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Incident locations
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[FACILITY] (US military facility, exact name redacted)
An FBI 302 interview, classified SECRET//NOFORN, documents a senior US intelligence official's first-hand account of a multi-hour aerial search at a US military facility in 2025. Personnel aboard a state partner helicopter observed a "super-hot" orb that came within ten feet of the aircraft before traveling an estimated 20 miles southeast at a speed the helicopter could not match. Over the following thirty minutes, crews observed a swarm of lights too many to count, and repeated formations of four to six oval orange orbs with white or yellow centers that flared up and down in sequence.
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[LOCAL TOWN] east of [SITE CODE NAME] (redacted)
An FBI 302 interview, classified SECRET//NOFORN, documents a senior US intelligence official's first-hand account of a multi-hour aerial search at a US military facility in 2025. Personnel aboard a state partner helicopter observed a "super-hot" orb that came within ten feet of the aircraft before traveling an estimated 20 miles southeast at a speed the helicopter could not match. Over the following thirty minutes, crews observed a swarm of lights too many to count, and repeated formations of four to six oval orange orbs with white or yellow centers that flared up and down in sequence.
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[LOCATION] mountains (redacted)
An FBI 302 interview, classified SECRET//NOFORN, documents a senior US intelligence official's first-hand account of a multi-hour aerial search at a US military facility in 2025. Personnel aboard a state partner helicopter observed a "super-hot" orb that came within ten feet of the aircraft before traveling an estimated 20 miles southeast at a speed the helicopter could not match. Over the following thirty minutes, crews observed a swarm of lights too many to count, and repeated formations of four to six oval orange orbs with white or yellow centers that flared up and down in sequence.
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[MOUNTAIN RANGE NAME] west of [SITE CODE NAME] (redacted)
An FBI 302 interview, classified SECRET//NOFORN, documents a senior US intelligence official's first-hand account of a multi-hour aerial search at a US military facility in 2025. Personnel aboard a state partner helicopter observed a "super-hot" orb that came within ten feet of the aircraft before traveling an estimated 20 miles southeast at a speed the helicopter could not match. Over the following thirty minutes, crews observed a swarm of lights too many to count, and repeated formations of four to six oval orange orbs with white or yellow centers that flared up and down in sequence.
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[OPERATIONS CENTER] (redacted)
An FBI 302 interview, classified SECRET//NOFORN, documents a senior US intelligence official's first-hand account of a multi-hour aerial search at a US military facility in 2025. Personnel aboard a state partner helicopter observed a "super-hot" orb that came within ten feet of the aircraft before traveling an estimated 20 miles southeast at a speed the helicopter could not match. Over the following thirty minutes, crews observed a swarm of lights too many to count, and repeated formations of four to six oval orange orbs with white or yellow centers that flared up and down in sequence.
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[SITE CODE NAME] (redacted)
An FBI 302 interview, classified SECRET//NOFORN, documents a senior US intelligence official's first-hand account of a multi-hour aerial search at a US military facility in 2025. Personnel aboard a state partner helicopter observed a "super-hot" orb that came within ten feet of the aircraft before traveling an estimated 20 miles southeast at a speed the helicopter could not match. Over the following thirty minutes, crews observed a swarm of lights too many to count, and repeated formations of four to six oval orange orbs with white or yellow centers that flared up and down in sequence.
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15801 Decosta, Detroit, Michigan
David Weaver, age 23, of 15801 Decosta, Detroit, Michigan, telephoned the FBI Detroit office at 4:08 A.M. on April 17, 1958, to report seeing a circular object with a crystal-type dome that reflected lights. He said the object traveled from the southwest in a northern direction, crossing the city three blocks south of Six Mile Road at Lamphere Street. Weaver told the FBI he had first tried to reach Selfridge Field Air Force base but could not get through, and that he was on his way home from work when he saw the object. SA Robert Ross Reynolds authored the memorandum to SAC Detroit and recommended notifying Air Force authorities.
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2004 N. Hoover St., Los Angeles, California 90027
Section 10 of FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 contains the program for the AFSCA 3rd National Flying Saucer Convention, held July 8-10, 1966, at the Centennial Coliseum in Reno, Nevada, along with a citizen letter and the Bureau's reply. On August 31, 1966, Florence C. Dow of Goffstown, New Hampshire, wrote to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover stating that her first issue of the AFSCA journal "Flying Saucers International" struck her as Communist-backed.
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218 Illinois Avenue, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
In July 1947, W.R. Presley of 218 Illinois Avenue, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, photographed what the Knoxville News-Sentinel called a flying saucer. Presley had been photographing his family and house and used his last frame on a shot of a nearby mountain; when the roll was developed, a bright circular object appeared in that final image. The newspaper reported it as the first time a flying saucer had ever been photographed over Oak Ridge and noted that the picture had "all of Oak Ridge talking." The FBI Knoxville Field Office forwarded two prints and a photostatic copy of the newspaper clipping to FBI Headquarters under an Internal Security file.
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2315 Kimball Ave, Cornola, Nebraska
FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 collects press clippings, public letters, and internal memos concerning "flying disc" and "flying saucer" reports across the United States in July 1947. Reports include Rev. Joseph Brasky of Grafton, Wisconsin, who told the United Press he found an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and was holding it for the FBI. Civilian Fred R. Reibold wrote to the Bureau describing a flaming circular object that fell in the street in Cornola, Nebraska on July 1, 1947; Director Hoover forwarded that letter to the War Department's Director of Intelligence on August 5, 1947.
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2315 Kimball Ave, Omaha, Nebraska
FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 documents flying disc reports received between July and August 1947. On July 6, 1947, Rev. Joseph Brasky of St. Joseph's Church in Grafton, Wisconsin reported finding an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and held it for the FBI. On August 5, 1947, J. Edgar Hoover transmitted a letter from Fred R. Reibold of Conoha, Mississippi to the Director of Intelligence, War Department General Staff, describing a flaming circular object that fell in front of his house in Omaha, Nebraska on July 1, 1947.
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2319 Himebaugh Avenue, Omaha, Nebraska
FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 collects press clippings, public letters, and internal memos concerning "flying disc" and "flying saucer" reports across the United States in July 1947. Reports include Rev. Joseph Brasky of Grafton, Wisconsin, who told the United Press he found an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and was holding it for the FBI. Civilian Fred R. Reibold wrote to the Bureau describing a flaming circular object that fell in the street in Cornola, Nebraska on July 1, 1947; Director Hoover forwarded that letter to the War Department's Director of Intelligence on August 5, 1947.
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3 miles SW of SEATTLE-FORT, Louisiana
Headquarters Air Material Command, Dayton, Ohio transmitted Incident Summary Sheets 173 through 233 on March 9, 1949, covering sightings from September 1945 through October 1948. Observers in Louisiana, New Mexico, and California reported objects described variously as aluminum-colored and metallic, cone-shaped and encased in flame, perfectly circular and flat, bright silvery and egg-shaped, and amoeba-like with oscillating appendages. The summary sheets record no determination of what the objects were.
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35SPT63 (last UAP coordinate, estimated)
A U.S. Air Force Senior Airman assigned to 33 SOS observed one UAP over the Mediterranean Sea on January 25, 2024, at 0509Z while in transit from LGLR. The observer reported the UAP was diamond-shaped with a non-maneuvering probe at the bottom, flying at approximately 434 knots, and visible only on the SWIR camera. The event lasted approximately two minutes, ending at 0511Z without further incident. The report, classified SECRET and originating under USCENTCOM, was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison on October 24, 2025, and approved for release to AARO on October 28, 2025.
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35SQT46 (first UAP coordinate, estimated)
A U.S. Air Force Senior Airman assigned to 33 SOS observed one UAP over the Mediterranean Sea on January 25, 2024, at 0509Z while in transit from LGLR. The observer reported the UAP was diamond-shaped with a non-maneuvering probe at the bottom, flying at approximately 434 knots, and visible only on the SWIR camera. The event lasted approximately two minutes, ending at 0511Z without further incident. The report, classified SECRET and originating under USCENTCOM, was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison on October 24, 2025, and approved for release to AARO on October 28, 2025.
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363453N 0255943E (approx. 36°34′53″N 025°59′43″E)
A U.S. military operator reported observing one UAP during a return-to-base flight over coordinates 363453N 0255943E in the Mediterranean Sea at 1319Z. The GENTEXT section of the Mission Report describes the UAP as "triangular and metallic," with an estimated altitude of 24,989 feet MSL and speed of 168 knots. Pages 1 through 6 are fully redacted under 1.4(a), and the incident date is absent from the available text.
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364 West Lewiston Avenue, Ferndale 20, Michigan
In June and July 1954, the FBI Cincinnati Field Office interviewed civilian informant Thomas Eickhoff, who reported that Truman Bethurum and George Hunt Williamson were organizing a paid flying saucer program at the Taft Auditorium in Cincinnati, Ohio. Eickhoff expressed concern that the event, priced at two dollars per person, could constitute a fraud on the general public.
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36RXV 19 (ISR start point)
A U.S. Air Force Senior Airman assigned to 33 SOS observed one UAP over the Mediterranean Sea on January 25, 2024, at 0509Z while in transit from LGLR. The observer reported the UAP was diamond-shaped with a non-maneuvering probe at the bottom, flying at approximately 434 knots, and visible only on the SWIR camera. The event lasted approximately two minutes, ending at 0511Z without further incident. The report, classified SECRET and originating under USCENTCOM, was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison on October 24, 2025, and approved for release to AARO on October 28, 2025.
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3721 Tappan Avenue, Cincinnati 23, Ohio
In June and July 1954, the FBI Cincinnati Field Office interviewed civilian informant Thomas Eickhoff, who reported that Truman Bethurum and George Hunt Williamson were organizing a paid flying saucer program at the Taft Auditorium in Cincinnati, Ohio. Eickhoff expressed concern that the event, priced at two dollars per person, could constitute a fraud on the general public.
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37S FU 36 (UAP first and last coordinate grid)
A U.S. Air Force aircrew operating over Syria on October 20, 2024, reported observing a "misshapen and uneven ball of white light" on their Full-Motion Video feed between 1559Z and 1644Z, describing multiple "glares or light from unknown origin at different angles and directions" and a "light/glare halo effect" at the top of the FMV feed. The MISREP, filed by the 12th Special Operations Squadron under Operation INHERENT RESOLVE, records the UAP physical state as "Plasma," propulsion means as "UNKNOWN," and notes the aircrew assessed the event as not a lasing event and "benign" with no mission impact.
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37S FU 85 (ISR tasking start point)
A U.S. Air Force aircrew operating over Syria on October 20, 2024, reported observing a "misshapen and uneven ball of white light" on their Full-Motion Video feed between 1559Z and 1644Z, describing multiple "glares or light from unknown origin at different angles and directions" and a "light/glare halo effect" at the top of the FMV feed. The MISREP, filed by the 12th Special Operations Squadron under Operation INHERENT RESOLVE, records the UAP physical state as "Plasma," propulsion means as "UNKNOWN," and notes the aircrew assessed the event as not a lasing event and "benign" with no mission impact.
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37S FV 85 (ISR tasking start point)
A U.S. Air Force aircrew operating over Syria on October 20, 2024, reported observing a "misshapen and uneven ball of white light" on their Full-Motion Video feed between 1559Z and 1644Z, describing multiple "glares or light from unknown origin at different angles and directions" and a "light/glare halo effect" at the top of the FMV feed. The MISREP, filed by the 12th Special Operations Squadron under Operation INHERENT RESOLVE, records the UAP physical state as "Plasma," propulsion means as "UNKNOWN," and notes the aircrew assessed the event as not a lasing event and "benign" with no mission impact.
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37SFU27[redacted]74[redacted] (UAP first seen location)
A U.S. Air Force operator assigned to the 89th Attack Squadron observed a UAP over Syria at 02:39Z on 31 July 2022, during an armed reconnaissance mission flown from Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, Jordan. The GENTEXT section of the MISREP states the UAP occurred in KP 9 near grid 37SFU27, moved from north to south, and lasted less than one minute. The observing aircraft was at 19,359 feet and 116 knots; no UAP signatures were detected. Physical description fields are redacted under FOIA Exemption (b)(6).
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37SFU38[redacted]81[redacted] (ISR start point)
A U.S. Air Force operator assigned to the 89th Attack Squadron observed a UAP over Syria at 02:39Z on 31 July 2022, during an armed reconnaissance mission flown from Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, Jordan. The GENTEXT section of the MISREP states the UAP occurred in KP 9 near grid 37SFU27, moved from north to south, and lasted less than one minute. The observing aircraft was at 19,359 feet and 116 knots; no UAP signatures were detected. Physical description fields are redacted under FOIA Exemption (b)(6).
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37SFU41[redacted]78[redacted] (friendly aircraft location at UAP contact)
A U.S. Air Force operator assigned to the 89th Attack Squadron observed a UAP over Syria at 02:39Z on 31 July 2022, during an armed reconnaissance mission flown from Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, Jordan. The GENTEXT section of the MISREP states the UAP occurred in KP 9 near grid 37SFU27, moved from north to south, and lasted less than one minute. The observing aircraft was at 19,359 feet and 116 knots; no UAP signatures were detected. Physical description fields are redacted under FOIA Exemption (b)(6).
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38P MT 22 [redacted] 49 [redacted] (UAP last seen)
A U.S. Air Force TSGT assigned to the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing and 609 CAOC observed one UAP over the Gulf of Aden at 05:17Z on July 14, 2024, while conducting ISR in support of NAVCENT. The observer reported the UAP maintained a straight flight path at the same altitude, traveled northwest at low altitude, and moved faster than the observing aircraft's flying speed. The observer assessed the UAP as benign and followed it until the distance became too far to follow. The report was filed as MISREP 10194673 by the 124th Attack Squadron under USCENTCOM.
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38P MT 51 [redacted] 11 [redacted] (ISR 1 target area)
A U.S. Air Force TSGT assigned to the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing and 609 CAOC observed one UAP over the Gulf of Aden at 05:17Z on July 14, 2024, while conducting ISR in support of NAVCENT. The observer reported the UAP maintained a straight flight path at the same altitude, traveled northwest at low altitude, and moved faster than the observing aircraft's flying speed. The observer assessed the UAP as benign and followed it until the distance became too far to follow. The report was filed as MISREP 10194673 by the 124th Attack Squadron under USCENTCOM.
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38P MT 53 [redacted] 17 [redacted] (UAP first seen)
A U.S. Air Force TSGT assigned to the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing and 609 CAOC observed one UAP over the Gulf of Aden at 05:17Z on July 14, 2024, while conducting ISR in support of NAVCENT. The observer reported the UAP maintained a straight flight path at the same altitude, traveled northwest at low altitude, and moved faster than the observing aircraft's flying speed. The observer assessed the UAP as benign and followed it until the distance became too far to follow. The report was filed as MISREP 10194673 by the 124th Attack Squadron under USCENTCOM.
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38P MT 64 [redacted] 53 [redacted] (friendly aircraft location at time of sighting)
A U.S. Air Force TSGT assigned to the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing and 609 CAOC observed one UAP over the Gulf of Aden at 05:17Z on July 14, 2024, while conducting ISR in support of NAVCENT. The observer reported the UAP maintained a straight flight path at the same altitude, traveled northwest at low altitude, and moved faster than the observing aircraft's flying speed. The observer assessed the UAP as benign and followed it until the distance became too far to follow. The report was filed as MISREP 10194673 by the 124th Attack Squadron under USCENTCOM.
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38P MV 24 [redacted] 81 [redacted] (ISR 2 target area)
A U.S. Air Force TSGT assigned to the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing and 609 CAOC observed one UAP over the Gulf of Aden at 05:17Z on July 14, 2024, while conducting ISR in support of NAVCENT. The observer reported the UAP maintained a straight flight path at the same altitude, traveled northwest at low altitude, and moved faster than the observing aircraft's flying speed. The observer assessed the UAP as benign and followed it until the distance became too far to follow. The report was filed as MISREP 10194673 by the 124th Attack Squadron under USCENTCOM.
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38S MB 42 [redacted] 83 [redacted] (Friendly Aircraft and UAP First Seen Location, MGRS)
A U.S. Air Force ISR asset from the 482nd Attack Squadron, operating under Operation Inherent Resolve, observed one "possible UAP/UAV flying west to east" near grid 38SMB42 in the Baghdad, Iraq vicinity at 1620Z on 1 December 2022. The observer did not follow the UAP and continued the mission as tasked; no further events were observed. No UAP signatures were detected and no effects on persons were reported. The MISREP was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 8 October 2025, and approved for release to AARO.
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38SMC53 (grid reference, aircraft and observed activity location)
A U.S. Air Force operator reported observing "5x UAP fly across the screen" via Full Motion Video over Iraq on 6 May 2022, between 1514Z and 1934Z, in the vicinity of grid 38SMC53. The GENTEXT describes one UAP as having "the VISRECCE of a possible missile" and the remaining four as fitting "closer to the profile of possible birds." The report, MISREP undefined-7473483, was filed under Operation Inherent Resolve and approved for release to AARO. Dust is noted as having "hindered most FMV collection of the ground" during the observation period.
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38SMC54 (grid reference, tasked start point)
A U.S. Air Force operator reported observing "5x UAP fly across the screen" via Full Motion Video over Iraq on 6 May 2022, between 1514Z and 1934Z, in the vicinity of grid 38SMC53. The GENTEXT describes one UAP as having "the VISRECCE of a possible missile" and the remaining four as fitting "closer to the profile of possible birds." The report, MISREP undefined-7473483, was filed under Operation Inherent Resolve and approved for release to AARO. Dust is noted as having "hindered most FMV collection of the ground" during the observation period.
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39RUP (grid reference, ISR tasked start point, partially redacted)
A U.S. Air Force aircraft from the 482nd Attack Squadron filed MISREP 5039166 reporting two UAP observed on November 2, 2020, over the Arabian Gulf area during a NAVCENT support mission. The first UAP was observed at 2143Z; the second was observed at 2148Z traveling northwest, captured via Full Motion Video while the aircraft flew at FL220. The document was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 16 March 2026.
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39RVM38 (aircraft location at observation)
MISREP 4685903, filed by U.S. Air Force personnel assigned to the 482nd Attack Squadron and 432nd Air Expeditionary Wing, records that at 1527Z on 27 August 2020, an aircraft operating over the Arabian Gulf observed a "formation of UNK flying objects" via onboard sensor. The report states that "light cloud coverage prevented continuous tracking of the UAP event" and that the aircrew "was unable to gain PIO again on this formation." The document was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 22 January 2026, and contains extensive redactions.
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39RVM81 (observed activity location)
MISREP 4685903, filed by U.S. Air Force personnel assigned to the 482nd Attack Squadron and 432nd Air Expeditionary Wing, records that at 1527Z on 27 August 2020, an aircraft operating over the Arabian Gulf observed a "formation of UNK flying objects" via onboard sensor. The report states that "light cloud coverage prevented continuous tracking of the UAP event" and that the aircrew "was unable to gain PIO again on this formation." The document was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 22 January 2026, and contains extensive redactions.
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39RWK60 (grid reference, OBS LINE 2 aircraft and observed activity location, partially redacted)
A U.S. Air Force aircraft from the 482nd Attack Squadron filed MISREP 5039166 reporting two UAP observed on November 2, 2020, over the Arabian Gulf area during a NAVCENT support mission. The first UAP was observed at 2143Z; the second was observed at 2148Z traveling northwest, captured via Full Motion Video while the aircraft flew at FL220. The document was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 16 March 2026.
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39RWK69 (grid reference, OBS LINE 2 UAP location, partially redacted)
A U.S. Air Force aircraft from the 482nd Attack Squadron filed MISREP 5039166 reporting two UAP observed on November 2, 2020, over the Arabian Gulf area during a NAVCENT support mission. The first UAP was observed at 2143Z; the second was observed at 2148Z traveling northwest, captured via Full Motion Video while the aircraft flew at FL220. The document was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 16 March 2026.
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39RXK68 area (UAP third contact, grid reference)
A U.S. Air Force airman from the 50th Attack Squadron logged two UAP contacts over the Persian Gulf on 24 October 2023 during an IMINT mission supporting NAVCENT under Operation Spartan Shield. The first UAP, acquired at 0241Z, showed a cold thermal signature and an estimated velocity of 320 MPH; the observer assessed it as Benign and not under intelligent control. A second UAP was observed at 0322Z near grid 39RXK68 with an estimated velocity of 440 MPH. The report, originally classified CECRET, was declassified by USCENTCOM Chief of Staff MG Richard A. Harrison on 12 September 2025.
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39RXL60 area (UAP second contact, grid reference)
A U.S. Air Force airman from the 50th Attack Squadron logged two UAP contacts over the Persian Gulf on 24 October 2023 during an IMINT mission supporting NAVCENT under Operation Spartan Shield. The first UAP, acquired at 0241Z, showed a cold thermal signature and an estimated velocity of 320 MPH; the observer assessed it as Benign and not under intelligent control. A second UAP was observed at 0322Z near grid 39RXK68 with an estimated velocity of 440 MPH. The report, originally classified CECRET, was declassified by USCENTCOM Chief of Staff MG Richard A. Harrison on 12 September 2025.
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39RYJ90 area (UAP first contact, grid reference)
A U.S. Air Force airman from the 50th Attack Squadron logged two UAP contacts over the Persian Gulf on 24 October 2023 during an IMINT mission supporting NAVCENT under Operation Spartan Shield. The first UAP, acquired at 0241Z, showed a cold thermal signature and an estimated velocity of 320 MPH; the observer assessed it as Benign and not under intelligent control. A second UAP was observed at 0322Z near grid 39RXK68 with an estimated velocity of 440 MPH. The report, originally classified CECRET, was declassified by USCENTCOM Chief of Staff MG Richard A. Harrison on 12 September 2025.
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40 NM northwest of Latakia, Syria
On November 18, 2016, a U.S. P-8A aircraft monitoring carrier task group activity in the Eastern Mediterranean observed an unidentified low-flying object 55 nautical miles northwest of Latakia, Syria, via its EO/IR sensor. The object appeared to be in "sea skim mode," traveling at approximately 500 knots on a southeasterly heading, and passed between the Russian vessel INGUL ARS and one unidentified vessel before the P-8A lost visual contact after two minutes. The CTG 67.1 mission commander characterized the interaction as safe and assessed the activity as consistent with standard carrier task group activity.
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401 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
On October 3, 1966, the FBI Los Angeles Division sent a memo to the FBI Director transmitting Issue No. 24 of Flying Saucers International, the official journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc., edited by Gabriel Green at 2004 N. Hoover St., Los Angeles. The magazine had been delivered to the FBI Philadelphia Division on September 19, 1966, by Jarvis H. Cooper, an IRS employee in Philadelphia, who said pages 2 and 3 contained an article he believed expounded the Communist Party line.
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404 Fourth Avenue, New York 16, N.Y.
Gray Barker's 1956 book, published by University Books, Inc. of New York, claims that leading flying saucer researchers who challenged the government's denial of extraterrestrial origins were silenced one by one after visits from three men in dark suits. Barker, a film booking agent in Clarksburg, West Virginia, began investigating flying saucers in 1952 after one allegedly landed near his home and he interviewed eyewitnesses. The FBI file, identifier 62-HQ-83894, consists of the book's dust jacket copy and was declassified under the FBI Automatic Declassification Guide issued May 24, 2007.
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40RBP00 (aircraft location at GUARDCALL)
A U.S. Air Force airman from the 50th Attack Squadron logged two UAP contacts over the Persian Gulf on 24 October 2023 during an IMINT mission supporting NAVCENT under Operation Spartan Shield. The first UAP, acquired at 0241Z, showed a cold thermal signature and an estimated velocity of 320 MPH; the observer assessed it as Benign and not under intelligent control. A second UAP was observed at 0322Z near grid 39RXK68 with an estimated velocity of 440 MPH. The report, originally classified CECRET, was declassified by USCENTCOM Chief of Staff MG Richard A. Harrison on 12 September 2025.
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40RBP52 (ISR operating area grid reference)
A U.S. Air Force airman from the 50th Attack Squadron logged two UAP contacts over the Persian Gulf on 24 October 2023 during an IMINT mission supporting NAVCENT under Operation Spartan Shield. The first UAP, acquired at 0241Z, showed a cold thermal signature and an estimated velocity of 320 MPH; the observer assessed it as Benign and not under intelligent control. A second UAP was observed at 0322Z near grid 39RXK68 with an estimated velocity of 440 MPH. The report, originally classified CECRET, was declassified by USCENTCOM Chief of Staff MG Richard A. Harrison on 12 September 2025.
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40RFM60 (redacted grid)
A U.S. Air Force Senior Airman assigned to 3rd Special Operations Squadron, 379th Air Expeditionary Wing, reported observing one UAP on June 7, 2024, at 0457Z while returning to base over the Gulf of Oman. The observer described a "glowing hot spherical unidentified object with a vertical unwavering cylindrical pole/bar attached on the bottom of the object," with a possible reflection in the water below, moving at an estimated 140 knots. The observer assessed the UAP as benign; propulsion means were listed as unknown, and no sensor interrogation was conducted.
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43°15'N 124°54'W (Ticonderoga sighting position)
On 18 February 1948 at 5:01 P.M., an aerial explosion occurred over Norcatur, Kansas, logged as Incident 101 by the Department of War. Farmer Leland Sammons reported a funnel-shaped object roughly four feet long, with a pipe at the rear and fire belching from it, hovering near his farmhouse before departing northwest and exploding in a cloud of smoke. Beginning 24 April 1948, meteorite fragments were recovered, including a 109-pound achondrite piece found two feet underground in a clover field. Civilian Norman Garrett Markham wrote to the Office of the Chief of Staff speculating the object may have been a rocket or space-craft.
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498 Manzanita Ct., Ventura, CA 93001
On April 30, 2001, Carol Rosin and Jon Cypher wrote from Ventura, California to a NASA official named Dan, enclosing the French COMETA Report, titled "UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?" A follow-up hotel note from Cypher directed Dan to the preface, a radar section starting around page 62, testimony from John Callahan, and a entry for Enrique Kolbeck, Senior Air Traffic Controller at Mexico City International Airport, at page 105. Cypher corrected an earlier statement, noting the COMETA Report is a private, not government, document.
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519 North Gertruda Avenue, Redondo Beach, California
In July and August 1954, the FBI Cincinnati Field Office and Washington Field Office documented reports from civilian informant Thomas Eickhoff concerning flying saucer lecturers Truman Bethurum and George Hunt Williamson, and from Navy Security Officer John Hutson concerning Frances Swan's claimed thought transmission contact with beings designated "AFFA" and "PONNAR," commanders of ships M-4 and L-11. Eickhoff reported attending a luncheon at the Terrace Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati on June 7, 1954, where Bethurum and Williamson stated their story was factual and consented to government scrutiny.
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5457 Joseph Campau, Detroit, Michigan
In a November 7, 1957 interview conducted by SA Cassius Rathbun, Wladyslaw Krasuski of 5457 Joseph Campau, Detroit, described witnessing a circular vehicle rise vertically from a tarpaulin-enclosed compound near Gut Alt Golssen, approximately 30 miles east of Berlin, circa 1944, while held there as a Polish prisoner of war. The vehicle was circular, 75 to 100 yards in diameter and about 14 feet high, with a rapidly moving middle section producing a continuous blur similar to an aeroplane propeller.
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55 NM northwest of Latakia, Syria
On November 18, 2016, a U.S. P-8A aircraft monitoring carrier task group activity in the Eastern Mediterranean observed an unidentified low-flying object 55 nautical miles northwest of Latakia, Syria, via its EO/IR sensor. The object appeared to be in "sea skim mode," traveling at approximately 500 knots on a southeasterly heading, and passed between the Russian vessel INGUL ARS and one unidentified vessel before the P-8A lost visual contact after two minutes. The CTG 67.1 mission commander characterized the interaction as safe and assessed the activity as consistent with standard carrier task group activity.
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576-D
The 30th Space Wing Office of History compiled a launch summary covering all launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base from 1958 through 2000. The document defines launch vehicle types, test categories, and program abbreviations, and lists military and contractor recipients including Aerospace Corporation, Boeing Defense and Space Group, ITT Federal Services Corporation, and TRW. The report was dated February 3, 2000, and released by the Department of War.
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576-G (OSTF-2)
The 30th Space Wing Office of History compiled a launch summary covering all launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base from 1958 through 2000. The document defines launch vehicle types, test categories, and program abbreviations, and lists military and contractor recipients including Aerospace Corporation, Boeing Defense and Space Group, ITT Federal Services Corporation, and TRW. The report was dated February 3, 2000, and released by the Department of War.
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606 Reservoir Street, Socorro, New Mexico
FBI Special Agent D. Arthur Byrnes, Jr. documented a report from Officer Lonnie Zamora of the Socorro Police Department concerning an unknown object that "landed and has taken off" about one mile southwest of Socorro, New Mexico, on April 24, 1964. Zamora described an aluminum-white, egg-shaped object on or near the ground, two persons in white coveralls nearby, a blue-orange flame and loud roar during ascent, and a red insignia resembling the letter "A" on the object's surface.
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6327 Harper Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
FBI agents in the Newark Division interviewed witnesses to a flying disc sighting at Hackensack, New Jersey on August 3, 1947. Separately, the Detroit office reported that Raymond Edward Lane, a Dow Chemical Company employee, brought fused sand material to the Dow Physics Laboratory on July 10, 1947, after he and his wife observed a ball of white about the size of a bushel basket burning a foot off the ground in a Dow field near Midland, Michigan. The material was found to contain ordinary sand giving off ammonia gas, a small silver nugget, and a grayish substance described as radio active at an extremely low level.
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7017 Britton Avenue, Cincinnati 27, Ohio
In July and August 1954, the FBI Cincinnati Field Office and Washington Field Office documented reports from civilian informant Thomas Eickhoff concerning flying saucer lecturers Truman Bethurum and George Hunt Williamson, and from Navy Security Officer John Hutson concerning Frances Swan's claimed thought transmission contact with beings designated "AFFA" and "PONNAR," commanders of ships M-4 and L-11. Eickhoff reported attending a luncheon at the Terrace Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati on June 7, 1954, where Bethurum and Williamson stated their story was factual and consented to government scrutiny.
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Abu Musa Island
A U.S. Air Force ISR aircraft operating over the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, and Gulf of Oman reported observing one UAP at 1732Z on 16 September 2020, as recorded in MISREP 4782130. The observation is cross-referenced to OBS LINE 1, which is redacted. The report was declassified on 22 January 2026 by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, and approved for release to AARO.
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Abu Musa Island Airfield
MISREP 4871281 records that a U.S. military operator took off from OKAS on 1 October 2020 and, during a 21-hour NAVCENT support mission over the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, and Gulf of Oman, observed 1X UAP at 1829Z on 2 October 2020. The report references OBSERVATION LINE 1 for UAP details, but that section is not present in the released text. The document was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 16 March 2026 under MDR 26-0028 and approved for release to AARO.
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Access gate to restricted area of base (location redacted)
In September 2023, FBI special agents interviewed a witness — a supervisor at a U.S. military installation — in connection with a UAP sighting that occurred during active restricted-airspace test operations. The witness had personally restricted the airspace for scheduled tests that morning. At approximately 7:02 a.m., she and a group of contractors departed in three vehicles toward the test site. Between 7:15 and 7:30 a.m., while driving through a base access gate that malfunctioned on three attempts before opening on the fourth (with no prior or subsequent mechanical issues), the primary witness looked up and observed a cigar-shaped, metallic bronze object positioned southwest of her location, approximately 500 to 3,000 feet above a tree line roughly one mile to the southwest. The object was almost hovering and moving slowly from east to west. It displayed an extremely bright, diamond-white light on its eastern end, encircled by a ring, pointing southeast — described as being like looking directly into the sun. The object's length was estimated at two to three Blackhawk helicopters nose-to-tail; its width approximately one and a half Blackhawks, though the intense light may have obscured part of the body. The object was completely silent. The witness initially assumed it was an unauthorized aircraft violating her restricted airspace, but quickly concluded it was neither an aircraft nor a drone. She inched her vehicle forward while she and the front-seat passenger watched the object for five to ten seconds, after which it simply disappeared. The sky was clear with no clouds, and no contrails were left. No photos or video were taken. A passenger in the second vehicle independently reported seeing the object as well. The witness stated she would not have reported the sighting had she been alone, and noted that several coworkers subsequently mocked her for doing so. She had fifteen years of experience working at the installation and had been exposed to most U.S. military aircraft and drones, and had never seen anything like it. No vehicle interference was noted during the observation.
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Aegean Sea
A U.S. Air Force aircrew filed MISREP 9337873 reporting that on 29 October 2023 at 0811Z, while returning to base over the Aegean Sea, they spotted a UAP flying just above the ocean surface and moving straight toward land. The UAP was described as seemingly circular, too small to make out details, solid, and traveling at an estimated 30 MPH; it was lost from their sensor feed at 0811Z. The observer assessed the UAP as benign and not under intelligent control. The report was declassified on 22 January 2026 by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff.
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Aeronautical Sciences Building, Beverly Blvd., West Los Angeles
On October 3, 1966, the FBI Director sent a memo to the SAC in Los Angeles regarding Issue No. 24 of "Flying Saucers International," the official journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc. The Philadelphia Division had received the July 1966 issue on September 19, 1966, from Jarvis H. Cooper, an IRS employee at 401 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, who flagged pages 2 and 3 as expounding the Communist Party line.
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Aiken, South Carolina
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894 compiles sighting reports, media clippings, and investigative memos covering incidents from 1947 through 1968. Reported incidents include American Airlines pilot Capt. Peter Killian's account of three shining saucer-like objects trailing his DC6 for 45 minutes in February 1958, the Coast Guard cutter Sebago tracking an object on radar for 27 minutes in the Gulf of Mexico at an estimated 1,000 miles per hour, and grain buyer R. O. Schmidt's claim of encountering a cigar-shaped craft near Kearney, Nebraska, in November 1957.
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Al Assad AFLD
A U.S. Air Force ISR asset took off from Sigonella Airbase on 29 May 2022 and conducted IMINT over the Eastern Mediterranean under Operation HUMMER SICKLE. At 0117Z on 30 May 2022, the screener observed one possible small UAP flying north to northeast and followed it as long as possible but could not get a positive ID. No UAP signatures were recorded. The report was approved for release to AARO and declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 8 October 2025.
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Alamogordo, New Mexico
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894 compiles sighting reports, media clippings, and investigative memos covering incidents from 1947 through 1968. Reported incidents include American Airlines pilot Capt. Peter Killian's account of three shining saucer-like objects trailing his DC6 for 45 minutes in February 1958, the Coast Guard cutter Sebago tracking an object on radar for 27 minutes in the Gulf of Mexico at an estimated 1,000 miles per hour, and grain buyer R. O. Schmidt's claim of encountering a cigar-shaped craft near Kearney, Nebraska, in November 1957.
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Alaska
On September 23, 1947, Lt. Gen. N. F. Twining of Air Materiel Command at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, transmitted a letter to Headquarters Army Air Forces stating that the flying disc phenomenon "is something real and not visionary or fictitious," describing observed objects as disc-shaped, flying in formations of three to nine at speeds above 300 knots. On December 30, 1947, Maj. Gen. L. C. Craigie directed AMC to establish Project SION, priority 2A, classified "restricted," to collect and distribute flying disc sighting data. Photographs submitted by Mary L.
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Alaska (referenced in hand-drawn map)
On July 9, 1949, D.M. Ladd reported to the FBI Director that Ernest Cuneo relayed a letter Walter Winchell received from Peter Camerlon Jones of Los Angeles, describing a silver metallic object shaped like a child's top observed in the mountains near Los Angeles in August 1947, which departed silently and knocked Jones to the ground. The FBI directed the Los Angeles field office to discreetly check Jones's background and interview him, but efforts to locate him were negative. On July 21, 1949, the FBI wrote to Cuneo suggesting the original letter may have been a prank.
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Albany, Georgia
On November 20, 1957, the FBI Legal Attache in Havana reported that Jose Maria Nieto and Carmelo Guzman had told the Havana newspaper Diario de la Marina they saw a flying disc in the shape of a man's hat hovering silently over Matahambre, Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba, before it disappeared at high speed toward the sea. An FBI memo dated November 12, 1957, from R. R. Roach to A. H. Belmont noted a surge in flying saucer and UFO reports across the United States following the Soviet release of Sputnik, which Air Force Intelligence told the Bureau were all resolved as nonauthentic.
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
FBI internal memos from 1950 document OSI concern over green fireballs and discs appearing near sensitive installations in New Mexico. Dr. Lincoln La Paz of the University of New Mexico concluded that roughly half the recorded phenomena were meteoric; the remainder he attributed to possible U.S. guided missiles or, if that interpretation was wrong, to guided missiles launched from the Ural region of the USSR.
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Alexandria, Louisiana
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894, Section 5, contains 1949 investigative records on flying saucers, including a letter Walter Winchell received from Peter Camerlon Jones of Los Angeles, who claimed to have seen a large silver object shaped like a child's top in the mountains near Los Angeles in August 1947. D. M. Ladd directed the Los Angeles field office to discreetly check Jones's background and interview him, but efforts to locate Jones were negative. The FBI wrote to Ernest Cuneo on July 21, 1949, suggesting the original letter may have been a prank.
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Anderson AFB, Guam
On January 28, 1985, the U.S. Embassy in Port Moresby cabled USCINCPAC in Honolulu reporting that Papua New Guinea's National Intelligence Organization had inquired about sightings of high-altitude, high-speed aircraft over PNG on the evening of January 24. The PNG NIO described "various reports of UAP," including fast-moving objects with lights, contrails, and noise, and placed particular credence in an Air Niugini pilot whose radar picked up aircraft flying south to north at high altitude and high speed over Angoram.
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Angoram, Papua New Guinea (approx. 4°S, 144°E)
On January 28, 1985, the U.S. Embassy in Port Moresby sent a cable to USCINCPAC in Honolulu reporting that Papua New Guinea's National Intelligence Organization had inquired about sightings of high-altitude, high-speed aircraft over PNG on the evening of January 24. The NIO described "various reports of unidentified aerial phenomena," including fast-moving objects with lights, contrails, and noise, and cited an Air Niugini pilot whose radar picked up aircraft flying south to north at high altitude and high speed over Angoram. The Embassy told the NIO it knew of no B-52 overflights and no U.S.
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Angoram, Papua New Guinea (vic 4 deg S, 144 deg E)
On January 28, 1985, the U.S. Embassy in Port Moresby cabled USCINCPAC in Honolulu reporting that Papua New Guinea's National Intelligence Organization had inquired about sightings of high-altitude, high-speed aircraft over PNG on the evening of January 24. The PNG NIO described "various reports of UAP," including fast-moving objects with lights, contrails, and noise, and placed particular credence in an Air Niugini pilot whose radar picked up aircraft flying south to north at high altitude and high speed over Angoram.
