16.13G • 46 agencies
FBI Photo A4
FBI-submitted still image to AARO showing a dark circular object near a crosshair reticle, with redactions applied and no date, location, or mission report provided.
FBI Photo A5
FBI-submitted still image to AARO showing a dark circular object near a crosshair reticle on a speckled monochrome background, with date and location withheld.
FBI Photo A6
FBI-submitted monochrome still image showing a dark circular object centered in a crosshair reticle, transmitted to AARO with date and location withheld and redactions applied before submission.
FBI Photo A7
An FBI-submitted still image to AARO showing a light-colored circular object with a bright specular highlight below a central crosshair reticle on a grainy monochrome background, with date and location withheld.
FBI Photo A8
An FBI-submitted still image, redacted before delivery to AARO, showing a small dark object near a crosshair reticle that the operator could not positively identify.
FBI Photo B1
FBI-submitted still image from a U.S. military system showing an unidentified dark circular object near a crosshair reticle, forwarded to AARO with redactions and no mission report.
FBI Photo B10
FBI submitted a redacted still image from a U.S. military system showing an unidentified dark circular object near a reticle crosshair against a mountain backdrop.
FBI Photo B11
FBI submission to AARO of a single redacted monochrome still image from a 2025 U.S. military system showing a small dark circular object near a crosshair reticle, with no accompanying mission report.
FBI Photo B12
FBI submission to AARO of a single redacted monochrome still image from a 2025 U.S. military system showing a small dark circular object near a crosshair reticle over indistinct terrain.
FBI Photo B13
An FBI-submitted still image to AARO derived from a 2025 U.S. military system, showing two small dark elongated objects near a crosshair, with the original imagery redacted before submission and no accompanying mission report.
FBI Photo B14
An FBI-submitted still image from a 2025 U.S. military system, redacted before delivery to AARO, showing two small dark circular objects near a crosshair with no accompanying mission report.
FBI Photo B15
FBI submission to AARO consisting of a single redacted monochrome still image, derived from a U.S. military system in 2025, showing two small dark circular objects near a crosshair.
FBI Photo B16
FBI-submitted single still image from a 2025 U.S. military system showing two dark irregular objects near a crosshair, redacted before submission to AARO and with no mission report attached.
FBI Photo B17
FBI submission to AARO of a single redacted still image from a U.S. military system showing two small dark circular objects near a crosshair, with no mission report and an incorrect system timestamp.
FBI Photo B18
FBI-submitted, mostly-redacted monochrome still image from a U.S. military system showing two small dark elongated objects near a central crosshair, forwarded to AARO without a mission report.
FBI Photo B19
FBI-submitted still image from a U.S. military system showing a small dark object centered on a crosshair reticle, with the operator unable to identify it.
FBI Photo B2
FBI submission to AARO consisting of a single redacted monochrome still image from a U.S. military system, showing a small dark circular object near a crosshair reticle.
FBI Photo B20
FBI submission to AARO of a single redacted monochrome still image from a 2025 U.S. military system showing one to two small dark objects near a crosshair reticle, with no accompanying mission report.
FBI Photo B21
Single redacted monochrome still image with a crosshair reticle, submitted by the FBI to AARO showing one to two small dark objects an operator could not identify.
FBI Photo B22
FBI-submitted still image from a 2025 U.S. military system showing two small dark elongated objects near a central crosshair, redacted before transmittal to AARO with no mission report.
FBI Photo B23
FBI-submitted still image from a U.S. military system in 2025, redacted before submission to AARO, with no accompanying mission report.
FBI Photo B24
FBI submitted to AARO a single redacted still image from a U.S. military system depicting an unidentified object above a crosshair reticle, with no accompanying mission report.
FBI Photo B3
Single redacted still image from a U.S. military system, submitted by the FBI to AARO, showing a small dark circular object near a crosshair reticle that the operator could not identify.
FBI Photo B4
FBI-submitted still image from a 2025 U.S. military system, redacted before delivery to AARO, showing an unidentified dark circular object near a crosshair reticle.
FBI Photo B5
FBI-submitted still image from a 2025 U.S. military system showing a crosshair reticle over a grainy monochrome frame, with redactions added before submission to AARO and no accompanying mission report.
