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Apollo 11 was the third crewed mission to the Moon and the first to land Astronauts on the lunar surface. This document is an excerpt from the Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing (Volumes 1 and 2) from July 31, 1969. The document highlights three...
Release_1/NASA-UAP-D4-Apollo-11-Technical-Crew-Debriefing-1969.pdf · Updated 2026-05-17
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Apollo 17 was the ninth crewed U.S. mission to the Moon, and the sixth to land Astronauts on the lunar surface. This document is an excerpt from the Apollo 17 Crew Debriefing for Science on January 8, 1973, in which Dick Henry, co-investigator on the...
Release_1/NASA-UAP-D5-Apollo-17-Crew-Debriefing-for-Science-1973.pdf · Updated 2026-05-17
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Apollo 17 was the ninth crewed U.S. mission to the Moon, and the sixth to land Astronauts on the lunar surface. This document is an excerpt from the Apollo 17 Technical Crew Debriefing on January 4, 1973, in which astronaut Harrison Schmitt reported seeing...
Release_1/NASA-UAP-D6-Apollo-17-Technical-Crew-Debriefing-1973.pdf · Updated 2026-05-17
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Launched on May 14, 1973, Skylab was the United States’ first laboratory in space. From 1973 to 1974, the station was visited by three crews. This document contains excerpts from all three crews to visit the station. In the first excerpt taken from Skylab...
Release_1/NASA-UAP-D7-Skylab-Technical-Crew-Debriefing-1973.pdf · Updated 2026-05-17
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This is an FBI 302 interview conducted with a US citizen regarding their first-hand account of a UAP encounter at a US test site. USPER described an object "metallic bronze in color."
Release_1/Serial 5 Redacted_Redacted.pdf · Updated 2026-05-17
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This is an FBI 302 interview conducted with a US citizen regarding their first-hand account of a UAP encounter at a US test site. USPER described an object "metallic/gray in color."
Release_1/Serial-3_Redacted.pdf · Updated 2026-05-17
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This is an FBI 302 interview conducted with a US citizen regarding their first-hand account of a UAP encounter at a US test site. USPER described a "bright light over the horizon."
Release_1/Serial-4-Redacted_Redacted.pdf · Updated 2026-05-17
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This is an FBI 302 interview conducted with a senior US intelligence official regarding his first-hand account of a UAP encounter at a US military facility. USPER relayed to FBI agents that he and other federal and state personnel conducted searches to...
Release_1/USPER-Statement-Redacted.pdf · Updated 2026-05-17
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This document is a summary of statements by seven US PERSONs employed by the federal government who separately reported observing several unidentified anomalous phenomena in the western United States over the course of two days in 2023. The summary notes...
Release_1/Western_US_Event_Slides_5.08.2026.pdf · Updated 2026-05-17
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Portuguese occurrence report dated 2 June 1986 about Brazil's 19–20 May radar and fighter encounters. Reference BR DFANBSB ARX.0.0.249; a supplemental Brazilian archival source stored in Release_2, outside the US release publication.
Release_2/BR_DFANBSB_ARX_0_0_0249_d0001de0001.pdf · Updated 2026-09-20
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This document is a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) intelligence information report (IIR) that describes human intelligence gathering activities in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). This report characterizes its content as informational, not...
Release_2/CIA-UAP-D001_Intelligence_Information_Report_USSR_1973.pdf · Updated 2026-05-20
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A Pantex Unidentified Object Incident Report that includes an enhanced image from ground surveillance radar tower.
Release_2/DOE-UAP-D001_PANTEX_Image.pdf · Updated 2026-05-21
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Personal correspondence to and from James Tuck, a Los Alamos National Laboratory-affiliated physicist, regarding his interest in unidentified anomalous phenomena circa 1970s.
Release_2/DOE-UAP-D002_JamesTuck_Correspondence.pdf · Updated 2026-05-21
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A letter to the members of the Pajarito Astronomers club regarding an upcoming meeting featuring a presentation from a Los Alamos National Laboratory-affiliated physicist, Dr. John Warren, titled “Why Should a Scientist be Concerned about UFOs?” The...
