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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.
New in the library The PURSUE files The Department of War's UAP release, mirrored in full: the videos, recordings and images, each beside its case file.Documents2,872 records · page 55
This National Security Agency file contains two news wire stories. A Reuters report says the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal released a study by Phillip J. Klass calling the Majestic 12 documents, which claimed a 1947 saucer and alien bodies were recovered, clumsy counterfeits. A UPI story describes Citizens Against UFO Secrecy asking the Supreme Court to order the NSA to release 135 UFO-related documents, after lower courts upheld the agency's refusal.
This CIA Oral History Program transcript records former Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms interviewed by R. Jack Smith on 21 April 1982, approved for release in March 2008. Helms disputes criticism in the Rockefeller Commission Report and discusses the Oxcart aircraft, Watergate and the Plumbers, the war in Laos, and allegations about National Estimates. He also recalls warning President Johnson before the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and passing on warnings of the 1973 Yom Kippur war. It contains no UFO material.
This FBI teletype from the Dallas office to the Director and the Cincinnati Special Agent in Charge is marked urgent. It reports that the Eighth Air Force had telephoned to say an object said to be a flying disc was recovered near Roswell, New Mexico. The object was hexagonal and hung by cable from a balloon about twenty feet in diameter, and it resembled a high altitude weather balloon with a radar reflector. The disc and balloon were being flown to Wright Field for examination.
This Defense Intelligence Agency routing slip forwards a September 1976 message from the US Defense Attache Office in Tehran reporting a UFO sighting on 19 September 1976. It describes citizen calls from Shemiran, the scramble of two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4s, and instrument and communications failures as they approached a brilliant object. It also reports smaller objects emerging from the main one, one appearing to land, and a daylight helicopter search that detected a beeper signal.
This NICAP copy of a declassified DIA file pairs a routing slip from Louis E. Foster of DIA with a message the US Defense Attache Office in Tehran sent on 23 September 1976, signed by Col. Frank B. McKenzie. The message reports that two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4s were scrambled on 19 September 1976 after citizens in Tehran reported an object in the sky. It describes lost instruments and communications, smaller objects separating from the main one, a possible landing, and plans to check the site for radiation.
This is the written testimony that former Navy F/A-18 pilot Ryan Graves gave to the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs at its first public hearing on UAP. Graves says that UAP are routinely seen but underreported, and that stigma and heavy classification hide what the government knows. He describes the encounters his squadron had in Warning Area W-72 off Virginia Beach. He also calls for commercial pilot reporting, empowered investigation and declassification of UAP data.
This combined file holds US Air Force Air Materiel Command intelligence records for Project SIGN on the 1 October 1948 Fargo, North Dakota incident. A cover memo to the Chief of Staff reports that investigators questioned witnesses on 3 October and found that an F-51 pilot had chased a small round white light for 27 minutes, and that the light outmaneuvered his aircraft. Major Paul Kubala's interrogation reports cover pilot Lt. George F. Gorman and tower controllers L.D. Jensen and Manuel E. Johnson. The memo rules out balloons, other aircraft and Canadian jets and rates the report A-2.
This is NASA's press kit for Space Shuttle mission STS-75, dated February 1996 and later edited by Richard W. Orloff. It covers Columbia's planned 13-day flight carrying the Italian Tethered Satellite System reflight (TSS-1R) and the third United States Microgravity Payload. The kit sets out launch and landing plans, abort modes, the timeline, payload weights, crew duties, the tether's science objectives and investigators, and crew biographies. It does not mention any unidentified objects.
This FOIA release from the William J. Clinton Presidential Library, case 082451CU, holds a White House correspondence tracking worksheet and letters from October 1994. The Ronald Reagan Library and the National Archives gave formal notice that they planned to open about 167 pages of Reagan Presidential records on UFOs and the "Operation Majestic 12" document on November 7, 1994, in answer to a FOIA request from Lee M. Graham. On October 24, 1994, White House Assistant Counsel Marvin Krislov replied that the Counsel's office had no objection to the release.