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APO 374 (XII TAC / First Tactical Air Force area)
SHAEF Air Staff file 37153 compiles Allied aircrew reports of night phenomena, called "foo fighters," submitted through XII Tactical Air Command and First Tactical Air Force between December 1944 and March 1945. Pilots of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron reported lights that blinked, changed colors, and flew formation with their aircraft; on 1 March 1945, IX TAC pilots observed and attacked an aluminum-colored cylinder about 12 feet long floating at 9,000 feet near grid F-5710, producing a red flame without smoke when partially deflated. Air Ministry A.D.I.
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Apollo 11 spacecraft cabin
During the Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing on July 31, 1969, Buzz Aldrin described three observations from the mission. Approximately one day from the Moon, the crew spotted an object of sizeable dimension that appeared L-shaped through the monocular and like a hollow cylinder through the sextant; ground control confirmed the S-IVB stage was 6,000 miles away, and the crew reached no conclusion about the object's size, range, or identity. Aldrin also reported recurring small flashes of light inside the darkened cabin, spaced roughly a minute apart, which he guessed were caused by some penetration of an object into the spacecraft.
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Approach road through gated access (location redacted)
This FBI FD-302 interview report, entered in October 2023, documents a September 2023 UAP sighting by multiple witnesses who were traveling by vehicle to a test site to collect LiDAR data. At approximately 9:00 AM, the lead witness — driving a GMC AT4 with a passenger — observed a bright white, stationary light on the horizon while heading east. The light then began moving to the right before disappearing after approximately ten seconds. It remained the same apparent size throughout. The witness estimated the object was ten to twenty miles away. No vehicle interference was reported. A passenger in the AT4 looked in the wrong direction and missed the light, partly due to their seating position. Upon arrival at the first test site, at least two other members of the group independently confirmed they had also seen the light. The witness speculated the light may have been a meteor approaching head-on and burning up in the atmosphere. The interview was conducted via FaceTime video by FBI Special Agents. All names, specific locations, file numbers, and drafting agent identities are redacted in the source document.
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Approximately four miles east of [SITE CODE NAME] in the mountains (redacted)
An FBI 302 interview, classified SECRET//NOFORN, documents a senior US intelligence official's first-hand account of a multi-hour aerial search at a US military facility in 2025. Personnel aboard a state partner helicopter observed a "super-hot" orb that came within ten feet of the aircraft before traveling an estimated 20 miles southeast at a speed the helicopter could not match. Over the following thirty minutes, crews observed a swarm of lights too many to count, and repeated formations of four to six oval orange orbs with white or yellow centers that flared up and down in sequence.
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Approximately midway between Everett (Mass) Fan Marker and Bedford Radio Beacon, approximately 10 miles NW of Boston, Massachusetts
On 4 August 1947 at 1600 EDT, Pan American Airways Captain Alpheus O. Powell and navigator Walter I. White separately sighted flying objects near Boston while piloting a Constellation from Gander, Newfoundland to La Guardia Field. Powell described his object as cylindrical, blunt at both ends, roughly the length of a P-40 fuselage, and bright orange; White described his as elliptical, deep gold, and approximately 15 feet long. Air Defense Command at Mitchel Field, New York interviewed both men and issued summaries of information on 12 and 15 September 1947.
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Approximately ten miles north of [SITE CODE NAME] (redacted)
An FBI 302 interview, classified SECRET//NOFORN, documents a senior US intelligence official's first-hand account of a multi-hour aerial search at a US military facility in 2025. Personnel aboard a state partner helicopter observed a "super-hot" orb that came within ten feet of the aircraft before traveling an estimated 20 miles southeast at a speed the helicopter could not match. Over the following thirty minutes, crews observed a swarm of lights too many to count, and repeated formations of four to six oval orange orbs with white or yellow centers that flared up and down in sequence.
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Arabian Gulf
MISREP 4871281 records that a U.S. military operator took off from OKAS on 1 October 2020 and, during a 21-hour NAVCENT support mission over the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, and Gulf of Oman, observed 1X UAP at 1829Z on 2 October 2020. The report references OBSERVATION LINE 1 for UAP details, but that section is not present in the released text. The document was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 16 March 2026 under MDR 26-0028 and approved for release to AARO.
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Arabian Sea
A U.S. Navy O-2 from Squadron 172 ATKS filed a Range Fouler Reporting Form reporting that on October 15, 2020, from 14:18:39Z to 14:19:52Z, while at 19,073 feet HAT over the Gulf of Aden, they tracked "a round, cold object in IR traveling 319 degrees at 20 mph." The object "made a few abrupt directional changes during the 1 minute contact," with the infrared sensor set to black-hot and the object appearing bright white. The form was approved for release to AARO by USCENTCOM on March 27, 2026, and publicly released May 8, 2026; witness identifying information was sanitized per SPEAR policy.
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Area 51
On April 30, 2001, Carol Rosin and Jon Cypher sent a letter to a NASA official identified only as "Dan," announcing a Friday meeting and promising to deliver a package at no cost to NASA. A follow-up note, written on Renaissance Hotel stationery, transmitted the French COMETA report "UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?," originally published in July 1999 by G.S. Presse Communication. Rosin noted in her letter that she had served as spokesperson for Wernher von Braun during the last years of his life and had founded the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space in 1983.
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Arizona
FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 collects press clippings, public letters, and internal memos concerning "flying disc" and "flying saucer" reports across the United States in July 1947. Reports include Rev. Joseph Brasky of Grafton, Wisconsin, who told the United Press he found an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and was holding it for the FBI. Civilian Fred R. Reibold wrote to the Bureau describing a flaming circular object that fell in the street in Cornola, Nebraska on July 1, 1947; Director Hoover forwarded that letter to the War Department's Director of Intelligence on August 5, 1947.
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Ascension Parish, Township 10 South, Range 4 East, approximately 50 miles from New Orleans, Louisiana
Headquarters Air Material Command, Dayton, Ohio transmitted Incident Summary Sheets 173 through 233 on March 9, 1949, covering sightings from September 1945 through October 1948. Observers in Louisiana, New Mexico, and California reported objects described variously as aluminum-colored and metallic, cone-shaped and encased in flame, perfectly circular and flat, bright silvery and egg-shaped, and amoeba-like with oscillating appendages. The summary sheets record no determination of what the objects were.
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Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
On November 5, 2004, the U.S. Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission and USAID Director met with the Board of the Union of UFOlogists of Turkmenabat in Lebap Welayet, Turkmenistan. UOU President Ovezberdy Muradov stated that Turkmen military and government authorities had consulted him about mysterious occurrences in Turkmen airspace, but said there had been no confirmed sightings of UFOs in Turkmenistan. The cable, transmitted November 12, 2004 and signed by Jacobson, describes the UOU as a USAID grant recipient and the first independent NGO registered in post-Soviet Turkmenistan.
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Asteroid Belt
On July 18, 1963, Maxwell W. Hunter II of the National Aeronautics and Space Council sent a memorandum to Robert F. Packard at the State Department's Office of International Scientific Affairs, titled "Thoughts on the Space Alien Race Question." The memo outlines three types of potential alien contact scenarios and argues that diplomatic policy would need to differ for each, ranging from chemical-propulsion Martians to a faster-than-light race, for which Hunter writes "our policy had better be to negotiate fast.
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Avonwood, Alabama
On August 4, 1947, Pan American Airways Captain Alpheus O. Powell and navigator Walter I. White separately sighted flying objects near Boston while piloting a Constellation from Gander, Newfoundland to La Guardia Field. Powell described a cylindrical, orange object about the length of a P-40 fuselage travelling at roughly 150 mph; White described a deep gold, elliptical object about 15 feet long travelling easterly at roughly 175 mph. Air Defense Command at Mitchel Field interviewed both men and forwarded the reports to Army Air Forces headquarters.
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Ayn al Asad Airbase (AAAB)
On September 20, 2024, a U.S. AFSOC crew conducting a weapons calibration at Ayn al Asad Airbase's ROZ RAINDROP, Iraq, observed an unidentified object "fly" through their MX-20 and MX-25 IR sensors at a high rate of speed after releasing an AGM-176 missile. The WSO and CSO reported the UAP created an IR lens flare on both sensors, indicating a significant heat source. The report notes it is unknown whether an object detached from the primary UAP before it left the sensor field of view, and no additional aircraft were reported in the airspace.
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Ayn al Asad ROZ RAINDROP
On September 20, 2024, a U.S. AFSOC crew conducting a weapons calibration at Ayn al Asad Airbase's ROZ RAINDROP, Iraq, observed an unidentified object "fly" through their MX-20 and MX-25 IR sensors at a high rate of speed after releasing an AGM-176 missile. The WSO and CSO reported the UAP created an IR lens flare on both sensors, indicating a significant heat source. The report notes it is unknown whether an object detached from the primary UAP before it left the sensor field of view, and no additional aircraft were reported in the airspace.
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Baghdad, Iraq
A U.S. Air Force ISR asset from the 482nd Attack Squadron, operating under Operation Inherent Resolve, observed one "possible UAP/UAV flying west to east" near grid 38SMB42 in the Baghdad, Iraq vicinity at 1620Z on 1 December 2022. The observer did not follow the UAP and continued the mission as tasked; no further events were observed. No UAP signatures were detected and no effects on persons were reported. The MISREP was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 8 October 2025, and approved for release to AARO.
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Bakersfield, California
Headquarters Eleventh Air Force forwarded a report to USAF Headquarters and Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in May and June 1948 documenting a flying disc sighting at Hobson, Ohio on the night of 8 May 1948. The report, sourced from FBI Special Agent D.K. Brown in Cleveland, described a round, phosphorescent object appearing nine inches in diameter from ground level, traveling at heading 90 degrees at an altitude of 6 to 8 miles, witnessed by New York Central System employees and a patrolman.
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Baku, USSR
Air Intelligence Information Report IR 193-55, dated 14 October 1955 and prepared by Lt. Col. Thomas S. Ryan of the U.S. Air Attache office in Prague, documents an eyewitness account of two round, circular unconventional aircraft resembling flying saucers seen at 1910 hours on 1 October 1955 between Atjaty and Adzhijabul in the Trans-Caucasus region of the USSR. Senator Richard Russell, Lt. Col. E.U. Hathaway, and Mr. Ruben Efron observed the disc aircraft ascending almost vertically one minute apart, with outer surfaces revolving slowly to the right, two stationary lights near the top, and sparks or flame from the bottom.
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Bassel Al Assad International Airfield (36SYE671.4a211.4a)
A U.S. Air Force ISR asset took off from Sigonella Airbase on 29 May 2022 and conducted IMINT over the Eastern Mediterranean under Operation HUMMER SICKLE. At 0117Z on 30 May 2022, the screener observed one possible small UAP flying north to northeast and followed it as long as possible but could not get a positive ID. No UAP signatures were recorded. The report was approved for release to AARO and declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 8 October 2025.
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Bearing/range: B/E ZIM 248/17 (relative to bullseye in use)
On October 27, 2020, at 01:12:21 Zulu, an O-3 pilot from 77 EFS filed a Range Fouler Debrief reporting two contacts at 26,000 feet, described as balloon-shaped, metallic, reflective, and visually tallied as "2x red blinking strobes." The target pod showed two IR significant contacts, with one range fouler circling the other, and noise jamming was received, indicated by two chevrons. The operator could not close within 16.9 NM, and "in 1/30th of a second, they were gone."
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Bedford, Massachusetts
In July, August, and September 1949, and again in January 1950, military and civilian witnesses filed reports under Flight Service Regulation 200-4 describing flying objects over Kansas, Washington, Oregon, Ohio, South Carolina, and New York. Objects were described variously as dish-shaped, circular, and cylindrical, with reported speeds exceeding that of a B-29 and, in one case, an orange and white flame exhaust more than twice the length of the object. Reports were submitted by Lowry, Olmsted, McChord, Maxwell, and Wright-Patterson Flight Service Centers to the Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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Bedford, Massachusetts (15 miles NW of Boston)
On August 4, 1947, Pan American Airways Captain Alpheus O. Powell and navigator Walter I. White separately sighted flying objects near Boston while piloting a Constellation from Gander, Newfoundland to La Guardia Field. Powell described a cylindrical, orange object about the length of a P-40 fuselage travelling at roughly 150 mph; White described a deep gold, elliptical object about 15 feet long travelling easterly at roughly 175 mph. Air Defense Command at Mitchel Field interviewed both men and forwarded the reports to Army Air Forces headquarters.
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Bendix, New Jersey
On July 9, 1947, Raymond Edward Lane, a Dow Chemical Company employee, and his wife Laura reported hearing a puff noise and seeing a ball of white about the size of a bushel basket burning a foot off the ground in a Dow-owned field in Midland, Michigan. Lane brought recovered material to the Dow Physics Laboratory the next day; laboratory examination found ordinary sand, a small silver nugget, melted sand droplets giving off ammonia odor, and a grayish radioactive material. The FBI Detroit Division reported the incident to the Director on August 5, 1947, and recommended forwarding the material to the War Department.
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Berlin, Germany
In a November 7, 1957 interview conducted by SA Cassius Rathbun, Wladyslaw Krasuski of 5457 Joseph Campau, Detroit, described witnessing a circular vehicle rise vertically from a tarpaulin-enclosed compound near Gut Alt Golssen, approximately 30 miles east of Berlin, circa 1944, while held there as a Polish prisoner of war. The vehicle was circular, 75 to 100 yards in diameter and about 14 feet high, with a rapidly moving middle section producing a continuous blur similar to an aeroplane propeller.
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Bessemer, Alabama
On August 4, 1947, Pan American Airways Captain Alpheus O. Powell and navigator Walter I. White separately sighted flying objects near Boston while piloting a Constellation from Gander, Newfoundland to La Guardia Field. Powell described a cylindrical, orange object about the length of a P-40 fuselage travelling at roughly 150 mph; White described a deep gold, elliptical object about 15 feet long travelling easterly at roughly 175 mph. Air Defense Command at Mitchel Field interviewed both men and forwarded the reports to Army Air Forces headquarters.
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Bethel Airport, Alaska
On September 11, 1947, Portland Police Department officers in Districts 18 and 14, including Chief of Police Leon V. Jenkins, reported sighting a round silver object over Portland, Oregon between 5:21 and 5:27 PM. In July 1947, pilot Jack Peck and co-pilot Vince Daly of the Al Jones Flying Company observed a flying wing object near Bethel Airport, Alaska, describing it as approximately the size of a C-54 without any fuselage, flying at 1,000 feet at an estimated 300 miles per hour with no propeller, jet exhaust, or vapor trails.
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Bethel, Alaska
On September 11, 1947, Portland Police Department officers in Districts 18 and 14, including Chief of Police Leon V. Jenkins, reported sighting a round silver object over Portland, Oregon between 5:21 and 5:27 PM. In July 1947, pilot Jack Peck and co-pilot Vince Daly of the Al Jones Flying Company observed a flying wing object near Bethel Airport, Alaska, describing it as approximately the size of a C-54 without any fuselage, flying at 1,000 feet at an estimated 300 miles per hour with no propeller, jet exhaust, or vapor trails.
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Between Atjaty and Adzhijabul, USSR
Air Intelligence Information Report IR 193-55, dated 14 October 1955 and prepared by Lt. Col. Thomas S. Ryan of the U.S. Air Attache office in Prague, documents an eyewitness account of two round, circular unconventional aircraft resembling flying saucers seen at 1910 hours on 1 October 1955 between Atjaty and Adzhijabul in the Trans-Caucasus region of the USSR. Senator Richard Russell, Lt. Col. E.U. Hathaway, and Mr. Ruben Efron observed the disc aircraft ascending almost vertically one minute apart, with outer surfaces revolving slowly to the right, two stationary lights near the top, and sparks or flame from the bottom.
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Bingham, New Mexico
On July 24, 1949, a fireball was reported over the general neighborhood of Socorro, New Mexico at 8:26 p.m. Researchers W. D. Crozier and Ben K. Seely of the New Mexico School of Mines then made systematic airborne particle collections at Socorro from July 25 through August 1, finding copper-bearing opaque particles and three apparently perfect spherical cobalt-indication particles twelve microns in diameter in the July 26 afternoon collection.
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Birmingham Army Air Field, Birmingham, Alabama
On 4 August 1947 at 1600 EDT, Pan American Airways Captain Alpheus O. Powell and navigator Walter I. White separately sighted flying objects near Boston while piloting a Constellation from Gander, Newfoundland to La Guardia Field. Powell described his object as cylindrical, blunt at both ends, roughly the length of a P-40 fuselage, and bright orange; White described his as elliptical, deep gold, and approximately 15 feet long. Air Defense Command at Mitchel Field, New York interviewed both men and issued summaries of information on 12 and 15 September 1947.
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Birmingham, Alabama
On 4 August 1947 at 1600 EDT, Pan American Airways Captain Alpheus O. Powell and navigator Walter I. White separately sighted flying objects near Boston while piloting a Constellation from Gander, Newfoundland to La Guardia Field. Powell described his object as cylindrical, blunt at both ends, roughly the length of a P-40 fuselage, and bright orange; White described his as elliptical, deep gold, and approximately 15 feet long. Air Defense Command at Mitchel Field, New York interviewed both men and issued summaries of information on 12 and 15 September 1947.
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Blarney Castle Inn Annex, Los Angeles
On October 3, 1966, the FBI Director sent a memo to the SAC in Los Angeles regarding Issue No. 24 of "Flying Saucers International," the official journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc. The Philadelphia Division had received the July 1966 issue on September 19, 1966, from Jarvis H. Cooper, an IRS employee at 401 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, who flagged pages 2 and 3 as expounding the Communist Party line.
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Blarney Castle Inn Annex, Los Angeles, California
Section 10 of FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 contains the program for the AFSCA 3rd National Flying Saucer Convention, held July 8-10, 1966, at the Centennial Coliseum in Reno, Nevada, along with a citizen letter and the Bureau's reply. On August 31, 1966, Florence C. Dow of Goffstown, New Hampshire, wrote to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover stating that her first issue of the AFSCA journal "Flying Saucers International" struck her as Communist-backed.
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BMRS A-2
The 30th Space Wing Office of History compiled a launch summary covering all launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base from 1958 through 2000. The document defines launch vehicle types, test categories, and program abbreviations, and lists military and contractor recipients including Aerospace Corporation, Boeing Defense and Space Group, ITT Federal Services Corporation, and TRW. The report was dated February 3, 2000, and released by the Department of War.
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BMRS A-3
The 30th Space Wing Office of History compiled a launch summary covering all launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base from 1958 through 2000. The document defines launch vehicle types, test categories, and program abbreviations, and lists military and contractor recipients including Aerospace Corporation, Boeing Defense and Space Group, ITT Federal Services Corporation, and TRW. The report was dated February 3, 2000, and released by the Department of War.
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Boise, Idaho
On 18 February 1948 at 5:01 P.M., an aerial explosion occurred over Norcatur, Kansas, logged as Incident 101 by the Department of War. Farmer Leland Sammons reported a funnel-shaped object roughly four feet long, with a pipe at the rear and fire belching from it, hovering near his farmhouse before departing northwest and exploding in a cloud of smoke. Beginning 24 April 1948, meteorite fragments were recovered, including a 109-pound achondrite piece found two feet underground in a clover field. Civilian Norman Garrett Markham wrote to the Office of the Chief of Staff speculating the object may have been a rocket or space-craft.
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Bolling Field, Washington, D.C.
On July 9, 1947, Raymond Edward Lane, a Dow Chemical Company employee, and his wife Laura reported hearing a puff noise and seeing a ball of white about the size of a bushel basket burning a foot off the ground in a Dow-owned field in Midland, Michigan. Lane brought recovered material to the Dow Physics Laboratory the next day; laboratory examination found ordinary sand, a small silver nugget, melted sand droplets giving off ammonia odor, and a grayish radioactive material. The FBI Detroit Division reported the incident to the Director on August 5, 1947, and recommended forwarding the material to the War Department.
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Boston, Massachusetts
FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 collects press clippings, public letters, and internal memos concerning "flying disc" and "flying saucer" reports across the United States in July 1947. Reports include Rev. Joseph Brasky of Grafton, Wisconsin, who told the United Press he found an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and was holding it for the FBI. Civilian Fred R. Reibold wrote to the Bureau describing a flaming circular object that fell in the street in Cornola, Nebraska on July 1, 1947; Director Hoover forwarded that letter to the War Department's Director of Intelligence on August 5, 1947.
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Box Canyon, New Mexico
FBI Special Agent D. Arthur Byrnes, Jr. documented a report from Officer Lonnie Zamora of the Socorro Police Department concerning an unknown object that "landed and has taken off" about one mile southwest of Socorro, New Mexico, on April 24, 1964. Zamora described an aluminum-white, egg-shaped object on or near the ground, two persons in white coveralls nearby, a blue-orange flame and loud roar during ascent, and a red insignia resembling the letter "A" on the object's surface.
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Bradford, Pennsylvania
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894 compiles sighting reports, media clippings, and investigative memos covering incidents from 1947 through 1968. Reported incidents include American Airlines pilot Capt. Peter Killian's account of three shining saucer-like objects trailing his DC6 for 45 minutes in February 1958, the Coast Guard cutter Sebago tracking an object on radar for 27 minutes in the Gulf of Mexico at an estimated 1,000 miles per hour, and grain buyer R. O. Schmidt's claim of encountering a cigar-shaped craft near Kearney, Nebraska, in November 1957.
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Brighton, Alabama
On August 4, 1947, Pan American Airways Captain Alpheus O. Powell and navigator Walter I. White separately sighted flying objects near Boston while piloting a Constellation from Gander, Newfoundland to La Guardia Field. Powell described a cylindrical, orange object about the length of a P-40 fuselage travelling at roughly 150 mph; White described a deep gold, elliptical object about 15 feet long travelling easterly at roughly 175 mph. Air Defense Command at Mitchel Field interviewed both men and forwarded the reports to Army Air Forces headquarters.
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Brooklyn, New York
On August 9, 1952, the FBI Savannah field office sent an urgent teletype to Director Hoover reporting that two employees of E. I. Du Pont Company saw a blue light with an orange fringe shaped like a saucer fly over the Four Hundred Area of the Savannah River Plant AEC facility at approximately 9:30 PM on August 8. Between August 11 and August 20, 1952, Hoover forwarded letters from multiple citizens about flying saucers and flying disks to the Director of Special Investigations, The Inspector General, Department of the Air Force.
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Buck's Mountain View Ranch, Route 1, Box 236, Mountain View, Missouri
Section 10 of FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 contains the program for the AFSCA 3rd National Flying Saucer Convention, held July 8-10, 1966, at the Centennial Coliseum in Reno, Nevada, along with a citizen letter and the Bureau's reply. On August 31, 1966, Florence C. Dow of Goffstown, New Hampshire, wrote to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover stating that her first issue of the AFSCA journal "Flying Saucers International" struck her as Communist-backed.
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Buena Vista Lake, California
Headquarters Eleventh Air Force forwarded a report to USAF Headquarters and Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in May and June 1948 documenting a flying disc sighting at Hobson, Ohio on the night of 8 May 1948. The report, sourced from FBI Special Agent D.K. Brown in Cleveland, described a round, phosphorescent object appearing nine inches in diameter from ground level, traveling at heading 90 degrees at an altitude of 6 to 8 miles, witnessed by New York Central System employees and a patrolman.
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Bushehr Port, IVO 39RVM80
A U.S. Air Force ISR aircraft from the 482nd Attack Squadron reported three UAP over the Arabian Gulf on July 16, 2020, at 1830Z, 1920Z, and 2345Z during a 20.3-hour mission supporting NAVCENT. The first UAP was observed via Full Motion Video at grid 39RVM5, with the aircraft at FL 200, 98 KIAS, heading 152M; weather was not a factor. The GENTEXT context field for the first observation is partially redacted. The report was declassified by USCENTCOM Chief of Staff MG Richard A. Harrison on March 16, 2026, and approved for release to AARO.
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Busherh IRIN Boatyard
MISREP 4871281 records that a U.S. military operator took off from OKAS on 1 October 2020 and, during a 21-hour NAVCENT support mission over the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, and Gulf of Oman, observed 1X UAP at 1829Z on 2 October 2020. The report references OBSERVATION LINE 1 for UAP details, but that section is not present in the released text. The document was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 16 March 2026 under MDR 26-0028 and approved for release to AARO.
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California
FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 collects press clippings, public letters, and internal memos concerning "flying disc" and "flying saucer" reports across the United States in July 1947. Reports include Rev. Joseph Brasky of Grafton, Wisconsin, who told the United Press he found an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and was holding it for the FBI. Civilian Fred R. Reibold wrote to the Bureau describing a flaming circular object that fell in the street in Cornola, Nebraska on July 1, 1947; Director Hoover forwarded that letter to the War Department's Director of Intelligence on August 5, 1947.
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Campbell Air Force Base, Camp Campbell, Kentucky
On July 24, 1949, a fireball was reported over the general neighborhood of Socorro, New Mexico at 8:26 p.m. Researchers W. D. Crozier and Ben K. Seely of the New Mexico School of Mines then made systematic airborne particle collections at Socorro from July 25 through August 1, finding copper-bearing opaque particles and three apparently perfect spherical cobalt-indication particles twelve microns in diameter in the July 26 afternoon collection.
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Canberra, Australia
On January 28, 1985, the U.S. Embassy in Port Moresby sent a cable to USCINCPAC in Honolulu reporting that Papua New Guinea's National Intelligence Organization had inquired about sightings of high-altitude, high-speed aircraft over PNG on the evening of January 24. The NIO described "various reports of unidentified aerial phenomena," including fast-moving objects with lights, contrails, and noise, and cited an Air Niugini pilot whose radar picked up aircraft flying south to north at high altitude and high speed over Angoram. The Embassy told the NIO it knew of no B-52 overflights and no U.S.
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Cape Mendocino, California
On 18 February 1948 at 5:01 P.M., an aerial explosion occurred over Norcatur, Kansas, logged as Incident 101 by the Department of War. Farmer Leland Sammons reported a funnel-shaped object roughly four feet long, with a pipe at the rear and fire belching from it, hovering near his farmhouse before departing northwest and exploding in a cloud of smoke. Beginning 24 April 1948, meteorite fragments were recovered, including a 109-pound achondrite piece found two feet underground in a clover field. Civilian Norman Garrett Markham wrote to the Office of the Chief of Staff speculating the object may have been a rocket or space-craft.
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Castro's Ranch, 4 miles due east of San Pablo, California; 4.1 miles south of Pinole, California
Headquarters Air Material Command, Dayton, Ohio transmitted Incident Summary Sheets 173 through 233 on March 9, 1949, covering sightings from September 1945 through October 1948. Observers in Louisiana, New Mexico, and California reported objects described variously as aluminum-colored and metallic, cone-shaped and encased in flame, perfectly circular and flat, bright silvery and egg-shaped, and amoeba-like with oscillating appendages. The summary sheets record no determination of what the objects were.
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Centennial Coliseum, 4590 S. Virginia St., Reno, Nevada
Section 10 of FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 contains the program for the AFSCA 3rd National Flying Saucer Convention, held July 8-10, 1966, at the Centennial Coliseum in Reno, Nevada, along with a citizen letter and the Bureau's reply. On August 31, 1966, Florence C. Dow of Goffstown, New Hampshire, wrote to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover stating that her first issue of the AFSCA journal "Flying Saucers International" struck her as Communist-backed.
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Central Ave., Los Alamos, NM
A May 20, 1986 newsletter from the Pajarito Astronomers of Los Alamos, New Mexico announces a club meeting scheduled for May 29, 1986, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ranch Room at Fuller Lodge. Guest speaker Dr. John Warren of AT-6 was to address the topic "Why Should a Scientist be Concerned about UFO's?" The newsletter's closing signature block is redacted, with two lines blacked out following "Sincerely."
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Central Park Airport area, Birmingham, Alabama
On August 4, 1947, Pan American Airways Captain Alpheus O. Powell and navigator Walter I. White separately sighted flying objects near Boston while piloting a Constellation from Gander, Newfoundland to La Guardia Field. Powell described a cylindrical, orange object about the length of a P-40 fuselage travelling at roughly 150 mph; White described a deep gold, elliptical object about 15 feet long travelling easterly at roughly 175 mph. Air Defense Command at Mitchel Field interviewed both men and forwarded the reports to Army Air Forces headquarters.
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Chicago, Illinois
FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 collects press clippings, public letters, and internal memos concerning "flying disc" and "flying saucer" reports across the United States in July 1947. Reports include Rev. Joseph Brasky of Grafton, Wisconsin, who told the United Press he found an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and was holding it for the FBI. Civilian Fred R. Reibold wrote to the Bureau describing a flaming circular object that fell in the street in Cornola, Nebraska on July 1, 1947; Director Hoover forwarded that letter to the War Department's Director of Intelligence on August 5, 1947.
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Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City reported in a September 16, 2023 cable that Mexican journalist Jaime Maussan presented alleged non-human remains to the Mexican Congress, which pilot witness Graves called an "unsubstantiated stunt" that took away from pilots' UAP experiences. The same cable reported that criminals killed two Guerrero prosecutors within one week: FGR state delegate Fernando Garcia Fernandez, shot from two vehicles in Chilpancingo on September 12, and FGE regional prosecutor Victor Manuel Salas Cuadras, kidnapped and found with approximately 50 gunshot wounds in Coyuca de Catalan on September 9.
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Cincinnati, Ohio
In July and August 1954, the FBI Cincinnati Field Office and Washington Field Office documented reports from civilian informant Thomas Eickhoff concerning flying saucer lecturers Truman Bethurum and George Hunt Williamson, and from Navy Security Officer John Hutson concerning Frances Swan's claimed thought transmission contact with beings designated "AFFA" and "PONNAR," commanders of ships M-4 and L-11. Eickhoff reported attending a luncheon at the Terrace Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati on June 7, 1954, where Bethurum and Williamson stated their story was factual and consented to government scrutiny.
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Cislunar space
During the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans reported "very bright particles or fragments or something" drifting past the spacecraft during a maneuver at Day 00, 03:34:10. Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt described the view as looking "like the Fourth of July," while Mission Commander Eugene Cernan estimated the fragments as "flat, flakelike particles," some possibly 6 inches across and twinkling. Evans speculated the fragments might be ice chunks or paint from the S-IVB stage but called that "a wild guess."
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Clarksburg News Building
Gray Barker's 1956 book, published by University Books, Inc. of New York, claims that leading flying saucer researchers who challenged the government's denial of extraterrestrial origins were silenced one by one after visits from three men in dark suits. Barker, a film booking agent in Clarksburg, West Virginia, began investigating flying saucers in 1952 after one allegedly landed near his home and he interviewed eyewitnesses. The FBI file, identifier 62-HQ-83894, consists of the book's dust jacket copy and was declassified under the FBI Automatic Declassification Guide issued May 24, 2007.
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Clarksburg News Building, Clarksburg, West Virginia
This FBI Headquarters file (case 62-HQ-83894, Serial 403) consists of a retained copy of the dust jacket and cover pages of Gray Barker's book "They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers," published by University Books, Inc., of New York. The book, priced at $3.50, was authored by Gray Barker, a Clarksburg, West Virginia, businessman who operated a film booking and buying agency at the Clarksburg News Building. Barker became interested in flying saucers in 1952 after investigating an alleged landing near his West Virginia home, finding eyewitnesses he considered credible. Over subsequent years of research and contact with leading civilian UFO investigators, Barker reported that prominent saucer researchers were being systematically silenced — visited by "three men in dark suits" who apparently discouraged further public discussion. The book is presented as a behind-the-scenes chronicle of civilian saucer research. H. G. Rhawn, publisher and owner of the Clarksburg News, endorsed the seriousness of Barker's inquiry without personally vouching for flying saucer reality. Barker also published a periodical called The Saucerian and contributed to educational and motion picture technical journals. The record was declassified under the FBI Automatic Declassification Guide issued May 24, 2007. The file is administrative in character — it preserves the physical book item rather than recording an original FBI investigation or sighting — but its existence within FBI Central Records documents the Bureau's interest in civilian UFO research literature and the "Men in Black" phenomenon as early as the mid-1950s.
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Clarksburg, West Virginia
Serial 403 of FBI case 62-HQ-83894 consists of the dust jacket and promotional text from Gray Barker's 1956 book "They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers," published by University Books, Inc. of New York. The jacket text states that flying saucer researchers who challenged government denial were silenced after visits from "three men in dark suits," and that Barker began his research in 1952 after a flying saucer allegedly landed near his home in Clarksburg, West Virginia. Barker is identified as a Clarksburg businessman who also published a flying saucer periodical called The Saucerian.
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Cleveland, Ohio
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894 compiles sighting reports, media clippings, and investigative memos covering incidents from 1947 through 1968. Reported incidents include American Airlines pilot Capt. Peter Killian's account of three shining saucer-like objects trailing his DC6 for 45 minutes in February 1958, the Coast Guard cutter Sebago tracking an object on radar for 27 minutes in the Gulf of Mexico at an estimated 1,000 miles per hour, and grain buyer R. O. Schmidt's claim of encountering a cigar-shaped craft near Kearney, Nebraska, in November 1957.
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Coble Creek vicinity, Kelso, Washington (B-25 crash site, 46°8'N, 122°55'W)
On August 25, 1947, Lt. Col. Donald L. Springer of Headquarters Fourth Air Force, A-2 Intelligence, Hamilton Field, forwarded to the FBI SAC in San Francisco a letter from F. M. Johnson, a prospector who wrote from Portland, Oregon on August 20, 1947, reporting that he had observed flying discs in the Ft. Adams district on June 24, 1947, the same date as the Kenneth Arnold sighting. Johnson described the objects as round, about 30 feet in diameter, tapering to a point at the head end, with a bright top surface, no engine noise, and a tail object shifting side to side like a big magnet.
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Coble Creek vicinity, Washington
On August 25, 1947, Lt. Col. Donald L. Springer of Fourth Air Force A-2 Intelligence at Hamilton Field forwarded a letter from F. M. Johnson, a Portland, Oregon prospector, to the FBI SAC in San Francisco. Johnson wrote that on June 24, 1947, in the Ft. Adams district, he observed round flying objects approximately 30 feet in diameter, traveling at high speed and making no noise, last seen banking on edge into a cloud. Springer noted the similarity to Kenneth Arnold's report while raising the possibility that Johnson had read about Arnold in the newspapers.
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Cocoa Beach, FL 32931
Research Triangle Institute prepared this final report for the Air Force's 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg AFB and 45th Space Wing at Patrick AFB, completed September 10, 1996, under Contract No. FO4703-91-C-0112. The report describes how "Mode-5 failure responses," meaning significant vehicle deviations from the intended flight line, are modeled in RTI's risk-analysis program DAMP, using two shaping constants calibrated by trial and error against simulated malfunctions for vehicles including Atlas IIAS, Delta-GEM, Titan IV, and LLV1.
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Cocoa Beach, Florida 32931
Research Triangle Institute prepared this final report, dated September 10, 1996, for the Department of the Air Force 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg AFB and 45th Space Wing at Patrick AFB. The report describes how RTI's risk-analysis program DAMP models "Mode-5 failure responses," defined as vehicle deviations significantly away from the intended flight line, using an impact density function with two shaping constants calibrated by trial and error against simulated malfunctions. Authors James A. Ward, Jr. and Robert M.
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Colorado
FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 collects press clippings, public letters, and internal memos concerning "flying disc" and "flying saucer" reports across the United States in July 1947. Reports include Rev. Joseph Brasky of Grafton, Wisconsin, who told the United Press he found an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and was holding it for the FBI. Civilian Fred R. Reibold wrote to the Bureau describing a flaming circular object that fell in the street in Cornola, Nebraska on July 1, 1947; Director Hoover forwarded that letter to the War Department's Director of Intelligence on August 5, 1947.
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Colorado Springs, Colorado
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894 compiles sighting reports, media clippings, and investigative memos covering incidents from 1947 through 1968. Reported incidents include American Airlines pilot Capt. Peter Killian's account of three shining saucer-like objects trailing his DC6 for 45 minutes in February 1958, the Coast Guard cutter Sebago tracking an object on radar for 27 minutes in the Gulf of Mexico at an estimated 1,000 miles per hour, and grain buyer R. O. Schmidt's claim of encountering a cigar-shaped craft near Kearney, Nebraska, in November 1957.
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Columbus, Ohio
In July, August, and September 1949, and again in January 1950, military and civilian witnesses filed reports under Flight Service Regulation 200-4 describing flying objects over Kansas, Washington, Oregon, Ohio, South Carolina, and New York. Objects were described variously as dish-shaped, circular, and cylindrical, with reported speeds exceeding that of a B-29 and, in one case, an orange and white flame exhaust more than twice the length of the object. Reports were submitted by Lowry, Olmsted, McChord, Maxwell, and Wright-Patterson Flight Service Centers to the Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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Coma cluster
At the Apollo 17 Crew Debriefing for Science on January 8, 1973, at Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Dick Henry, co-investigator on the ultraviolet experiment, reported that the UV spectrum observed at high galactic latitudes resembled the spectrum of a hot star, but no hot stars were within the field of view.
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Command Module Yankee Clipper
In November 1969, during Apollo 12's fifth mission day, Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean reported an "all s flash" pulsing every second on both the address and information registers of the AGS, at about one-fifth the brilliance of the normal numbers. Houston attributed the phenomenon to EMI, citing similar observations during ground testing of spacecraft at Bethpage. On the sixth day, Command Module Pilot Dick Gordon reported that the Lunar Module Intrepid's blinking tracking light had stopped blinking and he could not acquire Intrepid in the sextant.
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Contact altitude: 26,000 ft
On October 27, 2020, at 01:12:21 Zulu, an O-3 pilot from 77 EFS filed a Range Fouler Debrief reporting two contacts at 26,000 feet, described as balloon-shaped, metallic, reflective, and visually tallied as "2x red blinking strobes." The target pod showed two IR significant contacts, with one range fouler circling the other, and noise jamming was received, indicated by two chevrons. The operator could not close within 16.9 NM, and "in 1/30th of a second, they were gone."
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Contact Latitude 28°31'4" N, Longitude 49°52'4" E
On the night of 14 May 2020 at 20:40:00 Zulu, a U.S. Navy crew performing an ISR tasking over the Persian Gulf reported that "a solid white object flew through the FOV" and appeared "to make erratic moments above the water." The crew temporarily lost then re-acquired the object, obtained 4x zoom, and lost it again due to poor track placement. All witness identifying information was removed by SPEAR. The document was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, and approved for release to AARO on 26 January 2026.