Release_2/DOE-UAP-D003_Pajarito_Astronomers.pdf · Updated 2026-05-21
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This file contains 116 pages of documentation from the Armed Forces Special Weapons Program (AFSWP) – the direct, post-World War II successor to the Manhattan Project – and from the U.S. Air Force – relating to a series of sightings and investigations in...
Release_2/DOW-UAP-D017_General_Correspondence_Of_Sandia.pdf · Updated 2026-05-20
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This document is a first-hand account written by a currently serving (May 2026) senior U.S. intelligence official. The official was part of a team investigating reports of unusual noises and sightings of unidentified anomalous phenomena in and near a...
Release_2/ODNI-UAP-D001_USPER_Narrative_Senior_USIC.pdf · Updated 2026-05-21
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This file contains correspondence and reports dated 1952–1953 from the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, convened by the CIA’s Office of Scientific Intelligence. The panel’s primary conclusion was that “flying saucers” did not pose...
Release_3/CIA-UAP-002_Scientific-Advisory-Panel-on-Unidentified-Flying-Objects_Report_1952-1953.pdf · Updated 2026-06-10
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This CIA History Staff document chronicles the complete history of the U-2 and OXCART (A-12) high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft programs from 1954 to 1974, detailing their development, operations over the Soviet Union and other targets worldwide, the...
Release_3/CIA-UAP-003-THE_CENTRAL_INTELLIGENCE_AGENCY_AND_OVERHEAD_RECONNAISSANCE-THE_U-2_AND_OXCART_PROGRAMS_1954-1974.pdf · Updated 2026-06-10
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This 1958 CIA memorandum discussing a phone conversation with Dr. Leon Davidson regarding concerns about a destroyed "space message and its transmitter." A redacted version of this memorandum has been available on CIA's public website.
Release_3/CIA-UAP-004-CASE_17708_CLOSED_AND_DR_LEON_DAVIDSON.pdf · Updated 2026-06-10
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This 1950 CIA Information Report from Chile discusses a German scientist's article theorizing that "Flying Discs" could be explained as a new type of aircraft based on aerodynamic principles developed in German research facilities during and after WWI,...
Release_3/CIA-UAP-005-GERMAN_SCIENTISTS_ ARTICLE_ON_FLYING_DISCS.pdf · Updated 2026-06-10
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This CIA information report from November 1955 describes a US national's eyewitness account of triangular aircraft with wing lights launch at a steep angle from an airfield near Baku, Azerbaijan on October 4, 1955. A redacted version of this report has...
Release_3/CIA-UAP-006_Sighting_of_Unconventional_Aircraft.pdf · Updated 2026-06-10
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This December 1953 memorandum provides a status update on the Air Force's UFO project activities, including ongoing intelligence operations, equipment procurement for photographing UFOs, and Canada’s establishment of a "laboratory" for recording observable...
Release_3/CIA-UAP-007_Current_Status_of_Unidentified_Flying_Objects_UFO_Project.pdf · Updated 2026-06-10
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This 1972 CIA Intelligence Information Report summarizes a US attendee's observations of a speculative paper regarding charged mass behavior in space presented by Soviet scientists N.S. Kardashev and A. Sakharov at a conference in Armenia. A more redacted...
Release_3/CIA-UAP-008_SPECULATIVE_PAPER_BY_N_KARDASHEV_AND_A_SAKHAROV.pdf · Updated 2026-06-10
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This is a 1957 CIA Information Report regarding UFO sightings over Budapest. A more redacted version of this report has been available on CIA's public website.
Release_3/CIA-UAP-009-UNKNOWN-FLYING_OBJECTS_OBERVED_OVER_BUDAPEST.pdf · Updated 2026-06-10
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This CIA document from August 1967 reports on conversations about UFO sightings with Soviet scientists during a US astrophysicist's trip to the USSR.