This Clinton Presidential Library FOIA release (2006-0474-F) contains White House correspondence from late 1994 and early 1995. Representative Collin C. Peterson forwarded a letter from constituent Tony Plumage asking for an executive order to declassify government information on UFOs. Susan Brophy of the White House replied on December 1, 1994. Her reply repeated a National Archives letter from Richard W. Peuser: the Project Blue Book records for 1947 to 1969 contain no reference to Roswell, and further questions should go to the Air Force. A Roswell petition flyer is also included.
This Clinton Presidential Library FOIA release (case 2006-0474-F) contains a White House correspondence tracking worksheet and an exchange of letters from January 1995. On January 18, 1995, documentary producer Samuel M. Sherman asked President Clinton for all government documents, photographs and film about Unidentified Flying Objects and extraterrestrial intelligence. Associate Counsel Marvin Krislov replied on January 27, 1995 that FOIA does not apply to the Office of the President. He concluded that FOIA gave Sherman no statutory right to any such records held there.
This scanned page comes from the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and was released under FOIA request 2006-0483-F. It is an administrative marker sheet, not a textual record. It identifies a folder in the Clinton Presidential Records, Records Management subject file, with folder title FE010-01 and case number 118479CU, and gives its stack, row, section, shelf and position. The sheet contains no substantive content and reaches no conclusions.
This file, released by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library under FOIA request 2006-0476-F, holds White House correspondence records for case 243544. In a July 8, 1997 letter to President Clinton, Kent Jeffrey of the International Roswell Initiative submitted more than 20,000 signed copies of the Roswell Declaration, which asks for an Executive Order declassifying UFO information. On December 9, 1997 the Air Force replied that such an order was unnecessary because declassification under E.O. 12958 was already underway.
This FOIA release (2006-0474-F) from the Clinton Presidential Records, Press Secretary office, contains a December 8, 1997 email to President Clinton from Joseph Sidney "Jody" Pendarvis of Bowman, South Carolina. Pendarvis invited the President to visit the UFO Welcome Center he built as a tourist attraction, a saucer-shaped structure 22 feet high and 42 feet across. The file includes three White House scheduling replies, dated January 12, January 26 and February 4, 1998, from Stephanie S. Streett. Each one declines the invitation.
This FAA document, labeled AAL-5 and dated February 4, 1987, gives selected portions of the air traffic control transcripts for Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 on November 18, 1986 (UTC). It records the crew reporting unidentified traffic with navigation and strobe lights near Fort Yukon and Fairbanks. Anchorage Center, Fairbanks approach and military ROCC radar discuss intermittent primary returns. A United flight and a military C-130 are brought in to look, and neither sees any other aircraft.
This Defense Intelligence Agency compilation brings together several Department of Defense intelligence information reports on UFO sightings from 1968 to 1976. It includes 1968 reports of UFOs over South China and the Taiwan Strait, a 1970 South Korean report on possible North Korean balloons, and a table of Spanish sightings from 1973 to 1974 taken from the local press. It also contains a Pakistani report of a light seen before an earthquake and the USDAO Tehran account of F-4 jets losing instruments while chasing a UFO in September 1976.
This undated FAA document, released through the National Archives and The Black Vault, contains five captioned radar display simulations reconstructing the track of Japan Air Lines flight JL1628 on 11/18/86. The captions describe plotted positions between Fort Yukon and Fairbanks, the pilot's report of an object descending in formation with the aircraft, a 360 degree turn past Fairbanks, and a United flight near Nenana that reported JL1628 in sight around 0250Z.
This FAA package, released through The Black Vault, covers regenerated radar data for Japan Airlines flight 1628 over Alaska on November 17, 1986. It contains photographs of the regenerated radar image taken by Paul Steucke on January 7, 1987, and a chart of the flight track. It also includes a March 5, 1987 public affairs release, a February 27, 1987 Airway Facilities memo and Dennis Simantel's analysis. These attribute the radar returns to uncorrelated primary and beacon targets, which they call normal for the area.