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Contact Working Area (b)(1)1.1a (redacted)
A U.S. Navy O-2 pilot assigned to 482 ATKS filed a Range Fouler Debrief Form reporting that on August 31, 2020, during a dusk ISR mission over the Arabian Gulf, an object flew through the sensor screen and was then surpassed by a second object of the same size and shape but at much higher speed. At one point three objects were visible simultaneously on the screen, moving amongst each other, at a constant altitude of 18,000 feet on a heading of 150 degrees at 230 knots. The form was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison and approved for release to AARO on March 16, 2026.
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Costa Rica
On April 30, 2001, Carol Rosin and Jon Cypher sent a letter to a NASA official identified only as "Dan," announcing a Friday meeting and promising to deliver a package at no cost to NASA. A follow-up note, written on Renaissance Hotel stationery, transmitted the French COMETA report "UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?," originally published in July 1999 by G.S. Presse Communication. Rosin noted in her letter that she had served as spokesperson for Wernher von Braun during the last years of his life and had founded the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space in 1983.
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Coyuca de Catalan, Guerrero, Mexico
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City reported in a September 16, 2023 cable that Mexican journalist Jaime Maussan presented alleged non-human remains to the Mexican Congress, which pilot witness Graves called an "unsubstantiated stunt" that took away from pilots' UAP experiences. The same cable reported that criminals killed two Guerrero prosecutors within one week: FGR state delegate Fernando Garcia Fernandez, shot from two vehicles in Chilpancingo on September 12, and FGE regional prosecutor Victor Manuel Salas Cuadras, kidnapped and found with approximately 50 gunshot wounds in Coyuca de Catalan on September 9.
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Cuauhtemoc, Mexico City, Mexico
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City reported in a September 16, 2023 cable that Mexican journalist Jaime Maussan presented alleged non-human remains to the Mexican Congress, which pilot witness Graves called an "unsubstantiated stunt" that took away from pilots' UAP experiences. The same cable reported that criminals killed two Guerrero prosecutors within one week: FGR state delegate Fernando Garcia Fernandez, shot from two vehicles in Chilpancingo on September 12, and FGE regional prosecutor Victor Manuel Salas Cuadras, kidnapped and found with approximately 50 gunshot wounds in Coyuca de Catalan on September 9.
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Dayr Az Zar Parking Airfield (37SFV07[redacted]05[redacted])
A U.S. Air Force operator assigned to the 89th Attack Squadron observed a UAP over Syria at 02:39Z on 31 July 2022, during an armed reconnaissance mission flown from Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, Jordan. The GENTEXT section of the MISREP states the UAP occurred in KP 9 near grid 37SFU27, moved from north to south, and lasted less than one minute. The observing aircraft was at 19,359 feet and 116 knots; no UAP signatures were detected. Physical description fields are redacted under FOIA Exemption (b)(6).
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Dayton, Ohio (HQ Air Material Command)
Headquarters Air Material Command, Dayton, Ohio transmitted Incident Summary Sheets 173 through 233 on March 9, 1949, covering sightings from September 1945 through October 1948. Observers in Louisiana, New Mexico, and California reported objects described variously as aluminum-colored and metallic, cone-shaped and encased in flame, perfectly circular and flat, bright silvery and egg-shaped, and amoeba-like with oscillating appendages. The summary sheets record no determination of what the objects were.
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Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Michigan
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894 compiles sighting reports, media clippings, and investigative memos covering incidents from 1947 through 1968. Reported incidents include American Airlines pilot Capt. Peter Killian's account of three shining saucer-like objects trailing his DC6 for 45 minutes in February 1958, the Coast Guard cutter Sebago tracking an object on radar for 27 minutes in the Gulf of Mexico at an estimated 1,000 miles per hour, and grain buyer R. O. Schmidt's claim of encountering a cigar-shaped craft near Kearney, Nebraska, in November 1957.
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Detroit, Michigan
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894 compiles sighting reports, media clippings, and investigative memos covering incidents from 1947 through 1968. Reported incidents include American Airlines pilot Capt. Peter Killian's account of three shining saucer-like objects trailing his DC6 for 45 minutes in February 1958, the Coast Guard cutter Sebago tracking an object on radar for 27 minutes in the Gulf of Mexico at an estimated 1,000 miles per hour, and grain buyer R. O. Schmidt's claim of encountering a cigar-shaped craft near Kearney, Nebraska, in November 1957.
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District 14, Portland, Oregon
On September 11, 1947, Portland Police Department officers in Districts 18 and 14, including Chief of Police Leon V. Jenkins, reported sighting a round silver object over Portland, Oregon between 5:21 and 5:27 PM. In July 1947, pilot Jack Peck and co-pilot Vince Daly of the Al Jones Flying Company observed a flying wing object near Bethel Airport, Alaska, describing it as approximately the size of a C-54 without any fuselage, flying at 1,000 feet at an estimated 300 miles per hour with no propeller, jet exhaust, or vapor trails.
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District 18, Portland, Oregon
On September 11, 1947, Portland Police Department officers in Districts 18 and 14, including Chief of Police Leon V. Jenkins, reported sighting a round silver object over Portland, Oregon between 5:21 and 5:27 PM. In July 1947, pilot Jack Peck and co-pilot Vince Daly of the Al Jones Flying Company observed a flying wing object near Bethel Airport, Alaska, describing it as approximately the size of a C-54 without any fuselage, flying at 1,000 feet at an estimated 300 miles per hour with no propeller, jet exhaust, or vapor trails.
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Djibouti (report origin)
A U.S. military operator reported observing two round, white hot UAPs moving south at approximately 240 nautical miles per hour near grid coordinate 35SQT3423692957 in the Mediterranean Sea at 1653Z in 2025. The report is a MISREP filed with AARO, originating from Djibouti. Multiple fields on page 7 are redacted under exemption 1.4(a), and the exact date of the incident is not specified in the document.
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Dnieperpetrovsk Airfield, USSR
Air Intelligence Information Report IR 193-55, dated 14 October 1955 and prepared by Lt. Col. Thomas S. Ryan of the U.S. Air Attache office in Prague, documents an eyewitness account of two round, circular unconventional aircraft resembling flying saucers seen at 1910 hours on 1 October 1955 between Atjaty and Adzhijabul in the Trans-Caucasus region of the USSR. Senator Richard Russell, Lt. Col. E.U. Hathaway, and Mr. Ruben Efron observed the disc aircraft ascending almost vertically one minute apart, with outer surfaces revolving slowly to the right, two stationary lights near the top, and sparks or flame from the bottom.
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Dow Chemical Company field, Midland, Michigan
On July 9, 1947, Raymond Edward Lane, a Dow Chemical Company employee, and his wife Laura reported hearing a puff noise and seeing a ball of white about the size of a bushel basket burning a foot off the ground in a Dow-owned field in Midland, Michigan. Lane brought recovered material to the Dow Physics Laboratory the next day; laboratory examination found ordinary sand, a small silver nugget, melted sand droplets giving off ammonia odor, and a grayish radioactive material. The FBI Detroit Division reported the incident to the Director on August 5, 1947, and recommended forwarding the material to the War Department.
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Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan
FBI agents in the Newark Division interviewed witnesses to a flying disc sighting at Hackensack, New Jersey on August 3, 1947. Separately, the Detroit office reported that Raymond Edward Lane, a Dow Chemical Company employee, brought fused sand material to the Dow Physics Laboratory on July 10, 1947, after he and his wife observed a ball of white about the size of a bushel basket burning a foot off the ground in a Dow field near Midland, Michigan. The material was found to contain ordinary sand giving off ammonia gas, a small silver nugget, and a grayish substance described as radio active at an extremely low level.
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Dunsmuir, near Mt. Shasta, Northern California
Section 10 of FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 contains the program for the AFSCA 3rd National Flying Saucer Convention, held July 8-10, 1966, at the Centennial Coliseum in Reno, Nevada, along with a citizen letter and the Bureau's reply. On August 31, 1966, Florence C. Dow of Goffstown, New Hampshire, wrote to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover stating that her first issue of the AFSCA journal "Flying Saucers International" struck her as Communist-backed.
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Durango, Mexico
On March 19, 1950, Miguel Angel Garcia Macias, a pianist, composer, and self-described ideographic inventor from Veracruz, Mexico, wrote to the President of the Commission of Scientific Investigation of the United States of North America in New York, describing his concept of stratospheric aerostats and attributing flying saucers to U.S. atomic technology. The letter, translated by Mrs. Sophia Saliba, was received by the FBI New York Field Office by April 7, 1950, and filed under case 62-HQ-83894, Serial 220.
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Dushanbe, Tajikistan
On January 27, 1994, the crew of a Tajik Air 747SP at latitude 45 North, longitude 55 East over Kazakhstan reported encountering a bright light of enormous intensity that approached from the east at great speed and higher altitude, then maneuvered in circles, corkscrews, and 90-degree turns for approximately forty minutes. Captain Ed Rhodes photographed the object with a pocket Olympus camera and intended to send copies to the U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe and the Tajikistan Desk contact Lowry Taylor.
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Earth (observed from outside)
At the Apollo 17 Crew Debriefing for Science on January 8, 1973, at Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Dick Henry, co-investigator on the ultraviolet experiment, reported that the UV spectrum observed at high galactic latitudes resembled the spectrum of a hot star, but no hot stars were within the field of view.
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East Lake, Alabama
On August 4, 1947, Pan American Airways Captain Alpheus O. Powell and navigator Walter I. White separately sighted flying objects near Boston while piloting a Constellation from Gander, Newfoundland to La Guardia Field. Powell described a cylindrical, orange object about the length of a P-40 fuselage travelling at roughly 150 mph; White described a deep gold, elliptical object about 15 feet long travelling easterly at roughly 175 mph. Air Defense Command at Mitchel Field interviewed both men and forwarded the reports to Army Air Forces headquarters.
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Eastern Canada
FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 collects press clippings, public letters, and internal memos concerning "flying disc" and "flying saucer" reports across the United States in July 1947. Reports include Rev. Joseph Brasky of Grafton, Wisconsin, who told the United Press he found an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and was holding it for the FBI. Civilian Fred R. Reibold wrote to the Bureau describing a flaming circular object that fell in the street in Cornola, Nebraska on July 1, 1947; Director Hoover forwarded that letter to the War Department's Director of Intelligence on August 5, 1947.
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Eastern Mediterranean
On November 18, 2016, a U.S. P-8A aircraft monitoring carrier task group activity in the Eastern Mediterranean observed an unidentified low-flying object 55 nautical miles northwest of Latakia, Syria, via its EO/IR sensor. The object appeared to be in "sea skim mode," traveling at approximately 500 knots on a southeasterly heading, and passed between the Russian vessel INGUL ARS and one unidentified vessel before the P-8A lost visual contact after two minutes. The CTG 67.1 mission commander characterized the interaction as safe and assessed the activity as consistent with standard carrier task group activity.
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Eastern Range
Research Triangle Institute prepared this final report for the Air Force's 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg AFB and 45th Space Wing at Patrick AFB, completed September 10, 1996, under Contract No. FO4703-91-C-0112. The report describes how "Mode-5 failure responses," meaning significant vehicle deviations from the intended flight line, are modeled in RTI's risk-analysis program DAMP, using two shaping constants calibrated by trial and error against simulated malfunctions for vehicles including Atlas IIAS, Delta-GEM, Titan IV, and LLV1.
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Edgewood Lake, Alabama
On August 4, 1947, Pan American Airways Captain Alpheus O. Powell and navigator Walter I. White separately sighted flying objects near Boston while piloting a Constellation from Gander, Newfoundland to La Guardia Field. Powell described a cylindrical, orange object about the length of a P-40 fuselage travelling at roughly 150 mph; White described a deep gold, elliptical object about 15 feet long travelling easterly at roughly 175 mph. Air Defense Command at Mitchel Field interviewed both men and forwarded the reports to Army Air Forces headquarters.
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Elizabethtown, New York
On September 11, 1947, Portland Police Department officers in Districts 18 and 14, including Chief of Police Leon V. Jenkins, reported sighting a round silver object over Portland, Oregon between 5:21 and 5:27 PM. In July 1947, pilot Jack Peck and co-pilot Vince Daly of the Al Jones Flying Company observed a flying wing object near Bethel Airport, Alaska, describing it as approximately the size of a C-54 without any fuselage, flying at 1,000 feet at an estimated 300 miles per hour with no propeller, jet exhaust, or vapor trails.
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ESSA (killbox area)
A two-ship F-15E flight from the 389th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, flying defensive counter-air operations over Syria on February 21, 2023, reported three "poss UAP" near Shaddadi at FL240 at 0025Z, with weapon system video produced and no radar returns received; two of the objects were described as white and IR significant. At 0135Z the same flight reported one "poss balloon" near Shaddadi at FL210, also with weapon system video produced.
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European Command
On 4 November 1948, USAFE transmitted intelligence cable TT #1524 to General Cabell and the USAF Directorate of Intelligence. Three crews of the 307th Bomb Group had sighted an aircraft on 5 September 1948 off the west coast of Holland at 30,000 feet, assessed as a single jet-propelled aircraft employing probable rocket assists, rated B-2. The cable also reported a flying saucer hovering over Neubiberg Air Base for about thirty minutes, and relayed the Swedish Air Intelligence Service's conclusion that such phenomena "cannot be credited to any presently known culture on earth."
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European Theater of Operations (ETO)
SHAEF Air Staff file 37153 contains messages and memorandums from December 1944 through March 1945 documenting reports of "night phenomena (foofighters)" by crews of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron over the European Theater. Crews described blinking lights that changed colors and flew in formation with their aircraft, reddish flames, red balls of fire, and arrow-like light formations. On 1 March 1945, HQ IX TAC reported that pilots observed an aluminum-colored cylinder-shaped object approximately 12 feet long floating at 9,000 feet, which was attacked, partially deflated, and produced a red flame without smoke.
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Everett, Massachusetts (3 miles NW of Boston)
On August 4, 1947, Pan American Airways Captain Alpheus O. Powell and navigator Walter I. White separately sighted flying objects near Boston while piloting a Constellation from Gander, Newfoundland to La Guardia Field. Powell described a cylindrical, orange object about the length of a P-40 fuselage travelling at roughly 150 mph; White described a deep gold, elliptical object about 15 feet long travelling easterly at roughly 175 mph. Air Defense Command at Mitchel Field interviewed both men and forwarded the reports to Army Air Forces headquarters.
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Fairfield Highlands, Alabama
On August 4, 1947, Pan American Airways Captain Alpheus O. Powell and navigator Walter I. White separately sighted flying objects near Boston while piloting a Constellation from Gander, Newfoundland to La Guardia Field. Powell described a cylindrical, orange object about the length of a P-40 fuselage travelling at roughly 150 mph; White described a deep gold, elliptical object about 15 feet long travelling easterly at roughly 175 mph. Air Defense Command at Mitchel Field interviewed both men and forwarded the reports to Army Air Forces headquarters.
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Fairmont, West Virginia
On August 9, 1952, the FBI Savannah field office sent an urgent teletype to Director Hoover reporting that two employees of E. I. Du Pont Company saw a blue light with an orange fringe shaped like a saucer fly over the Four Hundred Area of the Savannah River Plant AEC facility at approximately 9:30 PM on August 8. Between August 11 and August 20, 1952, Hoover forwarded letters from multiple citizens about flying saucers and flying disks to the Director of Special Investigations, The Inspector General, Department of the Air Force.
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FBI Central Records Center, Headquarters
On March 19, 1950, Miguel Angel Garcia Macias, a pianist, composer, and self-described ideographic inventor from Veracruz, Mexico, wrote to the President of the Commission of Scientific Investigation of the United States of North America in New York, describing his concept of stratospheric aerostats and attributing flying saucers to U.S. atomic technology. The letter, translated by Mrs. Sophia Saliba, was received by the FBI New York Field Office by April 7, 1950, and filed under case 62-HQ-83894, Serial 220.
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Ferndale, Michigan
In July and August 1954, the FBI Cincinnati Field Office and Washington Field Office documented reports from civilian informant Thomas Eickhoff concerning flying saucer lecturers Truman Bethurum and George Hunt Williamson, and from Navy Security Officer John Hutson concerning Frances Swan's claimed thought transmission contact with beings designated "AFFA" and "PONNAR," commanders of ships M-4 and L-11. Eickhoff reported attending a luncheon at the Terrace Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati on June 7, 1954, where Bethurum and Williamson stated their story was factual and consented to government scrutiny.
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FL130 (friendly aircraft altitude)
On September 20, 2024, a U.S. AFSOC crew conducting a weapons calibration at Ayn al Asad Airbase's ROZ RAINDROP, Iraq, observed an unidentified object "fly" through their MX-20 and MX-25 IR sensors at a high rate of speed after releasing an AGM-176 missile. The WSO and CSO reported the UAP created an IR lens flare on both sensors, indicating a significant heat source. The report notes it is unknown whether an object detached from the primary UAP before it left the sensor field of view, and no additional aircraft were reported in the airspace.
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Fort Belvoir, Virginia
A correspondent wrote to James L. Tuck at Los Alamos reporting several sightings of green lights in the Jemez Mountains between 1948 and 1951, typically between 9 and 11 PM, and one afternoon sighting of five objects flying in formation from southeast to northwest over Los Alamos. The writer directed Tuck to Protective Force logs as the record of times and dates, and named redacted Protective Force members as witnesses.
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Fort Dix, New Jersey
On July 9, 1947, Raymond Edward Lane, a Dow Chemical Company employee, and his wife Laura reported hearing a puff noise and seeing a ball of white about the size of a bushel basket burning a foot off the ground in a Dow-owned field in Midland, Michigan. Lane brought recovered material to the Dow Physics Laboratory the next day; laboratory examination found ordinary sand, a small silver nugget, melted sand droplets giving off ammonia odor, and a grayish radioactive material. The FBI Detroit Division reported the incident to the Director on August 5, 1947, and recommended forwarding the material to the War Department.
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Fort Ross, California
On 18 February 1948 at 5:01 P.M., an aerial explosion occurred over Norcatur, Kansas, logged as Incident 101 by the Department of War. Farmer Leland Sammons reported a funnel-shaped object roughly four feet long, with a pipe at the rear and fire belching from it, hovering near his farmhouse before departing northwest and exploding in a cloud of smoke. Beginning 24 April 1948, meteorite fragments were recovered, including a 109-pound achondrite piece found two feet underground in a clover field. Civilian Norman Garrett Markham wrote to the Office of the Chief of Staff speculating the object may have been a rocket or space-craft.
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Four Hundred Area, Savannah River Plant
On August 9, 1952, the FBI Savannah field office sent an urgent teletype to Director Hoover reporting that two employees of E. I. Du Pont Company saw a blue light with an orange fringe shaped like a saucer fly over the Four Hundred Area of the Savannah River Plant AEC facility at approximately 9:30 PM on August 8. Between August 11 and August 20, 1952, Hoover forwarded letters from multiple citizens about flying saucers and flying disks to the Director of Special Investigations, The Inspector General, Department of the Air Force.
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Freesoil, Michigan
On July 9, 1947, Raymond Edward Lane, a Dow Chemical Company employee, and his wife Laura reported hearing a puff noise and seeing a ball of white about the size of a bushel basket burning a foot off the ground in a Dow-owned field in Midland, Michigan. Lane brought recovered material to the Dow Physics Laboratory the next day; laboratory examination found ordinary sand, a small silver nugget, melted sand droplets giving off ammonia odor, and a grayish radioactive material. The FBI Detroit Division reported the incident to the Director on August 5, 1947, and recommended forwarding the material to the War Department.
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Freiburg, Germany
In a November 7, 1957 interview conducted by SA Cassius Rathbun, Wladyslaw Krasuski of 5457 Joseph Campau, Detroit, described witnessing a circular vehicle rise vertically from a tarpaulin-enclosed compound near Gut Alt Golssen, approximately 30 miles east of Berlin, circa 1944, while held there as a Polish prisoner of war. The vehicle was circular, 75 to 100 yards in diameter and about 14 feet high, with a rapidly moving middle section producing a continuous blur similar to an aeroplane propeller.
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Friendly Aircraft Location at UAP contact: 36SXD991.4a981.4a
A U.S. Air Force ISR asset took off from Sigonella Airbase on 29 May 2022 and conducted IMINT over the Eastern Mediterranean under Operation HUMMER SICKLE. At 0117Z on 30 May 2022, the screener observed one possible small UAP flying north to northeast and followed it as long as possible but could not get a positive ID. No UAP signatures were recorded. The report was approved for release to AARO and declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 8 October 2025.
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Friendly Aircraft Location: 38S MC 85[redacted] 77[redacted]
A U.S. Air Force reconnaissance asset from the 196 ATKS, operating over Iraq under Operation INHERENT RESOLVE, observed one UAP at 2043Z on 20 May 2022 flying north to northeast. The screener followed the UAP as long as possible but could not get a positive ID. The report, Misrep undefined-7528881, was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 8 October 2025, and approved for release to AARO.
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Ft. Adams district (prospector sighting location, June 24, 1947)
On August 25, 1947, Lt. Col. Donald L. Springer of Headquarters Fourth Air Force, A-2 Intelligence, Hamilton Field, forwarded to the FBI SAC in San Francisco a letter from F. M. Johnson, a prospector who wrote from Portland, Oregon on August 20, 1947, reporting that he had observed flying discs in the Ft. Adams district on June 24, 1947, the same date as the Kenneth Arnold sighting. Johnson described the objects as round, about 30 feet in diameter, tapering to a point at the head end, with a bright top surface, no engine noise, and a tail object shifting side to side like a big magnet.
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Ft. Adams district (prospector sighting location)
On August 25, 1947, Lt. Col. Donald L. Springer of Fourth Air Force A-2 Intelligence at Hamilton Field forwarded a letter from F. M. Johnson, a Portland, Oregon prospector, to the FBI SAC in San Francisco. Johnson wrote that on June 24, 1947, in the Ft. Adams district, he observed round flying objects approximately 30 feet in diameter, traveling at high speed and making no noise, last seen banking on edge into a cloud. Springer noted the similarity to Kenneth Arnold's report while raising the possibility that Johnson had read about Arnold in the newspapers.
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Fuller Lodge, Ranch Room, Los Alamos, NM
A May 20, 1986 newsletter from the Pajarito Astronomers of Los Alamos, New Mexico announces a club meeting scheduled for May 29, 1986, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ranch Room at Fuller Lodge. Guest speaker Dr. John Warren of AT-6 was to address the topic "Why Should a Scientist be Concerned about UFO's?" The newsletter's closing signature block is redacted, with two lines blacked out following "Sincerely."
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Galactic plane
At the Apollo 17 Crew Debriefing for Science on January 8, 1973, at Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Dick Henry, co-investigator on the ultraviolet experiment, reported that the UV spectrum observed at high galactic latitudes resembled the spectrum of a hot star, but no hot stars were within the field of view.
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galaxy
On July 18, 1963, Maxwell W. Hunter II of the National Aeronautics and Space Council sent a memorandum to Robert F. Packard at the State Department's Office of International Scientific Affairs, titled "Thoughts on the Space Alien Race Question." The memo outlines three types of potential alien contact scenarios and argues that diplomatic policy would need to differ for each, ranging from chemical-propulsion Martians to a faster-than-light race, for which Hunter writes "our policy had better be to negotiate fast.
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Galveston, Texas
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894, Section 5, contains 1949 investigative records on flying saucers, including a letter Walter Winchell received from Peter Camerlon Jones of Los Angeles, who claimed to have seen a large silver object shaped like a child's top in the mountains near Los Angeles in August 1947. D. M. Ladd directed the Los Angeles field office to discreetly check Jones's background and interview him, but efforts to locate Jones were negative. The FBI wrote to Ernest Cuneo on July 21, 1949, suggesting the original letter may have been a prank.
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GANDER Track (air refuel track)
A two-ship F-15E flight from the 389th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, flying defensive counter-air operations over Syria on February 21, 2023, reported three "poss UAP" near Shaddadi at FL240 at 0025Z, with weapon system video produced and no radar returns received; two of the objects were described as white and IR significant. At 0135Z the same flight reported one "poss balloon" near Shaddadi at FL210, also with weapon system video produced.
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Gander, Newfoundland
On 4 August 1947 at 1600 EDT, Pan American Airways Captain Alpheus O. Powell and navigator Walter I. White separately sighted flying objects near Boston while piloting a Constellation from Gander, Newfoundland to La Guardia Field. Powell described his object as cylindrical, blunt at both ends, roughly the length of a P-40 fuselage, and bright orange; White described his as elliptical, deep gold, and approximately 15 feet long. Air Defense Command at Mitchel Field, New York interviewed both men and issued summaries of information on 12 and 15 September 1947.
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Gate on southbound route from test site departure point
An FBI FD-302 documents an October 2023 FaceTime interview with a redacted contractor drone pilot about a September 2023 sighting at a redacted U.S. test site. Around 7:30 AM, while stopped at a gate during a southbound departure for LiDAR tests, the witness saw a metallic gray, wingless linear object with a super bright white light moving east to west at approximately 5,000 feet for five to ten seconds before the light went out and the object vanished. The airspace had been restricted for the drone tests at the time.
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Geiger Field, Spokane, Washington
In July, August, and September 1949, and again in January 1950, military and civilian witnesses filed reports under Flight Service Regulation 200-4 describing flying objects over Kansas, Washington, Oregon, Ohio, South Carolina, and New York. Objects were described variously as dish-shaped, circular, and cylindrical, with reported speeds exceeding that of a B-29 and, in one case, an orange and white flame exhaust more than twice the length of the object. Reports were submitted by Lowry, Olmsted, McChord, Maxwell, and Wright-Patterson Flight Service Centers to the Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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Germany
SHAEF Air Staff file 37153 contains messages and memorandums from December 1944 through March 1945 documenting reports of "night phenomena (foofighters)" by crews of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron over the European Theater. Crews described blinking lights that changed colors and flew in formation with their aircraft, reddish flames, red balls of fire, and arrow-like light formations. On 1 March 1945, HQ IX TAC reported that pilots observed an aluminum-colored cylinder-shaped object approximately 12 feet long floating at 9,000 feet, which was attacked, partially deflated, and produced a red flame without smoke.
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Glendale, Brooklyn, New York
On September 11, 1947, Portland Police Department officers in Districts 18 and 14, including Chief of Police Leon V. Jenkins, reported sighting a round silver object over Portland, Oregon between 5:21 and 5:27 PM. In July 1947, pilot Jack Peck and co-pilot Vince Daly of the Al Jones Flying Company observed a flying wing object near Bethel Airport, Alaska, describing it as approximately the size of a C-54 without any fuselage, flying at 1,000 feet at an estimated 300 miles per hour with no propeller, jet exhaust, or vapor trails.
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Glengarriff, Co. Cork, Ireland
In July and August 1954, the FBI Cincinnati Field Office and Washington Field Office documented reports from civilian informant Thomas Eickhoff concerning flying saucer lecturers Truman Bethurum and George Hunt Williamson, and from Navy Security Officer John Hutson concerning Frances Swan's claimed thought transmission contact with beings designated "AFFA" and "PONNAR," commanders of ships M-4 and L-11. Eickhoff reported attending a luncheon at the Terrace Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati on June 7, 1954, where Bethurum and Williamson stated their story was factual and consented to government scrutiny.
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Goffstown, New Hampshire 03045
Section 10 of FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 contains the program for the AFSCA 3rd National Flying Saucer Convention, held July 8-10, 1966, at the Centennial Coliseum in Reno, Nevada, along with a citizen letter and the Bureau's reply. On August 31, 1966, Florence C. Dow of Goffstown, New Hampshire, wrote to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover stating that her first issue of the AFSCA journal "Flying Saucers International" struck her as Communist-backed.
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Grafton, Wisconsin
FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 collects press clippings, public letters, and internal memos concerning "flying disc" and "flying saucer" reports across the United States in July 1947. Reports include Rev. Joseph Brasky of Grafton, Wisconsin, who told the United Press he found an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and was holding it for the FBI. Civilian Fred R. Reibold wrote to the Bureau describing a flaming circular object that fell in the street in Cornola, Nebraska on July 1, 1947; Director Hoover forwarded that letter to the War Department's Director of Intelligence on August 5, 1947.
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Grand Blanc, Michigan
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894 compiles sighting reports, media clippings, and investigative memos covering incidents from 1947 through 1968. Reported incidents include American Airlines pilot Capt. Peter Killian's account of three shining saucer-like objects trailing his DC6 for 45 minutes in February 1958, the Coast Guard cutter Sebago tracking an object on radar for 27 minutes in the Gulf of Mexico at an estimated 1,000 miles per hour, and grain buyer R. O. Schmidt's claim of encountering a cigar-shaped craft near Kearney, Nebraska, in November 1957.
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Greater Tunb Naval Port
MISREP 4685903, filed by U.S. Air Force personnel assigned to the 482nd Attack Squadron and 432nd Air Expeditionary Wing, records that at 1527Z on 27 August 2020, an aircraft operating over the Arabian Gulf observed a "formation of UNK flying objects" via onboard sensor. The report states that "light cloud coverage prevented continuous tracking of the UAP event" and that the aircrew "was unable to gain PIO again on this formation." The document was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 22 January 2026, and contains extensive redactions.
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Greece
A U.S. Air Force Senior Airman assigned to 33 SOS observed one UAP over the Mediterranean Sea on January 25, 2024, at 0509Z while in transit from LGLR. The observer reported the UAP was diamond-shaped with a non-maneuvering probe at the bottom, flying at approximately 434 knots, and visible only on the SWIR camera. The event lasted approximately two minutes, ending at 0511Z without further incident. The report, classified SECRET and originating under USCENTCOM, was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison on October 24, 2025, and approved for release to AARO on October 28, 2025.
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Greenville Air Force Base, South Carolina
In July, August, and September 1949, and again in January 1950, military and civilian witnesses filed reports under Flight Service Regulation 200-4 describing flying objects over Kansas, Washington, Oregon, Ohio, South Carolina, and New York. Objects were described variously as dish-shaped, circular, and cylindrical, with reported speeds exceeding that of a B-29 and, in one case, an orange and white flame exhaust more than twice the length of the object. Reports were submitted by Lowry, Olmsted, McChord, Maxwell, and Wright-Patterson Flight Service Centers to the Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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Greenville Municipal Airport, South Carolina
In July, August, and September 1949, and again in January 1950, military and civilian witnesses filed reports under Flight Service Regulation 200-4 describing flying objects over Kansas, Washington, Oregon, Ohio, South Carolina, and New York. Objects were described variously as dish-shaped, circular, and cylindrical, with reported speeds exceeding that of a B-29 and, in one case, an orange and white flame exhaust more than twice the length of the object. Reports were submitted by Lowry, Olmsted, McChord, Maxwell, and Wright-Patterson Flight Service Centers to the Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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Greenville, South Carolina
In July, August, and September 1949, and again in January 1950, military and civilian witnesses filed reports under Flight Service Regulation 200-4 describing flying objects over Kansas, Washington, Oregon, Ohio, South Carolina, and New York. Objects were described variously as dish-shaped, circular, and cylindrical, with reported speeds exceeding that of a B-29 and, in one case, an orange and white flame exhaust more than twice the length of the object. Reports were submitted by Lowry, Olmsted, McChord, Maxwell, and Wright-Patterson Flight Service Centers to the Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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Grid 35S KD (UAP first and last seen coordinates)
On October 27, 2023, a U.S. Air Force ISR asset from the 33rd Special Operations Squadron observed a UAP flying just above the surface of the ocean water in the Aegean Sea at 0035Z. The UAP was described as seemingly circular and too small to make out details, taking multiple 90-degree turns at an estimated 80 mph. The asset lost the UAP from their feed at 0038Z. The report was filed as MISREP 9329374 and declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 22 January 2026.
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Grid 35SMV32 (UAP first seen location)
A U.S. Air Force aircrew filed MISREP 9337873 reporting that on 29 October 2023 at 0811Z, while returning to base over the Aegean Sea, they spotted a UAP flying just above the ocean surface and moving straight toward land. The UAP was described as seemingly circular, too small to make out details, solid, and traveling at an estimated 30 MPH; it was lost from their sensor feed at 0811Z. The observer assessed the UAP as benign and not under intelligent control. The report was declassified on 22 January 2026 by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff.
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Grid 35SMV33 (friendly aircraft location at UAP contact)
A U.S. Air Force aircrew filed MISREP 9337873 reporting that on 29 October 2023 at 0811Z, while returning to base over the Aegean Sea, they spotted a UAP flying just above the ocean surface and moving straight toward land. The UAP was described as seemingly circular, too small to make out details, solid, and traveling at an estimated 30 MPH; it was lost from their sensor feed at 0811Z. The observer assessed the UAP as benign and not under intelligent control. The report was declassified on 22 January 2026 by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff.
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Grid 35SMV33 (UAP last seen location)
A U.S. Air Force aircrew filed MISREP 9337873 reporting that on 29 October 2023 at 0811Z, while returning to base over the Aegean Sea, they spotted a UAP flying just above the ocean surface and moving straight toward land. The UAP was described as seemingly circular, too small to make out details, solid, and traveling at an estimated 30 MPH; it was lost from their sensor feed at 0811Z. The observer assessed the UAP as benign and not under intelligent control. The report was declassified on 22 January 2026 by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff.
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Grid 36S YC 40 (FMV/SIGINT collection area)
A U.S. Air Force aircrew filed MISREP 9337873 reporting that on 29 October 2023 at 0811Z, while returning to base over the Aegean Sea, they spotted a UAP flying just above the ocean surface and moving straight toward land. The UAP was described as seemingly circular, too small to make out details, solid, and traveling at an estimated 30 MPH; it was lost from their sensor feed at 0811Z. The observer assessed the UAP as benign and not under intelligent control. The report was declassified on 22 January 2026 by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff.
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Grid 36S YC 40 57 (ISR collection point)
On October 27, 2023, a U.S. Air Force ISR asset from the 33rd Special Operations Squadron observed a UAP flying just above the surface of the ocean water in the Aegean Sea at 0035Z. The UAP was described as seemingly circular and too small to make out details, taking multiple 90-degree turns at an estimated 80 mph. The asset lost the UAP from their feed at 0038Z. The report was filed as MISREP 9329374 and declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 22 January 2026.
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Grid 39RUN44 (aircraft location at GUARDCALL)
A U.S. Air Force ISR aircraft from the 482nd Attack Squadron reported three UAP over the Arabian Gulf on July 16, 2020, at 1830Z, 1920Z, and 2345Z during a 20.3-hour mission supporting NAVCENT. The first UAP was observed via Full Motion Video at grid 39RVM5, with the aircraft at FL 200, 98 KIAS, heading 152M; weather was not a factor. The GENTEXT context field for the first observation is partially redacted. The report was declassified by USCENTCOM Chief of Staff MG Richard A. Harrison on March 16, 2026, and approved for release to AARO.
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Grid 39RUNG (SAFIR KISH observation location)
A U.S. Air Force ISR aircraft from the 482nd Attack Squadron reported three UAP over the Arabian Gulf on July 16, 2020, at 1830Z, 1920Z, and 2345Z during a 20.3-hour mission supporting NAVCENT. The first UAP was observed via Full Motion Video at grid 39RVM5, with the aircraft at FL 200, 98 KIAS, heading 152M; weather was not a factor. The GENTEXT context field for the first observation is partially redacted. The report was declassified by USCENTCOM Chief of Staff MG Richard A. Harrison on March 16, 2026, and approved for release to AARO.
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Grid 39RVM51 (observed activity location, OBS 1)
A U.S. Air Force ISR aircraft from the 482nd Attack Squadron reported three UAP over the Arabian Gulf on July 16, 2020, at 1830Z, 1920Z, and 2345Z during a 20.3-hour mission supporting NAVCENT. The first UAP was observed via Full Motion Video at grid 39RVM5, with the aircraft at FL 200, 98 KIAS, heading 152M; weather was not a factor. The GENTEXT context field for the first observation is partially redacted. The report was declassified by USCENTCOM Chief of Staff MG Richard A. Harrison on March 16, 2026, and approved for release to AARO.
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Grid 39RVN11 (ISR tasked start point)
A U.S. Air Force ISR aircraft from the 482nd Attack Squadron reported three UAP over the Arabian Gulf on July 16, 2020, at 1830Z, 1920Z, and 2345Z during a 20.3-hour mission supporting NAVCENT. The first UAP was observed via Full Motion Video at grid 39RVM5, with the aircraft at FL 200, 98 KIAS, heading 152M; weather was not a factor. The GENTEXT context field for the first observation is partially redacted. The report was declassified by USCENTCOM Chief of Staff MG Richard A. Harrison on March 16, 2026, and approved for release to AARO.
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Grid 39RWL08 (approximate UAP observation location)
MISREP 4592219, filed by the 482nd Attack Squadron under USCENTCOM, records that on 8 August 2020 at 0726Z, a U.S. Air Force asset operating from OKAS observed one UAP "transitting" in the vicinity of grid 39RWL08 over the Arabian Gulf, via full motion video. The report notes "no impact to mission" and states that "dense cloud coverage intermittently impacted FMV collection." The document was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 20 March 2026, and approved for release to AARO on 27 March 2026.
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Grid 39RXK26 (aircraft location at OBS 1, 1830Z)
A U.S. Air Force ISR aircraft from the 482nd Attack Squadron reported three UAP over the Arabian Gulf on July 16, 2020, at 1830Z, 1920Z, and 2345Z during a 20.3-hour mission supporting NAVCENT. The first UAP was observed via Full Motion Video at grid 39RVM5, with the aircraft at FL 200, 98 KIAS, heading 152M; weather was not a factor. The GENTEXT context field for the first observation is partially redacted. The report was declassified by USCENTCOM Chief of Staff MG Richard A. Harrison on March 16, 2026, and approved for release to AARO.
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Grid 39RXK68 (UAP observed location, 0322Z)
A U.S. Air Force A1C assigned to the 50th Attack Squadron reported two UAP events over the Persian Gulf on 24 October 2023 during an ISR mission supporting NAVCENT under Operation Spartan Shield. The first UAP, acquired at 0241Z, showed a cold thermal signature, was assessed as solid and benign, and had an estimated velocity of 320 MPH; a second UAP was acquired at 0322Z near grid 39RXK68 with an estimated velocity of 440 MPH. Neither event resulted in observer engagement or effects on persons, and the intel gap was recorded as not filled. The report was declassified on 12 September 2025 by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff.
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Grid 39RXL60 (UAP second event coordinate)
A U.S. Air Force A1C assigned to the 50th Attack Squadron reported two UAP events over the Persian Gulf on 24 October 2023 during an ISR mission supporting NAVCENT under Operation Spartan Shield. The first UAP, acquired at 0241Z, showed a cold thermal signature, was assessed as solid and benign, and had an estimated velocity of 320 MPH; a second UAP was acquired at 0322Z near grid 39RXK68 with an estimated velocity of 440 MPH. Neither event resulted in observer engagement or effects on persons, and the intel gap was recorded as not filled. The report was declassified on 12 September 2025 by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff.
