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This undated National Security Agency memorandum for the record, addressed to D4, contains a chronology written by an employee who checked in at Fort Meade in July 1978. The employee reports telling NSA officials about their UFO interests and attending the Mutual UFO Network 1978 UFO Symposium in Dayton, Ohio. There they judged letters shown publicly by Robert Barry to be fraudulent, and NSA later confirmed this. The memo also describes a phone call in which a UFO researcher asked for help finding UFO information inside NSA. The employee says they turned the request down.
This FAA Alaskan Region file, released through The Black Vault, collects public affairs material on the November 17, 1986 sighting by the crew of Japan Airlines flight 1628. It includes a 1987 Alaska PRSA Aurora Award entry and Paul Steucke's January 5, 1987 memo, which planned a single release of all data at a March 5, 1987 press conference. It also contains UFO group contact sheets, a Phenomena Research Report newsletter and Anchorage Times clippings, including one attributing a flash over Alaska to Soviet rocket fuel.
This is a U.S. Air Force mission report (MISREP) under Air Forces Central Command (AFCENT), classified SECRET with a declassification date of 2048 and heavily redacted. It includes a UAP section reporting that four UAP were observed at about 1736Z. One was seen at 17:36:22, two side by side at 17:36:30 and one at 17:36:49. Cloud cover kept the sensor from following them and getting a clear visual. The report marks advanced capabilities or materials as NO.
This is a heavily redacted U.S. Department of War mission report from 2020 describing a possible unidentified aerial phenomenon over the Arabian Gulf. The date is not given. It records that at 1258Z an observer whose identity is redacted saw a possible UAP at a given grid reference. The sighting was too brief to estimate the object's altitude, and its speed was put at 321 knots. The report says the UAP then sped up and turned east. The pilot's name is withheld under exemption (b)(6).
This U.S. Department of War mission report from the Arabian Gulf, dated 2020, is a heavily redacted release in which the reporting units are withheld under exemption 1.4(a). It holds two UAP entries. The first reports one UAP at 1354Z moving at a constant 40 knots between FL160 and FL170. The second reports two possible UAPs at 2243Z, estimated at 278 knots, which sped up and turned south. The text draws no conclusions.
This U.S. Department of War mission report, titled for the Arabian Gulf in 2020, has no date. It is a heavily redacted UAP report form, with its withheld portions marked 1.4(a). The unredacted text describes a weapons quality track of a UAP traveling with the winds at 31,000 feet. The crew was able to make a next to shoot on the track and visually identified the object in the TFLIR as looking like a balloon, similar to UAP previously reported from 48FW.
This U.S. Department of War mission report from Djibouti, dated 2025, records an unidentified aerial phenomenon. The text is heavily redacted and marked SECRET, releasable to the USA, Finland, Sweden, the Five Eyes and NATO. According to the text, at 1653Z observers saw two round, white hot UAPs moving south at about 240 nautical miles per hour near a grid reference. It gives no further detail and no conclusion.
This is a redacted U.S. Department of War mission report, undated, containing a UAP event description classified SECRET//NOFORN. It records that during return to base at 1319Z a redacted observer saw one UAP while transiting over coordinates 363453N 0255943E at 24,989 feet MSL and 168 knots. The object is described as triangular and metallic. The report gives no conclusion or explanation for the sighting.
This case resolution from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office of the U.S. Department of Defense is dated 28 April 2025. It examines a December 2018 infrared video recorded by a U.S. military uncrewed aerial system near Naval Air Station Sigonella. The object appeared to move at high speed through the ash plume of an erupting Mt. Etna. AARO has moderate confidence that the object was a balloon about one foot across, drifting at wind speed about 30 km from the sensor. It concludes that motion parallax and sensor limits created the appearance of anomalous behavior.
This U.S. Navy FOIA email chain from June and July 2020 covers the handling of request DON-NAVY-2020-007330. That request sought records on the history and custody of videos of two F-18 Hornets tracking a UFO, which were cited in AFOSI file 3290517356125. NAWCAD records staff, N2N6's Joe Gradisher and several Navy judge advocates discuss which office should answer it, and staff identify the footage as the Gimbal video from VFA-11. Carrier Strike Group Eight, CVW-1 and VFA-11 found no responsive records, so a no-records response was prepared.
This National Military Command Center memorandum for record, signed by the NMCC Deputy Director for Operations and made available through NICAP, records phone reports from the NORAD Command Director about unidentified objects near Malmstrom AFB, Montana. Heightfinder radar tracked the objects while personnel at several SAC sites saw lights and heard jet-like engine noise. Two F-106 interceptors were scrambled but could not intercept them, and witnesses said the lights went off whenever the fighters arrived. NORAD ruled out Northern Lights and listed the incident as an unknown fade.
