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• Flying-disc sightings and Air Materiel Command correspondence, 1946–1947
• Flying-disc reporting and investigations, 1948
• Operation Northwoods
• UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For? — COMETA report and correspondence
• Wartime night phenomena and foo-fighter reports
• Air Force intelligence report on flying saucers, November 1948
• Reported unconventional aircraft in the Trans-Caucasus, 1955
• Air Force flying-disc reports: the 1949 file
• UFO incident summaries 101-172 (Box 7 copy)
• UFO incident summaries 173-233 (Box 7 copy)
• UFO incident summaries 1-100 (Box 7 copy)
• Space Council memorandum on extraterrestrial intelligence, July 1963
• Memorandum on the rise in UFO reports, July 1952
• FBI memorandum on a Detroit man's UFO report, 1958
• FBI interview about a reported aircraft in Germany in 1944
• FBI flying-saucer file, Section 1
• FBI flying-saucer file, Section 2
• FBI flying-saucer file, Section 3
• FBI flying-saucer file, Section 4
• FBI flying-saucer file, Section 5
• FBI flying-saucer file, Section 6
• FBI flying-saucer file, Section 7
• FBI flying-saucer file, Section 8
• FBI flying-saucer file, Section 9
• FBI flying-saucer file, Section 10
• Flying-disc reports and Arnold's account (Serial 130)
• FBI flying-saucer file, Serial 153
• FBI flying-saucer file, Serial 164
• FBI flying-saucer file, Serial 220
• FBI flying-saucer file, Serial 403
• FBI flying-saucer file, Serial 438
• FBI flying-saucer file, Serial 449
• FBI flying-saucer file, Subfile A
• Church Committee report: foreign and military intelligence
• The 1977 MKULTRA hearing
• Report of Inspection of MKULTRA — 2019 release package
• Remote viewing: research and applications evaluation
• Project Bluebird
• Memorandum for the Record, "Suicide of Frank Olson [deleted], Army Civilian Employee, Camp Dietrich", 30 November 1953
• Harold Abramson's medical qualifications
• Special Agent's report on Frank Olson, with routing sheet, 3 December 1953
• Statement, "Observations on Dr. Frank Olson - 1951-1953", 7 December 1953
• Statement by Lt. Col. Vincent L. Ruwet
• Harold Abramson's observations and visits with Frank Olson
• Memorandum for the General Counsel, "Observations on Mr. Frank Olson from 24 November through 27 November 1953", 4 December 1953
• Alice Olson's letter — CIA 00144985
• Alice Olson acknowledges compensation for Frank Olson's death
• CIA activities at Fort Detrick, 1975
• Robert Lashbrook personnel and security records — CIA 00146408
• Harold Abramson's case report on “John Q. Smith”
• Robert Lashbrook personnel and security records — CIA 00146412
• Memorandum, "Unwitting Application of LSD", with letters to Col. James H. Drum, 10 February 1954
• The Olson family's claim to CIA Director Colby, July 1975
• Olson family counsel questions the CIA's disclosures, August 1975
• Olson family request to share CIA records with the Senate
• Colby on the Olson family settlement
• Newspaper clipping in the Frank Olson records — CIA 00313400
• Memorandum, "Documents passed to Olson family not previously forwarded to Senate Select Committee", 11 August 1975
• Project MKULTRA, Subproject 42 (with attachments)
• Frank R. Olson — CIA compilation
• CIA inquiry to the FBI about Harold Abramson
• CIA Scientific Advisory Panel on UFOs, 1952–1953
• The U-2 and OXCART reconnaissance programs, 1954–1974
• CIA conversation with Leon Davidson about a “space message,” 1958
• A German scientist's theory of flying-disc aircraft, 1950
• Reported unconventional aircraft near Baku, 1955
• Status of the Air Force UFO project, December 1953
• Kardashev and Sakharov's paper on charged mass in space
• Reported unidentified objects over Budapest, 1957
• Conversations with Soviet scientists about UFOs, 1967
• The Sary Shagan weapons testing range, 1973
• Soviet aerospace medicine and crew fatigue, 1976
• Reported flying objects between Budapest and Moscow, 1956
• British investigations of unidentified flying objects, 1952
• Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14
• UFO reports from Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan, 1968
• UFO report and alert at Harare International Airport, 2008
• A letter describing a UFO sighting in Hungary, 1955
• Australia's scientific and intelligence review of the UFO problem, 1971