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Grid 39RYJ74 (UAP first/last coordinate)
A U.S. Air Force A1C assigned to the 50th Attack Squadron reported two UAP events over the Persian Gulf on 24 October 2023 during an ISR mission supporting NAVCENT under Operation Spartan Shield. The first UAP, acquired at 0241Z, showed a cold thermal signature, was assessed as solid and benign, and had an estimated velocity of 320 MPH; a second UAP was acquired at 0322Z near grid 39RXK68 with an estimated velocity of 440 MPH. Neither event resulted in observer engagement or effects on persons, and the intel gap was recorded as not filled. The report was declassified on 12 September 2025 by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff.
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Grid 39RYJ90 (UAP first sighting location)
A U.S. Air Force A1C assigned to the 50th Attack Squadron reported two UAP events over the Persian Gulf on 24 October 2023 during an ISR mission supporting NAVCENT under Operation Spartan Shield. The first UAP, acquired at 0241Z, showed a cold thermal signature, was assessed as solid and benign, and had an estimated velocity of 320 MPH; a second UAP was acquired at 0322Z near grid 39RXK68 with an estimated velocity of 440 MPH. Neither event resulted in observer engagement or effects on persons, and the intel gap was recorded as not filled. The report was declassified on 12 September 2025 by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff.
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Grid 40RBP00 (aircraft location at GUARDCALL)
A U.S. Air Force A1C assigned to the 50th Attack Squadron reported two UAP events over the Persian Gulf on 24 October 2023 during an ISR mission supporting NAVCENT under Operation Spartan Shield. The first UAP, acquired at 0241Z, showed a cold thermal signature, was assessed as solid and benign, and had an estimated velocity of 320 MPH; a second UAP was acquired at 0322Z near grid 39RXK68 with an estimated velocity of 440 MPH. Neither event resulted in observer engagement or effects on persons, and the intel gap was recorded as not filled. The report was declassified on 12 September 2025 by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff.
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Grid 40RBP52 (ISR area of operations)
A U.S. Air Force A1C assigned to the 50th Attack Squadron reported two UAP events over the Persian Gulf on 24 October 2023 during an ISR mission supporting NAVCENT under Operation Spartan Shield. The first UAP, acquired at 0241Z, showed a cold thermal signature, was assessed as solid and benign, and had an estimated velocity of 320 MPH; a second UAP was acquired at 0322Z near grid 39RXK68 with an estimated velocity of 440 MPH. Neither event resulted in observer engagement or effects on persons, and the intel gap was recorded as not filled. The report was declassified on 12 September 2025 by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff.
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Grid coordinate 34SDG9041417044
A U.S. military operator reported observing a possible UAP near grid coordinate 34SDG9041417044 in the Arabian Gulf at 1258Z in 2020. The brief observation prevented any altitude estimate; velocity was estimated at 321 knots. The operator reported the UAP "increased speed and changed direction towards the east." Pages 1 through 4 are withheld under exemption 1.4(a), and the pilot's identity is redacted under b(6).
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Grid reference 3SKT4255899519
A U.S. military operator reported observing one probable UAP in the vicinity of grid reference 3SKT4255899519 in the Arabian Gulf at 1246Z in 2020. The report states no mission impact occurred and the operator continued original tasking. The operator's identity is redacted under the 1.4(a) exemption, and pages 1 through 6 of the MISREP are not reproduced in the available source text.
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Griffiss Air Force Base, Rome, New York
In July, August, and September 1949, and again in January 1950, military and civilian witnesses filed reports under Flight Service Regulation 200-4 describing flying objects over Kansas, Washington, Oregon, Ohio, South Carolina, and New York. Objects were described variously as dish-shaped, circular, and cylindrical, with reported speeds exceeding that of a B-29 and, in one case, an orange and white flame exhaust more than twice the length of the object. Reports were submitted by Lowry, Olmsted, McChord, Maxwell, and Wright-Patterson Flight Service Centers to the Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City reported in a September 16, 2023 cable that Mexican journalist Jaime Maussan presented alleged non-human remains to the Mexican Congress, which pilot witness Graves called an "unsubstantiated stunt" that took away from pilots' UAP experiences. The same cable reported that criminals killed two Guerrero prosecutors within one week: FGR state delegate Fernando Garcia Fernandez, shot from two vehicles in Chilpancingo on September 12, and FGE regional prosecutor Victor Manuel Salas Cuadras, kidnapped and found with approximately 50 gunshot wounds in Coyuca de Catalan on September 9.
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Gudauta Base, Abkhazia
A confidential cable sent October 30, 2001, from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to the State Department reports that Deputy Foreign Minister Mamedov, citing the Russian Ministry of Defense, categorically denied that Russian planes flew over or bombed positions in the Kodori Gorge on October 28 and 29, despite Georgian accusations. MFA Georgia Desk Chief Tereoken echoed the denial but added that "any side" could have sent planes over Kodori, prompting the embassy to comment that "to posit that they could be UFOs would be humorous if it were not for the seriousness of the violations.
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Gulf of Aden
A U.S. Air Force TSGT assigned to the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing and 609 CAOC observed one UAP over the Gulf of Aden at 05:17Z on July 14, 2024, while conducting ISR in support of NAVCENT. The observer reported the UAP maintained a straight flight path at the same altitude, traveled northwest at low altitude, and moved faster than the observing aircraft's flying speed. The observer assessed the UAP as benign and followed it until the distance became too far to follow. The report was filed as MISREP 10194673 by the 124th Attack Squadron under USCENTCOM.
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Gulf of Mexico
On November 20, 1957, the FBI Legal Attache in Havana reported that Jose Maria Nieto and Carmelo Guzman had told the Havana newspaper Diario de la Marina they saw a flying disc in the shape of a man's hat hovering silently over Matahambre, Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba, before it disappeared at high speed toward the sea. An FBI memo dated November 12, 1957, from R. R. Roach to A. H. Belmont noted a surge in flying saucer and UFO reports across the United States following the Soviet release of Sputnik, which Air Force Intelligence told the Bureau were all resolved as nonauthentic.
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Gulf of Oman
MISREP 4871281 records that a U.S. military operator took off from OKAS on 1 October 2020 and, during a 21-hour NAVCENT support mission over the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, and Gulf of Oman, observed 1X UAP at 1829Z on 2 October 2020. The report references OBSERVATION LINE 1 for UAP details, but that section is not present in the released text. The document was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 16 March 2026 under MDR 26-0028 and approved for release to AARO.
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Gut Alt Golssen, approximately 30 miles east of Berlin, Germany
In a November 7, 1957 interview conducted by SA Cassius Rathbun, Wladyslaw Krasuski of 5457 Joseph Campau, Detroit, described witnessing a circular vehicle rise vertically from a tarpaulin-enclosed compound near Gut Alt Golssen, approximately 30 miles east of Berlin, circa 1944, while held there as a Polish prisoner of war. The vehicle was circular, 75 to 100 yards in diameter and about 14 feet high, with a rapidly moving middle section producing a continuous blur similar to an aeroplane propeller.
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Hackensack, New Jersey
On July 9, 1947, Raymond Edward Lane, a Dow Chemical Company employee, and his wife Laura reported hearing a puff noise and seeing a ball of white about the size of a bushel basket burning a foot off the ground in a Dow-owned field in Midland, Michigan. Lane brought recovered material to the Dow Physics Laboratory the next day; laboratory examination found ordinary sand, a small silver nugget, melted sand droplets giving off ammonia odor, and a grayish radioactive material. The FBI Detroit Division reported the incident to the Director on August 5, 1947, and recommended forwarding the material to the War Department.
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Hagerstown, Maryland
FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 collects press clippings, public letters, and internal memos concerning "flying disc" and "flying saucer" reports across the United States in July 1947. Reports include Rev. Joseph Brasky of Grafton, Wisconsin, who told the United Press he found an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and was holding it for the FBI. Civilian Fred R. Reibold wrote to the Bureau describing a flaming circular object that fell in the street in Cornola, Nebraska on July 1, 1947; Director Hoover forwarded that letter to the War Department's Director of Intelligence on August 5, 1947.
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Hamilton Field, California
On July 9, 1947, Raymond Edward Lane, a Dow Chemical Company employee, and his wife Laura reported hearing a puff noise and seeing a ball of white about the size of a bushel basket burning a foot off the ground in a Dow-owned field in Midland, Michigan. Lane brought recovered material to the Dow Physics Laboratory the next day; laboratory examination found ordinary sand, a small silver nugget, melted sand droplets giving off ammonia odor, and a grayish radioactive material. The FBI Detroit Division reported the incident to the Director on August 5, 1947, and recommended forwarding the material to the War Department.
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Hamtramck, Michigan
In a November 7, 1957 interview conducted by SA Cassius Rathbun, Wladyslaw Krasuski of 5457 Joseph Campau, Detroit, described witnessing a circular vehicle rise vertically from a tarpaulin-enclosed compound near Gut Alt Golssen, approximately 30 miles east of Berlin, circa 1944, while held there as a Polish prisoner of war. The vehicle was circular, 75 to 100 yards in diameter and about 14 feet high, with a rapidly moving middle section producing a continuous blur similar to an aeroplane propeller.
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Hannibal, Missouri
On November 20, 1957, the FBI Legal Attache in Havana reported that Jose Maria Nieto and Carmelo Guzman had told the Havana newspaper Diario de la Marina they saw a flying disc in the shape of a man's hat hovering silently over Matahambre, Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba, before it disappeared at high speed toward the sea. An FBI memo dated November 12, 1957, from R. R. Roach to A. H. Belmont noted a surge in flying saucer and UFO reports across the United States following the Soviet release of Sputnik, which Air Force Intelligence told the Bureau were all resolved as nonauthentic.
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Harmon Field, Guam
On August 25, 1947, Lt. Col. Donald L. Springer of Headquarters Fourth Air Force, A-2 Intelligence, Hamilton Field, forwarded to the FBI SAC in San Francisco a letter from F. M. Johnson, a prospector who wrote from Portland, Oregon on August 20, 1947, reporting that he had observed flying discs in the Ft. Adams district on June 24, 1947, the same date as the Kenneth Arnold sighting. Johnson described the objects as round, about 30 feet in diameter, tapering to a point at the head end, with a bright top surface, no engine noise, and a tail object shifting side to side like a big magnet.
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Harper Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
On July 9, 1947, Raymond Edward Lane, a Dow Chemical Company employee, and his wife Laura reported hearing a puff noise and seeing a ball of white about the size of a bushel basket burning a foot off the ground in a Dow-owned field in Midland, Michigan. Lane brought recovered material to the Dow Physics Laboratory the next day; laboratory examination found ordinary sand, a small silver nugget, melted sand droplets giving off ammonia odor, and a grayish radioactive material. The FBI Detroit Division reported the incident to the Director on August 5, 1947, and recommended forwarding the material to the War Department.
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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Headquarters Eleventh Air Force forwarded a report to USAF Headquarters and Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in May and June 1948 documenting a flying disc sighting at Hobson, Ohio on the night of 8 May 1948. The report, sourced from FBI Special Agent D.K. Brown in Cleveland, described a round, phosphorescent object appearing nine inches in diameter from ground level, traveling at heading 90 degrees at an altitude of 6 to 8 miles, witnessed by New York Central System employees and a patrolman.
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Havana, Cuba
On November 20, 1957, the FBI Legal Attaché in Havana reported that Jose Maria Nieto and Carmelo Guzman claimed to have seen a flying disc in the shape of a man's hat hovering over Matahambre, Cuba, before it disappeared at very high speed toward the sea. An internal FBI memo dated November 12, 1957, from R. R. Roach to A. H. Belmont noted a surge in flying saucer and UFO reports across the U.S. following the Soviet release of Sputnik. On January 23, 1958, FBI Director John Edgar Hoover referred information about Robert T.
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High galactic latitudes (North Galactic Pole and South Galactic Pole)
At the Apollo 17 Crew Debriefing for Science on January 8, 1973, at Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Dick Henry, co-investigator on the ultraviolet experiment, reported that the UV spectrum observed at high galactic latitudes resembled the spectrum of a hot star, but no hot stars were within the field of view.
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Highway 84, seventeen miles north of Highway 66, New Mexico
On July 24, 1949, a fireball was reported over the general neighborhood of Socorro, New Mexico at 8:26 p.m. Researchers W. D. Crozier and Ben K. Seely of the New Mexico School of Mines then made systematic airborne particle collections at Socorro from July 25 through August 1, finding copper-bearing opaque particles and three apparently perfect spherical cobalt-indication particles twelve microns in diameter in the July 26 afternoon collection.
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Hobson, Ohio
Headquarters Eleventh Air Force forwarded a report to USAF Headquarters and Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in May and June 1948 documenting a flying disc sighting at Hobson, Ohio on the night of 8 May 1948. The report, sourced from FBI Special Agent D.K. Brown in Cleveland, described a round, phosphorescent object appearing nine inches in diameter from ground level, traveling at heading 90 degrees at an altitude of 6 to 8 miles, witnessed by New York Central System employees and a patrolman.
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Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894 compiles sighting reports, media clippings, and investigative memos covering incidents from 1947 through 1968. Reported incidents include American Airlines pilot Capt. Peter Killian's account of three shining saucer-like objects trailing his DC6 for 45 minutes in February 1958, the Coast Guard cutter Sebago tracking an object on radar for 27 minutes in the Gulf of Mexico at an estimated 1,000 miles per hour, and grain buyer R. O. Schmidt's claim of encountering a cigar-shaped craft near Kearney, Nebraska, in November 1957.
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Honolulu, Hawaii
On January 28, 1985, the U.S. Embassy in Port Moresby cabled USCINCPAC in Honolulu reporting that Papua New Guinea's National Intelligence Organization had inquired about sightings of high-altitude, high-speed aircraft over PNG on the evening of January 24. The PNG NIO described "various reports of UAP," including fast-moving objects with lights, contrails, and noise, and placed particular credence in an Air Niugini pilot whose radar picked up aircraft flying south to north at high altitude and high speed over Angoram.
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Hotel (location redacted)
An FBI FD-302 documents an October 2023 FaceTime interview with a redacted contractor drone pilot about a September 2023 sighting at a redacted U.S. test site. Around 7:30 AM, while stopped at a gate during a southbound departure for LiDAR tests, the witness saw a metallic gray, wingless linear object with a super bright white light moving east to west at approximately 5,000 feet for five to ten seconds before the light went out and the object vanished. The airspace had been restricted for the drone tests at the time.
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Idaho
FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 collects press clippings, public letters, and internal memos concerning "flying disc" and "flying saucer" reports across the United States in July 1947. Reports include Rev. Joseph Brasky of Grafton, Wisconsin, who told the United Press he found an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and was holding it for the FBI. Civilian Fred R. Reibold wrote to the Bureau describing a flaming circular object that fell in the street in Cornola, Nebraska on July 1, 1947; Director Hoover forwarded that letter to the War Department's Director of Intelligence on August 5, 1947.
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Illinois River area
On July 9, 1947, Raymond Edward Lane, a Dow Chemical Company employee, and his wife Laura reported hearing a puff noise and seeing a ball of white about the size of a bushel basket burning a foot off the ground in a Dow-owned field in Midland, Michigan. Lane brought recovered material to the Dow Physics Laboratory the next day; laboratory examination found ordinary sand, a small silver nugget, melted sand droplets giving off ammonia odor, and a grayish radioactive material. The FBI Detroit Division reported the incident to the Director on August 5, 1947, and recommended forwarding the material to the War Department.
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Independence, Missouri
On November 20, 1957, the FBI Legal Attache in Havana reported that Jose Maria Nieto and Carmelo Guzman had told the Havana newspaper Diario de la Marina they saw a flying disc in the shape of a man's hat hovering silently over Matahambre, Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba, before it disappeared at high speed toward the sea. An FBI memo dated November 12, 1957, from R. R. Roach to A. H. Belmont noted a surge in flying saucer and UFO reports across the United States following the Soviet release of Sputnik, which Air Force Intelligence told the Bureau were all resolved as nonauthentic.
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Indistinct mountain range (visible at bottom of sensor frame)
The FBI submitted a still image derived from a U.S. military system to AARO in 2025, depicting a UAP over the Western United States. The grayscale sensor frame shows a centered crosshair reticle with scale markings, a small dark circular object just to the top right of the reticle center, and a faint mountain range at the bottom. The imagery was redacted before submission, no mission report was provided, and the operator reported being unable to positively identify the UAP. The burned-in timestamp reads 12/31/99 18:10:50 but is acknowledged as incorrect due to the system clock not being set.
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INDOPACOM AOR
An Information Disclosure Analyst from the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security sent an email confirming that tearlines from a mission report were approved at the UNCLASSIFIED level. The tearlines state that a US aircraft observed one possible UAP for 12 seconds at 2353Z on 10 April 2025, and one possible UAP for 23 seconds at 0007Z on 11 April 2025, both at unknown altitude and speed, with no interference noted. A PAROC Intel Data Analysis Technician at 12 AF/DET 3 confirmed with the observing unit that the tearlines and the INDOPACOM AOR designation were both UNCLASSIFIED.
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Iran (operational area)
A U.S. Air Force aircraft from the 482nd Attack Squadron filed MISREP 5039166 reporting two UAP observed on November 2, 2020, over the Arabian Gulf area during a NAVCENT support mission. The first UAP was observed at 2143Z; the second was observed at 2148Z traveling northwest, captured via Full Motion Video while the aircraft flew at FL220. The document was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 16 March 2026.
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Iraq
In May 2022, U.S. Central Command submitted a UAP report to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office consisting of a still image from a U.S. military system. The original reporter digitally altered the image by adding a red encircling line before submission, and the operator reported being unable to positively identify the UAP. A companion mission report, DoW-UAP-D12, described the UAP as moving from north to northeast.
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IVO 34SCE7566990098
A U.S. military Mission Report from 2020 documents two UAP observations in the Arabian Gulf. At 1354Z, a redacted observer reported 1 UAP traveling at 40 knots between FL160 and FL170 at constant speed. At 2243Z, the same or another redacted observer reported 2 possible UAPs with an estimated velocity of 278 knots that increased speed and changed direction towards the south. Pages 1 through 4 are not reproduced in the available source text.
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IVO 35SQT3423692957
A U.S. military operator reported observing two round, white hot UAPs moving south at approximately 240 nautical miles per hour near grid coordinate 35SQT3423692957 in the Mediterranean Sea at 1653Z in 2025. The report is a MISREP filed with AARO, originating from Djibouti. Multiple fields on page 7 are redacted under exemption 1.4(a), and the exact date of the incident is not specified in the document.
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IVO 35TQK1580995057
A U.S. military Mission Report from 2020 documents two UAP observations in the Arabian Gulf. At 1354Z, a redacted observer reported 1 UAP traveling at 40 knots between FL160 and FL170 at constant speed. At 2243Z, the same or another redacted observer reported 2 possible UAPs with an estimated velocity of 278 knots that increased speed and changed direction towards the south. Pages 1 through 4 are not reproduced in the available source text.
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Jackson Heights, New York
On August 4, 1947, Pan American Airways Captain Alpheus O. Powell and navigator Walter I. White separately sighted flying objects near Boston while piloting a Constellation from Gander, Newfoundland to La Guardia Field. Powell described a cylindrical, orange object about the length of a P-40 fuselage travelling at roughly 150 mph; White described a deep gold, elliptical object about 15 feet long travelling easterly at roughly 175 mph. Air Defense Command at Mitchel Field interviewed both men and forwarded the reports to Army Air Forces headquarters.
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Jackson Park Beach, Chicago, Illinois
On July 9, 1947, Raymond Edward Lane, a Dow Chemical Company employee, and his wife Laura reported hearing a puff noise and seeing a ball of white about the size of a bushel basket burning a foot off the ground in a Dow-owned field in Midland, Michigan. Lane brought recovered material to the Dow Physics Laboratory the next day; laboratory examination found ordinary sand, a small silver nugget, melted sand droplets giving off ammonia odor, and a grayish radioactive material. The FBI Detroit Division reported the incident to the Director on August 5, 1947, and recommended forwarding the material to the War Department.
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Jackson, Minnesota
On August 9, 1952, the FBI Savannah field office sent an urgent teletype to Director Hoover reporting that two employees of E. I. Du Pont Company saw a blue light with an orange fringe shaped like a saucer fly over the Four Hundred Area of the Savannah River Plant AEC facility at approximately 9:30 PM on August 8. Between August 11 and August 20, 1952, Hoover forwarded letters from multiple citizens about flying saucers and flying disks to the Director of Special Investigations, The Inspector General, Department of the Air Force.
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Jakarta, Indonesia
On January 28, 1985, the U.S. Embassy in Port Moresby sent a cable to USCINCPAC in Honolulu reporting that Papua New Guinea's National Intelligence Organization had inquired about sightings of high-altitude, high-speed aircraft over PNG on the evening of January 24. The NIO described "various reports of unidentified aerial phenomena," including fast-moving objects with lights, contrails, and noise, and cited an Air Niugini pilot whose radar picked up aircraft flying south to north at high altitude and high speed over Angoram. The Embassy told the NIO it knew of no B-52 overflights and no U.S.
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Jalisco, Mexico
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City reported in a September 16, 2023 cable that Mexican journalist Jaime Maussan presented alleged non-human remains to the Mexican Congress, which pilot witness Graves called an "unsubstantiated stunt" that took away from pilots' UAP experiences. The same cable reported that criminals killed two Guerrero prosecutors within one week: FGR state delegate Fernando Garcia Fernandez, shot from two vehicles in Chilpancingo on September 12, and FGE regional prosecutor Victor Manuel Salas Cuadras, kidnapped and found with approximately 50 gunshot wounds in Coyuca de Catalan on September 9.
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Jefferson, Oregon
On September 23, 1947, Lt. Gen. N. F. Twining of Air Materiel Command at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, transmitted a letter to Headquarters Army Air Forces stating that the flying disc phenomenon "is something real and not visionary or fictitious," describing observed objects as disc-shaped, flying in formations of three to nine at speeds above 300 knots. On December 30, 1947, Maj. Gen. L. C. Craigie directed AMC to establish Project SION, priority 2A, classified "restricted," to collect and distribute flying disc sighting data. Photographs submitted by Mary L.
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Jemez Mountains
A correspondent wrote to James L. Tuck at Los Alamos reporting several sightings of green lights in the Jemez Mountains between 1948 and 1951, typically between 9 and 11 PM, and one afternoon sighting of five objects flying in formation from southeast to northwest over Los Alamos. The writer directed Tuck to Protective Force logs as the record of times and dates, and named redacted Protective Force members as witnesses.
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Joint Operations Center (JOC)
In late 2025, a senior U.S. intelligence officer and two pilots departed a Joint Operations Center by helicopter to investigate loud thuds and UAP sightings over a weapons test range. Hovering at 700 feet AGL, they observed countless orange orbs swarming near a mountain, then two large oval orbs stationary just above the rotor disk that expanded into a "T" formation of four or five before dimming over 10 to 15 seconds. Orange orbs also appeared directly above transiting fighter jets, matching their speed and flight path, and separately formed a triangle formation before vanishing.
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Joshua Tree, California
On October 3, 1966, the FBI Los Angeles Division sent a memo to the FBI Director transmitting Issue No. 24 of Flying Saucers International, the official journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc., edited by Gabriel Green at 2004 N. Hoover St., Los Angeles. The magazine had been delivered to the FBI Philadelphia Division on September 19, 1966, by Jarvis H. Cooper, an IRS employee in Philadelphia, who said pages 2 and 3 contained an article he believed expounded the Communist Party line.
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Kansas City, Kansas
In July, August, and September 1949, and again in January 1950, military and civilian witnesses filed reports under Flight Service Regulation 200-4 describing flying objects over Kansas, Washington, Oregon, Ohio, South Carolina, and New York. Objects were described variously as dish-shaped, circular, and cylindrical, with reported speeds exceeding that of a B-29 and, in one case, an orange and white flame exhaust more than twice the length of the object. Reports were submitted by Lowry, Olmsted, McChord, Maxwell, and Wright-Patterson Flight Service Centers to the Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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Kansas City, Missouri
On November 20, 1957, the FBI Legal Attache in Havana reported that Jose Maria Nieto and Carmelo Guzman had told the Havana newspaper Diario de la Marina they saw a flying disc in the shape of a man's hat hovering silently over Matahambre, Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba, before it disappeared at high speed toward the sea. An FBI memo dated November 12, 1957, from R. R. Roach to A. H. Belmont noted a surge in flying saucer and UFO reports across the United States following the Soviet release of Sputnik, which Air Force Intelligence told the Bureau were all resolved as nonauthentic.
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Kazakhstan
On January 27, 1994, the crew of a Tajik Air 747SP at latitude 45 North, longitude 55 East over Kazakhstan reported encountering a bright light of enormous intensity that approached from the east at great speed and higher altitude, then maneuvered in circles, corkscrews, and 90-degree turns for approximately forty minutes. Captain Ed Rhodes photographed the object with a pocket Olympus camera and intended to send copies to the U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe and the Tajikistan Desk contact Lowry Taylor.
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Kearney, Nebraska
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894 compiles sighting reports, media clippings, and investigative memos covering incidents from 1947 through 1968. Reported incidents include American Airlines pilot Capt. Peter Killian's account of three shining saucer-like objects trailing his DC6 for 45 minutes in February 1958, the Coast Guard cutter Sebago tracking an object on radar for 27 minutes in the Gulf of Mexico at an estimated 1,000 miles per hour, and grain buyer R. O. Schmidt's claim of encountering a cigar-shaped craft near Kearney, Nebraska, in November 1957.
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Kelso, Washington
On August 25, 1947, Lt. Col. Donald L. Springer of Headquarters Fourth Air Force, A-2 Intelligence, Hamilton Field, forwarded to the FBI SAC in San Francisco a letter from F. M. Johnson, a prospector who wrote from Portland, Oregon on August 20, 1947, reporting that he had observed flying discs in the Ft. Adams district on June 24, 1947, the same date as the Kenneth Arnold sighting. Johnson described the objects as round, about 30 feet in diameter, tapering to a point at the head end, with a bright top surface, no engine noise, and a tail object shifting side to side like a big magnet.
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Kelso, Washington (46°8'N, 122°55'W)
On August 25, 1947, Lt. Col. Donald L. Springer of Fourth Air Force A-2 Intelligence at Hamilton Field forwarded a letter from F. M. Johnson, a Portland, Oregon prospector, to the FBI SAC in San Francisco. Johnson wrote that on June 24, 1947, in the Ft. Adams district, he observed round flying objects approximately 30 feet in diameter, traveling at high speed and making no noise, last seen banking on edge into a cloud. Springer noted the similarity to Kenneth Arnold's report while raising the possibility that Johnson had read about Arnold in the newspapers.
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Kentucky
FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 collects press clippings, public letters, and internal memos concerning "flying disc" and "flying saucer" reports across the United States in July 1947. Reports include Rev. Joseph Brasky of Grafton, Wisconsin, who told the United Press he found an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and was holding it for the FBI. Civilian Fred R. Reibold wrote to the Bureau describing a flaming circular object that fell in the street in Cornola, Nebraska on July 1, 1947; Director Hoover forwarded that letter to the War Department's Director of Intelligence on August 5, 1947.
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Kholomia (town, 7 kilometers W of airfield)
On 4 November 1948, USAFE transmitted intelligence cable TT #1524 to General Cabell and the USAF Directorate of Intelligence. Three crews of the 307th Bomb Group had sighted an aircraft on 5 September 1948 off the west coast of Holland at 30,000 feet, assessed as a single jet-propelled aircraft employing probable rocket assists, rated B-2. The cable also reported a flying saucer hovering over Neubiberg Air Base for about thirty minutes, and relayed the Swedish Air Intelligence Service's conclusion that such phenomena "cannot be credited to any presently known culture on earth."
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Kholomia Airfield (5 KM W of Airfield, near the town of Kholomia)
On 4 November 1948, USAFE transmitted intelligence cable TT #1524 to General Cabell and the USAF Directorate of Intelligence. Three crews of the 307th Bomb Group had sighted an aircraft on 5 September 1948 off the west coast of Holland at 30,000 feet, assessed as a single jet-propelled aircraft employing probable rocket assists, rated B-2. The cable also reported a flying saucer hovering over Neubiberg Air Base for about thirty minutes, and relayed the Swedish Air Intelligence Service's conclusion that such phenomena "cannot be credited to any presently known culture on earth."
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Kiev, USSR
Air Intelligence Information Report IR 193-55, dated 14 October 1955 and prepared by Lt. Col. Thomas S. Ryan of the U.S. Air Attache office in Prague, documents an eyewitness account of two round, circular unconventional aircraft resembling flying saucers seen at 1910 hours on 1 October 1955 between Atjaty and Adzhijabul in the Trans-Caucasus region of the USSR. Senator Richard Russell, Lt. Col. E.U. Hathaway, and Mr. Ruben Efron observed the disc aircraft ascending almost vertically one minute apart, with outer surfaces revolving slowly to the right, two stationary lights near the top, and sparks or flame from the bottom.
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Killbox 89AS
A U.S. Air Force reconnaissance asset from the 196 ATKS, operating over Iraq under Operation INHERENT RESOLVE, observed one UAP at 2043Z on 20 May 2022 flying north to northeast. The screener followed the UAP as long as possible but could not get a positive ID. The report, Misrep undefined-7528881, was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 8 October 2025, and approved for release to AARO.
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Knoxville, Tennessee
In July 1947, a resident identified in the newspaper as Mr. Presley, of 218 Illinois Avenue, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, photographed what the Knoxville News-Sentinel called a "Flying Saucer" while using the last frame on a roll of film he had been shooting of his family and house. The newspaper reported this was the first time such an object had been photographed over Oak Ridge, and noted that many residents had previously reported seeing "the things." The FBI Knoxville Field Office forwarded two photographs and a photostatic copy of the newspaper clipping to FBI Headquarters under Knoxville File 65-11, categorized as Internal Security.
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Kodori Gorge, Georgia
A confidential cable sent October 30, 2001, from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to the State Department reports that Deputy Foreign Minister Mamedov, citing the Russian Ministry of Defense, categorically denied that Russian planes flew over or bombed positions in the Kodori Gorge on October 28 and 29, despite Georgian accusations. MFA Georgia Desk Chief Tereoken echoed the denial but added that "any side" could have sent planes over Kodori, prompting the embassy to comment that "to posit that they could be UFOs would be humorous if it were not for the seriousness of the violations.
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Korendor (claimed planet, ~400 light years distant)
On October 3, 1966, the FBI Director sent a memo to the SAC in Los Angeles regarding Issue No. 24 of "Flying Saucers International," the official journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc. The Philadelphia Division had received the July 1966 issue on September 19, 1966, from Jarvis H. Cooper, an IRS employee at 401 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, who flagged pages 2 and 3 as expounding the Communist Party line.
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Kork, Germany
In a November 7, 1957 interview conducted by SA Cassius Rathbun, Wladyslaw Krasuski of 5457 Joseph Campau, Detroit, described witnessing a circular vehicle rise vertically from a tarpaulin-enclosed compound near Gut Alt Golssen, approximately 30 miles east of Berlin, circa 1944, while held there as a Polish prisoner of war. The vehicle was circular, 75 to 100 yards in diameter and about 14 feet high, with a rapidly moving middle section producing a continuous blur similar to an aeroplane propeller.
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Kuwait
In May 2022, U.S. Central Command submitted a UAP report to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office consisting of a still image from a U.S. military system. The original reporter digitally altered the image by adding a red encircling line before submission, and the operator reported being unable to positively identify the UAP. A companion mission report, DoW-UAP-D12, described the UAP as moving from north to northeast.
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La Guardia Field, New York
On 4 August 1947 at 1600 EDT, Pan American Airways Captain Alpheus O. Powell and navigator Walter I. White separately sighted flying objects near Boston while piloting a Constellation from Gander, Newfoundland to La Guardia Field. Powell described his object as cylindrical, blunt at both ends, roughly the length of a P-40 fuselage, and bright orange; White described his as elliptical, deep gold, and approximately 15 feet long. Air Defense Command at Mitchel Field, New York interviewed both men and issued summaries of information on 12 and 15 September 1947.
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Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894 compiles sighting reports, media clippings, and investigative memos covering incidents from 1947 through 1968. Reported incidents include American Airlines pilot Capt. Peter Killian's account of three shining saucer-like objects trailing his DC6 for 45 minutes in February 1958, the Coast Guard cutter Sebago tracking an object on radar for 27 minutes in the Gulf of Mexico at an estimated 1,000 miles per hour, and grain buyer R. O. Schmidt's claim of encountering a cigar-shaped craft near Kearney, Nebraska, in November 1957.
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Laigle (meteorite shower reference)
On April 30, 2001, Carol Rosin and Jon Cypher sent a letter to a NASA official identified only as "Dan," announcing a Friday meeting and promising to deliver a package at no cost to NASA. A follow-up note, written on Renaissance Hotel stationery, transmitted the French COMETA report "UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?," originally published in July 1999 by G.S. Presse Communication. Rosin noted in her letter that she had served as spokesperson for Wernher von Braun during the last years of his life and had founded the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space in 1983.
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Laigle, France
On April 30, 2001, Carol Rosin and Jon Cypher wrote from Ventura, California to a NASA official named Dan, enclosing the French COMETA Report, titled "UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?" A follow-up hotel note from Cypher directed Dan to the preface, a radar section starting around page 62, testimony from John Callahan, and a entry for Enrique Kolbeck, Senior Air Traffic Controller at Mexico City International Airport, at page 105. Cypher corrected an earlier statement, noting the COMETA Report is a private, not government, document.
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Lake Michigan
On July 9, 1947, Raymond Edward Lane, a Dow Chemical Company employee, and his wife Laura reported hearing a puff noise and seeing a ball of white about the size of a bushel basket burning a foot off the ground in a Dow-owned field in Midland, Michigan. Lane brought recovered material to the Dow Physics Laboratory the next day; laboratory examination found ordinary sand, a small silver nugget, melted sand droplets giving off ammonia odor, and a grayish radioactive material. The FBI Detroit Division reported the incident to the Director on August 5, 1947, and recommended forwarding the material to the War Department.
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Lake Michigan, Jackson Park Beach, Chicago
FBI agents in the Newark Division interviewed witnesses to a flying disc sighting at Hackensack, New Jersey on August 3, 1947. Separately, the Detroit office reported that Raymond Edward Lane, a Dow Chemical Company employee, brought fused sand material to the Dow Physics Laboratory on July 10, 1947, after he and his wife observed a ball of white about the size of a bushel basket burning a foot off the ground in a Dow field near Midland, Michigan. The material was found to contain ordinary sand giving off ammonia gas, a small silver nugget, and a grayish substance described as radio active at an extremely low level.
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Lake St. Clair
FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 collects press clippings, public letters, and internal memos concerning "flying disc" and "flying saucer" reports across the United States in July 1947. Reports include Rev. Joseph Brasky of Grafton, Wisconsin, who told the United Press he found an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and was holding it for the FBI. Civilian Fred R. Reibold wrote to the Bureau describing a flaming circular object that fell in the street in Cornola, Nebraska on July 1, 1947; Director Hoover forwarded that letter to the War Department's Director of Intelligence on August 5, 1947.
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Lamphere Street, Detroit, Michigan
David Weaver, age 23, of 15801 Decosta, Detroit, Michigan, telephoned the FBI Detroit office at 4:08 A.M. on April 17, 1958, to report seeing a circular object with a crystal-type dome that reflected lights. He said the object traveled from the southwest in a northern direction, crossing the city three blocks south of Six Mile Road at Lamphere Street. Weaver told the FBI he had first tried to reach Selfridge Field Air Force base but could not get through, and that he was on his way home from work when he saw the object. SA Robert Ross Reynolds authored the memorandum to SAC Detroit and recommended notifying Air Force authorities.
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Large cave entrance in mountain range
In late 2025, a senior U.S. intelligence officer and two pilots departed a Joint Operations Center by helicopter to investigate loud thuds and UAP sightings over a weapons test range. Hovering at 700 feet AGL, they observed countless orange orbs swarming near a mountain, then two large oval orbs stationary just above the rotor disk that expanded into a "T" formation of four or five before dimming over 10 to 15 seconds. Orange orbs also appeared directly above transiting fighter jets, matching their speed and flight path, and separately formed a triangle formation before vanishing.
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Latakia Naval Headquarters (36SYE531.4a361.4a)
A U.S. Air Force ISR asset took off from Sigonella Airbase on 29 May 2022 and conducted IMINT over the Eastern Mediterranean under Operation HUMMER SICKLE. At 0117Z on 30 May 2022, the screener observed one possible small UAP flying north to northeast and followed it as long as possible but could not get a positive ID. No UAP signatures were recorded. The report was approved for release to AARO and declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 8 October 2025.
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Latitude 45 North, Longitude 55 East
On January 27, 1994, the crew of a Tajik Air 747SP at latitude 45 North, longitude 55 East over Kazakhstan reported encountering a bright light of enormous intensity that approached from the east at great speed and higher altitude, then maneuvered in circles, corkscrews, and 90-degree turns for approximately forty minutes. Captain Ed Rhodes photographed the object with a pocket Olympus camera and intended to send copies to the U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe and the Tajikistan Desk contact Lowry Taylor.
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Laurachbaden, Germany
In a November 7, 1957 interview conducted by SA Cassius Rathbun, Wladyslaw Krasuski of 5457 Joseph Campau, Detroit, described witnessing a circular vehicle rise vertically from a tarpaulin-enclosed compound near Gut Alt Golssen, approximately 30 miles east of Berlin, circa 1944, while held there as a Polish prisoner of war. The vehicle was circular, 75 to 100 yards in diameter and about 14 feet high, with a rapidly moving middle section producing a continuous blur similar to an aeroplane propeller.
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Levallois-Perret Cedex
On April 30, 2001, Carol Rosin and Jon Cypher sent a letter to a NASA official identified only as "Dan," announcing a Friday meeting and promising to deliver a package at no cost to NASA. A follow-up note, written on Renaissance Hotel stationery, transmitted the French COMETA report "UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?," originally published in July 1999 by G.S. Presse Communication. Rosin noted in her letter that she had served as spokesperson for Wernher von Braun during the last years of his life and had founded the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space in 1983.
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Levallois-Perret, France
On April 30, 2001, Carol Rosin and Jon Cypher wrote from Ventura, California to a NASA official named Dan, enclosing the French COMETA Report, titled "UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?" A follow-up hotel note from Cypher directed Dan to the preface, a radar section starting around page 62, testimony from John Callahan, and a entry for Enrique Kolbeck, Senior Air Traffic Controller at Mexico City International Airport, at page 105. Cypher corrected an earlier statement, noting the COMETA Report is a private, not government, document.
