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Everything the U.S. government has released about UFOs.

Before the saucer age 1 file These files show strange aerial reports before 1947. They matter because the government did not invent the problem when newspapers coined flying saucers.
  1. Foo-fighters came before flying saucers 1945
The first saucer bureaucracy 34 files From 1947 through the 1950s, officials built forms, files, panels, and public replies around a subject they could not simply ignore. The record is a mix of real concern, weak reports, turf questions, and rumor control.
  1. The Air Force incident-summary batches 5 files 1946, 1947, 1948
  2. Flying discs became real paperwork 1947
  3. The FBI flying-disc file 7 files 1947, 1949
  4. The FBI clipped the saucer press 1947
  5. Project Sign tried to sort the discs 1948
  6. Cabell got a Dutch-coast aircraft cable 1948
  7. The Navy asked stations to report discs 1948
  8. The Army checked a Russian-saucer rumor 1949
  9. The Hottel memo sits in a messy file 1949
  10. Military intelligence collected flying-disc reports 1950
  11. A Mexican inventor proposed nuclear saucers 1950
  12. State called the 1952 saucers an enigma 1952
  13. The saucer file drifted into correspondence 1952
  14. The Robertson Panel copies 2 files 1952, 1953
  15. Citizen letters outlasted the early wave 1954
  16. Senator Russell saw discs in the USSR 1955
  17. Gray Barker reached the FBI file 1956
  18. A former prisoner described a wartime craft 1957
  19. The FBI kept forwarding UFO mail 1957
  20. A Detroit caller reported a circular object 1958
  21. Lonnie Zamora enters the Bureau file 1964
  22. The Bureau mostly sent standard replies 1966
  23. A saucer magazine was flagged as propaganda 1966
Cold War intelligence and foreign cables 26 files Some UFO records are really intelligence records. They preserve sightings, scientific claims, foreign politics, and weapons-site context because those things touched U.S. interests.
  1. A German scientist explained flying discs 1950
  2. Britain worried over saucer talk 1952
  3. CIA tracked the UFO project status 1953
  4. Spy-plane secrecy fed UFO reports 1954
  5. A tourist reported a Caspian launch 1955
  6. Blue Book turned sightings into statistics 1955
  7. Budapest saucers sounded like rockets 1955
  8. A family letter described fast lights 1956
  9. The Budapest file is unreadable 1957
  10. Leon Davidson pressed the CIA on a message 1958
  11. NASA asked how to talk about aliens 1963
  12. Soviet scientists sounded skeptical 1967
  13. Asian mountain sightings became a table 1968
  14. Australia wanted a better UFO policy 1971
  15. A physics paper barely belongs here 1972
  16. The Sary Shagan green object 2 files 1973
  17. Aeroflot medicine was not a UFO case 1976
  18. Papua New Guinea asked about U.S. overflights 1985
  19. Los Alamos hosted a skeptical UFO talk 1986
  20. A 747 crew reported a Kazakhstan UFO 1994
  21. A Georgian official joked about UFOs 2001
  22. Mexico’s alien-body hearing became embassy traffic 2003
  23. Turkmen UFOlogists were useful diplomats 2004
  24. Harare put an airport object on alert 2008
  25. Pantex sent object images for review undated
Modern military cases and sensor clips 123 files The recent Defense files are often precise about time, place, and platform, but poor at public proof because so much context is redacted. Many clips show a track more clearly than an object.
  1. The New Mexico green fireballs 3 files 1948, 1950, 1970
  2. An analyst email handled a UAP release 1996
  3. A release email handled video review 2000
  4. ▷ A small point crosses a hazy sky 2013
  5. A small target crossed the Gulf of Aden 2016
  6. ▷ A small object sits in heavy haze 2017
  7. ▷ A sensor clip shows a faint point 2018
  8. ▷ A small target sits over water 2019
  9. The September 2019 glow clips 2 files 2019, 2023
  10. Four objects flew in formation 2020
  11. The public scan is mostly black 2020
  12. Two Gulf observations are hidden by redaction 2020
  13. The likely UAP report is unreadable 2020
  14. A balloon-like track is mostly hidden 2020
  15. The May 2020 coastal wake 3 files 2020
  16. The August 31 2020 sensor case 3 files 2020
  17. Only a number survived the video 2020
  18. The August 24 2020 Arabian Sea contacts 2 files 2020
  19. A cold round object tracked for eight minutes 2020
  20. A Gulf track was later called likely balloons 2020
  21. The August 8 2020 Gulf track 2 files 2020
  22. A formation held together for two minutes 2020
  23. The September 2020 Hormuz case 2 files 2020
  24. One October Gulf object reached the report 2020
  25. The November 2020 Gulf clips 3 files 2020
  26. Three July Gulf observations were logged 2020
  27. ▷ The port view shows no clear object 2020
  28. ▷ A cloud scene holds only an ambiguous halo 2020
  29. ▷ The thermal field stays too vague 2020
  30. ▷ A diffuse blob sits under a reticle 2020
  31. ▷ Only a number survived the transcript 2020