FBI Photo B6
FBI-submitted monochrome still from a U.S. military system showing an unidentified object near a crosshair reticle, redacted before delivery to AARO.
FBI Photo B7
FBI submission to AARO of a single redacted still image from a U.S. military system showing a helicopter-like object and a smaller dark circular object near a crosshair reticle, with no mission report and an incorrect system timestamp.
FBI Photo B8
FBI-submitted, heavily redacted monochrome still image of an unidentified circular object near a crosshair reticle, released by AARO on May 8 2026.
FBI Photo B9
FBI-submitted still image of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon, derived from a U.S. military system in 2025 and forwarded to AARO with redactions and no accompanying mission report.
FBI-UAP-D015, Digital Rendering, Narrative Statement 1-2, Western United States Event, 2023
FBI-UAP-D015 is a 2026 FBI digital rendering of a reported two-day UAP incident near a sensitive national security site in the western United States in October 2023.
FBI-UAP-D023, Digital Rendering, Narrative Statement 2-7, Western United States Event, 2023
FBI-UAP-D023 is a 2026 FBI digital rendering of an October 2023 first-hand UAP report near a sensitive national security site in the western United States.
FBI Vault UFO Files, 16-Part Collection Including Guy Hottel Memo, ufo1.pdf, FBI UFO Files Part 1 of 16
Part 1 of 16 in the FBI's online Vault release of its 1947-1954 UFO/flying-disc investigation file, opening with summer 1947 Fourth Air Force forwards and Sixth Army CIC memoranda on civilian and police sightings across Oregon, California, and Arizona.
FBI-UAP-D017, Digital Rendering, Narrative Statement 2-2, Western United States Event, 2023
This FBI file is a 2026 digital rendering of a reported two-day UAP incident near a sensitive national security site in the western United States in October 2023.
65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_1
Section 1 of FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 (Serials 1-52), opening the bureau's flying-disc correspondence from July 1947 with citizen letters, teletypes, news clippings, and internal memos routed through D. M. Ladd's office.
65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_10
FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 Section 10, serials 448 onward, covering UFO correspondence and clippings the Bureau collected from mid-1966 forward.
65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_2
Section 2 of FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 covers serials 53 through 100, compiling field reports and War Department referrals on flying disc sightings from August 1947.
65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_3
Section 3 of FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 covers serials 101-130, with 1947 records on flying disc sightings investigated by the Bureau, the Fourth Air Force, and connected military intelligence offices.
65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_4
FBI Section 4 of case file 62-HQ-83894, serials 131-185, gathers 1947-1948 field office memoranda, citizen letters, and Director Hoover's replies on the flying disc reports.
65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_5
FBI Section 5 of case file 62-HQ-83894 (serials 186-245) collects Bureau correspondence, telephone records, and inter-agency reports on flying disc and flying saucer sightings circulating between mid-1947 and the late 1940s.
65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_6
Section 6 of FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 covers August–October 1950 Bureau correspondence on green fireballs, flying discs, and Project Twinkle in New Mexico, plus a Philadelphia disc landing and Hoover's order to vet author Frank Scully.
65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_7
Section 7 of FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 (serials 302-343) collecting August 1952 flying-saucer correspondence, witness reports, and Bureau referrals to Air Force Special Investigations.
65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_8
Section 8 of FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 covers 1954-era flying disc reports, including the Truman Bethurum lecture promotion, a Cincinnati sighting, and the Frances Swan 'thought transmission' contactee case investigated through ONI and the Bureau of Aeronautics.
65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_9
FBI Section 9 of case file 62-HQ-83894 collects late-1957 through early-1958 Bureau and Legal Attache memoranda routing flying-disc reports and civilian-UFO-group inquiries to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations without further FBI action.
65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_449
FBI Headquarters file 62-83894 Serial 449: a 1966 Los Angeles SAC memo to the Director forwarding Issue No. 24 of the AFSCA journal Flying Saucers International, flagged by an IRS employee as advancing the Communist Party line.