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LF-10
The 30th Space Wing Office of History compiled a launch summary covering all launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base from 1958 through 2000. The document defines launch vehicle types, test categories, and program abbreviations, and lists military and contractor recipients including Aerospace Corporation, Boeing Defense and Space Group, ITT Federal Services Corporation, and TRW. The report was dated February 3, 2000, and released by the Department of War.
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LF-21
The 30th Space Wing Office of History compiled a launch summary covering all launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base from 1958 through 2000. The document defines launch vehicle types, test categories, and program abbreviations, and lists military and contractor recipients including Aerospace Corporation, Boeing Defense and Space Group, ITT Federal Services Corporation, and TRW. The report was dated February 3, 2000, and released by the Department of War.
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LF-23
The 30th Space Wing Office of History compiled a launch summary covering all launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base from 1958 through 2000. The document defines launch vehicle types, test categories, and program abbreviations, and lists military and contractor recipients including Aerospace Corporation, Boeing Defense and Space Group, ITT Federal Services Corporation, and TRW. The report was dated February 3, 2000, and released by the Department of War.
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LGLR (airfield, takeoff and landing point)
A U.S. Air Force aircrew filed MISREP 9337873 reporting that on 29 October 2023 at 0811Z, while returning to base over the Aegean Sea, they spotted a UAP flying just above the ocean surface and moving straight toward land. The UAP was described as seemingly circular, too small to make out details, solid, and traveling at an estimated 30 MPH; it was lost from their sensor feed at 0811Z. The observer assessed the UAP as benign and not under intelligent control. The report was declassified on 22 January 2026 by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff.
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LGLR (airfield)
A U.S. Air Force Senior Airman assigned to 33 SOS observed one UAP over the Mediterranean Sea on January 25, 2024, at 0509Z while in transit from LGLR. The observer reported the UAP was diamond-shaped with a non-maneuvering probe at the bottom, flying at approximately 434 knots, and visible only on the SWIR camera. The event lasted approximately two minutes, ending at 0511Z without further incident. The report, classified SECRET and originating under USCENTCOM, was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison on October 24, 2025, and approved for release to AARO on October 28, 2025.
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LGLR (takeoff location, ICAO)
On October 27, 2023, a U.S. Air Force ISR asset from the 33rd Special Operations Squadron observed a UAP flying just above the surface of the ocean water in the Aegean Sea at 0035Z. The UAP was described as seemingly circular and too small to make out details, taking multiple 90-degree turns at an estimated 80 mph. The asset lost the UAP from their feed at 0038Z. The report was filed as MISREP 9329374 and declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 22 January 2026.
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Lily Lake, Illinois
On July 9, 1947, Raymond Edward Lane, a Dow Chemical Company employee, and his wife Laura reported hearing a puff noise and seeing a ball of white about the size of a bushel basket burning a foot off the ground in a Dow-owned field in Midland, Michigan. Lane brought recovered material to the Dow Physics Laboratory the next day; laboratory examination found ordinary sand, a small silver nugget, melted sand droplets giving off ammonia odor, and a grayish radioactive material. The FBI Detroit Division reported the incident to the Director on August 5, 1947, and recommended forwarding the material to the War Department.
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Location not further specified (incidentLocation null in manifest)
On October 27, 2020, at 01:12:21 Zulu, an O-3 pilot from 77 EFS filed a Range Fouler Debrief reporting two contacts at 26,000 feet, described as balloon-shaped, metallic, reflective, and visually tallied as "2x red blinking strobes." The target pod showed two IR significant contacts, with one range fouler circling the other, and noise jamming was received, indicated by two chevrons. The operator could not close within 16.9 NM, and "in 1/30th of a second, they were gone."
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Lockbourne AFB, Columbus, Ohio
In July, August, and September 1949, and again in January 1950, military and civilian witnesses filed reports under Flight Service Regulation 200-4 describing flying objects over Kansas, Washington, Oregon, Ohio, South Carolina, and New York. Objects were described variously as dish-shaped, circular, and cylindrical, with reported speeds exceeding that of a B-29 and, in one case, an orange and white flame exhaust more than twice the length of the object. Reports were submitted by Lowry, Olmsted, McChord, Maxwell, and Wright-Patterson Flight Service Centers to the Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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Long Beach Air Force Base, California
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894 compiles sighting reports, media clippings, and investigative memos covering incidents from 1947 through 1968. Reported incidents include American Airlines pilot Capt. Peter Killian's account of three shining saucer-like objects trailing his DC6 for 45 minutes in February 1958, the Coast Guard cutter Sebago tracking an object on radar for 27 minutes in the Gulf of Mexico at an estimated 1,000 miles per hour, and grain buyer R. O. Schmidt's claim of encountering a cigar-shaped craft near Kearney, Nebraska, in November 1957.
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Long Beach, California
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894 compiles sighting reports, media clippings, and investigative memos covering incidents from 1947 through 1968. Reported incidents include American Airlines pilot Capt. Peter Killian's account of three shining saucer-like objects trailing his DC6 for 45 minutes in February 1958, the Coast Guard cutter Sebago tracking an object on radar for 27 minutes in the Gulf of Mexico at an estimated 1,000 miles per hour, and grain buyer R. O. Schmidt's claim of encountering a cigar-shaped craft near Kearney, Nebraska, in November 1957.
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Los Alamos Project
On July 9, 1947, Raymond Edward Lane, a Dow Chemical Company employee, and his wife Laura reported hearing a puff noise and seeing a ball of white about the size of a bushel basket burning a foot off the ground in a Dow-owned field in Midland, Michigan. Lane brought recovered material to the Dow Physics Laboratory the next day; laboratory examination found ordinary sand, a small silver nugget, melted sand droplets giving off ammonia odor, and a grayish radioactive material. The FBI Detroit Division reported the incident to the Director on August 5, 1947, and recommended forwarding the material to the War Department.
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Los Alamos, New Mexico
A correspondent wrote to James L. Tuck at Los Alamos reporting several sightings of green lights in the Jemez Mountains between 1948 and 1951, typically between 9 and 11 PM, and one afternoon sighting of five objects flying in formation from southeast to northwest over Los Alamos. The writer directed Tuck to Protective Force logs as the record of times and dates, and named redacted Protective Force members as witnesses.
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Los Alamos, New Mexico (referenced landing approach)
Headquarters Air Material Command, Dayton, Ohio transmitted Incident Summary Sheets 173 through 233 on March 9, 1949, covering sightings from September 1945 through October 1948. Observers in Louisiana, New Mexico, and California reported objects described variously as aluminum-colored and metallic, cone-shaped and encased in flame, perfectly circular and flat, bright silvery and egg-shaped, and amoeba-like with oscillating appendages. The summary sheets record no determination of what the objects were.
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Los Alamos, NM
A May 20, 1986 newsletter from the Pajarito Astronomers of Los Alamos, New Mexico announces a club meeting scheduled for May 29, 1986, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ranch Room at Fuller Lodge. Guest speaker Dr. John Warren of AT-6 was to address the topic "Why Should a Scientist be Concerned about UFO's?" The newsletter's closing signature block is redacted, with two lines blacked out following "Sincerely."
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Los Angeles, California
On October 3, 1966, the FBI Los Angeles Division sent a memo to the FBI Director transmitting Issue No. 24 of Flying Saucers International, the official journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc., edited by Gabriel Green at 2004 N. Hoover St., Los Angeles. The magazine had been delivered to the FBI Philadelphia Division on September 19, 1966, by Jarvis H. Cooper, an IRS employee in Philadelphia, who said pages 2 and 3 contained an article he believed expounded the Communist Party line.
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Los Angeles, California 90027
In August 1966, Mrs. Florence C. Dow of Goffstown, New Hampshire wrote to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover stating she had paid $3.00 for a subscription to the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America publication and, after reading her first issue, suspected the organization was backed by Communists. She enclosed the AFSCA 3rd National Flying Saucer Convention program for Reno, Nevada, July 8-10, 1966, and a copy of Flying Saucers International, Issue No. 24. Hoover replied on September 6, 1966, and an internal FBI note recorded that bureau files contained no record of Mrs. Dow or the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America.
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Low Earth Orbit
At 4 hours 24 minutes into the Gemini 7 flight in December 1965, Commander Frank Borman reported "a bogey at ten o'clock high" to Houston, confirmed it as "an actual sighting," and described hundreds of small particles passing to the left at three to four miles, traveling at 90 degrees to the vehicle's path and going into polar orbit. Pilot James Lovell separately identified the Titan II booster at the two o'clock position as a brilliant, slowly tumbling body with trillions of particles on it.
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Lowry Air Force Base, Denver, Colorado
In July, August, and September 1949, and again in January 1950, military and civilian witnesses filed reports under Flight Service Regulation 200-4 describing flying objects over Kansas, Washington, Oregon, Ohio, South Carolina, and New York. Objects were described variously as dish-shaped, circular, and cylindrical, with reported speeds exceeding that of a B-29 and, in one case, an orange and white flame exhaust more than twice the length of the object. Reports were submitted by Lowry, Olmsted, McChord, Maxwell, and Wright-Patterson Flight Service Centers to the Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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LRCT (landing airfield)
A U.S. Air Force ISR asset took off from Sigonella Airbase on 29 May 2022 and conducted IMINT over the Eastern Mediterranean under Operation HUMMER SICKLE. At 0117Z on 30 May 2022, the screener observed one possible small UAP flying north to northeast and followed it as long as possible but could not get a positive ID. No UAP signatures were recorded. The report was approved for release to AARO and declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 8 October 2025.
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Lunar Module Intrepid
In November 1969, during Apollo 12's fifth mission day, Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean reported an "all s flash" pulsing every second on both the address and information registers of the AGS, at about one-fifth the brilliance of the normal numbers. Houston attributed the phenomenon to EMI, citing similar observations during ground testing of spacecraft at Bethpage. On the sixth day, Command Module Pilot Dick Gordon reported that the Lunar Module Intrepid's blinking tracking light had stopped blinking and he could not acquire Intrepid in the sextant.
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Lunar orbit
During the Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing on July 31, 1969, Buzz Aldrin described three observations from the mission. Approximately one day from the Moon, the crew spotted an object of sizeable dimension that appeared L-shaped through the monocular and like a hollow cylinder through the sextant; ground control confirmed the S-IVB stage was 6,000 miles away, and the crew reached no conclusion about the object's size, range, or identity. Aldrin also reported recurring small flashes of light inside the darkened cabin, spaced roughly a minute apart, which he guessed were caused by some penetration of an object into the spacecraft.
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Lunar surface
At the Apollo 17 Technical Crew Debriefing on January 4, 1973, Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt told NASA debriefers that the crew had light flashes "just about continuously during the whole flight" when dark adapted, and that he believed one was a flash on the lunar surface. Schmitt noted no flashes were visible to himself or the other two crewmen during the ALFMED blindfold experiment interval, though the flashes resumed for him before sleep that same night. Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans separately described seeing a fireball through the rendezvous window that appeared as "a tunnel with a bright spot in the middle."
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Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas
Excerpts from three NASA Skylab technical crew debriefings, dated June 30, 1973, October 4, 1973, and February 22, 1974, record crew observations of light flashes, a bright reddish rotating object, and flashing lights outside the station. Science Pilot Joseph Kerwin reported that all three Skylab 2 crew members saw light flashes, possibly linked to the South Atlantic anomaly. Science Pilot Owen Garriott reported that the Skylab 3 crew tracked a bright reddish rotating satellite in a very similar orbit for 5 to 10 minutes; Garriott stated no one ever explained its identity.
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MacDill AFB, Florida
On November 5, 2004, the U.S. Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission and USAID Director met with the Board of the Union of UFOlogists of Turkmenabat in Lebap Welayet, Turkmenistan. UOU President Ovezberdy Muradov stated that Turkmen military and government authorities had consulted him about mysterious occurrences in Turkmen airspace, but said there had been no confirmed sightings of UFOs in Turkmenistan. The cable, transmitted November 12, 2004 and signed by Jacobson, describes the UOU as a USAID grant recipient and the first independent NGO registered in post-Soviet Turkmenistan.
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MacDill Field, Florida
On August 25, 1947, Lt. Col. Donald L. Springer of Headquarters Fourth Air Force, A-2 Intelligence, Hamilton Field, forwarded to the FBI SAC in San Francisco a letter from F. M. Johnson, a prospector who wrote from Portland, Oregon on August 20, 1947, reporting that he had observed flying discs in the Ft. Adams district on June 24, 1947, the same date as the Kenneth Arnold sighting. Johnson described the objects as round, about 30 feet in diameter, tapering to a point at the head end, with a bright top surface, no engine noise, and a tail object shifting side to side like a big magnet.
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Macedonia
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City reported in a September 16, 2023 cable that Mexican journalist Jaime Maussan presented alleged non-human remains to the Mexican Congress, which pilot witness Graves called an "unsubstantiated stunt" that took away from pilots' UAP experiences. The same cable reported that criminals killed two Guerrero prosecutors within one week: FGR state delegate Fernando Garcia Fernandez, shot from two vehicles in Chilpancingo on September 12, and FGE regional prosecutor Victor Manuel Salas Cuadras, kidnapped and found with approximately 50 gunshot wounds in Coyuca de Catalan on September 9.
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Main Navy Building, Room 2912, Washington D.C.
In July and August 1954, the FBI Cincinnati Field Office and Washington Field Office filed memos concerning two separate matters. The Cincinnati memo, dated July 22, 1954, reported on informant Thomas Eickhoff's account of a planned flying saucer lecture at Taft Auditorium in Cincinnati by Truman Bethurum and George Hunt Williamson, which Eickhoff suspected might be fraudulent. The Washington memo, dated August 2, 1954, reported Navy Security Officer John Hutson's account of Mrs.
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Main Navy Building, Washington, D.C.
In July and August 1954, the FBI Cincinnati Field Office and Washington Field Office documented reports from civilian informant Thomas Eickhoff concerning flying saucer lecturers Truman Bethurum and George Hunt Williamson, and from Navy Security Officer John Hutson concerning Frances Swan's claimed thought transmission contact with beings designated "AFFA" and "PONNAR," commanders of ships M-4 and L-11. Eickhoff reported attending a luncheon at the Terrace Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati on June 7, 1954, where Bethurum and Williamson stated their story was factual and consented to government scrutiny.
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Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas
At the Apollo 17 Technical Crew Debriefing on January 4, 1973, Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt told NASA debriefers that the crew had light flashes "just about continuously during the whole flight" when dark adapted, and that he believed one was a flash on the lunar surface. Schmitt noted no flashes were visible to himself or the other two crewmen during the ALFMED blindfold experiment interval, though the flashes resumed for him before sleep that same night. Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans separately described seeing a fireball through the rendezvous window that appeared as "a tunnel with a bright spot in the middle."
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Mars
On July 18, 1963, Maxwell W. Hunter II of the National Aeronautics and Space Council sent a memorandum to Robert F. Packard at the State Department's Office of International Scientific Affairs, titled "Thoughts on the Space Alien Race Question." The memo outlines three types of potential alien contact scenarios and argues that diplomatic policy would need to differ for each, ranging from chemical-propulsion Martians to a faster-than-light race, for which Hunter writes "our policy had better be to negotiate fast.
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Maryland
Serial 403 of FBI case 62-HQ-83894 consists of the dust jacket and promotional text from Gray Barker's 1956 book "They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers," published by University Books, Inc. of New York. The jacket text states that flying saucer researchers who challenged government denial were silenced after visits from "three men in dark suits," and that Barker began his research in 1952 after a flying saucer allegedly landed near his home in Clarksburg, West Virginia. Barker is identified as a Clarksburg businessman who also published a flying saucer periodical called The Saucerian.
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Matahambre, Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba
On November 20, 1957, the FBI Legal Attache in Havana reported that Jose Maria Nieto and Carmelo Guzman had told the Havana newspaper Diario de la Marina they saw a flying disc in the shape of a man's hat hovering silently over Matahambre, Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba, before it disappeared at high speed toward the sea. An FBI memo dated November 12, 1957, from R. R. Roach to A. H. Belmont noted a surge in flying saucer and UFO reports across the United States following the Soviet release of Sputnik, which Air Force Intelligence told the Bureau were all resolved as nonauthentic.
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Mauston, Wisconsin
On August 9, 1952, the FBI Savannah field office sent an urgent teletype to Director Hoover reporting that two employees of E. I. Du Pont Company saw a blue light with an orange fringe shaped like a saucer fly over the Four Hundred Area of the Savannah River Plant AEC facility at approximately 9:30 PM on August 8. Between August 11 and August 20, 1952, Hoover forwarded letters from multiple citizens about flying saucers and flying disks to the Director of Special Investigations, The Inspector General, Department of the Air Force.
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Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama
In July, August, and September 1949, and again in January 1950, military and civilian witnesses filed reports under Flight Service Regulation 200-4 describing flying objects over Kansas, Washington, Oregon, Ohio, South Carolina, and New York. Objects were described variously as dish-shaped, circular, and cylindrical, with reported speeds exceeding that of a B-29 and, in one case, an orange and white flame exhaust more than twice the length of the object. Reports were submitted by Lowry, Olmsted, McChord, Maxwell, and Wright-Patterson Flight Service Centers to the Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama
Headquarters Eleventh Air Force forwarded a report to USAF Headquarters and Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in May and June 1948 documenting a flying disc sighting at Hobson, Ohio on the night of 8 May 1948. The report, sourced from FBI Special Agent D.K. Brown in Cleveland, described a round, phosphorescent object appearing nine inches in diameter from ground level, traveling at heading 90 degrees at an altitude of 6 to 8 miles, witnessed by New York Central System employees and a patrolman.
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Maxwell Field, Alabama
On August 4, 1947, Pan American Airways Captain Alpheus O. Powell and navigator Walter I. White separately sighted flying objects near Boston while piloting a Constellation from Gander, Newfoundland to La Guardia Field. Powell described a cylindrical, orange object about the length of a P-40 fuselage travelling at roughly 150 mph; White described a deep gold, elliptical object about 15 feet long travelling easterly at roughly 175 mph. Air Defense Command at Mitchel Field interviewed both men and forwarded the reports to Army Air Forces headquarters.
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McChord Air Force Base, Washington
In July, August, and September 1949, and again in January 1950, military and civilian witnesses filed reports under Flight Service Regulation 200-4 describing flying objects over Kansas, Washington, Oregon, Ohio, South Carolina, and New York. Objects were described variously as dish-shaped, circular, and cylindrical, with reported speeds exceeding that of a B-29 and, in one case, an orange and white flame exhaust more than twice the length of the object. Reports were submitted by Lowry, Olmsted, McChord, Maxwell, and Wright-Patterson Flight Service Centers to the Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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McChord Field, Washington
On August 25, 1947, Lt. Col. Donald L. Springer of Headquarters Fourth Air Force, A-2 Intelligence, Hamilton Field, forwarded to the FBI SAC in San Francisco a letter from F. M. Johnson, a prospector who wrote from Portland, Oregon on August 20, 1947, reporting that he had observed flying discs in the Ft. Adams district on June 24, 1947, the same date as the Kenneth Arnold sighting. Johnson described the objects as round, about 30 feet in diameter, tapering to a point at the head end, with a bright top surface, no engine noise, and a tail object shifting side to side like a big magnet.
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Medford, Oregon
In July, August, and September 1949, and again in January 1950, military and civilian witnesses filed reports under Flight Service Regulation 200-4 describing flying objects over Kansas, Washington, Oregon, Ohio, South Carolina, and New York. Objects were described variously as dish-shaped, circular, and cylindrical, with reported speeds exceeding that of a B-29 and, in one case, an orange and white flame exhaust more than twice the length of the object. Reports were submitted by Lowry, Olmsted, McChord, Maxwell, and Wright-Patterson Flight Service Centers to the Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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Mediterranean Sea
A U.S. military operator reported observing two round, white hot UAPs moving south at approximately 240 nautical miles per hour near grid coordinate 35SQT3423692957 in the Mediterranean Sea at 1653Z in 2025. The report is a MISREP filed with AARO, originating from Djibouti. Multiple fields on page 7 are redacted under exemption 1.4(a), and the exact date of the incident is not specified in the document.
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Merlin, Oregon
On October 3, 1966, the FBI Los Angeles Division sent a memo to the FBI Director transmitting Issue No. 24 of Flying Saucers International, the official journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc., edited by Gabriel Green at 2004 N. Hoover St., Los Angeles. The magazine had been delivered to the FBI Philadelphia Division on September 19, 1966, by Jarvis H. Cooper, an IRS employee in Philadelphia, who said pages 2 and 3 contained an article he believed expounded the Communist Party line.
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Mesa Library
A correspondent wrote to James L. Tuck at Los Alamos reporting several sightings of green lights in the Jemez Mountains between 1948 and 1951, typically between 9 and 11 PM, and one afternoon sighting of five objects flying in formation from southeast to northwest over Los Alamos. The writer directed Tuck to Protective Force logs as the record of times and dates, and named redacted Protective Force members as witnesses.
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Mexico City
In August 1966, Mrs. Florence C. Dow of Goffstown, New Hampshire wrote to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover stating she had paid $3.00 for a subscription to the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America publication and, after reading her first issue, suspected the organization was backed by Communists. She enclosed the AFSCA 3rd National Flying Saucer Convention program for Reno, Nevada, July 8-10, 1966, and a copy of Flying Saucers International, Issue No. 24. Hoover replied on September 6, 1966, and an internal FBI note recorded that bureau files contained no record of Mrs. Dow or the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America.
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Mexico City (Mexico, D.F.)
On March 19, 1950, Miguel Angel Garcia Macias, an "Ideographic Inventor" from Veracruz, Mexico, wrote to the President of the Commission of Scientific Investigation of the United States of North America in New York, proposing atomic-powered "stratospheric aerostats" of conic-global form and asserting that the U.S. already possessed flying saucers using atomic force. The letter, postmarked March 20 and received by the FBI New York office by April 7, 1950, included technical drawings and was translated by Mrs. Sophia Saliba. Also enclosed was a clipping from a Mexican newspaper dated March 16, 1950, reporting that German Horacio Robles Jr.
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Mexico City (Mexico, D.F.), Mexico
On March 19, 1950, Miguel Angel Garcia Macias, a self-described Ideographic Inventor from Veracruz, Mexico, wrote to the President of the Commission of Scientific Investigation of the United States of North America in New York, describing "stratospheric aerostats" in a Conic-Global form using Nuclear-Atomic force. The letter was received by the FBI New York Field Office on April 7, 1950, and translated by Mrs. Sophia Saliba.
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Mexico City International Airport
On April 30, 2001, Carol Rosin and Jon Cypher sent a letter to a NASA official identified only as "Dan," announcing a Friday meeting and promising to deliver a package at no cost to NASA. A follow-up note, written on Renaissance Hotel stationery, transmitted the French COMETA report "UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?," originally published in July 1999 by G.S. Presse Communication. Rosin noted in her letter that she had served as spokesperson for Wernher von Braun during the last years of his life and had founded the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space in 1983.
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Mexico City, Mexico
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City reported in a September 16, 2023 cable that Mexican journalist Jaime Maussan presented alleged non-human remains to the Mexican Congress, which pilot witness Graves called an "unsubstantiated stunt" that took away from pilots' UAP experiences. The same cable reported that criminals killed two Guerrero prosecutors within one week: FGR state delegate Fernando Garcia Fernandez, shot from two vehicles in Chilpancingo on September 12, and FGE regional prosecutor Victor Manuel Salas Cuadras, kidnapped and found with approximately 50 gunshot wounds in Coyuca de Catalan on September 9.
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Mexico City, Mexico (Secretaría de Economía Nacional)
On March 19, 1950, Miguel Angel Garcia Macias, a pianist, composer, and self-described ideographic inventor from Veracruz, Mexico, wrote to the President of the Commission of Scientific Investigation of the United States of North America in New York, describing his concept of stratospheric aerostats and attributing flying saucers to U.S. atomic technology. The letter, translated by Mrs. Sophia Saliba, was received by the FBI New York Field Office by April 7, 1950, and filed under case 62-HQ-83894, Serial 220.
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MGRS 38P LT 71 38 (estimated, partially redacted)
On the night of September 4, 2020, an O-3 assigned to 172 ATKS filed a Range Fouler Reporting Form reporting that between 21:09Z and 21:17Z over the Gulf of Aden, the crew tracked a "round, cold object" in IR traveling 168 degrees at 277 mph at 23,819 HAT. The IR sensor was set to "black hot," making the object appear "bright white," and the object "made a few abrupt directional changes" during the eight-minute contact. The form was approved for release to AARO on March 16, 2026, under USCENTCOM document number 26-0028; reporter identity and coordinate fields are redacted.
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MGRS 40Q BD 63 (estimated)
A U.S. Navy O-2 from Squadron 172 ATKS filed a Range Fouler Reporting Form reporting that on October 15, 2020, from 14:18:39Z to 14:19:52Z, while at 19,073 feet HAT over the Gulf of Aden, they tracked "a round, cold object in IR traveling 319 degrees at 20 mph." The object "made a few abrupt directional changes during the 1 minute contact," with the infrared sensor set to black-hot and the object appearing bright white. The form was approved for release to AARO by USCENTCOM on March 27, 2026, and publicly released May 8, 2026; witness identifying information was sanitized per SPEAR policy.
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MGRS Grid 39RWL2011
A U.S. Navy O-2 pilot assigned to 482 ATKS filed a Range Fouler Debrief Form reporting that on August 31, 2020, during a dusk ISR mission over the Arabian Gulf, an object flew through the sensor screen and was then surpassed by a second object of the same size and shape but at much higher speed. At one point three objects were visible simultaneously on the screen, moving amongst each other, at a constant altitude of 18,000 feet on a heading of 150 degrees at 230 knots. The form was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison and approved for release to AARO on March 16, 2026.
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Miami, Florida
On November 20, 1957, the FBI Legal Attache in Havana reported that Jose Maria Nieto and Carmelo Guzman had told the Havana newspaper Diario de la Marina they saw a flying disc in the shape of a man's hat hovering silently over Matahambre, Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba, before it disappeared at high speed toward the sea. An FBI memo dated November 12, 1957, from R. R. Roach to A. H. Belmont noted a surge in flying saucer and UFO reports across the United States following the Soviet release of Sputnik, which Air Force Intelligence told the Bureau were all resolved as nonauthentic.
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Middle East
On the night of 14 May 2020 at 20:40:00 Zulu, a U.S. Navy crew performing an ISR tasking over the Persian Gulf reported that "a solid white object flew through the FOV" and appeared "to make erratic moments above the water." The crew temporarily lost then re-acquired the object, obtained 4x zoom, and lost it again due to poor track placement. All witness identifying information was removed by SPEAR. The document was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, and approved for release to AARO on 26 January 2026.
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Midland County, Michigan
On July 9, 1947, Raymond Edward Lane, a Dow Chemical Company employee, and his wife Laura reported hearing a puff noise and seeing a ball of white about the size of a bushel basket burning a foot off the ground in a Dow-owned field in Midland, Michigan. Lane brought recovered material to the Dow Physics Laboratory the next day; laboratory examination found ordinary sand, a small silver nugget, melted sand droplets giving off ammonia odor, and a grayish radioactive material. The FBI Detroit Division reported the incident to the Director on August 5, 1947, and recommended forwarding the material to the War Department.
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Midland, Michigan
On July 9, 1947, Raymond Edward Lane, a Dow Chemical Company employee, and his wife Laura reported hearing a puff noise and seeing a ball of white about the size of a bushel basket burning a foot off the ground in a Dow-owned field in Midland, Michigan. Lane brought recovered material to the Dow Physics Laboratory the next day; laboratory examination found ordinary sand, a small silver nugget, melted sand droplets giving off ammonia odor, and a grayish radioactive material. The FBI Detroit Division reported the incident to the Director on August 5, 1947, and recommended forwarding the material to the War Department.
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Midland, Texas
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894 compiles sighting reports, media clippings, and investigative memos covering incidents from 1947 through 1968. Reported incidents include American Airlines pilot Capt. Peter Killian's account of three shining saucer-like objects trailing his DC6 for 45 minutes in February 1958, the Coast Guard cutter Sebago tracking an object on radar for 27 minutes in the Gulf of Mexico at an estimated 1,000 miles per hour, and grain buyer R. O. Schmidt's claim of encountering a cigar-shaped craft near Kearney, Nebraska, in November 1957.
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Milheim, Germany
In a November 7, 1957 interview conducted by SA Cassius Rathbun, Wladyslaw Krasuski of 5457 Joseph Campau, Detroit, described witnessing a circular vehicle rise vertically from a tarpaulin-enclosed compound near Gut Alt Golssen, approximately 30 miles east of Berlin, circa 1944, while held there as a Polish prisoner of war. The vehicle was circular, 75 to 100 yards in diameter and about 14 feet high, with a rapidly moving middle section producing a continuous blur similar to an aeroplane propeller.
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin
FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 collects press clippings, public letters, and internal memos concerning "flying disc" and "flying saucer" reports across the United States in July 1947. Reports include Rev. Joseph Brasky of Grafton, Wisconsin, who told the United Press he found an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and was holding it for the FBI. Civilian Fred R. Reibold wrote to the Bureau describing a flaming circular object that fell in the street in Cornola, Nebraska on July 1, 1947; Director Hoover forwarded that letter to the War Department's Director of Intelligence on August 5, 1947.
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Mission Control / Control Center, Houston
At 4 hours 24 minutes into the Gemini 7 flight in December 1965, Commander Frank Borman reported "a bogey at ten o'clock high" to Houston, confirmed it as "an actual sighting," and described hundreds of small particles passing to the left at three to four miles, traveling at 90 degrees to the vehicle's path and going into polar orbit. Pilot James Lovell separately identified the Titan II booster at the two o'clock position as a brilliant, slowly tumbling body with trillions of particles on it.
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Mitchel Field (Air Defense Command)
On August 25, 1947, Lt. Col. Donald L. Springer of Fourth Air Force A-2 Intelligence at Hamilton Field forwarded a letter from F. M. Johnson, a Portland, Oregon prospector, to the FBI SAC in San Francisco. Johnson wrote that on June 24, 1947, in the Ft. Adams district, he observed round flying objects approximately 30 feet in diameter, traveling at high speed and making no noise, last seen banking on edge into a cloud. Springer noted the similarity to Kenneth Arnold's report while raising the possibility that Johnson had read about Arnold in the newspapers.
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Mitchel Field, New York
On 4 August 1947 at 1600 EDT, Pan American Airways Captain Alpheus O. Powell and navigator Walter I. White separately sighted flying objects near Boston while piloting a Constellation from Gander, Newfoundland to La Guardia Field. Powell described his object as cylindrical, blunt at both ends, roughly the length of a P-40 fuselage, and bright orange; White described his as elliptical, deep gold, and approximately 15 feet long. Air Defense Command at Mitchel Field, New York interviewed both men and issued summaries of information on 12 and 15 September 1947.
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Mojave, California
On 8 July 1947, multiple witnesses at Muroc Army Air Field, California reported seeing silver disc-like or spherical objects at approximately 8,000 feet, traveling northwest toward Mojave at 300 to 400 MPH. Witnesses included 1st Lt Joseph C. McHenry, S/Sgt Gerald E. Nauman, T/Sgt Joseph Ruvolo, Jannette Marie Scott, S/Sgt Joseph Ruvero, and Major Richard R. Shoop, whose sighting occurred at approximately noon. The observations are recorded across at least four numbered incident check-lists by the Department of War; Incident #1b is evaluated as "Confirmed by other sources."
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MOM Track (air refuel track)
A two-ship F-15E flight from the 389th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, flying defensive counter-air operations over Syria on February 21, 2023, reported three "poss UAP" near Shaddadi at FL240 at 0025Z, with weapon system video produced and no radar returns received; two of the objects were described as white and IR significant. At 0135Z the same flight reported one "poss balloon" near Shaddadi at FL210, also with weapon system video produced.
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Moon
In November 1969, during Apollo 12's fifth mission day, Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean reported an "all s flash" pulsing every second on both the address and information registers of the AGS, at about one-fifth the brilliance of the normal numbers. Houston attributed the phenomenon to EMI, citing similar observations during ground testing of spacecraft at Bethpage. On the sixth day, Command Module Pilot Dick Gordon reported that the Lunar Module Intrepid's blinking tracking light had stopped blinking and he could not acquire Intrepid in the sextant.
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Moscow
On January 27, 1994, the crew of a Tajik Air 747SP at latitude 45 North, longitude 55 East over Kazakhstan reported encountering a bright light of enormous intensity that approached from the east at great speed and higher altitude, then maneuvered in circles, corkscrews, and 90-degree turns for approximately forty minutes. Captain Ed Rhodes photographed the object with a pocket Olympus camera and intended to send copies to the U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe and the Tajikistan Desk contact Lowry Taylor.
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Moscow, Russia
A confidential cable sent October 30, 2001, from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to the State Department reports that Deputy Foreign Minister Mamedov, citing the Russian Ministry of Defense, categorically denied that Russian planes flew over or bombed positions in the Kodori Gorge on October 28 and 29, despite Georgian accusations. MFA Georgia Desk Chief Tereoken echoed the denial but added that "any side" could have sent planes over Kodori, prompting the embassy to comment that "to posit that they could be UFOs would be humorous if it were not for the seriousness of the violations.
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Moscow, USSR
Headquarters Eleventh Air Force forwarded a report to USAF Headquarters and Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in May and June 1948 documenting a flying disc sighting at Hobson, Ohio on the night of 8 May 1948. The report, sourced from FBI Special Agent D.K. Brown in Cleveland, described a round, phosphorescent object appearing nine inches in diameter from ground level, traveling at heading 90 degrees at an altitude of 6 to 8 miles, witnessed by New York Central System employees and a patrolman.
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Moscow,Minsk Highway, 42 km from Moscow, USSR
Air Intelligence Information Report IR 193-55, dated 14 October 1955 and prepared by Lt. Col. Thomas S. Ryan of the U.S. Air Attache office in Prague, documents an eyewitness account of two round, circular unconventional aircraft resembling flying saucers seen at 1910 hours on 1 October 1955 between Atjaty and Adzhijabul in the Trans-Caucasus region of the USSR. Senator Richard Russell, Lt. Col. E.U. Hathaway, and Mr. Ruben Efron observed the disc aircraft ascending almost vertically one minute apart, with outer surfaces revolving slowly to the right, two stationary lights near the top, and sparks or flame from the bottom.
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Mountain test range (location unspecified)
In late 2025, a senior U.S. intelligence officer and two pilots departed a Joint Operations Center by helicopter to investigate loud thuds and UAP sightings over a weapons test range. Hovering at 700 feet AGL, they observed countless orange orbs swarming near a mountain, then two large oval orbs stationary just above the rotor disk that expanded into a "T" formation of four or five before dimming over 10 to 15 seconds. Orange orbs also appeared directly above transiting fighter jets, matching their speed and flight path, and separately formed a triangle formation before vanishing.
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Mountain View, Missouri
On October 3, 1966, the FBI Los Angeles Division sent a memo to the FBI Director transmitting Issue No. 24 of Flying Saucers International, the official journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc., edited by Gabriel Green at 2004 N. Hoover St., Los Angeles. The magazine had been delivered to the FBI Philadelphia Division on September 19, 1966, by Jarvis H. Cooper, an IRS employee in Philadelphia, who said pages 2 and 3 contained an article he believed expounded the Communist Party line.
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Mountains near Los Angeles, California
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894, Section 5, contains 1949 investigative records on flying saucers, including a letter Walter Winchell received from Peter Camerlon Jones of Los Angeles, who claimed to have seen a large silver object shaped like a child's top in the mountains near Los Angeles in August 1947. D. M. Ladd directed the Los Angeles field office to discreetly check Jones's background and interview him, but efforts to locate Jones were negative. The FBI wrote to Ernest Cuneo on July 21, 1949, suggesting the original letter may have been a prank.
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Muroc Air Field, Muroc, California
On 8 July 1947, multiple witnesses at Muroc Army Air Field, California reported seeing silver disc-like or spherical objects at approximately 8,000 feet, traveling northwest toward Mojave at 300 to 400 MPH. Witnesses included 1st Lt Joseph C. McHenry, S/Sgt Gerald E. Nauman, T/Sgt Joseph Ruvolo, Jannette Marie Scott, S/Sgt Joseph Ruvero, and Major Richard R. Shoop, whose sighting occurred at approximately noon. The observations are recorded across at least four numbered incident check-lists by the Department of War; Incident #1b is evaluated as "Confirmed by other sources."
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Muroc Army Air Field, Muroc, California (34° 54' N 117° 53' W)
On 8 July 1947, multiple witnesses at Muroc Army Air Field, California reported seeing silver disc-like or spherical objects at approximately 8,000 feet, traveling northwest toward Mojave at 300 to 400 MPH. Witnesses included 1st Lt Joseph C. McHenry, S/Sgt Gerald E. Nauman, T/Sgt Joseph Ruvolo, Jannette Marie Scott, S/Sgt Joseph Ruvero, and Major Richard R. Shoop, whose sighting occurred at approximately noon. The observations are recorded across at least four numbered incident check-lists by the Department of War; Incident #1b is evaluated as "Confirmed by other sources."
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Muwaffaq Salti Air Base (OJMS), Jordan
A U.S. Air Force operator assigned to the 89th Attack Squadron observed a UAP over Syria at 02:39Z on 31 July 2022, during an armed reconnaissance mission flown from Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, Jordan. The GENTEXT section of the MISREP states the UAP occurred in KP 9 near grid 37SFU27, moved from north to south, and lasted less than one minute. The observing aircraft was at 19,359 feet and 116 knots; no UAP signatures were detected. Physical description fields are redacted under FOIA Exemption (b)(6).
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N. Williams Avenue near Russell St., Portland, Oregon
On September 11, 1947, Portland Police Department officers in Districts 18 and 14, including Chief of Police Leon V. Jenkins, reported sighting a round silver object over Portland, Oregon between 5:21 and 5:27 PM. In July 1947, pilot Jack Peck and co-pilot Vince Daly of the Al Jones Flying Company observed a flying wing object near Bethel Airport, Alaska, describing it as approximately the size of a C-54 without any fuselage, flying at 1,000 feet at an estimated 300 miles per hour with no propeller, jet exhaust, or vapor trails.
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N.E. 25th Avenue and Saratoga Court, Portland, Oregon
On September 11, 1947, Portland Police Department officers in Districts 18 and 14, including Chief of Police Leon V. Jenkins, reported sighting a round silver object over Portland, Oregon between 5:21 and 5:27 PM. In July 1947, pilot Jack Peck and co-pilot Vince Daly of the Al Jones Flying Company observed a flying wing object near Bethel Airport, Alaska, describing it as approximately the size of a C-54 without any fuselage, flying at 1,000 feet at an estimated 300 miles per hour with no propeller, jet exhaust, or vapor trails.