This memorandum for record comes from the Deputy Director for Operations of the National Military Command Center (NMCC), a US Army brigadier general. It records NORAD phone reports of lights, jet engine sounds and height-finder radar returns at Malmstrom AFB and nearby SAC sites in Montana, including over Lewistown. Two F-106 interceptors were scrambled but could not intercept the objects, which reportedly turned their lights off while the fighters were present. NORAD ruled out Northern Lights and carried the incident as a fade remaining unknown.
This U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission FOIA release contains a November 9, 1984 request from Lawrence Fawcett of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy, along with the NRC's reply. The request describes a July 14, 1984 report by Power Authority Police of a boomerang-shaped object with 12 lights hovering near Reactor 3 at the Indian Point Nuclear Power Station in Buchanan, New York. In a November 21, 1984 letter, the NRC said it had found no documents on the matter.
This Black Vault release contains the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's March 23, 2017 response to John Greenewald's FOIA request 2017-0368 for UFO records collected since 1975. The NRC withheld identifying information. The records cover three allegation files. The first is a 2010 Region IV case about a former security officer who said a triangular UFO hovered over the protected area at Cooper Nuclear Station between 1986 and 1989. The other two are a 1997 letter claiming DoD flew nuclear-powered craft from New Mexico and a 1998 California complaint.
This is a 2021 US Nuclear Regulatory Commission response to FOIA request NRC-2021-000177 from John Greenewald, published by The Black Vault. The request sought UAP and UFO records collected since 1975. Only NRC Region I found responsive records. The release includes a 1984 request from Citizens Against UFO Secrecy about a reported July 14, 1984 boomerang-shaped object over the Indian Point nuclear plant, along with the NRC's reply that it had no such documents. It also contains 2015 NRC emails about an unidentified object seen near the Pilgrim plant.
On 21 May 2018, the National Security Agency's FOIA/PA Office sent this letter to John Greenewald Jr. of The Black Vault under FOIA Case 104228. He had asked for the Intellipedia entry on the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP). NSA said a thorough search of Intellipedia files found no responsive records. It noted that Intellipedia pages are not coordinated Intelligence Community positions and explained how to appeal the adverse determination within 90 days.
This is an April 5, 2022 Department of the Navy FOIA response to John Greenewald of The Black Vault on case DON-NAVY-2022-001613. It releases one partially redacted four-page document from the Navy Office of Legislative Affairs. The document describes a January 2019 meeting at which an F/A-18 pilot from VFA-103 briefed Senate Armed Services Committee staffers on an anomalous aerial vehicle detection event in 2015 off the U.S. east coast. According to the record, staffers were disappointed that the Navy did not act.
This Black Vault release contains two Department of the Navy FOIA response letters dated October 10, 2024, sent to John Greenewald. Both direct him to a redacted NASA briefing in the Navy's online Reading Room. Also included are September 2020 emails between the UAP Task Force and NASA's interagency liaison, and the UAPTF's redacted slide deck dated 31 August 2020. The slides describe the 2020 NDAA mandate, the effort to de-stigmatize reporting, partner agencies, and the 2004 Nimitz "Tic Tac" case.
This Black Vault mirror compiles heavily redacted, SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY Navy "Range Fouler Reporting Forms" dated from 2004 to 2021. The first form covers a 14 November 2004 event about 30 nautical miles off Mexico, southwest of San Diego, involving the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group. It describes a solid white, smooth object about 46 feet long with no wings, and notes that reporting ended at 3rd Fleet. Later forms describe unidentified small aircraft, suspected UAS and a near mid-air collision.
This declassified Navy intelligence report, found among National Security Agency records, was prepared by LCDR J. Giacomuzzi at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay and dated 13 August 1968. It describes a UFO that numerous personnel aboard ships and on the base saw on 11 August 1968. The object glowed brightly and left what looked like a spiral trail of smoke or vapor. The report suggests it may have been the decaying Cosmos 234 satellite, and it says crew members aboard USS Barry and USS LaSalle photographed it.
This FAA file, released through the National Archives and The Black Vault, collects 1987 newspaper clippings about Japan Air Lines Flight 1628. Capt. Kenju Terauchi reported that lights and a huge walnut-shaped object followed his 747 cargo jet over Alaska on November 17, 1986. The articles quote FAA spokesman Paul Steucke saying the radar returns were a split image and military clutter, and report Philip Klass's explanation that Terauchi saw Jupiter and Mars. Terauchi's second sighting in January was attributed to village lights reflecting off ice crystals.