DOW-UAP-D082, Narrative Statement 4, Western United States Event, 2023
This 02 June 2026 AARO memorandum preserves Witness 4's first-hand narrative of orange, white, and red lights observed in the western United States in October 2023 and later sightings in the same region.
FBI-UAP-D016, Digital Rendering, Narrative Statement 2-1, Western United States Event, 2023
FBI-UAP-D016 is a 2026 FBI digital rendering of a reported two-day October 2023 UAP event near a sensitive national security site in the western United States.
FBI-UAP-D022, Digital Rendering, Narrative Statement 2-6, Western United States Event, 2026
FBI-UAP-D022 is a 2026 FBI digital rendering of a reported October 2023 UAP incident near a sensitive national security site in the western United States.
FBI-UAP-PR006, Digital Recreation, Narrative Statement 3-2, Western United States Event, 2023
FBI-UAP-PR006 is a 2026 FBI digital recreation of a reported two-day UAP event near a sensitive national security site in the western United States in October 2023.
DOW-UAP-D080, Narrative Statement 2, Western United States Event, 2023
This unclassified Department of War memorandum records Witness 2's first-hand account to AARO of three October 2023 UAP encounters in the western United States involving orb-like lights, red formations, vehicle-like mimicry, and one referenced video recording.
FBI-UAP-D019, Digital Rendering, Narrative Statement 2-4, Western United States Event, 2023
FBI-UAP-D019 is a 2026 FBI digital rendering of an October 2023 UAP report near a sensitive national security site in the western United States.
DOW-UAP-D077, AARO Unresolved Case Analysis Update: Western United States Event
AARO’s 5 June 2026 memorandum says six federal law enforcement special agents reported orange “mother orbs” releasing smaller red “orbs” near a sensitive western U.S. national security site over two days in October 2023, with about 40 percent of the observations still unresolved.
DOW-UAP-D079, Narrative Statement 1, Western United States Event, 2023
DOW-UAP-D079 is a June 2, 2026 Department of War memorandum preserving Witness 1's first-hand AARO narrative about October 2023 UAP sightings by federal law enforcement special agents in the western United States.
FBI-UAP-D021, Digital Rendering, Narrative Statement 1-3, Western United States Event, 2023
FBI-UAP-D021 is a 2026 FBI digital rendering of a reported October 2023 UAP incident near a sensitive national security site in the western United States.
DOW-UAP-D078, Notional Map: Western United States Event
DOW-UAP-D078 is a notional Department of War map-style image summarizing four reported UAP incidents in the western United States over several days in October 2023.
DOW-UAP-D086, USNavy-Report-of-Flying-Discs_1948
A 1948 Fifth Naval District memorandum told Navy activities to report new “Flying Discs” sightings to the nearest Air Force command and the Naval District Intelligence Office.
DOW-UAP-PR068, "IIR 1 666 S0151 23/Video Footage of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) captured by fifth generation aircraft on 20 Jan 23"
A Department of War release describing an infrared video of unidentified aerial phenomena that AARO assesses was likely captured by a U.S. military fifth-generation aircraft over NORTHCOM in 2023.
Open Hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, House Intelligence Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation, HHRG-117-IG05-Transcript-20220517.pdf
Transcript of the May 17, 2022 House Intelligence Subcommittee open hearing on UAP, the first public Congressional UAP hearing in over 50 years, with testimony from Under Secretary Ronald Moultrie and Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray.
FBI-UAP-D002, FD-1057, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado Springs, 2022
An FBI FD-1057 documenting a forensic-sketch interview with a former U.S. Army intelligence officer who, with four others, reported a UAP over Cheyenne Mountain near Colorado Springs in 2022.
ICA-UAP-D001, Analysis: Colorado Springs UAP Incident, 2022
An IC partner analysis prepared for AARO assessing a February 2022 airborne object seen over Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, by five Army service members as possible backscattering of sunlight.
DOW-UAP-D10, Mission Report, Middle East, May 2022
USCENTCOM Mission Report from Operation Inherent Resolve documenting a U.S. Air Force ISR asset observing 5 UAP via full-motion video over Iraq on 6 May 2022, later assessed by the operator as one possible missile and four possible birds.