This FAA release, obtained through The Black Vault, collects material on the radar data from Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 over Alaska on November 17, 1986. It includes a March 5, 1987 explanation by FAA public affairs officer Paul Steucke, a February 1987 Airway Facilities memo, and Dennis Simantel's analysis attributing the returns to uncorrelated primary and beacon targets, considered normal. It also contains regenerated radar image photos and a Philadelphia Inquirer magazine article on the sighting and the FAA's inconclusive review.
This NICAP-hosted compilation of Project Blue Book records covers the Air Force investigation of policeman Lonnie Zamora's 24 April 1964 sighting at Socorro, New Mexico. It includes Foreign Technology Division teletypes, a resume and narrative of the sighting, Capt Hector Quintanilla's memos, and letters to Project Cloud Gap and the FAA. Investigators found no radiation, no foreign material in soil samples, and no helicopter or radar explanation. They concluded that a real object was seen, possibly a VTOL or lunar module type vehicle, and left the case open.
This is a case resolution report dated 17 March 2023 from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) of the U.S. Department of Defense on the "Southeast Asia Triangles" case. Satellite imagery from 30 August 2017, reported by an Intelligence Community member, showed six dark triangles and was flagged as a possible risk to navigation. AARO's intelligence and science and technology partners compared it with imagery from 2022 and 2023. They concluded the objects were almost certainly static, cone-shaped fishing nets on the water, about 11 by 7 meters each.
This is Spanish Air Force file 761119, released by the Ejército del Aire and declassified in 1994. It covers a luminous phenomenon seen over the Canary Islands on 19 November 1976 by the crew of the training ship Juan Sebastián Elcano, a T-12 aircraft carrying the Canary Islands Air Zone commander, a Spantax crew and witnesses in Guía near Gáldar. The file includes Informe 02/76 with 14 witness statements, radar and weather data, the investigating judge's proposal for a UFO study center, and airline reports of a bright dome over Málaga. The general's own view was that it was an unidentified optical phenomenon.
This FAA release, dated February and March 1987, covers the radar data from Japan Airlines flight 1628 on November 17, 1986. It includes a statement and drawing by Paul Steucke of FAA Public Affairs in Anchorage, a memo from the Airway Facilities Division, and an analysis by Dennis Simantel. They conclude that the radar showed an uncorrelated primary and beacon target, which they describe as a normal timing effect and not an unknown object.
This is a 1946 letter from the Swedish naval attaché in Helsinki to the Foreign Department of the Swedish Defence Staff (Försvarsstaben, Utrikesavdelningen), logged on 19 August 1946. With it the attaché sent a clipping from Hufvudstadsbladet and noted that the newspapers were mentioning "ghost rockets" over Finland for the first time in a long while. According to the letter, the phenomenon was seen to the southeast from Brunnsparken on 13 August at 23.30 Finnish time.
This feature from the Département de la Lozère, undated, recounts the Beast of Gévaudan. Starting in 1764, the creature killed more than a hundred people across Lozère and Haute-Loire over three years. It describes the failed hunts led by Captain Duhamel, by Denneval father and son and by Antoine de Beauterne, and ends with Jean Chastel killing the animal. The article reprints a 1765 burial record for a girl partly eaten by the beast and says the mystery remains unsolved.
This FAA record of interview documents a January 2, 1987 session in Anchorage, Alaska, in which Inspector Richard O. Gordon of FSDO-63 questioned JAL Captain Kenju Terauchi about his crew's November 17, 1986 sighting. Terauchi describes two small craft with exhaust-like lights that flew near his aircraft and a much larger mothership, and says the target appeared green on his onboard radar. He also reports VHF interference and says the objects matched his 360-degree turn and his descent.
This is Volume One of The Army Air Forces in World War II, titled Plans and Early Operations, January 1939 to August 1942, edited by Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate. The University of Chicago Press first published it in 1948, and the Office of Air Force History reprinted it in 1983. The front matter explains how the AAF historical program was set up during the war. The index covers Pacific, Atlantic and European operations, and nothing in the text concerns unidentified aerial phenomena.
