Source Documents

Air Materiel Command letter of 19 December 1947 forwarding flying-disc reports to the Air Force Chief of Staff.

US Air Force 1948 file forwarding an FBI special agent's report of a flying-disc sighting at Hobson, Ohio.

Top-secret routing cover sheet and a 4 November 1948 message to Gen. Cabell forwarding European Command intelligence reports.

Ten-page OCR'd numerical file record whose extracted text is largely illegible, from file 341-110677.

US Air Force 1949 flying-disc file of sighting report forms from Lowry and Olmsted flight service centers.

Department of War checklist of UFO incidents 1-100, opening with a 9 July 1947 sighting at Muroc Air Field.

Department of War checklist of UFO incidents 101-172, opening with a February 1948 fireball report from Norton, Kansas.

Department of War checklist of UFO incidents 173-233, featuring a white-hot cone-shaped object reported near New Orleans.

White House memorandum to the State Department dated 1963 setting out policy questions raised by a possible discovery of alien intelligence in space.

State Department memorandum of July 28, 1952 relaying General Samford's assessment that flying saucers remain a complete enigma despite credible reports.

FBI office memorandum of April 17, 1958 relaying a Detroit witness report of a circular object with a crystal-type dome reflecting light.

FBI case 62-HQ-83894 section 1 (serials 1-52), collecting 1947 teletypes, clippings and letters on flying-disc reports including the Roswell recovery.

FBI case 62-HQ-83894 section 10 (serials from 448), holding 1960s-1970s correspondence and flying-saucer movement publications received by the Bureau.

FBI case 62-HQ-83894 section 2 (serials 53-100), gathering 1947 investigative memos on flying-disc sightings in Oregon, Arizona and New Jersey.

FBI case 62-HQ-83894 section 3, holding 1947 memos and Air Force letters on flying-disc investigations including interviews tied to Kenneth Arnold.

Partially OCRed section 4 of FBI case 62-HQ-83894, with text on 20 of 214 pages, covering 1947 Portland and Alaska flying-disc reports.

FBI case 62-HQ-83894 section 5, collecting 1949-1950 memos, phone logs and letters about flying-saucer tips and related aerial reports.

FBI case 62-HQ-83894 section 6 (serials 246-301), including a 1950 summary of green-fireball and disc reports near New Mexico installations.

FBI case 62-HQ-83894 section 7, holding 1952 teletypes and Hoover letters forwarding public flying-saucer reports to the Air Force.

FBI case 62-HQ-83894 section 8 (serials 344-384), documenting 1954-1955 inquiries about contactee lecturers and a Detroit flying-saucer club.

Partially OCRed section 9 of FBI case 62-HQ-83894, with text on 20 of 290 pages, covering 1957-1958 UFO reports including one from Cuba.

Confidential 1947 Air Defense Command report from Mitchel Field summarizing interviews with Pan American crew who sighted objects near Boston on August 4, 1947.

FBI serial transmitting photographs and a newspaper clipping of flying saucers reported over Oak Ridge, Tennessee, July 1947.

FBI serial enclosing Air Force Air Intelligence Requirements Memorandum Number 4 on unconventional aircraft, dated 15 February 1949.

FBI serial containing a 1950 letter from Veracruz inventor M. A. Garcia Macias on flying saucers to a U.S. scientific commission.

FBI serial enclosing Gray Barker's article They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers about silenced saucer researchers.

FBI report on the Socorro, New Mexico unidentified flying object sighting of April 24, 1964, involving Officer Lonnie Zamora.

FBI teletype on the July 1966 Flying Saucers International journal and its reported Communist Party line article.

FBI sub-file on flying saucer matters, opening with a newspaper column about a pizza man's disputed saucer photograph.

USCENTCOM mission report logging three possible UAPs seen near Shaddadi, Syria, February 21, 2023.

AARO slide presentation on Western U.S. events describing orange orbs, a fiery orb, and kite-shaped objects.