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Neave Building, Fourth and Race Streets, Cincinnati, Ohio
In June and July 1954, the FBI Cincinnati Field Office interviewed civilian informant Thomas Eickhoff, who reported that Truman Bethurum and George Hunt Williamson were organizing a paid flying saucer program at the Taft Auditorium in Cincinnati, Ohio. Eickhoff expressed concern that the event, priced at two dollars per person, could constitute a fraud on the general public.
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Nebraska
On November 20, 1957, the FBI Legal Attache in Havana reported that Jose Maria Nieto and Carmelo Guzman had told the Havana newspaper Diario de la Marina they saw a flying disc in the shape of a man's hat hovering silently over Matahambre, Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba, before it disappeared at high speed toward the sea. An FBI memo dated November 12, 1957, from R. R. Roach to A. H. Belmont noted a surge in flying saucer and UFO reports across the United States following the Soviet release of Sputnik, which Air Force Intelligence told the Bureau were all resolved as nonauthentic.
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Neubiberg Air Base
On 4 November 1948, USAFE transmitted intelligence cable TT #1524 to General Cabell and the USAF Directorate of Intelligence. Three crews of the 307th Bomb Group had sighted an aircraft on 5 September 1948 off the west coast of Holland at 30,000 feet, assessed as a single jet-propelled aircraft employing probable rocket assists, rated B-2. The cable also reported a flying saucer hovering over Neubiberg Air Base for about thirty minutes, and relayed the Swedish Air Intelligence Service's conclusion that such phenomena "cannot be credited to any presently known culture on earth."
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Neuilly-sur-Seine
On April 30, 2001, Carol Rosin and Jon Cypher sent a letter to a NASA official identified only as "Dan," announcing a Friday meeting and promising to deliver a package at no cost to NASA. A follow-up note, written on Renaissance Hotel stationery, transmitted the French COMETA report "UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?," originally published in July 1999 by G.S. Presse Communication. Rosin noted in her letter that she had served as spokesperson for Wernher von Braun during the last years of his life and had founded the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space in 1983.
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Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
On April 30, 2001, Carol Rosin and Jon Cypher wrote from Ventura, California to a NASA official named Dan, enclosing the French COMETA Report, titled "UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?" A follow-up hotel note from Cypher directed Dan to the preface, a radar section starting around page 62, testimony from John Callahan, and a entry for Enrique Kolbeck, Senior Air Traffic Controller at Mexico City International Airport, at page 105. Cypher corrected an earlier statement, noting the COMETA Report is a private, not government, document.
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Nevada desert
In July and August 1954, the FBI Cincinnati Field Office and Washington Field Office documented reports from civilian informant Thomas Eickhoff concerning flying saucer lecturers Truman Bethurum and George Hunt Williamson, and from Navy Security Officer John Hutson concerning Frances Swan's claimed thought transmission contact with beings designated "AFFA" and "PONNAR," commanders of ships M-4 and L-11. Eickhoff reported attending a luncheon at the Terrace Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati on June 7, 1954, where Bethurum and Williamson stated their story was factual and consented to government scrutiny.
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New Hyde Park, Long Island, New York
On August 4, 1947, Pan American Airways Captain Alpheus O. Powell and navigator Walter I. White separately sighted flying objects near Boston while piloting a Constellation from Gander, Newfoundland to La Guardia Field. Powell described a cylindrical, orange object about the length of a P-40 fuselage travelling at roughly 150 mph; White described a deep gold, elliptical object about 15 feet long travelling easterly at roughly 175 mph. Air Defense Command at Mitchel Field interviewed both men and forwarded the reports to Army Air Forces headquarters.
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New Mexico
FBI internal memos from 1950 document OSI concern over green fireballs and discs appearing near sensitive installations in New Mexico. Dr. Lincoln La Paz of the University of New Mexico concluded that roughly half the recorded phenomena were meteoric; the remainder he attributed to possible U.S. guided missiles or, if that interpretation was wrong, to guided missiles launched from the Ural region of the USSR.
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New Mexico State Police Office, Socorro, New Mexico
FBI Special Agent D. Arthur Byrnes, Jr. documented a report from Officer Lonnie Zamora of the Socorro Police Department concerning an unknown object that "landed and has taken off" about one mile southwest of Socorro, New Mexico, on April 24, 1964. Zamora described an aluminum-white, egg-shaped object on or near the ground, two persons in white coveralls nearby, a blue-orange flame and loud roar during ascent, and a red insignia resembling the letter "A" on the object's surface.
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New Orleans, Louisiana
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894 compiles sighting reports, media clippings, and investigative memos covering incidents from 1947 through 1968. Reported incidents include American Airlines pilot Capt. Peter Killian's account of three shining saucer-like objects trailing his DC6 for 45 minutes in February 1958, the Coast Guard cutter Sebago tracking an object on radar for 27 minutes in the Gulf of Mexico at an estimated 1,000 miles per hour, and grain buyer R. O. Schmidt's claim of encountering a cigar-shaped craft near Kearney, Nebraska, in November 1957.
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New Orleans, Louisiana (observer address)
Headquarters Air Material Command, Dayton, Ohio transmitted Incident Summary Sheets 173 through 233 on March 9, 1949, covering sightings from September 1945 through October 1948. Observers in Louisiana, New Mexico, and California reported objects described variously as aluminum-colored and metallic, cone-shaped and encased in flame, perfectly circular and flat, bright silvery and egg-shaped, and amoeba-like with oscillating appendages. The summary sheets record no determination of what the objects were.
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New Palestine, Indiana
On August 9, 1952, the FBI Savannah field office sent an urgent teletype to Director Hoover reporting that two employees of E. I. Du Pont Company saw a blue light with an orange fringe shaped like a saucer fly over the Four Hundred Area of the Savannah River Plant AEC facility at approximately 9:30 PM on August 8. Between August 11 and August 20, 1952, Hoover forwarded letters from multiple citizens about flying saucers and flying disks to the Director of Special Investigations, The Inspector General, Department of the Air Force.
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New York City, New York
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894, Section 5, contains 1949 investigative records on flying saucers, including a letter Walter Winchell received from Peter Camerlon Jones of Los Angeles, who claimed to have seen a large silver object shaped like a child's top in the mountains near Los Angeles in August 1947. D. M. Ladd directed the Los Angeles field office to discreetly check Jones's background and interview him, but efforts to locate Jones were negative. The FBI wrote to Ernest Cuneo on July 21, 1949, suggesting the original letter may have been a prank.
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New York, N.Y.
Serial 403 of FBI case 62-HQ-83894 consists of the dust jacket and promotional text from Gray Barker's 1956 book "They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers," published by University Books, Inc. of New York. The jacket text states that flying saucer researchers who challenged government denial were silenced after visits from "three men in dark suits," and that Barker began his research in 1952 after a flying saucer allegedly landed near his home in Clarksburg, West Virginia. Barker is identified as a Clarksburg businessman who also published a flying saucer periodical called The Saucerian.
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New York, New York
FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 collects press clippings, public letters, and internal memos concerning "flying disc" and "flying saucer" reports across the United States in July 1947. Reports include Rev. Joseph Brasky of Grafton, Wisconsin, who told the United Press he found an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and was holding it for the FBI. Civilian Fred R. Reibold wrote to the Bureau describing a flaming circular object that fell in the street in Cornola, Nebraska on July 1, 1947; Director Hoover forwarded that letter to the War Department's Director of Intelligence on August 5, 1947.
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New York, New York, USA
On March 19, 1950, Miguel Angel Garcia Macias, a pianist, composer, and self-described ideographic inventor from Veracruz, Mexico, wrote to the President of the Commission of Scientific Investigation of the United States of North America in New York, describing his concept of stratospheric aerostats and attributing flying saucers to U.S. atomic technology. The letter, translated by Mrs. Sophia Saliba, was received by the FBI New York Field Office by April 7, 1950, and filed under case 62-HQ-83894, Serial 220.
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New York, NY (USUN)
A confidential cable sent October 30, 2001, from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to the State Department reports that Deputy Foreign Minister Mamedov, citing the Russian Ministry of Defense, categorically denied that Russian planes flew over or bombed positions in the Kodori Gorge on October 28 and 29, despite Georgian accusations. MFA Georgia Desk Chief Tereoken echoed the denial but added that "any side" could have sent planes over Kodori, prompting the embassy to comment that "to posit that they could be UFOs would be humorous if it were not for the seriousness of the violations.
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New Zealand (inferred from NZST timezone in PDF metadata)
The image is a composite sketch created in Adobe Photoshop 25.6, combining a photographic background of a rural grassy field with a digitally rendered golden-bronze disc-shaped flying saucer in the upper right. A bright starburst light effect appears adjacent to the left side of the craft. PDF metadata records a creation date of April 20, 2024, and a modification date of April 30, 2024, both in NZST.
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Newark, New Jersey
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894 compiles sighting reports, media clippings, and investigative memos covering incidents from 1947 through 1968. Reported incidents include American Airlines pilot Capt. Peter Killian's account of three shining saucer-like objects trailing his DC6 for 45 minutes in February 1958, the Coast Guard cutter Sebago tracking an object on radar for 27 minutes in the Gulf of Mexico at an estimated 1,000 miles per hour, and grain buyer R. O. Schmidt's claim of encountering a cigar-shaped craft near Kearney, Nebraska, in November 1957.
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Noblesville, Indiana
In July and August 1954, the FBI Cincinnati Field Office and Washington Field Office documented reports from civilian informant Thomas Eickhoff concerning flying saucer lecturers Truman Bethurum and George Hunt Williamson, and from Navy Security Officer John Hutson concerning Frances Swan's claimed thought transmission contact with beings designated "AFFA" and "PONNAR," commanders of ships M-4 and L-11. Eickhoff reported attending a luncheon at the Terrace Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati on June 7, 1954, where Bethurum and Williamson stated their story was factual and consented to government scrutiny.
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Norcatur, Kansas
On 18 February 1948 at 5:01 P.M., an aerial explosion occurred over Norcatur, Kansas, logged as Incident 101 by the Department of War. Farmer Leland Sammons reported a funnel-shaped object roughly four feet long, with a pipe at the rear and fire belching from it, hovering near his farmhouse before departing northwest and exploding in a cloud of smoke. Beginning 24 April 1948, meteorite fragments were recovered, including a 109-pound achondrite piece found two feet underground in a clover field. Civilian Norman Garrett Markham wrote to the Office of the Chief of Staff speculating the object may have been a rocket or space-craft.
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North of Grimaldi crater, lunar surface
During the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans reported "very bright particles or fragments or something" drifting past the spacecraft during a maneuver at Day 00, 03:34:10. Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt described the view as looking "like the Fourth of July," while Mission Commander Eugene Cernan estimated the fragments as "flat, flakelike particles," some possibly 6 inches across and twinkling. Evans speculated the fragments might be ice chunks or paint from the S-IVB stage but called that "a wild guess."
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Northeast section, Washington, D.C.
FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 collects press clippings, public letters, and internal memos concerning "flying disc" and "flying saucer" reports across the United States in July 1947. Reports include Rev. Joseph Brasky of Grafton, Wisconsin, who told the United Press he found an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and was holding it for the FBI. Civilian Fred R. Reibold wrote to the Bureau describing a flaming circular object that fell in the street in Cornola, Nebraska on July 1, 1947; Director Hoover forwarded that letter to the War Department's Director of Intelligence on August 5, 1947.
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Norton, Kansas
On 18 February 1948 at 5:01 P.M., an aerial explosion occurred over Norcatur, Kansas, logged as Incident 101 by the Department of War. Farmer Leland Sammons reported a funnel-shaped object roughly four feet long, with a pipe at the rear and fire belching from it, hovering near his farmhouse before departing northwest and exploding in a cloud of smoke. Beginning 24 April 1948, meteorite fragments were recovered, including a 109-pound achondrite piece found two feet underground in a clover field. Civilian Norman Garrett Markham wrote to the Office of the Chief of Staff speculating the object may have been a rocket or space-craft.
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Nuevo Leon, Mexico
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City reported in a September 16, 2023 cable that Mexican journalist Jaime Maussan presented alleged non-human remains to the Mexican Congress, which pilot witness Graves called an "unsubstantiated stunt" that took away from pilots' UAP experiences. The same cable reported that criminals killed two Guerrero prosecutors within one week: FGR state delegate Fernando Garcia Fernandez, shot from two vehicles in Chilpancingo on September 12, and FGE regional prosecutor Victor Manuel Salas Cuadras, kidnapped and found with approximately 50 gunshot wounds in Coyuca de Catalan on September 9.
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee
FBI internal memos from August through October 1950 document OSI concern over green fireballs, discs, and meteors appearing near sensitive installations in New Mexico. Dr. Lincoln La Paz of the University of New Mexico concluded roughly half the phenomena were meteoric; the remainder he attributed to U.S. guided missiles, while also raising the possibility of Soviet guided missiles launched from the Urals.
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Offenburg, Germany
In a November 7, 1957 interview conducted by SA Cassius Rathbun, Wladyslaw Krasuski of 5457 Joseph Campau, Detroit, described witnessing a circular vehicle rise vertically from a tarpaulin-enclosed compound near Gut Alt Golssen, approximately 30 miles east of Berlin, circa 1944, while held there as a Polish prisoner of war. The vehicle was circular, 75 to 100 yards in diameter and about 14 feet high, with a rapidly moving middle section producing a continuous blur similar to an aeroplane propeller.
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OJMS (Al-Jafr Air Base, Jordan, last land location)
A U.S. Air Force aircrew operating over Syria on October 20, 2024, reported observing a "misshapen and uneven ball of white light" on their Full-Motion Video feed between 1559Z and 1644Z, describing multiple "glares or light from unknown origin at different angles and directions" and a "light/glare halo effect" at the top of the FMV feed. The MISREP, filed by the 12th Special Operations Squadron under Operation INHERENT RESOLVE, records the UAP physical state as "Plasma," propulsion means as "UNKNOWN," and notes the aircrew assessed the event as not a lasing event and "benign" with no mission impact.
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OJMS (landing location, ICAO)
On October 27, 2023, a U.S. Air Force ISR asset from the 33rd Special Operations Squadron observed a UAP flying just above the surface of the ocean water in the Aegean Sea at 0035Z. The UAP was described as seemingly circular and too small to make out details, taking multiple 90-degree turns at an estimated 80 mph. The asset lost the UAP from their feed at 0038Z. The report was filed as MISREP 9329374 and declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 22 January 2026.
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OKAS (takeoff/landing location, ICAO code)
A U.S. Air Force aircraft from the 482nd Attack Squadron filed MISREP 5039166 reporting two UAP observed on November 2, 2020, over the Arabian Gulf area during a NAVCENT support mission. The first UAP was observed at 2143Z; the second was observed at 2148Z traveling northwest, captured via Full Motion Video while the aircraft flew at FL220. The document was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 16 March 2026.
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OKAS (takeoff/landing location)
MISREP 4871281 records that a U.S. military operator took off from OKAS on 1 October 2020 and, during a 21-hour NAVCENT support mission over the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, and Gulf of Oman, observed 1X UAP at 1829Z on 2 October 2020. The report references OBSERVATION LINE 1 for UAP details, but that section is not present in the released text. The document was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 16 March 2026 under MDR 26-0028 and approved for release to AARO.
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Olathe, Kansas
In July, August, and September 1949, and again in January 1950, military and civilian witnesses filed reports under Flight Service Regulation 200-4 describing flying objects over Kansas, Washington, Oregon, Ohio, South Carolina, and New York. Objects were described variously as dish-shaped, circular, and cylindrical, with reported speeds exceeding that of a B-29 and, in one case, an orange and white flame exhaust more than twice the length of the object. Reports were submitted by Lowry, Olmsted, McChord, Maxwell, and Wright-Patterson Flight Service Centers to the Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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Old Rodeo Street (extension of Park Street south), Socorro, New Mexico
FBI Special Agent D. Arthur Byrnes, Jr. documented a report from Officer Lonnie Zamora of the Socorro Police Department concerning an unknown object that "landed and has taken off" about one mile southwest of Socorro, New Mexico, on April 24, 1964. Zamora described an aluminum-white, egg-shaped object on or near the ground, two persons in white coveralls nearby, a blue-orange flame and loud roar during ascent, and a red insignia resembling the letter "A" on the object's surface.
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Olmsted Air Force Base, Middletown, Pennsylvania
In July, August, and September 1949, and again in January 1950, military and civilian witnesses filed reports under Flight Service Regulation 200-4 describing flying objects over Kansas, Washington, Oregon, Ohio, South Carolina, and New York. Objects were described variously as dish-shaped, circular, and cylindrical, with reported speeds exceeding that of a B-29 and, in one case, an orange and white flame exhaust more than twice the length of the object. Reports were submitted by Lowry, Olmsted, McChord, Maxwell, and Wright-Patterson Flight Service Centers to the Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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Olympic Mountains, Washington
In July, August, and September 1949, and again in January 1950, military and civilian witnesses filed reports under Flight Service Regulation 200-4 describing flying objects over Kansas, Washington, Oregon, Ohio, South Carolina, and New York. Objects were described variously as dish-shaped, circular, and cylindrical, with reported speeds exceeding that of a B-29 and, in one case, an orange and white flame exhaust more than twice the length of the object. Reports were submitted by Lowry, Olmsted, McChord, Maxwell, and Wright-Patterson Flight Service Centers to the Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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OMAM (Al Musannah Air Base, Oman)
A U.S. Air Force Senior Airman assigned to 3rd Special Operations Squadron, 379th Air Expeditionary Wing, reported observing one UAP on June 7, 2024, at 0457Z while returning to base over the Gulf of Oman. The observer described a "glowing hot spherical unidentified object with a vertical unwavering cylindrical pole/bar attached on the bottom of the object," with a possible reflection in the water below, moving at an estimated 140 knots. The observer assessed the UAP as benign; propulsion means were listed as unknown, and no sensor interrogation was conducted.
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OMAM (ICAO, Al Dhafra Air Base, UAE)
A U.S. Air Force airman from the 50th Attack Squadron logged two UAP contacts over the Persian Gulf on 24 October 2023 during an IMINT mission supporting NAVCENT under Operation Spartan Shield. The first UAP, acquired at 0241Z, showed a cold thermal signature and an estimated velocity of 320 MPH; the observer assessed it as Benign and not under intelligent control. A second UAP was observed at 0322Z near grid 39RXK68 with an estimated velocity of 440 MPH. The report, originally classified CECRET, was declassified by USCENTCOM Chief of Staff MG Richard A. Harrison on 12 September 2025.
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OMAM (last land location, ICAO code)
A U.S. Air Force A1C assigned to the 50th Attack Squadron reported two UAP events over the Persian Gulf on 24 October 2023 during an ISR mission supporting NAVCENT under Operation Spartan Shield. The first UAP, acquired at 0241Z, showed a cold thermal signature, was assessed as solid and benign, and had an estimated velocity of 320 MPH; a second UAP was acquired at 0322Z near grid 39RXK68 with an estimated velocity of 440 MPH. Neither event resulted in observer engagement or effects on persons, and the intel gap was recorded as not filled. The report was declassified on 12 September 2025 by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff.
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Open grassy field / meadow (rural landscape, specific location unknown)
The image is a composite sketch created in Adobe Photoshop 25.6, combining a photographic background of a rural grassy field with a digitally rendered golden-bronze disc-shaped flying saucer in the upper right. A bright starburst light effect appears adjacent to the left side of the craft. PDF metadata records a creation date of April 20, 2024, and a modification date of April 30, 2024, both in NZST.
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OPIR Israel-Lebanon-Syria Region DSA 2 E4YY
A U.S. Air Force ISR asset took off from Sigonella Airbase on 29 May 2022 and conducted IMINT over the Eastern Mediterranean under Operation HUMMER SICKLE. At 0117Z on 30 May 2022, the screener observed one possible small UAP flying north to northeast and followed it as long as possible but could not get a positive ID. No UAP signatures were recorded. The report was approved for release to AARO and declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 8 October 2025.
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Oregon
FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 collects press clippings, public letters, and internal memos concerning "flying disc" and "flying saucer" reports across the United States in July 1947. Reports include Rev. Joseph Brasky of Grafton, Wisconsin, who told the United Press he found an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and was holding it for the FBI. Civilian Fred R. Reibold wrote to the Bureau describing a flaming circular object that fell in the street in Cornola, Nebraska on July 1, 1947; Director Hoover forwarded that letter to the War Department's Director of Intelligence on August 5, 1947.
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Orlando, Florida
On August 4, 1947, Pan American Airways Captain Alpheus O. Powell and navigator Walter I. White separately sighted flying objects near Boston while piloting a Constellation from Gander, Newfoundland to La Guardia Field. Powell described a cylindrical, orange object about the length of a P-40 fuselage travelling at roughly 150 mph; White described a deep gold, elliptical object about 15 feet long travelling easterly at roughly 175 mph. Air Defense Command at Mitchel Field interviewed both men and forwarded the reports to Army Air Forces headquarters.
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OSIC Latakia Naval MON DSA
A U.S. Air Force ISR asset took off from Sigonella Airbase on 29 May 2022 and conducted IMINT over the Eastern Mediterranean under Operation HUMMER SICKLE. At 0117Z on 30 May 2022, the screener observed one possible small UAP flying north to northeast and followed it as long as possible but could not get a positive ID. No UAP signatures were recorded. The report was approved for release to AARO and declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 8 October 2025.
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Outdoor flat open area, possibly road or open ground (exact location redacted)
FBI Photo B8 is a single grayscale surveillance frame bearing a timestamp of 12/31/99 18:10:18, showing a flat open area from an elevated or aerial viewpoint consistent with night-vision or infrared imaging. A centered crosshair reticle with horizontal scale markings labeled 15, 10, 5, 5, 10, 15 is overlaid on the frame, and indistinct dark shapes are visible near the bottom center. At least seven black rectangular redaction bars obscure the top, left, right, and lower corners of the image; location and subject details remain redacted.
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Outdoor or open area (specific location redacted/unidentified)
FBI Photo B5 is a single grayscale frame captured on December 31, 1999 at 18:12:20, bearing a centered crosshair reticle with a horizontal scale running from -15 to +15. At least six black rectangular redaction blocks, plus a large black bar across the upper portion, obscure most of the frame's content. Faint indistinct shapes are visible near the bottom center, and the image has a grainy texture consistent with low-light or thermal imaging.
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P.O. Box 1092, Los Alamos NM 87544
A May 20, 1986 newsletter from the Pajarito Astronomers of Los Alamos, New Mexico announces a club meeting scheduled for May 29, 1986, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ranch Room at Fuller Lodge. Guest speaker Dr. John Warren of AT-6 was to address the topic "Why Should a Scientist be Concerned about UFO's?" The newsletter's closing signature block is redacted, with two lines blacked out following "Sincerely."
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Pacific Northwest
FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 collects press clippings, public letters, and internal memos concerning "flying disc" and "flying saucer" reports across the United States in July 1947. Reports include Rev. Joseph Brasky of Grafton, Wisconsin, who told the United Press he found an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and was holding it for the FBI. Civilian Fred R. Reibold wrote to the Bureau describing a flaming circular object that fell in the street in Cornola, Nebraska on July 1, 1947; Director Hoover forwarded that letter to the War Department's Director of Intelligence on August 5, 1947.
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Pacific Ocean
In July and August 1954, the FBI Cincinnati Field Office and Washington Field Office documented reports from civilian informant Thomas Eickhoff concerning flying saucer lecturers Truman Bethurum and George Hunt Williamson, and from Navy Security Officer John Hutson concerning Frances Swan's claimed thought transmission contact with beings designated "AFFA" and "PONNAR," commanders of ships M-4 and L-11. Eickhoff reported attending a luncheon at the Terrace Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati on June 7, 1954, where Bethurum and Williamson stated their story was factual and consented to government scrutiny.
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Pacific Ocean, off Golden Gate
On 18 February 1948 at 5:01 P.M., an aerial explosion occurred over Norcatur, Kansas, logged as Incident 101 by the Department of War. Farmer Leland Sammons reported a funnel-shaped object roughly four feet long, with a pipe at the rear and fire belching from it, hovering near his farmhouse before departing northwest and exploding in a cloud of smoke. Beginning 24 April 1948, meteorite fragments were recovered, including a 109-pound achondrite piece found two feet underground in a clover field. Civilian Norman Garrett Markham wrote to the Office of the Chief of Staff speculating the object may have been a rocket or space-craft.
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Pacific Time Zone
In March 2023, a witness in the Pacific Time Zone reported observing a large blue featureless triangular object hovering near a national security facility for approximately three minutes before moving in a "jerking" or "jumping" manner for a total observation time of about eight minutes. The witness said they "didn't think" the object was a drone and could not identify its means of propulsion.
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Pantex Plant, Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC
Pages 5 and 6 of a six-page "Pantex UAP Incident Report," produced by Pantex Plant (managed by Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC), show a Ground Surveillance Radar Tower image with a small point target circled in red; the lower half of the radar image is withheld under exemption (b)(3) (UCNI). Page 6 presents two Sandia National Labs enhanced photographs of the UAP, each showing a dark, roughly mushroom-shaped form surrounded by a diffuse blue-gray halo. No incident date, scale reference, or witness information appears in either page.
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Papua New Guinea
On January 28, 1985, the U.S. Embassy in Port Moresby cabled USCINCPAC in Honolulu reporting that Papua New Guinea's National Intelligence Organization had inquired about sightings of high-altitude, high-speed aircraft over PNG on the evening of January 24. The PNG NIO described "various reports of UAP," including fast-moving objects with lights, contrails, and noise, and placed particular credence in an Air Niugini pilot whose radar picked up aircraft flying south to north at high altitude and high speed over Angoram.
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Patrick AFB, FL 32925
Research Triangle Institute prepared this final report for the Air Force's 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg AFB and 45th Space Wing at Patrick AFB, completed September 10, 1996, under Contract No. FO4703-91-C-0112. The report describes how "Mode-5 failure responses," meaning significant vehicle deviations from the intended flight line, are modeled in RTI's risk-analysis program DAMP, using two shaping constants calibrated by trial and error against simulated malfunctions for vehicles including Atlas IIAS, Delta-GEM, Titan IV, and LLV1.
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Pentagon
In August 1966, Mrs. Florence C. Dow of Goffstown, New Hampshire wrote to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover stating she had paid $3.00 for a subscription to the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America publication and, after reading her first issue, suspected the organization was backed by Communists. She enclosed the AFSCA 3rd National Flying Saucer Convention program for Reno, Nevada, July 8-10, 1966, and a copy of Flying Saucers International, Issue No. 24. Hoover replied on September 6, 1966, and an internal FBI note recorded that bureau files contained no record of Mrs. Dow or the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America.
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Pentagon, 4B-854
On 4 November 1948, USAFE transmitted intelligence cable TT #1524 to General Cabell and the USAF Directorate of Intelligence. Three crews of the 307th Bomb Group had sighted an aircraft on 5 September 1948 off the west coast of Holland at 30,000 feet, assessed as a single jet-propelled aircraft employing probable rocket assists, rated B-2. The cable also reported a flying saucer hovering over Neubiberg Air Base for about thirty minutes, and relayed the Swedish Air Intelligence Service's conclusion that such phenomena "cannot be credited to any presently known culture on earth."
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Persian Gulf
MISREP 4592219, filed by the 482nd Attack Squadron under USCENTCOM, records that on 8 August 2020 at 0726Z, a U.S. Air Force asset operating from OKAS observed one UAP "transitting" in the vicinity of grid 39RWL08 over the Arabian Gulf, via full motion video. The report notes "no impact to mission" and states that "dense cloud coverage intermittently impacted FMV collection." The document was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 20 March 2026, and approved for release to AARO on 27 March 2026.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
FBI internal memos from 1950 document OSI concern over green fireballs and discs appearing near sensitive installations in New Mexico. Dr. Lincoln La Paz of the University of New Mexico concluded that roughly half the recorded phenomena were meteoric; the remainder he attributed to possible U.S. guided missiles or, if that interpretation was wrong, to guided missiles launched from the Ural region of the USSR.
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Philipsburg, Pennsylvania
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894 compiles sighting reports, media clippings, and investigative memos covering incidents from 1947 through 1968. Reported incidents include American Airlines pilot Capt. Peter Killian's account of three shining saucer-like objects trailing his DC6 for 45 minutes in February 1958, the Coast Guard cutter Sebago tracking an object on radar for 27 minutes in the Gulf of Mexico at an estimated 1,000 miles per hour, and grain buyer R. O. Schmidt's claim of encountering a cigar-shaped craft near Kearney, Nebraska, in November 1957.
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Phillipsburg, Kansas
On 18 February 1948 at 5:01 P.M., an aerial explosion occurred over Norcatur, Kansas, logged as Incident 101 by the Department of War. Farmer Leland Sammons reported a funnel-shaped object roughly four feet long, with a pipe at the rear and fire belching from it, hovering near his farmhouse before departing northwest and exploding in a cloud of smoke. Beginning 24 April 1948, meteorite fragments were recovered, including a 109-pound achondrite piece found two feet underground in a clover field. Civilian Norman Garrett Markham wrote to the Office of the Chief of Staff speculating the object may have been a rocket or space-craft.
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Phoenix, Arizona
On September 11, 1947, Portland police officers and Chief of Police Leon V. Jenkins reported sighting a round silver object over Portland, Oregon, with witnesses describing it variously as elliptical, egg-shaped, and silvery, traveling at high speed. In July 1947, pilot Jack Peck and co-pilot Vince Daly of Al Jones Flying Company reported a flying wing-shaped object near Bethel, Alaska, approximately the size of a C-54 without fuselage, showing no propeller, jet exhaust, or vapor trails; the Civil Aeronautics Administration station at Bethel reported no known aircraft in the vicinity.
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Pinar del Rio, Cuba
On November 20, 1957, the FBI Legal Attache in Havana reported that Jose Maria Nieto and Carmelo Guzman had told the Havana newspaper Diario de la Marina they saw a flying disc in the shape of a man's hat hovering silently over Matahambre, Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba, before it disappeared at high speed toward the sea. An FBI memo dated November 12, 1957, from R. R. Roach to A. H. Belmont noted a surge in flying saucer and UFO reports across the United States following the Soviet release of Sputnik, which Air Force Intelligence told the Bureau were all resolved as nonauthentic.
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Point Arguello Launch Complex (PALC)
The 30th Space Wing Office of History compiled a launch summary covering all launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base from 1958 through 2000. The document defines launch vehicle types, test categories, and program abbreviations, and lists military and contractor recipients including Aerospace Corporation, Boeing Defense and Space Group, ITT Federal Services Corporation, and TRW. The report was dated February 3, 2000, and released by the Department of War.
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Pontiac, Michigan
On August 9, 1952, the FBI Savannah field office sent an urgent teletype to Director Hoover reporting that two employees of E. I. Du Pont Company saw a blue light with an orange fringe shaped like a saucer fly over the Four Hundred Area of the Savannah River Plant AEC facility at approximately 9:30 PM on August 8. Between August 11 and August 20, 1952, Hoover forwarded letters from multiple citizens about flying saucers and flying disks to the Director of Special Investigations, The Inspector General, Department of the Air Force.
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Port Allegany, Pennsylvania
On September 11, 1947, Portland Police Department officers in Districts 18 and 14, including Chief of Police Leon V. Jenkins, reported sighting a round silver object over Portland, Oregon between 5:21 and 5:27 PM. In July 1947, pilot Jack Peck and co-pilot Vince Daly of the Al Jones Flying Company observed a flying wing object near Bethel Airport, Alaska, describing it as approximately the size of a C-54 without any fuselage, flying at 1,000 feet at an estimated 300 miles per hour with no propeller, jet exhaust, or vapor trails.
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Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
On January 28, 1985, the U.S. Embassy in Port Moresby cabled USCINCPAC in Honolulu reporting that Papua New Guinea's National Intelligence Organization had inquired about sightings of high-altitude, high-speed aircraft over PNG on the evening of January 24. The PNG NIO described "various reports of UAP," including fast-moving objects with lights, contrails, and noise, and placed particular credence in an Air Niugini pilot whose radar picked up aircraft flying south to north at high altitude and high speed over Angoram.
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Portland, Oregon
On September 11, 1947, Portland Police Department officers in Districts 18 and 14, including Chief of Police Leon V. Jenkins, reported sighting a round silver object over Portland, Oregon between 5:21 and 5:27 PM. In July 1947, pilot Jack Peck and co-pilot Vince Daly of the Al Jones Flying Company observed a flying wing object near Bethel Airport, Alaska, describing it as approximately the size of a C-54 without any fuselage, flying at 1,000 feet at an estimated 300 miles per hour with no propeller, jet exhaust, or vapor trails.
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Prague, Czechoslovakia
Air Intelligence Information Report IR 193-55, dated 14 October 1955 and prepared by Lt. Col. Thomas S. Ryan of the U.S. Air Attache office in Prague, documents an eyewitness account of two round, circular unconventional aircraft resembling flying saucers seen at 1910 hours on 1 October 1955 between Atjaty and Adzhijabul in the Trans-Caucasus region of the USSR. Senator Richard Russell, Lt. Col. E.U. Hathaway, and Mr. Ruben Efron observed the disc aircraft ascending almost vertically one minute apart, with outer surfaces revolving slowly to the right, two stationary lights near the top, and sparks or flame from the bottom.
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Prairie View, Kansas
On 18 February 1948 at 5:01 P.M., an aerial explosion occurred over Norcatur, Kansas, logged as Incident 101 by the Department of War. Farmer Leland Sammons reported a funnel-shaped object roughly four feet long, with a pipe at the rear and fire belching from it, hovering near his farmhouse before departing northwest and exploding in a cloud of smoke. Beginning 24 April 1948, meteorite fragments were recovered, including a 109-pound achondrite piece found two feet underground in a clover field. Civilian Norman Garrett Markham wrote to the Office of the Chief of Staff speculating the object may have been a rocket or space-craft.
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Prearranged rendezvous point on range
In late 2025, a senior U.S. intelligence officer and two pilots departed a Joint Operations Center by helicopter to investigate loud thuds and UAP sightings over a weapons test range. Hovering at 700 feet AGL, they observed countless orange orbs swarming near a mountain, then two large oval orbs stationary just above the rotor disk that expanded into a "T" formation of four or five before dimming over 10 to 15 seconds. Orange orbs also appeared directly above transiting fighter jets, matching their speed and flight path, and separately formed a triangle formation before vanishing.
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Prepositioned tanker on range
In late 2025, a senior U.S. intelligence officer and two pilots departed a Joint Operations Center by helicopter to investigate loud thuds and UAP sightings over a weapons test range. Hovering at 700 feet AGL, they observed countless orange orbs swarming near a mountain, then two large oval orbs stationary just above the rotor disk that expanded into a "T" formation of four or five before dimming over 10 to 15 seconds. Orange orbs also appeared directly above transiting fighter jets, matching their speed and flight path, and separately formed a triangle formation before vanishing.
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Probe Launch Complex (PLC-C)
The 30th Space Wing Office of History compiled a launch summary covering all launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base from 1958 through 2000. The document defines launch vehicle types, test categories, and program abbreviations, and lists military and contractor recipients including Aerospace Corporation, Boeing Defense and Space Group, ITT Federal Services Corporation, and TRW. The report was dated February 3, 2000, and released by the Department of War.
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Pueblo, Colorado
On 18 February 1948 at 5:01 P.M., an aerial explosion occurred over Norcatur, Kansas, logged as Incident 101 by the Department of War. Farmer Leland Sammons reported a funnel-shaped object roughly four feet long, with a pipe at the rear and fire belching from it, hovering near his farmhouse before departing northwest and exploding in a cloud of smoke. Beginning 24 April 1948, meteorite fragments were recovered, including a 109-pound achondrite piece found two feet underground in a clover field. Civilian Norman Garrett Markham wrote to the Office of the Chief of Staff speculating the object may have been a rocket or space-craft.
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Q-9050 (patrol area)
SHAEF Air Staff file 37153 compiles Allied aircrew reports of night phenomena, called "foo fighters," submitted through XII Tactical Air Command and First Tactical Air Force between December 1944 and March 1945. Pilots of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron reported lights that blinked, changed colors, and flew formation with their aircraft; on 1 March 1945, IX TAC pilots observed and attacked an aluminum-colored cylinder about 12 feet long floating at 9,000 feet near grid F-5710, producing a red flame without smoke when partially deflated. Air Ministry A.D.I.
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Quero, Texas
FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 documents flying disc reports received between July and August 1947. On July 6, 1947, Rev. Joseph Brasky of St. Joseph's Church in Grafton, Wisconsin reported finding an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and held it for the FBI. On August 5, 1947, J. Edgar Hoover transmitted a letter from Fred R. Reibold of Conoha, Mississippi to the Director of Intelligence, War Department General Staff, describing a flaming circular object that fell in front of his house in Omaha, Nebraska on July 1, 1947.
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R-1556 (patrol area)
SHAEF Air Staff file 37153 compiles Allied aircrew reports of night phenomena, called "foo fighters," submitted through XII Tactical Air Command and First Tactical Air Force between December 1944 and March 1945. Pilots of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron reported lights that blinked, changed colors, and flew formation with their aircraft; on 1 March 1945, IX TAC pilots observed and attacked an aluminum-colored cylinder about 12 feet long floating at 9,000 feet near grid F-5710, producing a red flame without smoke when partially deflated. Air Ministry A.D.I.
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Raytown, Missouri
In July, August, and September 1949, and again in January 1950, military and civilian witnesses filed reports under Flight Service Regulation 200-4 describing flying objects over Kansas, Washington, Oregon, Ohio, South Carolina, and New York. Objects were described variously as dish-shaped, circular, and cylindrical, with reported speeds exceeding that of a B-29 and, in one case, an orange and white flame exhaust more than twice the length of the object. Reports were submitted by Lowry, Olmsted, McChord, Maxwell, and Wright-Patterson Flight Service Centers to the Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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Redondo Beach, California
In July and August 1954, the FBI Cincinnati Field Office and Washington Field Office documented reports from civilian informant Thomas Eickhoff concerning flying saucer lecturers Truman Bethurum and George Hunt Williamson, and from Navy Security Officer John Hutson concerning Frances Swan's claimed thought transmission contact with beings designated "AFFA" and "PONNAR," commanders of ships M-4 and L-11. Eickhoff reported attending a luncheon at the Terrace Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati on June 7, 1954, where Bethurum and Williamson stated their story was factual and consented to government scrutiny.
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Remote mountain areas on test range
In late 2025, a senior U.S. intelligence officer and two pilots departed a Joint Operations Center by helicopter to investigate loud thuds and UAP sightings over a weapons test range. Hovering at 700 feet AGL, they observed countless orange orbs swarming near a mountain, then two large oval orbs stationary just above the rotor disk that expanded into a "T" formation of four or five before dimming over 10 to 15 seconds. Orange orbs also appeared directly above transiting fighter jets, matching their speed and flight path, and separately formed a triangle formation before vanishing.
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Renaissance Hotel, 999 9th NW, Washington D.C.
