Disclosure thread
Agency Archives & FOIA
The pre-PURSUE record, via agency reading rooms and FOIA
The pre-PURSUE record — FBI, CIA, and NASA holdings released through their own reading rooms and FOIA over decades. Much of this material has since been folded into PURSUE, but the original agency archives remain the canonical home for the oldest cases.
Sources
FBI Vault · CIA · NASA archives
Span
1940s onward
Access
FOIA & agency reading rooms
63 cases in this thread · 20 featured
DR-FBI-September-2023-SightingFBI September 2023 Sighting — Bronze Ellipsoid, U.S. Test Site81Substantiated92UnexplainedVerified
DR-CIA-UAP-2Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, Report, 1952-195375Substantiated25Partially ExplainedFetched
DR-NASA-UAP-D17Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 196572Substantiated42Partially ExplainedFetched
DR-CIA-UAP-15Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 (Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects)66Substantiated25Partially ExplainedFetched
DR-CIA-UAP-19Australian Dept of Defense Scientific and Intel Aspects of the UFO Problem66Substantiated25Partially ExplainedFetched
DR-CIA-UAP-3The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance; The U-2 and OXCART Programs, 1954-197466Substantiated8IdentifiedFetched
DR-CIA-UAP-14British activity in the Field of "Unidentified Flying Objects64Corroborated42Partially ExplainedFetched
DR-CIA-UAP-16Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects in Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan61Corroborated42Partially ExplainedFetched
DR-00151973 CIA USSR Intelligence Report59Corroborated33Partially ExplainedFetched
DR-65-HS1-101634279-100-DE-182265_HS1-101634279_100-DE-18221_Serial_84459Corroborated33Partially ExplainedFetched
DR-CIA-UAP-11The Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range59Corroborated42Partially ExplainedFetched
DR-DOS-CABLE-3State Department UAP Cable 003, Tbilisi, Georgia, October 30, 200159Corroborated25Partially ExplainedFetched
DR-DOS-PAPUA-NEW-GUINEAState Department UAP Cable 001, Papua New Guinea, January 28, 198559Corroborated33Partially ExplainedFetched
DR-FBI-UAP-D11D/FBI Correspondence Referral, 194959Corroborated50UnresolvedFetched
DR-FBI-UAP-D12Newark Field Office, 1952-196759Corroborated25Partially ExplainedFetched
DR-FBI-UAP-D13Washington State ‘UFO’ Investigation, 1952-196059Corroborated25Partially ExplainedFetched
DR-NASA-UAP-D20Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 196559Corroborated25Partially ExplainedFetched
DR-NASA-UAP-D22Gemini 9 Debriefing, 196659Corroborated25Partially ExplainedFetched
DR-59-64634-711-5612-7-285259_64634_711.5612[7-285257Corroborated25Partially ExplainedFetched
DR-65-HS1-101634279-100-DE-265065_HS1-101634279_100-DE-2650555Corroborated42Partially ExplainedFetched
DR-CIA-UAP-10Report on Conversations with Soviet Scientists on Subject of Unidentified Flying Objects in the USSR55Corroborated33Partially ExplainedFetched
DR-CIA-UAP-13Report of Unusual Flying Object Sightings and Attendant Scientific Activity55Corroborated33Partially ExplainedFetched
DR-CIA-UAP-18Report of Unusual Flying Object Sightings and Attendant Scientific Activity55Corroborated33Partially ExplainedFetched
DR-CIA-UAP-4CASE 17708 (CLOSED) and DR. Leon Davidson55Corroborated25Partially ExplainedFetched
DR-CIA-UAP-5German Scientist's Article on 'Flying Discs'55Corroborated25Partially ExplainedFetched
DR-CIA-UAP-6Sighting Of Unconventional Aircraft55Corroborated42Partially ExplainedFetched
DR-CIA-UAP-9Unknown Flying Objects Observed Over Budapest55Corroborated33Partially ExplainedFetched
DR-CIA-UAP-7Current Status Of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) Project.51Corroborated8IdentifiedFetched
DR-59-214434-SP-16-7-18-196359_214434_SP 16 [7.18.1963]49Corroborated0IdentifiedFetched
DR-CIA-UAP-12Combating Fatigue In Crewmembers49Corroborated0IdentifiedFetched
DR-CIA-UAP-8Speculative Paper By N Kardashev and A Sakharov on Charged Mass in Space at Conference on Origins Of Life, Armenia, 6-8 September 1971/Low Scientific Level Of Other Soviet Papers49Corroborated0IdentifiedFetched
DR-DOS-CABLE-4State Department UAP Cable 004, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, November 5, 200449Corroborated0IdentifiedFetched
DR-DOS-CABLE-5State Department UAP Cable 005, Mexico, September 16, 200349Corroborated0IdentifiedFetched
DR-255-413270-UFO-s-and-Defense255_413270_UFO's_and_Defense_What_Should_we_Prepare_For——Fetched
DR-DOE-UAP-D2James Tuck Correspondence, 1970s——Fetched
DR-DOE-UAP-D3Pajarito Astronomers Invitation, 1986——Fetched
DR-NASA-UAP-D11Mercury Atlas 9 Audio Excerpt, May 15, 1963——Fetched
DR-NASA-UAP-D14Mercury-Redstone 4, July 21, 1961——Fetched
DR-NASA-UAP-D16Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965——Fetched
DR-NASA-UAP-D18Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967——Fetched
DR-NASA-UAP-D19Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965——Fetched
DR-NASA-UAP-D21Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965——Fetched
DR-NASA-UAP-D23Interview Excerpt with Astronaut Gordon Cooper, 1962——Fetched
DR-NASA-UAP-D24“Apollo 16 Scientific Debriefing”——Fetched
DR-NASA-UAP-D25“Apollo 16 Scientific Debriefing”——Fetched
DR-NASA-UAP-D5Apollo 17 Crew Debriefing for Science, 1973——Fetched
DR-NASA-UAP-D6Apollo 17 Technical Crew Debriefing, 1973——Fetched
DR-NASA-UAP-D8Apollo 12 Medical Debriefing - Tape 12, 1969——Fetched
DR-NASA-UAP-D9Apollo 17 Audio Excerpt, December 7, 1972——Fetched
DR-NASA-UAP-VM1Apollo 12 Lunar-Surface Imagery — Highlighted Anomalies, 1969 (5 frames)——Fetched
DR-NASA-UAP-VM6Apollo 17, 1972——Fetched