues. Since May 2023 he has been Chief Operating Officer of The Sol Foundation.
This is the written statement David Charles Grusch submitted to a U.S. House committee, with his opening and closing remarks. The document is undated. Grusch describes himself as a former Air Force intelligence officer and NGA UAP co-lead who served on the UAP Task Force. He says he learned in the course of his duties of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program, was denied access to it, filed a whistleblower complaint, and suffered retaliation. He asks Congress to investigate.
This is the printed record of a July 26, 2023 hearing of the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, published by the U.S. Government Publishing Office as Serial No. 118-53. Witnesses Ryan Graves, David Grusch and retired Commander David Fravor testified about unidentified anomalous phenomena. Members pressed for government transparency, criticized AARO's classified budget and stigma against reporting, and Graves described a near miss with a dark cube inside a clear sphere.
This memorandum from committee staff to members of the House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs is dated July 21, 2023. It announces a July 26, 2023 hearing in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building on unidentified anomalous phenomena and their implications for national security, public safety, and government transparency. The hearing was to examine firsthand accounts from pilots and officials and how pilots report UAP. Witnesses listed are Ryan Graves, David Grusch, and retired Commander David Fravor.
This notice was sent by James Comer, Chairman, to members of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability on July 19, 2023. It announces a hearing of the Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs titled "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency." The hearing was set for July 26, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2154 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The notice also explains how members could submit materials for the hearing record.
The Department of Defense's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) released this report in February 2024. It is Volume I of its Historical Record Report on U.S. Government involvement with UAP. AARO reviewed official investigations since 1945, searched archives and conducted about 30 interviews. It found no evidence that any sighting represented extraterrestrial technology, and no evidence that the government or private companies reverse-engineer such technology. The report attributes such claims to misidentified authentic programs and circular reporting.
This release from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) covers KONA BLUE, a Department of Homeland Security prospective special access program proposed in 2011 to continue DIA's AAWSAP/AATIP work after that program was canceled. AARO first heard of it through interviews for its historical review. The DHS Deputy Secretary disapproved it six months later and ordered it terminated. AARO reports that KONA BLUE never received funding and that no data or material, including claimed non-human biologics, was ever transferred to DHS.
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum of 18 December 1961, sent to the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, encloses a verbatim translation of a Soviet article from the top secret 1960 first issue of the special collection of Military Thought. In the article, Colonel-General A. Gastilovich argues that nuclear missiles call for revising Soviet military doctrine. He favors short blitz operations, smaller ground forces and new rescue troops. It mentions "flying saucers" only as ground effect machines for army aviation.
This Defense Intelligence Agency info memo was sent by Director Lt. Gen. Ronald L. Burgess, Jr. to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics and is dated December 2010. It describes the Advanced Aerospace Threat and Identification Program, which Senators Reid and Inouye funded, and DIA's contract with Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies. That contract produced 38 technical reports. The memo says DIA found no grounds to classify the program, judged the reports of limited value to DIA and suggested moving the project to another agency.
This is an in camera affidavit by Eugene F. Yeates, Chief of the National Security Agency's Office of Policy, sworn in October 1980 in the case Citizens Against Unidentified Flying Objects Secrecy v. NSA, Civil Action No. 80-1562. It says NSA located 239 documents and explains why it withheld 156 communications intelligence reports produced between 1958 and 1979. It also explains the deletions in two released staff papers. The affidavit concludes that disclosure would reveal intelligence sources and methods, so the records are exempt under FOIA.
This FAA Inspection and Surveillance Record, Form 3112, is dated 11/17/86 and comes from the Anchorage district office AAC-ASDO-63. Inspector Jack Wright wrote it after interviewing the crew of JAL Boeing 747 cargo Flight 1628 from Iceland to Anchorage. Captain Terauchi reported an object with lights that was bigger than the 747 and followed the aircraft for about 55 minutes after it crossed the Canadian-Alaskan border. The crew also saw it on weather radar. The inspector described the crew as shaken but professional and noted that tapes were requested to be saved.
This file is an inventory of audio cassettes attributed to the FAA and released through the National Archives and The Black Vault. It has no date. The extracted text holds only The Black Vault's cover page, which says John Greenewald, Jr. made the document available through FOIA declassification research. None of the inventory itself or any case details came through in the extracted text.
This NSA file preserves pages from a May-June 1981 magazine that include the article "Is the CIA Stonewalling?" by Richard Hall, a former NICAP Assistant Director. Using 892 pages of CIA documents released to lawyer Peter Gersten, Hall argues that the CIA's claimed lack of interest in UFOs is untrue and that the agency monitored reports over many years. Other pages argue that the government misinformed the public about UFO threats to national security and quote a 1968 NSA report on UFOs and survival.
JANAP 146 is a joint US and Canadian communications publication, released here by the National Security Agency, that sets out uniform instructions for reporting vital intelligence sightings to military authorities. It covers CIRVIS reports from aircraft and land observers and MERINT reports from vessels. Unidentified flying objects appear among the reportable items, along with missiles, hostile aircraft and submarines. The document also covers message precedence, report contents, routing to CINCONAD and RCAF Air Defense Command, security penalties for unauthorized disclosure, evaluation categories and charges.
This U.S. Department of Energy release collects 1970s correspondence connected to Los Alamos physicist James L. Tuck. One letter recalls several green light sightings at Los Alamos between 1948 and 1951, plus five objects flying in formation, all reported to the Protective Force. In another letter, Tuck asks the U.S. Army Engineering School for the recipe used in simulated atomic bomb demonstrations, citing the Condon study's account of atmospheric vortices. A third letter sends Tuck comments on ball lightning from a 1976 book by James McCampbell.