On April 30, 2001, Carol Rosin and Jon Cypher sent a letter to a NASA official identified only as "Dan," announcing a Friday meeting and promising to deliver a package at no cost to NASA. A follow-up note, written on Renaissance Hotel stationery, transmitted the French COMETA report "UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?," originally published in July 1999 by G.S. Presse Communication. Rosin noted in her letter that she had served as spokesperson for Wernher von Braun during the last years of his life and had founded the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space in 1983.
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Renaissance Hotel, 999 9th NW, Washington, DC
On April 30, 2001, Carol Rosin and Jon Cypher wrote from Ventura, California to a NASA official named Dan, enclosing the French COMETA Report, titled "UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?" A follow-up hotel note from Cypher directed Dan to the preface, a radar section starting around page 62, testimony from John Callahan, and a entry for Enrique Kolbeck, Senior Air Traffic Controller at Mexico City International Airport, at page 105. Cypher corrected an earlier statement, noting the COMETA Report is a private, not government, document.
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Reno, Nevada
On October 3, 1966, the FBI Los Angeles Division sent a memo to the FBI Director transmitting Issue No. 24 of Flying Saucers International, the official journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc., edited by Gabriel Green at 2004 N. Hoover St., Los Angeles. The magazine had been delivered to the FBI Philadelphia Division on September 19, 1966, by Jarvis H. Cooper, an IRS employee in Philadelphia, who said pages 2 and 3 contained an article he believed expounded the Communist Party line.
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Restricted test range (location redacted)
In September 2023, FBI special agents interviewed a witness — a supervisor at a U.S. military installation — in connection with a UAP sighting that occurred during active restricted-airspace test operations. The witness had personally restricted the airspace for scheduled tests that morning. At approximately 7:02 a.m., she and a group of contractors departed in three vehicles toward the test site. Between 7:15 and 7:30 a.m., while driving through a base access gate that malfunctioned on three attempts before opening on the fourth (with no prior or subsequent mechanical issues), the primary witness looked up and observed a cigar-shaped, metallic bronze object positioned southwest of her location, approximately 500 to 3,000 feet above a tree line roughly one mile to the southwest. The object was almost hovering and moving slowly from east to west. It displayed an extremely bright, diamond-white light on its eastern end, encircled by a ring, pointing southeast — described as being like looking directly into the sun. The object's length was estimated at two to three Blackhawk helicopters nose-to-tail; its width approximately one and a half Blackhawks, though the intense light may have obscured part of the body. The object was completely silent. The witness initially assumed it was an unauthorized aircraft violating her restricted airspace, but quickly concluded it was neither an aircraft nor a drone. She inched her vehicle forward while she and the front-seat passenger watched the object for five to ten seconds, after which it simply disappeared. The sky was clear with no clouds, and no contrails were left. No photos or video were taken. A passenger in the second vehicle independently reported seeing the object as well. The witness stated she would not have reported the sighting had she been alone, and noted that several coworkers subsequently mocked her for doing so. She had fifteen years of experience working at the installation and had been exposed to most U.S. military aircraft and drones, and had never seen anything like it. No vehicle interference was noted during the observation.
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restricted-access gate (redacted location)
An FBI FD-302 documents an interview conducted in October 2023 with a redacted defense contractor who reported seeing a cigar-shaped, "metallic bronze in color" object at a U.S. test site in September 2023, between 7:15 and 7:30 a.m. The witness, who said she had restricted the airspace that morning for scheduled tests, described the object as the length of two to three Blackhawk helicopters, completely silent, slowly moving east to west, and bearing an intense diamond white light on its eastern end before it disappeared from a clear sky after five to ten seconds.
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Richmond, California
Headquarters Air Material Command, Dayton, Ohio transmitted Incident Summary Sheets 173 through 233 on March 9, 1949, covering sightings from September 1945 through October 1948. Observers in Louisiana, New Mexico, and California reported objects described variously as aluminum-colored and metallic, cone-shaped and encased in flame, perfectly circular and flat, bright silvery and egg-shaped, and amoeba-like with oscillating appendages. The summary sheets record no determination of what the objects were.
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Ridgewood, Queens, New York
On September 11, 1947, Portland Police Department officers in Districts 18 and 14, including Chief of Police Leon V. Jenkins, reported sighting a round silver object over Portland, Oregon between 5:21 and 5:27 PM. In July 1947, pilot Jack Peck and co-pilot Vince Daly of the Al Jones Flying Company observed a flying wing object near Bethel Airport, Alaska, describing it as approximately the size of a C-54 without any fuselage, flying at 1,000 feet at an estimated 300 miles per hour with no propeller, jet exhaust, or vapor trails.
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San Antonio, Texas
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894, Section 5, contains 1949 investigative records on flying saucers, including a letter Walter Winchell received from Peter Camerlon Jones of Los Angeles, who claimed to have seen a large silver object shaped like a child's top in the mountains near Los Angeles in August 1947. D. M. Ladd directed the Los Angeles field office to discreetly check Jones's background and interview him, but efforts to locate Jones were negative. The FBI wrote to Ernest Cuneo on July 21, 1949, suggesting the original letter may have been a prank.
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San Diego, California
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894, Section 5, contains 1949 investigative records on flying saucers, including a letter Walter Winchell received from Peter Camerlon Jones of Los Angeles, who claimed to have seen a large silver object shaped like a child's top in the mountains near Los Angeles in August 1947. D. M. Ladd directed the Los Angeles field office to discreetly check Jones's background and interview him, but efforts to locate Jones were negative. The FBI wrote to Ernest Cuneo on July 21, 1949, suggesting the original letter may have been a prank.
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San Francisco, California
FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 collects press clippings, public letters, and internal memos concerning "flying disc" and "flying saucer" reports across the United States in July 1947. Reports include Rev. Joseph Brasky of Grafton, Wisconsin, who told the United Press he found an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and was holding it for the FBI. Civilian Fred R. Reibold wrote to the Bureau describing a flaming circular object that fell in the street in Cornola, Nebraska on July 1, 1947; Director Hoover forwarded that letter to the War Department's Director of Intelligence on August 5, 1947.
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Sandia Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico
On July 24, 1949, a fireball was reported over the general neighborhood of Socorro, New Mexico at 8:26 p.m. Researchers W. D. Crozier and Ben K. Seely of the New Mexico School of Mines then made systematic airborne particle collections at Socorro from July 25 through August 1, finding copper-bearing opaque particles and three apparently perfect spherical cobalt-indication particles twelve microns in diameter in the July 26 afternoon collection.
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Santa Fe, New Mexico (southwest from Plaza of Santa Fe)
Headquarters Air Material Command, Dayton, Ohio transmitted Incident Summary Sheets 173 through 233 on March 9, 1949, covering sightings from September 1945 through October 1948. Observers in Louisiana, New Mexico, and California reported objects described variously as aluminum-colored and metallic, cone-shaped and encased in flame, perfectly circular and flat, bright silvery and egg-shaped, and amoeba-like with oscillating appendages. The summary sheets record no determination of what the objects were.
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Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range, USSR
A former Soviet citizen reported observing an unidentified sharp green circular object or mass in the sky over Site 7 at the Sary Shagan weapons testing range in the USSR sometime between November 1972 and November 1973. The source stepped outside while watching a Canada-USSR televised sports competition and saw the object to the west at approximately 70 degrees elevation; within 10 to 15 seconds the green circle widened and several green concentric circles formed around the mass, which faded within minutes with no associated sound. The source had no opinion as to what the phenomenon was, and there were no resultant rumors.
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Savannah River Plant, AEC, South Carolina
On August 9, 1952, the FBI Savannah field office sent an urgent teletype to Director Hoover reporting that two employees of E. I. Du Pont Company saw a blue light with an orange fringe shaped like a saucer fly over the Four Hundred Area of the Savannah River Plant AEC facility at approximately 9:30 PM on August 8. Between August 11 and August 20, 1952, Hoover forwarded letters from multiple citizens about flying saucers and flying disks to the Director of Special Investigations, The Inspector General, Department of the Air Force.
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Savannah River plant, Augusta, Georgia
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894 compiles sighting reports, media clippings, and investigative memos covering incidents from 1947 through 1968. Reported incidents include American Airlines pilot Capt. Peter Killian's account of three shining saucer-like objects trailing his DC6 for 45 minutes in February 1958, the Coast Guard cutter Sebago tracking an object on radar for 27 minutes in the Gulf of Mexico at an estimated 1,000 miles per hour, and grain buyer R. O. Schmidt's claim of encountering a cigar-shaped craft near Kearney, Nebraska, in November 1957.
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Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska
FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 compiles newspaper clippings, eyewitness accounts, and investigative records on flying saucer and flying disc sightings reported across the United States between June 1947 and July 1968. Reports include a Grand Blanc, Michigan man's color-slide photograph of a saucer-like object against the moon, returned by the Pentagon with a faulty-development explanation; an American Airlines DC6 pilot's account of three shining saucer-like objects trailing his plane for 45 minutes from Newark to Detroit in November 1957; and a Coast Guard cutter's radar tracking of a fast-moving object in the Gulf of Mexico. Dr.
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Seattle Public Library, Room 325
On October 3, 1966, the FBI Director sent a memo to the SAC in Los Angeles regarding Issue No. 24 of "Flying Saucers International," the official journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc. The Philadelphia Division had received the July 1966 issue on September 19, 1966, from Jarvis H. Cooper, an IRS employee at 401 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, who flagged pages 2 and 3 as expounding the Communist Party line.
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Seattle Public Library, Room 325, Seattle, Washington
Section 10 of FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 contains the program for the AFSCA 3rd National Flying Saucer Convention, held July 8-10, 1966, at the Centennial Coliseum in Reno, Nevada, along with a citizen letter and the Bureau's reply. On August 31, 1966, Florence C. Dow of Goffstown, New Hampshire, wrote to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover stating that her first issue of the AFSCA journal "Flying Saucers International" struck her as Communist-backed.
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Seattle-Tacoma Airport, Washington
In July, August, and September 1949, and again in January 1950, military and civilian witnesses filed reports under Flight Service Regulation 200-4 describing flying objects over Kansas, Washington, Oregon, Ohio, South Carolina, and New York. Objects were described variously as dish-shaped, circular, and cylindrical, with reported speeds exceeding that of a B-29 and, in one case, an orange and white flame exhaust more than twice the length of the object. Reports were submitted by Lowry, Olmsted, McChord, Maxwell, and Wright-Patterson Flight Service Centers to the Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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Seattle, Washington
On October 3, 1966, the FBI Los Angeles Division sent a memo to the FBI Director transmitting Issue No. 24 of Flying Saucers International, the official journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc., edited by Gabriel Green at 2004 N. Hoover St., Los Angeles. The magazine had been delivered to the FBI Philadelphia Division on September 19, 1966, by Jarvis H. Cooper, an IRS employee in Philadelphia, who said pages 2 and 3 contained an article he believed expounded the Communist Party line.
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Seattle, Washington (Ft. Lawton)
On August 25, 1947, Lt. Col. Donald L. Springer of Fourth Air Force A-2 Intelligence at Hamilton Field forwarded a letter from F. M. Johnson, a Portland, Oregon prospector, to the FBI SAC in San Francisco. Johnson wrote that on June 24, 1947, in the Ft. Adams district, he observed round flying objects approximately 30 feet in diameter, traveling at high speed and making no noise, last seen banking on edge into a cloud. Springer noted the similarity to Kenneth Arnold's report while raising the possibility that Johnson had read about Arnold in the newspapers.
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Selfridge Air Force Base, Michigan
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894 compiles sighting reports, media clippings, and investigative memos covering incidents from 1947 through 1968. Reported incidents include American Airlines pilot Capt. Peter Killian's account of three shining saucer-like objects trailing his DC6 for 45 minutes in February 1958, the Coast Guard cutter Sebago tracking an object on radar for 27 minutes in the Gulf of Mexico at an estimated 1,000 miles per hour, and grain buyer R. O. Schmidt's claim of encountering a cigar-shaped craft near Kearney, Nebraska, in November 1957.
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Selfridge Field, Michigan
On July 9, 1947, Raymond Edward Lane, a Dow Chemical Company employee, and his wife Laura reported hearing a puff noise and seeing a ball of white about the size of a bushel basket burning a foot off the ground in a Dow-owned field in Midland, Michigan. Lane brought recovered material to the Dow Physics Laboratory the next day; laboratory examination found ordinary sand, a small silver nugget, melted sand droplets giving off ammonia odor, and a grayish radioactive material. The FBI Detroit Division reported the incident to the Director on August 5, 1947, and recommended forwarding the material to the War Department.
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Shaddadi, Syria
A two-ship F-15E flight from the 389th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, flying defensive counter-air operations over Syria on February 21, 2023, reported three "poss UAP" near Shaddadi at FL240 at 0025Z, with weapon system video produced and no radar returns received; two of the objects were described as white and IR significant. At 0135Z the same flight reported one "poss balloon" near Shaddadi at FL210, also with weapon system video produced.
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SHAEF Forward (APO 757)
SHAEF Air Staff file 37153 compiles Allied aircrew reports of night phenomena, called "foo fighters," submitted through XII Tactical Air Command and First Tactical Air Force between December 1944 and March 1945. Pilots of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron reported lights that blinked, changed colors, and flew formation with their aircraft; on 1 March 1945, IX TAC pilots observed and attacked an aluminum-colored cylinder about 12 feet long floating at 9,000 feet near grid F-5710, producing a red flame without smoke when partially deflated. Air Ministry A.D.I.
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Siberia (referenced in hand-drawn map)
On July 9, 1949, D.M. Ladd reported to the FBI Director that Ernest Cuneo relayed a letter Walter Winchell received from Peter Camerlon Jones of Los Angeles, describing a silver metallic object shaped like a child's top observed in the mountains near Los Angeles in August 1947, which departed silently and knocked Jones to the ground. The FBI directed the Los Angeles field office to discreetly check Jones's background and interview him, but efforts to locate him were negative. On July 21, 1949, the FBI wrote to Cuneo suggesting the original letter may have been a prank.
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Sicily
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City reported in a September 16, 2023 cable that Mexican journalist Jaime Maussan presented alleged non-human remains to the Mexican Congress, which pilot witness Graves called an "unsubstantiated stunt" that took away from pilots' UAP experiences. The same cable reported that criminals killed two Guerrero prosecutors within one week: FGR state delegate Fernando Garcia Fernandez, shot from two vehicles in Chilpancingo on September 12, and FGE regional prosecutor Victor Manuel Salas Cuadras, kidnapped and found with approximately 50 gunshot wounds in Coyuca de Catalan on September 9.
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Sigonella Airbase (LICZ)
A U.S. Air Force ISR asset took off from Sigonella Airbase on 29 May 2022 and conducted IMINT over the Eastern Mediterranean under Operation HUMMER SICKLE. At 0117Z on 30 May 2022, the screener observed one possible small UAP flying north to northeast and followed it as long as possible but could not get a positive ID. No UAP signatures were recorded. The report was approved for release to AARO and declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 8 October 2025.
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Simons Avenue, Hackensack, New Jersey
On July 9, 1947, Raymond Edward Lane, a Dow Chemical Company employee, and his wife Laura reported hearing a puff noise and seeing a ball of white about the size of a bushel basket burning a foot off the ground in a Dow-owned field in Midland, Michigan. Lane brought recovered material to the Dow Physics Laboratory the next day; laboratory examination found ordinary sand, a small silver nugget, melted sand droplets giving off ammonia odor, and a grayish radioactive material. The FBI Detroit Division reported the incident to the Director on August 5, 1947, and recommended forwarding the material to the War Department.
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Site 35, Sary Shagan
A former Soviet citizen reported observing an unidentified sharp green circular object or mass in the sky over Site 7 at the Sary Shagan weapons testing range in the USSR sometime between November 1972 and November 1973. The source stepped outside while watching a Canada-USSR televised sports competition and saw the object to the west at approximately 70 degrees elevation; within 10 to 15 seconds the green circle widened and several green concentric circles formed around the mass, which faded within minutes with no associated sound. The source had no opinion as to what the phenomenon was, and there were no resultant rumors.
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Site 4, Sary Shagan
A former Soviet citizen reported observing an unidentified sharp green circular object or mass in the sky over Site 7 at the Sary Shagan weapons testing range in the USSR sometime between November 1972 and November 1973. The source stepped outside while watching a Canada-USSR televised sports competition and saw the object to the west at approximately 70 degrees elevation; within 10 to 15 seconds the green circle widened and several green concentric circles formed around the mass, which faded within minutes with no associated sound. The source had no opinion as to what the phenomenon was, and there were no resultant rumors.
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Site 7, Sary Shagan
A former Soviet citizen reported observing an unidentified sharp green circular object or mass in the sky over Site 7 at the Sary Shagan weapons testing range in the USSR sometime between November 1972 and November 1973. The source stepped outside while watching a Canada-USSR televised sports competition and saw the object to the west at approximately 70 degrees elevation; within 10 to 15 seconds the green circle widened and several green concentric circles formed around the mass, which faded within minutes with no associated sound. The source had no opinion as to what the phenomenon was, and there were no resultant rumors.
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Six Mile Canyon Mountain, New Mexico
FBI Special Agent D. Arthur Byrnes, Jr. documented a report from Officer Lonnie Zamora of the Socorro Police Department concerning an unknown object that "landed and has taken off" about one mile southwest of Socorro, New Mexico, on April 24, 1964. Zamora described an aluminum-white, egg-shaped object on or near the ground, two persons in white coveralls nearby, a blue-orange flame and loud roar during ascent, and a red insignia resembling the letter "A" on the object's surface.
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Six Mile Road and Lamphere Street, Detroit, Michigan
On April 17, 1958, at 4:08 A.M., David Weaver, age 23, of 15801 Decosta, Detroit, Michigan, called the FBI Detroit field office to report a UFO sighting he had just witnessed. Weaver described the object as circular with a crystal-type dome that reflected lights. He observed it traveling in a northward direction, moving from the southwest, and said it crossed the city approximately three blocks south of Six Mile Road at Lamphere Street, Detroit. Weaver was returning home from his place of employment in Detroit when he saw the object. He first attempted to contact Selfridge Field to report it to the Air Force but was unable to reach anyone. He then contacted the FBI to pass along the information. Weaver identified himself as the son of a Detroit policeman and noted he had prior experience with the Civil Air Patrol (CAP), though he acknowledged he was not highly familiar with aircraft identification. The memo was authored by Special Agent Robert Ross Reynolds of the FBI Detroit office and addressed to the Special Agent in Charge (SAC), Detroit. The sole recommendation in the memo was to advise proper Air Force authorities. The document carries FBI file references 100-26505 and 100-18221-844 and was filed on April 17, 1958. It was declassified under the FBI Automatic Declassification Guide issued May 24, 2007, and released under FOIA request #90288.
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Six Mile Road, Detroit, Michigan
David Weaver, age 23, of 15801 Decosta, Detroit, Michigan, telephoned the FBI Detroit office at 4:08 A.M. on April 17, 1958, to report seeing a circular object with a crystal-type dome that reflected lights. He said the object traveled from the southwest in a northern direction, crossing the city three blocks south of Six Mile Road at Lamphere Street. Weaver told the FBI he had first tried to reach Selfridge Field Air Force base but could not get through, and that he was on his way home from work when he saw the object. SA Robert Ross Reynolds authored the memorandum to SAC Detroit and recommended notifying Air Force authorities.
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Skylab space station, low Earth orbit
Excerpts from three NASA Skylab technical crew debriefings, dated June 30, 1973, October 4, 1973, and February 22, 1974, record crew observations of light flashes, a bright reddish rotating object, and flashing lights outside the station. Science Pilot Joseph Kerwin reported that all three Skylab 2 crew members saw light flashes, possibly linked to the South Atlantic anomaly. Science Pilot Owen Garriott reported that the Skylab 3 crew tracked a bright reddish rotating satellite in a very similar orbit for 5 to 10 minutes; Garriott stated no one ever explained its identity.
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Soci, USSR
Air Intelligence Information Report IR 193-55, dated 14 October 1955 and prepared by Lt. Col. Thomas S. Ryan of the U.S. Air Attache office in Prague, documents an eyewitness account of two round, circular unconventional aircraft resembling flying saucers seen at 1910 hours on 1 October 1955 between Atjaty and Adzhijabul in the Trans-Caucasus region of the USSR. Senator Richard Russell, Lt. Col. E.U. Hathaway, and Mr. Ruben Efron observed the disc aircraft ascending almost vertically one minute apart, with outer surfaces revolving slowly to the right, two stationary lights near the top, and sparks or flame from the bottom.
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Socorro County Sheriff's Office, Socorro, New Mexico
FBI Special Agent D. Arthur Byrnes, Jr. documented a report from Officer Lonnie Zamora of the Socorro Police Department concerning an unknown object that "landed and has taken off" about one mile southwest of Socorro, New Mexico, on April 24, 1964. Zamora described an aluminum-white, egg-shaped object on or near the ground, two persons in white coveralls nearby, a blue-orange flame and loud roar during ascent, and a red insignia resembling the letter "A" on the object's surface.
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Socorro, New Mexico
On July 24, 1949, a fireball was reported over the general neighborhood of Socorro, New Mexico at 8:26 p.m. Researchers W. D. Crozier and Ben K. Seely of the New Mexico School of Mines then made systematic airborne particle collections at Socorro from July 25 through August 1, finding copper-bearing opaque particles and three apparently perfect spherical cobalt-indication particles twelve microns in diameter in the July 26 afternoon collection.
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solar system
On July 18, 1963, Maxwell W. Hunter II of the National Aeronautics and Space Council sent a memorandum to Robert F. Packard at the State Department's Office of International Scientific Affairs, titled "Thoughts on the Space Alien Race Question." The memo outlines three types of potential alien contact scenarios and argues that diplomatic policy would need to differ for each, ranging from chemical-propulsion Martians to a faster-than-light race, for which Hunter writes "our policy had better be to negotiate fast.
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Sonoma County, California
On 18 February 1948 at 5:01 P.M., an aerial explosion occurred over Norcatur, Kansas, logged as Incident 101 by the Department of War. Farmer Leland Sammons reported a funnel-shaped object roughly four feet long, with a pipe at the rear and fire belching from it, hovering near his farmhouse before departing northwest and exploding in a cloud of smoke. Beginning 24 April 1948, meteorite fragments were recovered, including a 109-pound achondrite piece found two feet underground in a clover field. Civilian Norman Garrett Markham wrote to the Office of the Chief of Staff speculating the object may have been a rocket or space-craft.
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Sonora, Mexico
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City reported in a September 16, 2023 cable that Mexican journalist Jaime Maussan presented alleged non-human remains to the Mexican Congress, which pilot witness Graves called an "unsubstantiated stunt" that took away from pilots' UAP experiences. The same cable reported that criminals killed two Guerrero prosecutors within one week: FGR state delegate Fernando Garcia Fernandez, shot from two vehicles in Chilpancingo on September 12, and FGE regional prosecutor Victor Manuel Salas Cuadras, kidnapped and found with approximately 50 gunshot wounds in Coyuca de Catalan on September 9.
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South Atlantic anomaly (referenced)
Excerpts from three NASA Skylab technical crew debriefings, dated June 30, 1973, October 4, 1973, and February 22, 1974, record crew observations of light flashes, a bright reddish rotating object, and flashing lights outside the station. Science Pilot Joseph Kerwin reported that all three Skylab 2 crew members saw light flashes, possibly linked to the South Atlantic anomaly. Science Pilot Owen Garriott reported that the Skylab 3 crew tracked a bright reddish rotating satellite in a very similar orbit for 5 to 10 minutes; Garriott stated no one ever explained its identity.
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South Berwick, Maine
In July and August 1954, the FBI Cincinnati Field Office and Washington Field Office documented reports from civilian informant Thomas Eickhoff concerning flying saucer lecturers Truman Bethurum and George Hunt Williamson, and from Navy Security Officer John Hutson concerning Frances Swan's claimed thought transmission contact with beings designated "AFFA" and "PONNAR," commanders of ships M-4 and L-11. Eickhoff reported attending a luncheon at the Terrace Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati on June 7, 1954, where Bethurum and Williamson stated their story was factual and consented to government scrutiny.
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South Carolina
FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 collects press clippings, public letters, and internal memos concerning "flying disc" and "flying saucer" reports across the United States in July 1947. Reports include Rev. Joseph Brasky of Grafton, Wisconsin, who told the United Press he found an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and was holding it for the FBI. Civilian Fred R. Reibold wrote to the Bureau describing a flaming circular object that fell in the street in Cornola, Nebraska on July 1, 1947; Director Hoover forwarded that letter to the War Department's Director of Intelligence on August 5, 1947.
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South Royalton, Vermont
On September 11, 1947, Portland Police Department officers in Districts 18 and 14, including Chief of Police Leon V. Jenkins, reported sighting a round silver object over Portland, Oregon between 5:21 and 5:27 PM. In July 1947, pilot Jack Peck and co-pilot Vince Daly of the Al Jones Flying Company observed a flying wing object near Bethel Airport, Alaska, describing it as approximately the size of a C-54 without any fuselage, flying at 1,000 feet at an estimated 300 miles per hour with no propeller, jet exhaust, or vapor trails.
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Southern Oregon
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894, Section 5, contains 1949 investigative records on flying saucers, including a letter Walter Winchell received from Peter Camerlon Jones of Los Angeles, who claimed to have seen a large silver object shaped like a child's top in the mountains near Los Angeles in August 1947. D. M. Ladd directed the Los Angeles field office to discreetly check Jones's background and interview him, but efforts to locate Jones were negative. The FBI wrote to Ernest Cuneo on July 21, 1949, suggesting the original letter may have been a prank.
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Southwestern United States
On November 20, 1957, the FBI Legal Attache in Havana reported that Jose Maria Nieto and Carmelo Guzman had told the Havana newspaper Diario de la Marina they saw a flying disc in the shape of a man's hat hovering silently over Matahambre, Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba, before it disappeared at high speed toward the sea. An FBI memo dated November 12, 1957, from R. R. Roach to A. H. Belmont noted a surge in flying saucer and UFO reports across the United States following the Soviet release of Sputnik, which Air Force Intelligence told the Bureau were all resolved as nonauthentic.
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Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E)
The 30th Space Wing Office of History compiled a launch summary covering all launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base from 1958 through 2000. The document defines launch vehicle types, test categories, and program abbreviations, and lists military and contractor recipients including Aerospace Corporation, Boeing Defense and Space Group, ITT Federal Services Corporation, and TRW. The report was dated February 3, 2000, and released by the Department of War.
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Space Launch Complex 4W (SLC-4W)
The 30th Space Wing Office of History compiled a launch summary covering all launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base from 1958 through 2000. The document defines launch vehicle types, test categories, and program abbreviations, and lists military and contractor recipients including Aerospace Corporation, Boeing Defense and Space Group, ITT Federal Services Corporation, and TRW. The report was dated February 3, 2000, and released by the Department of War.
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Space Launch Complex 5 (SLC-5)
The 30th Space Wing Office of History compiled a launch summary covering all launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base from 1958 through 2000. The document defines launch vehicle types, test categories, and program abbreviations, and lists military and contractor recipients including Aerospace Corporation, Boeing Defense and Space Group, ITT Federal Services Corporation, and TRW. The report was dated February 3, 2000, and released by the Department of War.
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Space Launch Complex 6 (SLC-6)
The 30th Space Wing Office of History compiled a launch summary covering all launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base from 1958 through 2000. The document defines launch vehicle types, test categories, and program abbreviations, and lists military and contractor recipients including Aerospace Corporation, Boeing Defense and Space Group, ITT Federal Services Corporation, and TRW. The report was dated February 3, 2000, and released by the Department of War.
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Spain
On September 23, 1947, Lt. Gen. N. F. Twining of Air Materiel Command at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, transmitted a letter to Headquarters Army Air Forces stating that the flying disc phenomenon "is something real and not visionary or fictitious," describing observed objects as disc-shaped, flying in formations of three to nine at speeds above 300 knots. On December 30, 1947, Maj. Gen. L. C. Craigie directed AMC to establish Project SION, priority 2A, classified "restricted," to collect and distribute flying disc sighting data. Photographs submitted by Mary L.
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Spokane, Washington
In July, August, and September 1949, and again in January 1950, military and civilian witnesses filed reports under Flight Service Regulation 200-4 describing flying objects over Kansas, Washington, Oregon, Ohio, South Carolina, and New York. Objects were described variously as dish-shaped, circular, and cylindrical, with reported speeds exceeding that of a B-29 and, in one case, an orange and white flame exhaust more than twice the length of the object. Reports were submitted by Lowry, Olmsted, McChord, Maxwell, and Wright-Patterson Flight Service Centers to the Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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SRO Track 41EMD
A U.S. Air Force ISR asset took off from Sigonella Airbase on 29 May 2022 and conducted IMINT over the Eastern Mediterranean under Operation HUMMER SICKLE. At 0117Z on 30 May 2022, the screener observed one possible small UAP flying north to northeast and followed it as long as possible but could not get a positive ID. No UAP signatures were recorded. The report was approved for release to AARO and declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 8 October 2025.
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St. Louis, Missouri
On November 20, 1957, the FBI Legal Attache in Havana reported that Jose Maria Nieto and Carmelo Guzman had told the Havana newspaper Diario de la Marina they saw a flying disc in the shape of a man's hat hovering silently over Matahambre, Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba, before it disappeared at high speed toward the sea. An FBI memo dated November 12, 1957, from R. R. Roach to A. H. Belmont noted a surge in flying saucer and UFO reports across the United States following the Soviet release of Sputnik, which Air Force Intelligence told the Bureau were all resolved as nonauthentic.
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St. Maries, Idaho
FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 collects press clippings, public letters, and internal memos concerning "flying disc" and "flying saucer" reports across the United States in July 1947. Reports include Rev. Joseph Brasky of Grafton, Wisconsin, who told the United Press he found an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and was holding it for the FBI. Civilian Fred R. Reibold wrote to the Bureau describing a flaming circular object that fell in the street in Cornola, Nebraska on July 1, 1947; Director Hoover forwarded that letter to the War Department's Director of Intelligence on August 5, 1947.
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Stevenson, Washington
In July, August, and September 1949, and again in January 1950, military and civilian witnesses filed reports under Flight Service Regulation 200-4 describing flying objects over Kansas, Washington, Oregon, Ohio, South Carolina, and New York. Objects were described variously as dish-shaped, circular, and cylindrical, with reported speeds exceeding that of a B-29 and, in one case, an orange and white flame exhaust more than twice the length of the object. Reports were submitted by Lowry, Olmsted, McChord, Maxwell, and Wright-Patterson Flight Service Centers to the Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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Stockton, Kansas
On 18 February 1948 at 5:01 P.M., an aerial explosion occurred over Norcatur, Kansas, logged as Incident 101 by the Department of War. Farmer Leland Sammons reported a funnel-shaped object roughly four feet long, with a pipe at the rear and fire belching from it, hovering near his farmhouse before departing northwest and exploding in a cloud of smoke. Beginning 24 April 1948, meteorite fragments were recovered, including a 109-pound achondrite piece found two feet underground in a clover field. Civilian Norman Garrett Markham wrote to the Office of the Chief of Staff speculating the object may have been a rocket or space-craft.
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Strait of Hormuz
MISREP 4871281 records that a U.S. military operator took off from OKAS on 1 October 2020 and, during a 21-hour NAVCENT support mission over the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, and Gulf of Oman, observed 1X UAP at 1829Z on 2 October 2020. The report references OBSERVATION LINE 1 for UAP details, but that section is not present in the released text. The document was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 16 March 2026 under MDR 26-0028 and approved for release to AARO.
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Strasburg, Germany
In a November 7, 1957 interview conducted by SA Cassius Rathbun, Wladyslaw Krasuski of 5457 Joseph Campau, Detroit, described witnessing a circular vehicle rise vertically from a tarpaulin-enclosed compound near Gut Alt Golssen, approximately 30 miles east of Berlin, circa 1944, while held there as a Polish prisoner of war. The vehicle was circular, 75 to 100 yards in diameter and about 14 feet high, with a rapidly moving middle section producing a continuous blur similar to an aeroplane propeller.
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Sukhumi, Abkhazia
A confidential cable sent October 30, 2001, from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to the State Department reports that Deputy Foreign Minister Mamedov, citing the Russian Ministry of Defense, categorically denied that Russian planes flew over or bombed positions in the Kodori Gorge on October 28 and 29, despite Georgian accusations. MFA Georgia Desk Chief Tereoken echoed the denial but added that "any side" could have sent planes over Kodori, prompting the embassy to comment that "to posit that they could be UFOs would be humorous if it were not for the seriousness of the violations.
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Summit Avenue, Hackensack, New Jersey
On July 9, 1947, Raymond Edward Lane, a Dow Chemical Company employee, and his wife Laura reported hearing a puff noise and seeing a ball of white about the size of a bushel basket burning a foot off the ground in a Dow-owned field in Midland, Michigan. Lane brought recovered material to the Dow Physics Laboratory the next day; laboratory examination found ordinary sand, a small silver nugget, melted sand droplets giving off ammonia odor, and a grayish radioactive material. The FBI Detroit Division reported the incident to the Director on August 5, 1947, and recommended forwarding the material to the War Department.
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Sweden
On 4 November 1948, USAFE transmitted intelligence cable TT #1524 to General Cabell and the USAF Directorate of Intelligence. Three crews of the 307th Bomb Group had sighted an aircraft on 5 September 1948 off the west coast of Holland at 30,000 feet, assessed as a single jet-propelled aircraft employing probable rocket assists, rated B-2. The cable also reported a flying saucer hovering over Neubiberg Air Base for about thirty minutes, and relayed the Swedish Air Intelligence Service's conclusion that such phenomena "cannot be credited to any presently known culture on earth."
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Syria
A U.S. Air Force aircrew operating over Syria on October 20, 2024, reported observing a "misshapen and uneven ball of white light" on their Full-Motion Video feed between 1559Z and 1644Z, describing multiple "glares or light from unknown origin at different angles and directions" and a "light/glare halo effect" at the top of the FMV feed. The MISREP, filed by the 12th Special Operations Squadron under Operation INHERENT RESOLVE, records the UAP physical state as "Plasma," propulsion means as "UNKNOWN," and notes the aircrew assessed the event as not a lasing event and "benign" with no mission impact.
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Syrian Coast
A U.S. Air Force ISR asset took off from Sigonella Airbase on 29 May 2022 and conducted IMINT over the Eastern Mediterranean under Operation HUMMER SICKLE. At 0117Z on 30 May 2022, the screener observed one possible small UAP flying north to northeast and followed it as long as possible but could not get a positive ID. No UAP signatures were recorded. The report was approved for release to AARO and declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 8 October 2025.
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Syrian Navy OPS Area
A U.S. Air Force ISR asset took off from Sigonella Airbase on 29 May 2022 and conducted IMINT over the Eastern Mediterranean under Operation HUMMER SICKLE. At 0117Z on 30 May 2022, the screener observed one possible small UAP flying north to northeast and followed it as long as possible but could not get a positive ID. No UAP signatures were recorded. The report was approved for release to AARO and declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 8 October 2025.
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Tacoma, Washington
On August 25, 1947, Lt. Col. Donald L. Springer of Headquarters Fourth Air Force, A-2 Intelligence, Hamilton Field, forwarded to the FBI SAC in San Francisco a letter from F. M. Johnson, a prospector who wrote from Portland, Oregon on August 20, 1947, reporting that he had observed flying discs in the Ft. Adams district on June 24, 1947, the same date as the Kenneth Arnold sighting. Johnson described the objects as round, about 30 feet in diameter, tapering to a point at the head end, with a bright top surface, no engine noise, and a tail object shifting side to side like a big magnet.
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Taft Auditorium, Cincinnati, Ohio
In July and August 1954, the FBI Cincinnati Field Office and Washington Field Office documented reports from civilian informant Thomas Eickhoff concerning flying saucer lecturers Truman Bethurum and George Hunt Williamson, and from Navy Security Officer John Hutson concerning Frances Swan's claimed thought transmission contact with beings designated "AFFA" and "PONNAR," commanders of ships M-4 and L-11. Eickhoff reported attending a luncheon at the Terrace Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati on June 7, 1954, where Bethurum and Williamson stated their story was factual and consented to government scrutiny.
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Tartus Naval Base (36SYD621.4a671.4a)
A U.S. Air Force ISR asset took off from Sigonella Airbase on 29 May 2022 and conducted IMINT over the Eastern Mediterranean under Operation HUMMER SICKLE. At 0117Z on 30 May 2022, the screener observed one possible small UAP flying north to northeast and followed it as long as possible but could not get a positive ID. No UAP signatures were recorded. The report was approved for release to AARO and declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 8 October 2025.
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Tasked Start Point: 38S MC 36[redacted] 20[redacted]
A U.S. Air Force reconnaissance asset from the 196 ATKS, operating over Iraq under Operation INHERENT RESOLVE, observed one UAP at 2043Z on 20 May 2022 flying north to northeast. The screener followed the UAP as long as possible but could not get a positive ID. The report, Misrep undefined-7528881, was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 8 October 2025, and approved for release to AARO.
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Tbilisi, Georgia
A confidential cable sent October 30, 2001, from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to the State Department reports that Deputy Foreign Minister Mamedov, citing the Russian Ministry of Defense, categorically denied that Russian planes flew over or bombed positions in the Kodori Gorge on October 28 and 29, despite Georgian accusations. MFA Georgia Desk Chief Tereoken echoed the denial but added that "any side" could have sent planes over Kodori, prompting the embassy to comment that "to posit that they could be UFOs would be humorous if it were not for the seriousness of the violations.
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Tehachapi, California
On August 9, 1952, the FBI Savannah field office sent an urgent teletype to Director Hoover reporting that two employees of E. I. Du Pont Company saw a blue light with an orange fringe shaped like a saucer fly over the Four Hundred Area of the Savannah River Plant AEC facility at approximately 9:30 PM on August 8. Between August 11 and August 20, 1952, Hoover forwarded letters from multiple citizens about flying saucers and flying disks to the Director of Special Investigations, The Inspector General, Department of the Air Force.
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Terrace Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio
In July and August 1954, the FBI Cincinnati Field Office and Washington Field Office documented reports from civilian informant Thomas Eickhoff concerning flying saucer lecturers Truman Bethurum and George Hunt Williamson, and from Navy Security Officer John Hutson concerning Frances Swan's claimed thought transmission contact with beings designated "AFFA" and "PONNAR," commanders of ships M-4 and L-11. Eickhoff reported attending a luncheon at the Terrace Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati on June 7, 1954, where Bethurum and Williamson stated their story was factual and consented to government scrutiny.