• Intelligence report describing a green airborne light in the USSR, 1973
• CIA debriefing of Senator Russell's group on aircraft sightings, 1955
• CIA analysis of unconventional-aircraft reports and Project Y, 1955
• CIA memoranda on a reported object near Puerto Rico, 1965
• Walter Elder briefing on the Puerto Rico incident
• Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process — Commons assembled copy
• MKULTRA Subproject 13 — document file
• MKULTRA Subproject 132 — document file
• MKULTRA Subproject 14 — document file
• MKULTRA Subproject 149 — document file
• MKULTRA Subproject 16
• MKULTRA Subproject 3
• Report of Inspection of MKULTRA — earlier release
• MKULTRA briefing book
• Pantex unidentified-object report — enhanced radar image
• James Tuck's UFO correspondence, 1970s
• Pajarito Astronomers invitation to a UFO talk, 1986
• Los Alamos conference on green fireballs, 1949
• Pantex unidentified-object incident report, 2015
• Brazil cable: checking a reported crash story, 14 November 1963
• Brazil cable: consulate finds the crash story unsubstantiated, 20 November 1963
• UAP mission report: a line of dots over the Arabian Gulf, 2020
• UAP mission report: reported change of course over the Arabian Gulf, 2020
• UAP mission report: two objects over the Arabian Gulf, 2020
• UAP mission report: unidentified object over the Arabian Gulf, 2020 (D006)
• UAP mission report: balloon-like object over the Arabian Gulf, 2020
• UAP mission report: two reported objects near Djibouti, 2025
• UAP mission report: possible missile and birds, Middle East, May 2022
• UAP mission report: tracking an object over Iraq, May 2022 (D012)
• UAP mission report: tracking an object over Iraq, May 2022 (D014)
• UAP mission report: a brief sighting over Syria, July 2022
• UAP sightings and investigations at Sandia Base, 1948–1950
• UAP mission report: possible object over Iraq, December 2022
• UAP mission report: possible balloon over Syria, February 2023
• UAP mission report: bright objects tracked over Iraq, 2023
• UAP mission report: United Arab Emirates, October 2023 (D023)
• UAP mission report: infrared observation near Greece, January 2024
• UAP mission report: United Arab Emirates, June 2024 (D027)
• UAP mission report: infrared flare during missile calibration, September 2024 (D028)
• UAP mission report: light and glare on a video feed, Syria, October 2024
• UAP mission report: object reported turning above the sea, Greece, October 2023
• UAP mission report: object reported flying toward land, Greece, October 2023
• Navy range-fouler report: white object above water, Middle East, May 2020
• Navy range-fouler report: three objects, August 2020 (D042)
• Navy range-fouler report: infrared object, Gulf of Aden, October 2020
• Modeling unlikely space-booster failures in risk calculations, 1996
• Vandenberg launch summary, 1958-2000
• INDOPACOM emails seeking clarification of a mission report, April 2025
• Emails seeking clarification of a mission report, March 2023
• Emails seeking clarification of an October 2024 observation (D052)
• UAP mission report: reported triangular object over the Mediterranean
• UAP mission briefing: P-8A sensor observation near Latakia, 2016
• Navy range-fouler report: three air contacts over the Arabian Sea, August 2020
• Navy range-fouler report: infrared tracking over the Gulf of Aden, September 2020
• Navy range-fouler report: two balloon-shaped objects, October 2020
• UAP mission report: cloud-obscured observation over the Arabian Gulf, August 2020
• UAP mission report: reported formation over the Arabian Gulf, August 2020
• UAP mission report: Strait of Hormuz, September 2020
• UAP mission report: Strait of Hormuz, October 2020
• UAP mission report: two observations over Iran, November 2020
• UAP mission report: three observations over the Arabian Gulf, July 2020
• UAP mission report: ball-shaped object over Syria, November 2023
• UAP mission report: straight flight path over the Gulf of Aden, July 2024
• AARO analysis update: Western United States event
• Illustrated incident map: Western United States event
• Western United States UAP event: witness 1 statement, 2023
• Western United States UAP event: witness 2 statement, 2023
• Western United States UAP event: witness 3 statement, 2023