This is a Historic American Buildings Survey data page for the Japhet Leeds House in Leeds Point, Atlantic County, New Jersey, held by the Library of Congress under survey number NJ-399. Supervising historian Walter E. Rutt of Newark dated the entry April 26, 1959. It records that Japhet B. Leeds built the stone house in 1814 and that a frame addition was made in 1858. It names Jesse Mathis as the owner at the time and cites record searches at Mays Landing and Woodbury.
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 memorandum opinion by U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, dated March 27, 2007, rules in Leslie Kean's FOIA suit against NASA over records about the object said to have crashed in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania on December 9, 1965. The court found NASA had not shown its searches were adequate and noted likely overlooked Cosmos 96 records. It upheld NASA's withholding of two emails under Exemption 5 and ordered the parties to propose new search procedures.
This unclassified article by H. Campaigne, published in the NSA Technical Journal, Vol. XIV, No. 1, gives a key to a series of 31 hypothetical radio messages from outer space that Campaigne had presented earlier. Step by step it decodes symbols for numbers, arithmetic, logic, set theory, octal notation, the rational and real numbers, limits, and finally the periodic table of the elements. The article concludes that any civilization able to send messages across space would share basic concepts of number, sets and physical constants.
This FAA file, released through The Black Vault, collects correspondence and memos about the Japan Air Lines flight 1628 UFO report over Alaska on November 17, 1986. It includes Philip J. Klass's 1987 Skeptical Inquirer article, which attributes the sighting to Jupiter, Mars and moonlit ice clouds, and FAA Alaskan Region public affairs memos on the premature release of investigation material. It also contains Richard F. Haines's request for the case file and Paul Steucke's reply explaining the radar returns as uncorrelated targets.
This is a June 24, 2009 letter from U.S. Senator Harry Reid to Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn III. Reid writes that the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) has produced several highly sensitive, unconventional aerospace-related findings. He asks for a Restricted Special Access Program with a Bigoted Access List to protect parts of the program, including its methods, personnel and industry partners. An attachment lists proposed program details and personnel, among them Luis Elizondo and Hal Puthoff.
This illustrated dossier from the Comune di Firenze, edited by R. Martellacci and E. Pieri, covers the Stadio Giovanni Berta (now Artemio Franchi) in the Campo di Marte district of Florence. It does not give a date. Engineer Pier Luigi Nervi designed the stadium, which was built between 1930 and 1932. The dossier places it among Florence's fascist-era architecture and describes its reinforced concrete structures and the renovation done for Italia '90. It ends with a bibliography and a list of archival sources.
This Project Blue Book index page, hosted by NICAP and undated, lists UFO reports by location, observer and Air Force evaluation. Entries run from Tempe, Arizona and Oak Ridge, Tennessee to Newfoundland, Alaska, China and California. Evaluations include Insufficient Data, Balloon, Meteor, Hoax, Fireworks, Chaff and several UNIDENTIFIED. Some cases are marked missing, some are kept in separate folders, and a note says no physical specimens are included.
This is a Reagan Library topic guide on Operation Majestic 12 (the MJ-12 document), prepared by Ronald Reagan Presidential Library staff. It is a finding aid, not a record of events. It lists where related material is held: case files in the White House Office of Records Management subject files and the files of White House Science Advisor George A. Keyworth III (1981 to 1985). It notes that some material may still be withheld under Freedom of Information Act restrictions.
This is a Ministry of Defence reply to a request for current information on two alleged UFO incidents: the Berwyn Mountains in Wales and Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk. The MOD dates the Berwyn events to 24 January 1974. It says UFO records for that period are open at The National Archives, Kew, and names files AIR 2/18873 and AIR 2/18874. It adds that all MOD records on the Rendlesham Forest incident are in its Freedom of Information Publication Scheme online.
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 is an 1880 book, The Apparitions and Miracles at Knock, prepared and edited by John MacPhilpin of Tuam and published in Dublin by M. H. Gill and Son. The Internet Archive holds a Google scan of the Harvard College Library copy. It reprints Tuam News accounts and the official depositions of eye-witnesses to the apparition of 21 August 1879 on the sacristy gable of Knock Church, County Mayo. It argues that natural light could not have caused the apparition and lists cures recorded in Archdeacon Cavanagh's diary.
This FAA Alaskan Region compilation, released through the National Archives and The Black Vault, collects the media inquiries about the November 17, 1986 sighting reported by the crew of Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 over Alaska. It includes call logs, a tally of newspaper articles, a public affairs management report citing 101 inquiries, and press releases. The FAA's March 5, 1987 release concluded that the second radar target was a split return from the JAL Boeing 747 and said no further investigation was planned.
This is an attendance roster kept by the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability's Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs in the 118th Congress. It covers the July 26, 2023 hearing "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency," which convened at 10:06 a.m. and adjourned at 12:22 p.m. The roster marks which Republican and Democratic members attended, including Chairman Grothman, Ranking Member Garcia and several members who waived on.
This is a Memorandum and Order in Citizens Against UFO Secrecy v. National Security Agency, Civil Action No. 80-1562, signed by a United States District Judge on November 18, 1980. The plaintiff sought all NSA records on UFOs under the Freedom of Information Act. The court reviewed a public affidavit and a 21-page top secret in camera affidavit from NSA official Eugene Yeates. It found that the withheld communications intelligence reports and portions of four other documents were properly exempt, granted summary judgment to the NSA, and dismissed the case.