Release_3/CIA-UAP-010_REPORT_ON_CONVERSATIONS_WITH_SOVIET_SCIENTISTS_ON_SUBJECT_OF_UNIDENTIFIED_FLYING_OBJECTS_IS_THE_USSR.pdf · Updated 2026-06-10
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This CIA Intelligence Information Report from December 1973 provides information on the Soviet Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range, including details about its facilities, weapons systems (System-75 SA-2 and System-300/Aldan warheads), rumored laser weapon...
Release_3/CIA-UAP-011-The_Sary_Shagan_Weapons_Testing_Range.pdf · Updated 2026-06-10
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This November 1976 CIA Foreign Intelligence Information Report summarizes Soviet Aeroflot's involvement in aerospace medical research, including their methods for combating crew fatigue through physical conditioning, automated biological testing equipment...
Release_3/CIA-UAP-012-Combatting_Fatigue_in_Crewmembers.pdf · Updated 2026-06-10
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This 1956 CIA Information Report describes flying object sightings reported by a Budapest-based sub-source, including a sketch showing the objects' suspected formation and flight path between Budapest and Moscow. A more redacted version of this report has...
Release_3/CIA-UAP-013-Report_of_Unusual_Flying_Object_Sightings_and_Attendant_Scientific_Activity.pdf · Updated 2026-06-10
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A December 1952 Memo on the activities the British are taking to identify UFOs. The memo references a UFO sighting at an RAF field seen by high officials and RAF pilots. A more redacted version of the memo has been available on CIA's public website.
Release_3/CIA-UAP-014_British_Activity_in_the_Field_of_Unidentified_Flying_Objects.pdf · Updated 2026-06-10
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This is the USAF Project Blue Book with a CIA cover sheet stating the document is "Official Record Copy." With the exception of the handwritten note on the first page, the content of this document has been available on CIA's public website.
Release_3/CIA-UAP-015-Project_Blue_Book_Special_Report_No_14.pdf · Updated 2026-06-10
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A 1968 report about UFO sightings in Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan. Seven UFO sightings are listed that took place between 19 Feb. to 25 Mar. 1968. A more redacted version of the report has been available on CIA's public website.
Release_3/CIA-UAP-016-Sightings_of_Unidentified_Flying_Ojbects_in_Ladakh_Nepal_Sikkim_and_Bhutan.pdf · Updated 2026-06-10
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A never before released July 2008 report on a UFO sighting at the Harare International Airport. Individuals debated if the sighting was an advanced reconnaissance device of a foreign government or of extraterrestrial origins.
Release_3/CIA-UAP-017_Placement_on_High_Alert_Due_to_Perceived_Aggressive_Foreign_Posturing.pdf · Updated 2026-06-10
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A 1955 report on a UFO sighting in Hungary. The information came from a letter between Hungarian relatives, living in the USA and Budapest. A more redacted version of the report has been available on CIA's public website.
Release_3/CIA-UAP-018_Report_of_Unusual_Flying_Object_Sightings_and_Attendant_Scientific_Activity.pdf · Updated 2026-06-10
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Dated to 1971, an Australian review of the USAF Project Blue Book. This document was released by the National Archives of Australia.
Release_3/CIA-UAP-019-Australian_Dept_of_Defense_Scientific_and_Intel_Aspects_of_the_UFO_Problem.pdf · Updated 2026-06-10
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This memorandum summarizes the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office’s (AARO) ongoing analysis of a reported incident near a sensitive national security site in the western United States involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) over a period of two...
Release_3/DOW-UAP-D077_Unresolved-Case-Analysis-Update_Western-United-States-Event.pdf · Updated 2026-06-10
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This image is a notional representation of four incidents reportedly involving unidentified anomalous phenomena in the western United States, as seen from above. This illustration depicts multiple incidents reported by U.S. federal law enforcement special...
Release_3/DOW-UAP-D078_Notional-Map_Western-United-States-Event.pdf · Updated 2026-06-10
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