  32. ▷ A small bright target rides a redacted frame 2020
  33. ▷ A bright target sits over gray sea 2020
  34. ▷ A redacted sensor clip tracks a point 2020
  35. ▷ The gray sky barely changes 2020
  36. ▷ A redacted frame shows little more than sky 2020
  37. ▷ A small point sits in a redacted view 2020
  38. ▷ A faint target holds near center 2020
  39. ▷ The sensor sees more track than shape 2020
  40. ▷ Ground terrain fills the view 2020
  41. ▷ A point target rides a redacted field 2020
  42. ▷ A small object sits in gray video 2020
  43. The May 2020 Gulf pair 2 files 2020
  44. ▷ A small target sits over sea 2020
  45. ▷ A small object sits in a redacted frame 2021
  46. The April 2021 sphere clips 4 files 2021
  47. ▷ A small bright point stays unresolved 2021
  48. ▷ A tiny target sits in sensor noise 2021
  49. The May 2022 Middle East packet 3 files 2022
  50. The May 2022 Iraq object 2 files 2022
  51. A Mediterranean object moved in sensor video 2022
  52. The July 2022 Syria track 2 files 2022
  53. The December 2022 Baghdad case 2 files 2022
  54. ▷ Four bright blobs move in formation 2022
  55. ▷ The track is clearer than the object 2022
  56. ▷ A small point crosses the sensor view 2022
  57. ▷ A bright object fades over water 2022
  58. ▷ The Kazakhstan video has no usable frames 2022
  59. ▷ A small object sits near a horizon 2022
  60. ▷ A faint track survives redaction 2022
  61. F-15 crews saw possible objects over Syria 2023
  62. F-16 crews reported multiple possible objects 2023
  63. The October 2023 UAE case 3 files 2023
  64. The October 2023 Greece turn 2 files 2023
  65. The second October 2023 Greece track 2 files 2023
  66. A bouncy-ball object held speed over Syria 2023
  67. ▷ A small track crosses gray terrain 2023
  68. The East China Sea cloud clips 2 files 2023
  69. ▷ A small target appears over water 2023
  70. ▷ A bright point sits in a gray field 2023
  71. ▷ A small target crosses featureless sky 2023
  72. The January 2024 Greece diamond 2 files 2024
  73. The June 2024 UAE sphere 2 files 2024
  74. A Syrian report reduced a UAP to flare 2024
  75. The October 2024 Syria glare case 4 files 2024
  76. A redacted review covered a possible UAP 2024
  77. A July 2024 object left fast 2024
  78. ▷ The sensor holds a tiny bright point 2024
  79. ▷ A faint object rides the horizon 2024
  80. The Tyndall tic-tac pair 2 files 2024
  81. Two white-hot objects are hard to check 2025
  82. Two Pacific reports became tear lines 2025
  83. ▷ Arid terrain hides the target 2025
  84. A blue triangle hovered near a facility 2026
  85. ▷ A point target crosses featureless video 2026
  86. A triangular metallic object was reported undated
  87. ▷ A faint target sits in noisy video undated
  88. ▷ A small contact holds in the frame undated
  89. ▷ A near-horizon point is barely resolved undated
  90. ▷ The reticle has no clear object undated
  91. ▷ A small point hangs in sensor video undated
FBI witness packets and recent field cases 76 files The FBI material is strongest when it keeps interviews, drawings, site visits, and photos together. It is weakest when a single still or sketch gets separated from the statement that explains it.
  1. A pastor wrote Hoover about beams 1949
  2. Newark kept a local UFO file 1952
  3. Seattle kept a local saucer file 1952
  4. The northeastern orb property 11 files 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025, 2026
  5. Five soldiers saw an object over Cheyenne Mountain 4 files 2022
  6. The Western U.S. orange-orb event 20 files 2023
  7. The restricted-site bronze object 4 files 2023
  8. The late-2025 helicopter event 34 files 2025
NASA, astronauts, and the problem of seeing in space 33 files The NASA records are not one story about astronauts seeing UFOs. They are many stories about light, particles, debris, reflections, human eyes, and the difficulty of judging distance in space.
  1. The Mercury-Redstone audio is empty 1961
  2. The Mercury fireflies 4 files 1962, 1963
  3. The Mercury audio is nearly empty 1962
  4. Gordon Cooper left room for mystery 1962
  5. Gemini 7 bogey tape 2 files 1965
  6. Gemini 4 and McDivitt’s object 3 files 1965
  7. Gemini 5 pod and sightings 2 files 1965
  8. Gemini 7 debrief identified its sights 1965
  9. Gemini 9 is mostly science paperwork 1966
  10. Apollo 12 flashes and photo points 7 files 1969
  11. Apollo 11 debriefed a mystery object 1969
  12. Apollo 17 flashes and fragments 5 files 1972, 1973
  13. Apollo 16 flash and joke 2 files 1972
  14. Skylab crews debriefed several odd sights 1973
  15. COMETA argued UFOs were a defense issue 1999
Public pressure, politics, and release culture 1 file A surprising amount of the archive is about answering the public. Letters, briefings, congressional interest, and foreign hearings show that UFOs became a government communications problem as much as an observation problem.
  1. NASA answered UFO mail with Blue Book 1998
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