• Western United States UAP event: witness 4 statement, 2023
• Western United States UAP event: witness 5 statement, 2023
• U.S. Army evaluation of flying-saucer reports, 1949
• CIA Scientific Advisory Panel report sent to the Secretary of Defense, 1953
• Navy instructions for reporting flying discs, 1948
• UFO incident summaries 1-100 (D087 copy)
• UFO incident summaries 101-172 (D088 copy)
• Navy range-fouler report: small reflective object, Eastern United States, 2020
• Navy range-fouler report: aircrew account of a passing object, Eastern United States, 2019
• Navy range-fouler report: balloon-like object over the Atlantic, 2020
• Air Force committee review of Project Blue Book, 1966–1967
• Analysis of flying-object incidents in the United States, 1948 draft
• Analysis of flying-object incidents in the United States, 1949 revision
• U.S.–Canadian experimental aircraft and UFO reports, 1954–1955
• Project Blue Book correspondence, 1955
• Project Sign progress report, 1948
• Navy analysis of UFO films from Montana and Utah, 1953
• The ghost rockets review
• Air Materiel Command investigation of UFO reports, 1947–1948
• Aircrew report of infrared observations over the Gulf of Oman, 2021
• Unresolved UAP report image: Kuwait, May 2022
• Space Council inquiry into the Bahia crash report, November 1963
• Fallout Protection: What to Know and Do About Nuclear Attack
• The Family Fallout Shelter
• FBI UAP image: dark circular feature (B001)
• FBI UAP image: dark circular feature (B002)
• FBI UAP image: feature beside the reticle (B003)
• FBI UAP image: feature near the reticle (B004)
• FBI UAP image: reticle and indistinct background (B005)
• FBI UAP image: two dark features (B006)
• FBI UAP image: helicopter-like feature and smaller object (B007)
• FBI UAP image: dark circular feature (B008)
• FBI UAP image: feature below the reticle (B009)
• FBI UAP image: feature above the reticle (B010)
• FBI UAP image: dark circular feature (B011)
• FBI UAP image: dark circular feature (B012)
• FBI UAP image: two elongated features (B013)
• FBI UAP image: two circular features and image distortion (B014)
• FBI UAP image: two circular features (B015)
• FBI UAP image: two irregular features (B016)
• FBI UAP image: two circular features (B017)
• FBI UAP image: two elongated features (B018)
• FBI UAP image: feature at the reticle center (B019)
• FBI UAP image: one or two dark features (B020)
• FBI UAP image: one or two dark features (B021)
• FBI UAP image: two elongated features (B022)
• FBI UAP image: single elongated feature (B023)
• FBI UAP image: single irregular feature (B024)
• FBI September 2023 Sighting - Composite Sketch
• FBI interview: reported bronze object at a U.S. test site, September 2023
• FBI interview: reported gray object at a U.S. test site, September 2023
• FBI interview: bright light at a U.S. test site, September 2023
• FBI interview on a reported object near Colorado Springs in 2022
• FBI witness statement for a Colorado Springs incident rendering, 2022
• FBI witness rendering: Colorado Springs incident, 2022
• FBI collection of witness video, Northeastern United States, October 2024
• FBI interview on repeated sightings, Northeastern United States, October 2024
• FBI site survey, Northeastern United States, November 2024
• FBI agents' observations, Northeastern United States, November 2024
• FBI follow-up site survey, Northeastern United States, December 2024
• FBI interview: a red sphere in the backyard
• FBI interview: two lights seen from a driveway
• Hoover refers a Cascade Mountains sighting report to the AEC, 1949
• FBI Newark UFO inquiry and correspondence, 1952–1967
• FBI investigation of Washington State UFO reports, 1952–1960
• FBI correspondence on UFO sightings, 1967 and 1974
• FBI pilot interview: airborne lights and a triangle, 2002 and 2023–2024
• FBI interview: reported dark translucent triangle, Colorado Springs, 2023
• FBI witness rendering: dark translucent triangle, Colorado Springs, 2023
• FBI interview: reported dark triangle with lights, 2011
• FBI interview: reported large triangle with red lights, Colorado Springs, 2023
• FBI interview: reported slow-moving objects, Western United States, 2026
• FBI interview: reported thermally elevated aerial object, Western United States, 2026
• FBI interview: multiple red lights across three incidents, 2026