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Test site (location redacted)
This FBI FD-302 interview report, entered in October 2023, documents a September 2023 UAP sighting by multiple witnesses who were traveling by vehicle to a test site to collect LiDAR data. At approximately 9:00 AM, the lead witness — driving a GMC AT4 with a passenger — observed a bright white, stationary light on the horizon while heading east. The light then began moving to the right before disappearing after approximately ten seconds. It remained the same apparent size throughout. The witness estimated the object was ten to twenty miles away. No vehicle interference was reported. A passenger in the AT4 looked in the wrong direction and missed the light, partly due to their seating position. Upon arrival at the first test site, at least two other members of the group independently confirmed they had also seen the light. The witness speculated the light may have been a meteor approaching head-on and burning up in the atmosphere. The interview was conducted via FaceTime video by FBI Special Agents. All names, specific locations, file numbers, and drafting agent identities are redacted in the source document.
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test site (redacted)
An FBI FD-302 documents an interview conducted in October 2023 with a redacted defense contractor who reported seeing a cigar-shaped, "metallic bronze in color" object at a U.S. test site in September 2023, between 7:15 and 7:30 a.m. The witness, who said she had restricted the airspace that morning for scheduled tests, described the object as the length of two to three Blackhawk helicopters, completely silent, slowly moving east to west, and bearing an intense diamond white light on its eastern end before it disappeared from a clear sky after five to ten seconds.
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The Pentagon, Washington 25, D.C.
On August 9, 1952, the FBI Savannah field office sent an urgent teletype to Director Hoover reporting that two employees of E. I. Du Pont Company saw a blue light with an orange fringe shaped like a saucer fly over the Four Hundred Area of the Savannah River Plant AEC facility at approximately 9:30 PM on August 8. Between August 11 and August 20, 1952, Hoover forwarded letters from multiple citizens about flying saucers and flying disks to the Director of Special Investigations, The Inspector General, Department of the Air Force.
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Tierra Caliente region, Guerrero, Mexico
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City reported in a September 16, 2023 cable that Mexican journalist Jaime Maussan presented alleged non-human remains to the Mexican Congress, which pilot witness Graves called an "unsubstantiated stunt" that took away from pilots' UAP experiences. The same cable reported that criminals killed two Guerrero prosecutors within one week: FGR state delegate Fernando Garcia Fernandez, shot from two vehicles in Chilpancingo on September 12, and FGE regional prosecutor Victor Manuel Salas Cuadras, kidnapped and found with approximately 50 gunshot wounds in Coyuca de Catalan on September 9.
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Tiflis, USSR
Air Intelligence Information Report IR 193-55, dated 14 October 1955 and prepared by Lt. Col. Thomas S. Ryan of the U.S. Air Attache office in Prague, documents an eyewitness account of two round, circular unconventional aircraft resembling flying saucers seen at 1910 hours on 1 October 1955 between Atjaty and Adzhijabul in the Trans-Caucasus region of the USSR. Senator Richard Russell, Lt. Col. E.U. Hathaway, and Mr. Ruben Efron observed the disc aircraft ascending almost vertically one minute apart, with outer surfaces revolving slowly to the right, two stationary lights near the top, and sparks or flame from the bottom.
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
FBI internal memos from 1950 document OSI concern over green fireballs and discs appearing near sensitive installations in New Mexico. Dr. Lincoln La Paz of the University of New Mexico concluded that roughly half the recorded phenomena were meteoric; the remainder he attributed to possible U.S. guided missiles or, if that interpretation was wrong, to guided missiles launched from the Ural region of the USSR.
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Torrance, CA 90505
Research Triangle Institute prepared this final report for the Air Force's 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg AFB and 45th Space Wing at Patrick AFB, completed September 10, 1996, under Contract No. FO4703-91-C-0112. The report describes how "Mode-5 failure responses," meaning significant vehicle deviations from the intended flight line, are modeled in RTI's risk-analysis program DAMP, using two shaping constants calibrated by trial and error against simulated malfunctions for vehicles including Atlas IIAS, Delta-GEM, Titan IV, and LLV1.
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Trans-Caucasus region, USSR
Air Intelligence Information Report IR 193-55, dated 14 October 1955 and prepared by Lt. Col. Thomas S. Ryan of the U.S. Air Attache office in Prague, documents an eyewitness account of two round, circular unconventional aircraft resembling flying saucers seen at 1910 hours on 1 October 1955 between Atjaty and Adzhijabul in the Trans-Caucasus region of the USSR. Senator Richard Russell, Lt. Col. E.U. Hathaway, and Mr. Ruben Efron observed the disc aircraft ascending almost vertically one minute apart, with outer surfaces revolving slowly to the right, two stationary lights near the top, and sparks or flame from the bottom.
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Trans-en-Provence
On April 30, 2001, Carol Rosin and Jon Cypher sent a letter to a NASA official identified only as "Dan," announcing a Friday meeting and promising to deliver a package at no cost to NASA. A follow-up note, written on Renaissance Hotel stationery, transmitted the French COMETA report "UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?," originally published in July 1999 by G.S. Presse Communication. Rosin noted in her letter that she had served as spokesperson for Wernher von Braun during the last years of his life and had founded the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space in 1983.
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Trans-en-Provence, France
On April 30, 2001, Carol Rosin and Jon Cypher wrote from Ventura, California to a NASA official named Dan, enclosing the French COMETA Report, titled "UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?" A follow-up hotel note from Cypher directed Dan to the preface, a radar section starting around page 62, testimony from John Callahan, and a entry for Enrique Kolbeck, Senior Air Traffic Controller at Mexico City International Airport, at page 105. Cypher corrected an earlier statement, noting the COMETA Report is a private, not government, document.
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Transearth coast
During the Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing on July 31, 1969, Buzz Aldrin described three observations from the mission. Approximately one day from the Moon, the crew spotted an object of sizeable dimension that appeared L-shaped through the monocular and like a hollow cylinder through the sextant; ground control confirmed the S-IVB stage was 6,000 miles away, and the crew reached no conclusion about the object's size, range, or identity. Aldrin also reported recurring small flashes of light inside the darkened cabin, spaced roughly a minute apart, which he guessed were caused by some penetration of an object into the spacecraft.
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Transearth trajectory
At the Apollo 17 Technical Crew Debriefing on January 4, 1973, Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt told NASA debriefers that the crew had light flashes "just about continuously during the whole flight" when dark adapted, and that he believed one was a flash on the lunar surface. Schmitt noted no flashes were visible to himself or the other two crewmen during the ALFMED blindfold experiment interval, though the flashes resumed for him before sleep that same night. Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans separately described seeing a fireball through the rendezvous window that appeared as "a tunnel with a bright spot in the middle."
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Translunar coast (approximately 1 day from the Moon)
During the Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing on July 31, 1969, Buzz Aldrin described three observations from the mission. Approximately one day from the Moon, the crew spotted an object of sizeable dimension that appeared L-shaped through the monocular and like a hollow cylinder through the sextant; ground control confirmed the S-IVB stage was 6,000 miles away, and the crew reached no conclusion about the object's size, range, or identity. Aldrin also reported recurring small flashes of light inside the darkened cabin, spaced roughly a minute apart, which he guessed were caused by some penetration of an object into the spacecraft.
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Translunar space (approximately 1 day from the Moon)
This is an excerpt from the Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing conducted July 31, 1969, prepared by NASA's Mission Operations Branch. Buzz Aldrin describes three observations during the mission: a sizeable object with an L-shape seen about one day from the Moon, which the crew could not identify after ground control reported the S-IVB was 6,000 miles away; recurring light flashes inside the darkened cabin spaced roughly a minute apart, which Aldrin tentatively attributed to "some sort of penetration" of particles through the spacecraft.
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Trippelwerke, Molsheim
SHAEF Air Staff file 37153 contains messages and memorandums from December 1944 through March 1945 documenting reports of "night phenomena (foofighters)" by crews of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron over the European Theater. Crews described blinking lights that changed colors and flew in formation with their aircraft, reddish flames, red balls of fire, and arrow-like light formations. On 1 March 1945, HQ IX TAC reported that pilots observed an aluminum-colored cylinder-shaped object approximately 12 feet long floating at 9,000 feet, which was attacked, partially deflated, and produced a red flame without smoke.
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Troutdale, Oregon
In July, August, and September 1949, and again in January 1950, military and civilian witnesses filed reports under Flight Service Regulation 200-4 describing flying objects over Kansas, Washington, Oregon, Ohio, South Carolina, and New York. Objects were described variously as dish-shaped, circular, and cylindrical, with reported speeds exceeding that of a B-29 and, in one case, an orange and white flame exhaust more than twice the length of the object. Reports were submitted by Lowry, Olmsted, McChord, Maxwell, and Wright-Patterson Flight Service Centers to the Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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Tulsa, Oklahoma
On July 9, 1949, D.M. Ladd reported to the FBI Director that Ernest Cuneo relayed a letter Walter Winchell received from Peter Camerlon Jones of Los Angeles, describing a silver metallic object shaped like a child's top observed in the mountains near Los Angeles in August 1947, which departed silently and knocked Jones to the ground. The FBI directed the Los Angeles field office to discreetly check Jones's background and interview him, but efforts to locate him were negative. On July 21, 1949, the FBI wrote to Cuneo suggesting the original letter may have been a prank.
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Turkmenabat, Lebap Welayet (province), Turkmenistan
On November 5, 2004, the U.S. Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission and USAID Director met with the Board of the Union of UFOlogists of Turkmenabat in Lebap Welayet, Turkmenistan. UOU President Ovezberdy Muradov stated that Turkmen military and government authorities had consulted him about mysterious occurrences in Turkmen airspace, but said there had been no confirmed sightings of UFOs in Turkmenistan. The cable, transmitted November 12, 2004 and signed by Jacobson, describes the UOU as a USAID grant recipient and the first independent NGO registered in post-Soviet Turkmenistan.
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Tyndall Air Force Base, Panama City, Florida
Headquarters Eleventh Air Force forwarded a report to USAF Headquarters and Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in May and June 1948 documenting a flying disc sighting at Hobson, Ohio on the night of 8 May 1948. The report, sourced from FBI Special Agent D.K. Brown in Cleveland, described a round, phosphorescent object appearing nine inches in diameter from ground level, traveling at heading 90 degrees at an altitude of 6 to 8 miles, witnessed by New York Central System employees and a patrolman.
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U.S. military installation (name redacted)
In September 2023, FBI special agents interviewed a witness — a supervisor at a U.S. military installation — in connection with a UAP sighting that occurred during active restricted-airspace test operations. The witness had personally restricted the airspace for scheduled tests that morning. At approximately 7:02 a.m., she and a group of contractors departed in three vehicles toward the test site. Between 7:15 and 7:30 a.m., while driving through a base access gate that malfunctioned on three attempts before opening on the fourth (with no prior or subsequent mechanical issues), the primary witness looked up and observed a cigar-shaped, metallic bronze object positioned southwest of her location, approximately 500 to 3,000 feet above a tree line roughly one mile to the southwest. The object was almost hovering and moving slowly from east to west. It displayed an extremely bright, diamond-white light on its eastern end, encircled by a ring, pointing southeast — described as being like looking directly into the sun. The object's length was estimated at two to three Blackhawk helicopters nose-to-tail; its width approximately one and a half Blackhawks, though the intense light may have obscured part of the body. The object was completely silent. The witness initially assumed it was an unauthorized aircraft violating her restricted airspace, but quickly concluded it was neither an aircraft nor a drone. She inched her vehicle forward while she and the front-seat passenger watched the object for five to ten seconds, after which it simply disappeared. The sky was clear with no clouds, and no contrails were left. No photos or video were taken. A passenger in the second vehicle independently reported seeing the object as well. The witness stated she would not have reported the sighting had she been alone, and noted that several coworkers subsequently mocked her for doing so. She had fifteen years of experience working at the installation and had been exposed to most U.S. military aircraft and drones, and had never seen anything like it. No vehicle interference was noted during the observation.
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U.S. test site (redacted)
An FBI FD-302 documents an interview conducted in October 2023 with a redacted defense contractor who reported seeing a cigar-shaped, "metallic bronze in color" object at a U.S. test site in September 2023, between 7:15 and 7:30 a.m. The witness, who said she had restricted the airspace that morning for scheduled tests, described the object as the length of two to three Blackhawk helicopters, completely silent, slowly moving east to west, and bearing an intense diamond white light on its eastern end before it disappeared from a clear sky after five to ten seconds.
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U.S. test site (specific location redacted)
In September 2023 at around 9:00 AM, a group of U.S. persons driving east in a three-vehicle convoy to a test site for LiDAR data acquisition observed a bright white light over the horizon. The light was stationary, then moved to the right, and disappeared within ten seconds; one witness estimated it was ten to twenty miles away and noticed no interference with his vehicle. An FBI Special Agent conducted an FD-302 interview via FaceTime in October 2023. One witness thought the light might have been a meteor coming straight toward them and burning up in the atmosphere.
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UAP First Seen Location: 37SBV281.4a191.4a
A U.S. Air Force ISR asset took off from Sigonella Airbase on 29 May 2022 and conducted IMINT over the Eastern Mediterranean under Operation HUMMER SICKLE. At 0117Z on 30 May 2022, the screener observed one possible small UAP flying north to northeast and followed it as long as possible but could not get a positive ID. No UAP signatures were recorded. The report was approved for release to AARO and declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 8 October 2025.
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UAP First Seen Location: 38S MC 79[redacted] 70[redacted]
A U.S. Air Force reconnaissance asset from the 196 ATKS, operating over Iraq under Operation INHERENT RESOLVE, observed one UAP at 2043Z on 20 May 2022 flying north to northeast. The screener followed the UAP as long as possible but could not get a positive ID. The report, Misrep undefined-7528881, was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 8 October 2025, and approved for release to AARO.
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United Arab Emirates
A U.S. Air Force A1C assigned to the 50th Attack Squadron reported two UAP events over the Persian Gulf on 24 October 2023 during an ISR mission supporting NAVCENT under Operation Spartan Shield. The first UAP, acquired at 0241Z, showed a cold thermal signature, was assessed as solid and benign, and had an estimated velocity of 320 MPH; a second UAP was acquired at 0322Z near grid 39RXK68 with an estimated velocity of 440 MPH. Neither event resulted in observer engagement or effects on persons, and the intel gap was recorded as not filled. The report was declassified on 12 September 2025 by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff.
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United Arab Emirates region
A U.S. Air Force Senior Airman assigned to 3rd Special Operations Squadron, 379th Air Expeditionary Wing, reported observing one UAP on June 7, 2024, at 0457Z while returning to base over the Gulf of Oman. The observer described a "glowing hot spherical unidentified object with a vertical unwavering cylindrical pole/bar attached on the bottom of the object," with a possible reflection in the water below, moving at an estimated 140 knots. The observer assessed the UAP as benign; propulsion means were listed as unknown, and no sensor interrogation was conducted.
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United States
An FBI FD-302 documents an interview conducted in October 2023 with a redacted defense contractor who reported seeing a cigar-shaped, "metallic bronze in color" object at a U.S. test site in September 2023, between 7:15 and 7:30 a.m. The witness, who said she had restricted the airspace that morning for scheduled tests, described the object as the length of two to three Blackhawk helicopters, completely silent, slowly moving east to west, and bearing an intense diamond white light on its eastern end before it disappeared from a clear sky after five to ten seconds.
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United States (hotel, specific location redacted)
An FBI FD-302, drafted in October 2023, documents a FaceTime video interview with a redacted contractor who observed a UAP at a U.S. test site in September 2023 while traveling to conduct LiDAR drone tests. Around 7:30 AM, the witness saw a metallic gray, wingless linear object with a super-bright white light at approximately 5,000 feet AGL, moving east to west for five to ten seconds before the light went out and the object vanished. All witness names, the test site location, and the precise dates are redacted throughout the document.
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United States (specific location redacted)
This FBI FD-302 interview report, entered in October 2023, documents a September 2023 UAP sighting by multiple witnesses who were traveling by vehicle to a test site to collect LiDAR data. At approximately 9:00 AM, the lead witness — driving a GMC AT4 with a passenger — observed a bright white, stationary light on the horizon while heading east. The light then began moving to the right before disappearing after approximately ten seconds. It remained the same apparent size throughout. The witness estimated the object was ten to twenty miles away. No vehicle interference was reported. A passenger in the AT4 looked in the wrong direction and missed the light, partly due to their seating position. Upon arrival at the first test site, at least two other members of the group independently confirmed they had also seen the light. The witness speculated the light may have been a meteor approaching head-on and burning up in the atmosphere. The interview was conducted via FaceTime video by FBI Special Agents. All names, specific locations, file numbers, and drafting agent identities are redacted in the source document.
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United States (test site, specific location redacted)
An FBI FD-302, drafted in October 2023, documents a FaceTime video interview with a redacted contractor who observed a UAP at a U.S. test site in September 2023 while traveling to conduct LiDAR drone tests. Around 7:30 AM, the witness saw a metallic gray, wingless linear object with a super-bright white light at approximately 5,000 feet AGL, moving east to west for five to ten seconds before the light went out and the object vanished. All witness names, the test site location, and the precise dates are redacted throughout the document.
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University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
On July 24, 1949, a fireball was reported over the general neighborhood of Socorro, New Mexico at 8:26 p.m. Researchers W. D. Crozier and Ben K. Seely of the New Mexico School of Mines then made systematic airborne particle collections at Socorro from July 25 through August 1, finding copper-bearing opaque particles and three apparently perfect spherical cobalt-indication particles twelve microns in diameter in the July 26 afternoon collection.
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Unknown terrain, low hills or terrain features visible in lower frame portion
A grayscale still frame titled "B12 FBI Photo" shows a surveillance or targeting camera image with a burned-in timestamp of 12/31/99 18:11:12. A centered crosshair reticle with a horizontal scale from -15 to +15 overlays the frame, and faint terrain or hill silhouettes are visible in the lower portion. A small dark dot appears slightly right of center in the upper area of the frame. Seven or more black rectangular redaction bars obscure multiple data fields across the image.
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Unknown terrain, visible in lower third of frame as faint ground silhouette
FBI Photo B2 is a single grayscale camera frame timestamped 12/31/99 18:11:27, showing a crosshair reticle with graduated scale markings ranging from 5 to 15 on both sides. A small dark speck appears near center-right above the crosshair, and faint terrain is visible in the lower third of the frame. A large black bar spans the top of the image, and six black rectangular blocks appear symmetrically on the left and right margins.
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Unknown, indistinct terrain or landscape shapes visible in lower center and lower right of frame; consistent with aerial or surveillance vantage point
FBI exhibit B11 is a single-frame grayscale infrared or night-vision image bearing a timestamp of 12/31/99 18:11:06. A centered crosshair reticle with a horizontal scale from -15 to +15 overlays a hazy scene showing indistinct terrain shapes in the lower portion of the frame. Six black redaction rectangles are symmetrically placed on the left and right sides, and a wide black bar spans the top of the image, obscuring labels and header content.
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Ural region, USSR
FBI internal memos from 1950 document OSI concern over green fireballs and discs appearing near sensitive installations in New Mexico. Dr. Lincoln La Paz of the University of New Mexico concluded that roughly half the recorded phenomena were meteoric; the remainder he attributed to possible U.S. guided missiles or, if that interpretation was wrong, to guided missiles launched from the Ural region of the USSR.
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Ural region, USSR (hypothesized origin)
FBI internal memos from August through October 1950 document OSI concern over green fireballs, discs, and meteors appearing near sensitive installations in New Mexico. Dr. Lincoln La Paz of the University of New Mexico concluded roughly half the phenomena were meteoric; the remainder he attributed to U.S. guided missiles, while also raising the possibility of Soviet guided missiles launched from the Urals.
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Ural region, USSR (referenced)
FBI internal memos from 1950 document OSI concern over green fireballs and discs observed near sensitive installations in New Mexico, and a separate incident in Philadelphia on September 26, 1950, in which two police officers watched a round lavender object, described as dewy and like soap suds, float to the ground on Vare Boulevard near 26th Street and completely disintegrate over approximately 25 minutes. Lincoln La Paz of the University of New Mexico concluded that roughly half the New Mexico phenomena were meteoric; the remainder he attributed to U.S.
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Uranus
On July 18, 1963, Maxwell W. Hunter II of the National Aeronautics and Space Council sent a memorandum to Robert F. Packard at the State Department's Office of International Scientific Affairs, titled "Thoughts on the Space Alien Race Question." The memo outlines three types of potential alien contact scenarios and argues that diplomatic policy would need to differ for each, ranging from chemical-propulsion Martians to a faster-than-light race, for which Hunter writes "our policy had better be to negotiate fast.
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Vandenberg AFB, CA 93437
Research Triangle Institute prepared this final report for the Air Force's 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg AFB and 45th Space Wing at Patrick AFB, completed September 10, 1996, under Contract No. FO4703-91-C-0112. The report describes how "Mode-5 failure responses," meaning significant vehicle deviations from the intended flight line, are modeled in RTI's risk-analysis program DAMP, using two shaping constants calibrated by trial and error against simulated malfunctions for vehicles including Atlas IIAS, Delta-GEM, Titan IV, and LLV1.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
The 30th Space Wing Office of History compiled a launch summary covering all launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base from 1958 through 2000. The document defines launch vehicle types, test categories, and program abbreviations, and lists military and contractor recipients including Aerospace Corporation, Boeing Defense and Space Group, ITT Federal Services Corporation, and TRW. The report was dated February 3, 2000, and released by the Department of War.
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Vare Boulevard near 26th Street, Philadelphia
FBI internal memos from 1950 document OSI concern over green fireballs and discs appearing near sensitive installations in New Mexico. Dr. Lincoln La Paz of the University of New Mexico concluded that roughly half the recorded phenomena were meteoric; the remainder he attributed to possible U.S. guided missiles or, if that interpretation was wrong, to guided missiles launched from the Ural region of the USSR.
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Vare Boulevard near 26th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
FBI internal memos from 1950 document OSI concern over green fireballs and discs observed near sensitive installations in New Mexico, and a separate incident in Philadelphia on September 26, 1950, in which two police officers watched a round lavender object, described as dewy and like soap suds, float to the ground on Vare Boulevard near 26th Street and completely disintegrate over approximately 25 minutes. Lincoln La Paz of the University of New Mexico concluded that roughly half the New Mexico phenomena were meteoric; the remainder he attributed to U.S.
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Vaughn, New Mexico
FBI internal memos from 1950 document OSI concern over green fireballs and discs appearing near sensitive installations in New Mexico. Dr. Lincoln La Paz of the University of New Mexico concluded that roughly half the recorded phenomena were meteoric; the remainder he attributed to possible U.S. guided missiles or, if that interpretation was wrong, to guided missiles launched from the Ural region of the USSR.
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Ventura, CA 93001
On April 30, 2001, Carol Rosin and Jon Cypher sent a letter to a NASA official identified only as "Dan," announcing a Friday meeting and promising to deliver a package at no cost to NASA. A follow-up note, written on Renaissance Hotel stationery, transmitted the French COMETA report "UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?," originally published in July 1999 by G.S. Presse Communication. Rosin noted in her letter that she had served as spokesperson for Wernher von Braun during the last years of his life and had founded the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space in 1983.
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Venus
On July 18, 1963, Maxwell W. Hunter II of the National Aeronautics and Space Council sent a memorandum to Robert F. Packard at the State Department's Office of International Scientific Affairs, titled "Thoughts on the Space Alien Race Question." The memo outlines three types of potential alien contact scenarios and argues that diplomatic policy would need to differ for each, ranging from chemical-propulsion Martians to a faster-than-light race, for which Hunter writes "our policy had better be to negotiate fast.
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Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico
On March 19, 1950, Miguel Angel Garcia Macias, a pianist, composer, and self-described ideographic inventor from Veracruz, Mexico, wrote to the President of the Commission of Scientific Investigation of the United States of North America in New York, describing his concept of stratospheric aerostats and attributing flying saucers to U.S. atomic technology. The letter, translated by Mrs. Sophia Saliba, was received by the FBI New York Field Office by April 7, 1950, and filed under case 62-HQ-83894, Serial 220.
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Vernal, Utah
On November 20, 1957, the FBI Legal Attache in Havana reported that Jose Maria Nieto and Carmelo Guzman had told the Havana newspaper Diario de la Marina they saw a flying disc in the shape of a man's hat hovering silently over Matahambre, Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba, before it disappeared at high speed toward the sea. An FBI memo dated November 12, 1957, from R. R. Roach to A. H. Belmont noted a surge in flying saucer and UFO reports across the United States following the Soviet release of Sputnik, which Air Force Intelligence told the Bureau were all resolved as nonauthentic.
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Vicinity F-5710 (grid reference)
SHAEF Air Staff file 37153 contains messages and memorandums from December 1944 through March 1945 documenting reports of "night phenomena (foofighters)" by crews of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron over the European Theater. Crews described blinking lights that changed colors and flew in formation with their aircraft, reddish flames, red balls of fire, and arrow-like light formations. On 1 March 1945, HQ IX TAC reported that pilots observed an aluminum-colored cylinder-shaped object approximately 12 feet long floating at 9,000 feet, which was attacked, partially deflated, and produced a red flame without smoke.
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Vicinity F-5710 (map grid, Western Europe)
SHAEF Air Staff file 37153 compiles Allied aircrew reports of night phenomena, called "foo fighters," submitted through XII Tactical Air Command and First Tactical Air Force between December 1944 and March 1945. Pilots of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron reported lights that blinked, changed colors, and flew formation with their aircraft; on 1 March 1945, IX TAC pilots observed and attacked an aluminum-colored cylinder about 12 feet long floating at 9,000 feet near grid F-5710, producing a red flame without smoke when partially deflated. Air Ministry A.D.I.
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Vicinity Q-9050 (grid reference)
SHAEF Air Staff file 37153 contains messages and memorandums from December 1944 through March 1945 documenting reports of "night phenomena (foofighters)" by crews of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron over the European Theater. Crews described blinking lights that changed colors and flew in formation with their aircraft, reddish flames, red balls of fire, and arrow-like light formations. On 1 March 1945, HQ IX TAC reported that pilots observed an aluminum-colored cylinder-shaped object approximately 12 feet long floating at 9,000 feet, which was attacked, partially deflated, and produced a red flame without smoke.
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Vicinity R-1556 (grid reference)
SHAEF Air Staff file 37153 contains messages and memorandums from December 1944 through March 1945 documenting reports of "night phenomena (foofighters)" by crews of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron over the European Theater. Crews described blinking lights that changed colors and flew in formation with their aircraft, reddish flames, red balls of fire, and arrow-like light formations. On 1 March 1945, HQ IX TAC reported that pilots observed an aluminum-colored cylinder-shaped object approximately 12 feet long floating at 9,000 feet, which was attacked, partially deflated, and produced a red flame without smoke.
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Vietnam
In August 1966, Mrs. Florence C. Dow of Goffstown, New Hampshire wrote to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover stating she had paid $3.00 for a subscription to the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America publication and, after reading her first issue, suspected the organization was backed by Communists. She enclosed the AFSCA 3rd National Flying Saucer Convention program for Reno, Nevada, July 8-10, 1966, and a copy of Flying Saucers International, Issue No. 24. Hoover replied on September 6, 1966, and an internal FBI note recorded that bureau files contained no record of Mrs. Dow or the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America.
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Waco, Texas (observer address)
Headquarters Air Material Command, Dayton, Ohio transmitted Incident Summary Sheets 173 through 233 on March 9, 1949, covering sightings from September 1945 through October 1948. Observers in Louisiana, New Mexico, and California reported objects described variously as aluminum-colored and metallic, cone-shaped and encased in flame, perfectly circular and flat, bright silvery and egg-shaped, and amoeba-like with oscillating appendages. The summary sheets record no determination of what the objects were.
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Walnut Creek, California
Headquarters Air Material Command, Dayton, Ohio transmitted Incident Summary Sheets 173 through 233 on March 9, 1949, covering sightings from September 1945 through October 1948. Observers in Louisiana, New Mexico, and California reported objects described variously as aluminum-colored and metallic, cone-shaped and encased in flame, perfectly circular and flat, bright silvery and egg-shaped, and amoeba-like with oscillating appendages. The summary sheets record no determination of what the objects were.
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Wardroom window, Skylab
Excerpts from three NASA Skylab technical crew debriefings, dated June 30, 1973, October 4, 1973, and February 22, 1974, record crew observations of light flashes, a bright reddish rotating object, and flashing lights outside the station. Science Pilot Joseph Kerwin reported that all three Skylab 2 crew members saw light flashes, possibly linked to the South Atlantic anomaly. Science Pilot Owen Garriott reported that the Skylab 3 crew tracked a bright reddish rotating satellite in a very similar orbit for 5 to 10 minutes; Garriott stated no one ever explained its identity.
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Washington
FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 collects press clippings, public letters, and internal memos concerning "flying disc" and "flying saucer" reports across the United States in July 1947. Reports include Rev. Joseph Brasky of Grafton, Wisconsin, who told the United Press he found an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and was holding it for the FBI. Civilian Fred R. Reibold wrote to the Bureau describing a flaming circular object that fell in the street in Cornola, Nebraska on July 1, 1947; Director Hoover forwarded that letter to the War Department's Director of Intelligence on August 5, 1947.
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Washington 25, D.C.
Headquarters Eleventh Air Force forwarded a report to USAF Headquarters and Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in May and June 1948 documenting a flying disc sighting at Hobson, Ohio on the night of 8 May 1948. The report, sourced from FBI Special Agent D.K. Brown in Cleveland, described a round, phosphorescent object appearing nine inches in diameter from ground level, traveling at heading 90 degrees at an altitude of 6 to 8 miles, witnessed by New York Central System employees and a patrolman.
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Washington, D.C.
On November 20, 1957, the FBI Legal Attache in Havana reported that Jose Maria Nieto and Carmelo Guzman had told the Havana newspaper Diario de la Marina they saw a flying disc in the shape of a man's hat hovering silently over Matahambre, Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba, before it disappeared at high speed toward the sea. An FBI memo dated November 12, 1957, from R. R. Roach to A. H. Belmont noted a surge in flying saucer and UFO reports across the United States following the Soviet release of Sputnik, which Air Force Intelligence told the Bureau were all resolved as nonauthentic.
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Washington, DC
On April 30, 2001, Carol Rosin and Jon Cypher wrote from Ventura, California to a NASA official named Dan, enclosing the French COMETA Report, titled "UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?" A follow-up hotel note from Cypher directed Dan to the preface, a radar section starting around page 62, testimony from John Callahan, and a entry for Enrique Kolbeck, Senior Air Traffic Controller at Mexico City International Airport, at page 105. Cypher corrected an earlier statement, noting the COMETA Report is a private, not government, document.
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West coast of Holland, 5155N/0355E
On 4 November 1948, USAFE transmitted intelligence cable TT #1524 to General Cabell and the USAF Directorate of Intelligence. Three crews of the 307th Bomb Group had sighted an aircraft on 5 September 1948 off the west coast of Holland at 30,000 feet, assessed as a single jet-propelled aircraft employing probable rocket assists, rated B-2. The cable also reported a flying saucer hovering over Neubiberg Air Base for about thirty minutes, and relayed the Swedish Air Intelligence Service's conclusion that such phenomena "cannot be credited to any presently known culture on earth."
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West End, Alabama
On August 4, 1947, Pan American Airways Captain Alpheus O. Powell and navigator Walter I. White separately sighted flying objects near Boston while piloting a Constellation from Gander, Newfoundland to La Guardia Field. Powell described a cylindrical, orange object about the length of a P-40 fuselage travelling at roughly 150 mph; White described a deep gold, elliptical object about 15 feet long travelling easterly at roughly 175 mph. Air Defense Command at Mitchel Field interviewed both men and forwarded the reports to Army Air Forces headquarters.
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West Virginia
Serial 403 of FBI case 62-HQ-83894 consists of the dust jacket and promotional text from Gray Barker's 1956 book "They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers," published by University Books, Inc. of New York. The jacket text states that flying saucer researchers who challenged government denial were silenced after visits from "three men in dark suits," and that Barker began his research in 1952 after a flying saucer allegedly landed near his home in Clarksburg, West Virginia. Barker is identified as a Clarksburg businessman who also published a flying saucer periodical called The Saucerian.
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West Virginia (farming country)
Gray Barker's 1956 book, published by University Books, Inc. of New York, claims that leading flying saucer researchers who challenged the government's denial of extraterrestrial origins were silenced one by one after visits from three men in dark suits. Barker, a film booking agent in Clarksburg, West Virginia, began investigating flying saucers in 1952 after one allegedly landed near his home and he interviewed eyewitnesses. The FBI file, identifier 62-HQ-83894, consists of the book's dust jacket copy and was declassified under the FBI Automatic Declassification Guide issued May 24, 2007.
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Western Range
Research Triangle Institute prepared this final report for the Air Force's 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg AFB and 45th Space Wing at Patrick AFB, completed September 10, 1996, under Contract No. FO4703-91-C-0112. The report describes how "Mode-5 failure responses," meaning significant vehicle deviations from the intended flight line, are modeled in RTI's risk-analysis program DAMP, using two shaping constants calibrated by trial and error against simulated malfunctions for vehicles including Atlas IIAS, Delta-GEM, Titan IV, and LLV1.
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Western United States
Seven federal law enforcement special agents working in the western United States reported four categories of sightings over two days in 2023. The reported events included orange orbs launching smaller red orbs at dusk, a large glowing orange orb hovering near a rock pinnacle, a kite-shaped object with lights pursued after being mistaken for a car, and a transparent kite-shaped object roughly 6 meters off the ground through which stars were faintly visible. The Department of War summary was released by AARO on May 8, 2026.
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Westwood, New Jersey
On July 9, 1947, Raymond Edward Lane, a Dow Chemical Company employee, and his wife Laura reported hearing a puff noise and seeing a ball of white about the size of a bushel basket burning a foot off the ground in a Dow-owned field in Midland, Michigan. Lane brought recovered material to the Dow Physics Laboratory the next day; laboratory examination found ordinary sand, a small silver nugget, melted sand droplets giving off ammonia odor, and a grayish radioactive material. The FBI Detroit Division reported the incident to the Director on August 5, 1947, and recommended forwarding the material to the War Department.
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Wewak, Papua New Guinea
On January 28, 1985, the U.S. Embassy in Port Moresby cabled USCINCPAC in Honolulu reporting that Papua New Guinea's National Intelligence Organization had inquired about sightings of high-altitude, high-speed aircraft over PNG on the evening of January 24. The PNG NIO described "various reports of UAP," including fast-moving objects with lights, contrails, and noise, and placed particular credence in an Air Niugini pilot whose radar picked up aircraft flying south to north at high altitude and high speed over Angoram.
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White Sands proving grounds, New Mexico
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894 compiles sighting reports, media clippings, and investigative memos covering incidents from 1947 through 1968. Reported incidents include American Airlines pilot Capt. Peter Killian's account of three shining saucer-like objects trailing his DC6 for 45 minutes in February 1958, the Coast Guard cutter Sebago tracking an object on radar for 27 minutes in the Gulf of Mexico at an estimated 1,000 miles per hour, and grain buyer R. O. Schmidt's claim of encountering a cigar-shaped craft near Kearney, Nebraska, in November 1957.
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Whitehall, London (Air Ministry)
SHAEF Air Staff file 37153 compiles Allied aircrew reports of night phenomena, called "foo fighters," submitted through XII Tactical Air Command and First Tactical Air Force between December 1944 and March 1945. Pilots of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron reported lights that blinked, changed colors, and flew formation with their aircraft; on 1 March 1945, IX TAC pilots observed and attacked an aluminum-colored cylinder about 12 feet long floating at 9,000 feet near grid F-5710, producing a red flame without smoke when partially deflated. Air Ministry A.D.I.
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Wilson (Hlavni) Station, Prague
Air Intelligence Information Report IR 193-55, dated 14 October 1955 and prepared by Lt. Col. Thomas S. Ryan of the U.S. Air Attache office in Prague, documents an eyewitness account of two round, circular unconventional aircraft resembling flying saucers seen at 1910 hours on 1 October 1955 between Atjaty and Adzhijabul in the Trans-Caucasus region of the USSR. Senator Richard Russell, Lt. Col. E.U. Hathaway, and Mr. Ruben Efron observed the disc aircraft ascending almost vertically one minute apart, with outer surfaces revolving slowly to the right, two stationary lights near the top, and sparks or flame from the bottom.
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Winthrop Hotel, Tacoma, Washington
On August 25, 1947, Lt. Col. Donald L. Springer of Headquarters Fourth Air Force, A-2 Intelligence, Hamilton Field, forwarded to the FBI SAC in San Francisco a letter from F. M. Johnson, a prospector who wrote from Portland, Oregon on August 20, 1947, reporting that he had observed flying discs in the Ft. Adams district on June 24, 1947, the same date as the Kenneth Arnold sighting. Johnson described the objects as round, about 30 feet in diameter, tapering to a point at the head end, with a bright top surface, no engine noise, and a tail object shifting side to side like a big magnet.
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Woodlawn, Alabama
On August 4, 1947, Pan American Airways Captain Alpheus O. Powell and navigator Walter I. White separately sighted flying objects near Boston while piloting a Constellation from Gander, Newfoundland to La Guardia Field. Powell described a cylindrical, orange object about the length of a P-40 fuselage travelling at roughly 150 mph; White described a deep gold, elliptical object about 15 feet long travelling easterly at roughly 175 mph. Air Defense Command at Mitchel Field interviewed both men and forwarded the reports to Army Air Forces headquarters.
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Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio
On September 23, 1947, Lt. Gen. N. F. Twining of Air Materiel Command at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, transmitted a letter to Headquarters Army Air Forces stating that the flying disc phenomenon "is something real and not visionary or fictitious," describing observed objects as disc-shaped, flying in formations of three to nine at speeds above 300 knots. On December 30, 1947, Maj. Gen. L. C. Craigie directed AMC to establish Project SION, priority 2A, classified "restricted," to collect and distribute flying disc sighting data. Photographs submitted by Mary L.
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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio
In July, August, and September 1949, and again in January 1950, military and civilian witnesses filed reports under Flight Service Regulation 200-4 describing flying objects over Kansas, Washington, Oregon, Ohio, South Carolina, and New York. Objects were described variously as dish-shaped, circular, and cylindrical, with reported speeds exceeding that of a B-29 and, in one case, an orange and white flame exhaust more than twice the length of the object. Reports were submitted by Lowry, Olmsted, McChord, Maxwell, and Wright-Patterson Flight Service Centers to the Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
On November 20, 1957, the FBI Legal Attache in Havana reported that Jose Maria Nieto and Carmelo Guzman had told the Havana newspaper Diario de la Marina they saw a flying disc in the shape of a man's hat hovering silently over Matahambre, Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba, before it disappeared at high speed toward the sea. An FBI memo dated November 12, 1957, from R. R. Roach to A. H. Belmont noted a surge in flying saucer and UFO reports across the United States following the Soviet release of Sputnik, which Air Force Intelligence told the Bureau were all resolved as nonauthentic.