This is a NewsNation article dated June 11, 2023, entered into the U.S. House Committee Repository by Rep. Luna. It profiles David Grusch, a former Air Force intelligence officer and member of the UAP Task Force. Grusch claims the United States runs a crash retrieval program holding non-human vehicles and possibly bodies, and that he filed a whistleblower complaint which the inspector general found urgent and credible. The article notes that he has no smoking-gun documents and no official confirmation.
This combined PDF of newspaper clippings, attributed to NICAP and the USAF with no date given, reports Lt. George Gorman's October 1 night encounter over Fargo, North Dakota. Gorman, of the North Dakota Air National Guard's 178th Fighter Squadron, said a small lighted object outran and outmaneuvered his F-51 for nearly half an hour, making head-on passes before climbing out of sight. Two control tower operators and a Cub pilot, optometrist Dr. A. E. Cannon, supported his account.
This Black Vault copy reproduces an article by Captain Henry S. Shields of HQ USAFE/INOMP titled "Now You See It, Now You Don't!" It recounts a late-1976 episode near Tehran in which two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 crews chased a bright object. Both jets lost instruments or communications, and one crew watched smaller objects detach, with one coming down to the ground. The article says no further explanation came, and it notes that the results of later radiation tests were never reported.
This is an article by Captain Henry S. Shields of HQ USAFE/INOMP, here in a copy held by the National Security Agency. It recounts how two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom crews encountered UFOs near Tehran in late 1976. The crews reported losing instruments, communications and weapons control. They said a smaller object detached and chased one jet, and that another object came down and lit the ground. A helicopter search the next day found nothing unusual, and the results of later tests were not reported.
This is the restricted record of a confidential hearing held on 24 November 2014 by the French Parliament's Office parlementaire d'évaluation des choix scientifiques et technologiques (OPECST), chaired by Jean-Yves Le Déaut. The hearing examined unidentified drones flying over French nuclear installations. SGDSN head Louis Gautier reported 40 overflights of 19 sites since 10 September, including six plants overflown at once on 31 October. Industry and military speakers judged the drones to be misused civilian models, and officials said helicopters had never seen one.
This is the official record (compte rendu no. 56) of a public hearing held by the French Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices (OPECST) on 24 November 2014, chaired by deputy Jean-Yves Le Déaut. The hearing covered drone overflights of French nuclear installations: at least twenty drones had flown over nuclear sites in violation of the law. Drone makers, operators, regulators and nuclear safety officials took part. The chair concluded that the flights looked like an organised operation and that some changes to the law might be needed.
This undated synopsis from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) reports on Oak Ridge National Laboratory's analysis of a layered magnesium-zinc specimen with bismuth bands. The specimen is claimed to come from a UAP crash around 1947, and some say it can reduce inertial mass. Using microscopy, spectroscopy and isotope analysis, ORNL found that the bismuth could not have acted as a terahertz waveguide. It concluded that the material was manufactured on Earth and later damaged by heat and mechanical stress.
This synopsis was prepared by Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). It reports on an analysis of drill shavings and a small bulk piece from a metallic specimen claimed to be linked to an unidentified phenomenon over central Ohio around 1995. Chemical assays, microscopy, computed tomography and gamma spectroscopy showed a conventional near-eutectic aluminum-silicon casting alloy that had cooled slowly and gave off no radiation. The report concludes the specimen is ordinary terrestrial industrial metal with no evidence of exotic origin.
This is an October 1968 contribution by the Central Intelligence Agency's Office of Strategic Research to National Intelligence Estimate 11-14-68 on Soviet and East European general purpose forces. It covers Warsaw Pact war plans for Central Europe, the effects of the Czechoslovak crisis, and the doubling of Soviet forces on the Chinese border since 1965. It also assesses ground, tactical air, naval and coastal defense forces. The text does not mention UFOs or unidentified aerial phenomena.
This file is a 1969 publication review package for 4600th Air Base Wing Supplement 1 to Air Force Regulation 80-17, Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO), dated 10 January 1967. A review request form dated 17 March 1969 was answered on 4 April 1969, marking the supplement as requiring change. The supplement makes the Base Operations Officer responsible for investigating and reporting UFO sightings. Reports go to the Base Operations Dispatch Section and are sent by messenger to Hq ADC, Hq NORAD and the wing.