• FBI witness rendering: multiple red lights, 2026 (D038)
• FBI witness rendering: multiple red lights, 2026 (D039)
• FBI telephone interview: multiple red lights across two incidents, 2026
• FBI witness rendering: multiple red lights, 2026 (D041)
• FBI witness rendering: multiple red lights, 2026 (D042)
• Intelligence — Olson, Frank
• Rockefeller Commission, Chapter 16
• Rockefeller Commission, Chapter 3: Summary of Findings
• Report to the President by the Commission on CIA Activities within the United States — contents
• Report to the President by the Commission on CIA Activities within the United States — title and front matter
• Rockefeller Commission Report — Cheney Files extract
• The Gateway Process
• Colorado Springs UAP analysis: sunlight-backscattering hypothesis
• Apollo 12 transcript: particles, flashes and debris, 1969
• Apollo 17 transcript: particles and light flashes, 1972
• Gemini 7 transcript: Borman and Lovell's observations, 1965
• Apollo 11 technical debriefing: unusual observations, 1969
• Apollo 17 science debriefing: ultraviolet observations, 1973
• Apollo 17 technical debriefing: light flashes, 1973
• Skylab crew debriefings: light flashes and orbital observations, 1973–1974
• John Glenn and Walter Schirra's scientific debriefings, 1962–1963
• Gemini 4 preliminary crew debriefing, Part I, 1965
• Gemini 4 preliminary crew debriefing, Part II, 1965
• Gemini 4 experiment debriefing and mission papers
• Gemini 5 technical debriefing, Part I, 1965
• Gemini 5 technical debriefing, Part II, 1965
• Gemini 7 technical debriefing, 1965
• Gemini 9 astronaut debriefing, 1966
• Project Bluebird — National Security Archive annotated versions
• Accountability for Certain Expenditures under Subproject 42 of MKULTRA
• MKULTRA: debate over unwitting drug tests
• Destruction of Records on Drugs and Toxins
• Letter, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington D.C. 20505, to Dr. Gottlieb, 30 April 1979
• Memorandum for the Record, SUBJECT: Telephonic Response of Dr. Gottlieb to Our Letter of 30 April 1979
• Gottlieb staff testimony, 15 October 1975
• Gottlieb staff testimony, 16 October 1975
• Sidney Gottlieb testimony before the Church Committee — 17 October 1975
• Gottlieb staff testimony, 18 October 1975
• Technical Services Division memorandum — composite of released copies
• Special Research for Artichoke
• Artichoke Conference — 16 April 1953
• ARTICHOKE [redacted] Case #1
• Report of Inspection of MKULTRA — National Security Archive copy with annotated extract
• Intelligence official's account of reported orbs near a military facility, 2025
• Sunshine at the AEC advisory committee, August 1953
• AEC General Advisory Committee, Thirty-seventh Meeting — deleted version
• Memorandum for the General Manager - Sunshine Program
• Memorandum for C. L. Dunham - Sunshine Natural Dosage Survey
• Memorandum for C. L. Dunham - Sunshine Program
• Memorandum to C. W. Shilling - Project Sunshine, comments
• A Discussion of Project Sunshine
• Memorandum to H. Hollister - Sunshine Program
• Notes for Sunshine meeting today
• Memorandum to Dunham and others: Project Sunshine Scientific Objectives
• Memorandum to Dunham and others: Reporting Sunshine
• Defining Project Sunshine: Hollister's covering memo
• What is 'Project Sunshine'? Notes concerning basic factors and implications of one possible answer to the question
• AEC Biophysics Conference, January 1955
• Report on Project Gabriel
• Status of Project Gabriel report, study of the probable effects, with particular reference to the inhabitants of affected regions, from the use of nuclear weapons in warfare
• Project Sunshine 'Body Snatching' — ACHRE staff memorandum
• Biophysics Conference of 18 January 1955 — ACHRE excerpt set
• Papua New Guinea cable: reports of high-altitude aircraft, January 1985
• Kazakhstan cable: aircrew report of a bright object, January 1994
• Georgia cable: disputed airspace incursions over Kodori Gorge, 2001
• Turkmenistan cable: UFO enthusiasts and civil society, 2004
• Mexico cable: congressional hearing on UAP claims
• Survival Under Atomic Attack
• White House and congressional replies to UFO inquiries, 1998
• FBI interview with an intelligence official about reported orbs, 2025
• Western United States UAP event: witness summary, 2023