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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 58
This is a Secretary of Defense public affairs message transcribing the Department of Defense news briefing that Assistant Secretary Kenneth H. Bacon gave at the Pentagon on November 22, 1994. Most of the briefing covers Secretary Perry's Thanksgiving trip to Haiti, NATO air strikes in Bosnia, Cuban migrants at Guantanamo Bay and the Black Hawk shootdown cases. Asked about lawsuits over the Nellis Air Force Base complex, also known as Area 51, Bacon said some projects there are classified and will remain so.
This Clinton Library FOIA release (case 2006-0476-F) comes from the White House email records file labeled "WHO (Roswell)" and covers December 1996 to September 1997. It includes withdrawal sheets and public emails sent to the President. One email is Nicholas Greene's December 1996 essay arguing that extraterrestrials exist, which cites Roswell, astronaut sightings and Michigan reports. Other emails forward a transcript of a Milton William Cooper speech and a Claude DiDomenica essay about Roswell and Corso.
This Clinton Presidential Library FOIA release (2006-0483-F), filed under Stephen Greer, holds a NASA letter dated July 17, 1996. Laurie Soeder, NASA Associate Administrator for Public Affairs, wrote it in reply to Dr. Steven M. Greer's May 1996 letter to President Clinton. The letter says no government agency investigates UFOs because there is no factual evidence of alien life. It encloses a February 1996 NASA fact sheet that summarizes Project Blue Book's conclusions and lists contacts, including the Air Force Roswell report.
This file from the Agency Liaison records in the Clinton Presidential Records contains a 1997 report by Steven M. Greer of CSETI on its Washington briefings of April 7 to 11, 1997. The report describes a closed briefing that nearly 30 congressional offices attended, a briefing at the Pentagon and a background briefing for the media. It calls for open congressional hearings with 107 identified government witnesses. The file also includes Mark McCandlish's 1989 cutaway drawing of an "Alien Reproduction Vehicle."
This is a CSETI Project Starlight comprehensive briefing document, prepared by Steven M. Greer, M.D., director of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, and dated April 1997. It contains CSETI position papers arguing that the US government secretly holds extraterrestrial craft and that covert management of the subject threatens national security, along with letters to President Clinton seeking disclosure. It also includes government records, among them an FAA Charlotte Tower re-recording of a December 1977 police helicopter sighting.
This Clinton Presidential Library FOIA release (2006-0474-F) holds a folder titled [UFO] from the Agency Liaison records. It contains 1996 letters that members of the public, including students, sent to President Clinton asking about UFOs, a cover-up and the 1947 Roswell incident. NASA public affairs official Laurie Boeder replied on July 17, 1996 that no government agency investigates UFOs. The replies enclosed a February 1996 NASA fact sheet on Project Blue Book, the Condon study and SETI.
The Department of Defense All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) issued Volume I of its Historical Record Report in February 2024, reviewing U.S. government involvement with UAP since 1945. It found no evidence that any government investigation confirmed extraterrestrial technology, and no empirical evidence of hidden reverse-engineering programs. It says interviewee claims came from misidentified real classified programs or circular reporting. It also names KONA BLUE as an unapproved proposal and identifies an alleged crash sample as a terrestrial alloy.
This is a US Air Force UFO fact sheet dated 11 August 1985. It traces Air Force UFO investigations from Project Sign in 1948 through Project Grudge to Project Blue Book, which examined 12,618 sightings, 701 of which remained unexplained. A table lists the totals for each year from 1947 to 1969. The sheet says Blue Book ended in 1969, based partly on the University of Colorado study and the National Academy of Sciences review, and found no threat and no evidence of extraterrestrial vehicles.
This assortment of records released by the Office of the Secretary of Defense collects 1975 National Military Command Center memoranda and message traffic. They cover unidentified helicopters and low-flying aircraft seen over weapons storage areas at Loring AFB, Maine, and Wurtsmith AFB, Michigan, along with radar and visual UFO contacts at Malmstrom AFB, Montana. The file also contains a 1976 defense attaché report on F-4 intercepts of a UFO over Tehran and Air Force UFO statistics for 1965.
This U.S. Department of War file collects Project Sign era checklists and incident summary sheets for incidents 101 to 172. The largest item is the 18 February 1948 explosion over Norcatur, Kansas. For it the file gathers witness statements, speculative letters from Norman G. Markham, and Dr. Lincoln LaPaz's view that it was a genuine meteorite fall with curious aspects. Other entries cover B-29 crews, a two-decked wingless object over the Netherlands, a Turkish rocket report, a Moscow sighting, and George Gorman's 1 October 1948 Fargo encounter.