This CIA FOIA release contains an April 1968 dispatch, UFGA-29877, summarizing how Cuban media covered the assassination of Martin Luther King from 5 to 8 April. The dispatch quotes Granma and Havana radio stations, including statements by Stokely Carmichael and others that call for revolutionary violence. The release also includes May 1971 cables and a memo to the FBI on Americans at the World Peace Council conference in Budapest, where King was posthumously awarded the Joliot-Curie Gold Medal.
This undated item in the National Security Agency's files is an excerpt from a May-June 1981 magazine article. It argues that the federal government has misinformed the public by debunking UFO reports and ignoring official reports that suggest some UFOs threaten national security. It cites documents on sightings near military installations, the 1976 Iranian F-4 encounter, and a 1968 NSA report on UFOs and survival. It also includes part of Richard Hall's article "Is the CIA Stonewalling?"
This is the Central Intelligence Agency's President's Daily Brief for 6 February 1968, released in 2019. It reports renewed fighting in Saigon during the Tet offensive and South Korean anger over the Pueblo incident. It also covers Arab frustration with UN emissary Jarring, Soviet advisers in Egypt, the war in Yemen, the Panama election campaign and the British economy. A Special Daily Report on North Vietnam covers Hanoi's rejection of the San Antonio formula, shipping deliveries and AN-2 aircraft. The brief does not mention UFOs.
The Roswell Report: Case Closed is a 1997 Headquarters United States Air Force report by Captain James McAndrew that follows up the 1994 Air Force report on the Roswell Incident. It concludes that the 1947 debris came from Project MOGUL balloons. It also says the reported alien bodies were probably anthropomorphic dummies dropped from high altitude balloons. Claims of bodies at the Roswell hospital most likely combined a 1956 KC-97 crash and a 1959 manned balloon mishap.
The Roswell Report: Case Closed was published by Headquarters United States Air Force and written by Captain James McAndrew, with a foreword by Secretary of the Air Force Sheila E. Widnall. It follows the 1994 Air Force report, which tied the 1947 debris to Project MOGUL balloons. This volume concludes that the reported alien bodies were most likely anthropomorphic dummies dropped from high altitude balloons. It attributes the hospital body claims to a 1956 KC-97 crash and a 1959 manned balloon mishap.
The Roswell Report: Case Closed was published by Headquarters United States Air Force and written by Capt. James McAndrew. It follows up the July 1994 report, which traced the 1947 debris to Project MOGUL balloon trains. The report says the reported alien bodies were probably anthropomorphic test dummies dropped from high altitude balloons. It also says the accounts of bodies at the Roswell Army Air Field hospital probably merged two separate events: a 1956 KC-97 crash and a 1959 manned balloon mishap.
This document, filed under the National Security Agency, is a page from IUR (International UFO Reporter) with no date given. It reprints a teletype message about the Iranian UFO sighting of 19 September 1976 that researcher Charles Huffer obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The message describes two F-4 jets scrambled over Tehran that lost instruments and communications, and smaller objects that separated from a bright main object. IUR says the military told it that everything sent from the Middle East routinely reaches senior agencies.
This essay by investigative journalist Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell, titled "The UAP Puzzle: Anthropocentrism & Avoiding Strategic Surprise," is dated July 26, 2023, in Washington, D.C., and was entered into the House record by Rep. Burchett. Corbell argues that UAP are real and outperform military technology. He says the military reporting process is broken and that secrecy about alleged craft and bodies of non-human origin is unjustified. He calls for transparency, whistleblower disclosure, and 2024 NDAA legislation to help that process.
The National Archives published this edited extract from Chapter 2 of David Clarke's 2009 book The UFO Files, which draws on Ministry of Defence UFO records. It covers Stan Hubbard's 1950 Farnborough sightings, which the Flying Saucer Working Party attributed to optical illusion or normal aircraft. It also covers Churchill's 1952 memo asking about flying saucers, the Topcliffe sighting during Operation Mainbrace, a Meteor crew's sighting from Little Rissington, and RAF research concluding that most radar 'angels' were birds.