This is Volume II, Part 1 of the CIA History Staff's Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation, a Top Secret history dated October 1979 and approved for release in July 2011. It looks at how the Agency took part in shaping US foreign policy toward Guatemala and Nicaragua during the anti-Castro program. It covers dealings with President Ydigoras Fuentes and Roberto Alejos, training sites such as Retalhuleu, cover stories, and negotiations with the Somoza brothers for an air base and port. It contains no UFO material.
This is part of Volume II of the CIA History Staff's official history of the Bay of Pigs operation, covering participation in the conduct of foreign policy, dated October 1979 and approved for release in 2011. The appendixes reproduce CIA and State Department cables on the November 1960 Guatemalan army revolt, including Guatemalan requests for arms, ammunition and air surveillance, memorandums on Special Forces trainers, and part of a 1971 oral history interview with Ambassador John J. Muccio. It contains no UFO material.
This is the official transcript of a July 26, 2023 hearing held by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Accountability's Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs. The hearing was titled "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency." Ryan Graves, David Grusch and retired Commander David Fravor testified. Members pressed for transparency and whistleblower protections, and Graves described a near miss involving a dark cube inside a clear sphere.
This is the official transcript of a July 26, 2023 hearing held by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability's Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, titled "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency." Witnesses Ryan Graves, David Grusch and retired Commander David Fravor testified under oath. Members pressed for transparency, and Graves described a near midair encounter with a cube inside a clear sphere.
This French Gendarmerie procès-verbal, no. 600 of 1990, is held in the GEIPAN (CNES) files. It records two farmers who phoned the gendarmerie on 6 November 1990 and were formally heard on 14 November. Both saw a luminous trail on 5 November 1990 around 18:30 to 19:00: a round red or orange object topped by a small light, moving west to east for 20 to 40 seconds. Press clippings are attached, and the report notes NASA's conclusion that the lights were a Soviet rocket third stage re-entering the atmosphere.
This package was compiled by the FAA Alaskan Region Public Affairs Office in Anchorage and sent to FAA managers with a memo from Paul Steucke dated March 5, 1987. It gathers material on the November 17, 1986 sighting by the crew of Japan Air Lines flight 1628: a news release, pilot and controller transcripts, crew interviews and radar analysis. The FAA concluded that it could not confirm the event. It attributed the second radar target to a split, uncorrelated return from the JAL Boeing 747 and planned no further investigation.
This NICAP extract, compiled by Dan Wilson and undated, collects the statements of Eastern Air Lines pilot Capt. Clarence S. Chiles and co-pilot John B. Whitted on Trip 576, together with an Air Force check-list for unidentified flying objects. The pilots describe a wingless, cigar-shaped object about 100 feet long that passed their DC-3 near Montgomery, Alabama, at 2:45 AM in July 1948. They report two rows of lit windows and a flame exhaust. The object made no sound and pulled up into clouds.
This release from the Federal Aviation Administration, made public through The Black Vault, is a set of FAA Form 7230-10 position logs from the Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center dated November 17, 1986, with a November 18, 1986 stamp. The handwritten forms show controller initials and the times they signed on and off sectors such as Sector 15. Codes mark whether a controller, a supervisor or a trainee held each position. The logs contain no narrative or conclusions.
This document, released as additional information for Australian Senate Estimates, reproduces the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's Preliminary Assessment on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, dated 25 June 2021. It was prepared for congressional committees under Senate Report 116-233 and covers mostly US Government reports from November 2004 to March 2021. It finds that limited data hampers firm conclusions and that most UAP are probably physical objects. It proposes five explanatory categories and concludes that UAP pose a flight safety issue and possibly a national security challenge.
This Privacy Impact Assessment from the Office of the Secretary of Defense covers the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office Authorized Reporting collection and was approved on 10/26/23. It describes a website where people can voluntarily send AARO contact details to report U.S. Government UAP activities in support of the Historical Record Report required by the FY2023 NDAA. The PII collected includes name, email, phone, zip code, employment status and security clearance status. It cites SORN DoD-0017 and OMB Control Number 0704-0674.
This US Air Force Project Blue Book file, hosted by the Sign Historical Group, centres on a 13 November 1968 letter from Lt Col Hector Quintanilla, Jr., chief of the Aerial Phenomena Branch, evaluating the 24 October 1968 UFO sightings at Minot AFB. It attributes the ground sightings to the star Sirius and a B-52, and the B-52 radar contact and radio loss possibly to a plasma. It also includes a sequence of events, witness summaries, star tables, an Eielson AFB case card and notes on autokinesis.