This Air Materiel Command file, released by the U.S. Department of War, holds Incident Summary Sheets 173 through 233, sent under a 1949 transmittal. Most of the sheets record sightings of unidentified aerial objects in 1948 and early 1949. They cover Santa Fe, New Mexico, San Pablo, California, Honolulu, Kentwood, Louisiana, and Jackson, Mississippi. Each sheet gives the observer's details and the object's size, speed and shape, and often an investigator's note on how reliable the witness seemed. The file ends with a blank guide for investigating reports, including radar sightings.
This U.S. Department of War file, undated, holds checklist summaries of incidents 1 to 100 of unidentified flying objects reported in 1947 and early 1948. The first entries cover sightings of silver discs and spheres by officers and staff at Muroc Army Air Field on 7 and 8 July 1947. Next come the Portland, Oregon police reports of 4 July, a United Air Lines crew near Emmett, Idaho, and a set of 30 December flame and explosion reports from California and Nevada. The file ends with two Finnish sightings.
This Department of the Air Force memorandum dated 13 January 1981 was signed by Lt Col Charles I. Halt, Deputy Base Commander, and sent to RAF/CC. It reports that on 27 December 1980, security police patrolmen saw unusual lights outside the back gate at RAF Woodbridge and found a glowing, metallic, triangular object in the forest. Three depressions and radiation readings were later recorded at the site. It also describes further lights and star-like objects that numerous individuals, including Halt, witnessed.
This document is the National Academy of Sciences panel review of the University of Colorado report on unidentified flying objects, copyrighted 1969 and filed as an attachment in an Office of the Secretary of Defense release. The panel, chaired by Gerald M. Clemence, judged the study's scope adequate and its methodology sound. It concurred that further extensive UFO study is not justified and that extraterrestrial visitation is the least likely explanation. A directory listing of UFO organizations such as NICAP and APRO is appended.
This undated Office of Naval Research information sheet, filed with the Office of the Secretary of Defense, answers public questions about the so-called Philadelphia Experiment. It traces the story to letters that Carlos Miguel Allende sent Morris K. Jessup after Jessup published The Case for UFO's in 1955, and to an annotated copy of the book mailed to ONR in 1956. It attributes the tales to wartime degaussing research and to later generator tests on a destroyer. It states that ONR never studied invisibility.
This is a US Air Force Project Blue Book fact sheet dated 1 February 1966. It explains the program's history as Projects Sign and Grudge, its two objectives, its three-phase investigation process, and how reports are classed as identified, insufficient data or unidentified. It concludes that no UFO has threatened national security or shown technology beyond current science, and that nothing indicates extraterrestrial vehicles. It also includes sighting statistics for 1947 to 1965 and an American Meteor Society fireball report form.
This July 1994 Department of the Air Force package, from SAF/AAZ to the Secretary of the Air Force, covers a report written to support a General Accounting Office audit requested by Congressman Steven Schiff. The Air Force searched its offices, archives and records centers and interviewed witnesses, including Sheridan Cavitt. It found no evidence of an extraterrestrial event, alien bodies or a cover-up. It concludes that the debris recovered near Roswell in 1947 most likely came from a Project MOGUL balloon.
The Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert was published in 1995 by Headquarters United States Air Force. It was written in response to Representative Steven H. Schiff's request and a General Accounting Office audit, and it contains Col. Richard L. Weaver's report and 1st Lt. James McAndrew's synopsis, along with attachments, appendices and photographs. The report says researchers found no evidence of an extraterrestrial craft or crew. It concludes that the 1947 debris came from a Project MOGUL balloon train.
This is a United States Air Force fact sheet from the Office of Public Affairs, Secretary of the Air Force. It covers the Air Force's UFO investigations from 1948 to 1969 under Projects Sign, Grudge and Blue Book: 12,618 sightings were investigated, and 701 remain unexplained. It records that Blue Book ended on December 17, 1969, and that its conclusions found no threat to national security and no evidence of extraterrestrial vehicles. It also includes yearly sighting totals and a list of private UFO study organizations.
This is a U.S. Air Force fact sheet (No. 87-34) on unidentified flying objects, issued in October 1987 by the Office of Public Affairs of the Secretary of the Air Force. It traces the Air Force UFO program from Project Sign in 1948 through Grudge to Project Blue Book, which was terminated on December 17, 1969. The sheet states that no UFO threatened national security or showed evidence of advanced technology or extraterrestrial origin. Of 12,618 sightings investigated, 701 remain unexplained.
This debriefing includes presentations from principal investigators of various Apollo experiments. The principal investigators describe preliminary results of their work to educate the Apollo crews about what they’ve obtained from Apollo 16 to help prepare for Apollo 17. They also describe anomalies, such as a “flash” that was observed that had not yet been reported. The flash is mentioned beginning at 25:15.
At 32:41, the speaker makes an off-handed comment, “Could be an alien starbase or something, I don’t know” when discussing correlations between experimental data sets.