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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-D039, Digital Rendering 2, “Multiple Red Lights,” 2026
FBI-UAP-D039 is a 2026 FBI digital rendering titled "Multiple Red Lights," prepared as a PURSUE visual aid from two U.S. persons' first-hand description of a western United States UAP report described in FBI-UAP-D037.
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-UAP-D038, Digital Rendering 1, “Multiple Red Lights,” 2026
FBI-UAP-D038 is a 2026 FBI digital rendering of “Multiple Red Lights,” prepared as a PURSUE visual aid from two U.S. persons’ first-hand description of a reported western United States UAP incident.
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.
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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.
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FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 Section 10, serials 448 onward, covering UFO correspondence and clippings the Bureau collected from mid-1966 forward.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
FBI-UAP-D001, FD-302, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado Springs, 2022
An FBI FD-302 records a March 2025 interview with a U.S. military service member about five soldiers seeing a silent, stationary, white bean-shaped object over Cheyanne Mountain near Fort Carson in early February 2022.
DOW-UAP-PR42, Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2020
A U.S. military infrared sensor in the Arabian Gulf captured 4 minutes 53 seconds of video in 2020 of an area of contrast that intermittently disappeared and reappeared, which U.S. Central Command later forwarded to AARO without any witness narrative.
DOW-UAP-PR44, Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2020
A U.S. Central Command infrared video, 5 minutes 11 seconds long, recorded by a U.S. military platform over the Arabian Gulf in 2020 and submitted to AARO without any written or oral observer description.
DOW-UAP-PR39, Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2020
Five-second infrared video from a U.S. military platform over the Arabian Gulf in 2020, submitted by CENTCOM to AARO with no narrative from the reporter.
DOW-UAP-PR115, Unresolved UAP Report, Gulf of America, 2019
A Department of War release of a U.S. Air Force UAP report to AARO, built around 8 seconds of infrared video shot from a U.S. military platform over the Gulf of America in 2019.
To The Stars Academy / New York Times UAP Video Release, FLIR1, GIMBAL, GOFAST, FLIR1_Official_UAP_Footage_from_the_USG_for_Public_Release.webm
Navy FLIR cockpit-camera video released through To The Stars Academy alongside the December 2017 New York Times AATIP exposé, the first of three declassified clips (FLIR1, GIMBAL, GOFAST) documenting naval aviator encounters in 2004 and 2015.
FBI-UAP-D011, D/FBI Correspondence Referral, 1949
1949 correspondence between Rev. Charles C. Barnes and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover reporting four converging beams of light and an explosion over the Cascade Mountains, later referred to the Atomic Energy Commission.
DOW-UAP-D3, Mission Report, Arabian Gulf, 2020
A SECRET-level U.S. Air Force Mission Report (MISREP) documenting four UAP observed beneath cloud cover at 1736Z during an ISR mission over the AFCENT area of responsibility.
DOW-UAP-PR050, "4 UAP Formation Iran 26 Aug 2022 over water [CALLSIGN]"
A Department of War release of an AARO-assessed 20-second infrared video, uploader-titled "4 UAP Formation Iran 26 Aug 2022 over water [CALLSIGN]," showing areas of contrast transiting a U.S. military sensor field-of-view in the CENTCOM area in 2022.
GEPAN Technical Note No. 9 surveys the state of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and presents preliminary experiments on MHD action against the bow wave of a cylinder, motivated by witness descriptions of fast, silent, jerky UAP motion without aerodynamic effects.
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A 90-page packet sent to a NASA contact by Carol Rosin in April 2001 transmitting the French COMETA report "UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?" prepared by former IHEDN auditors and published in VSD magazine in July 1999.
National Defense Authorization Act FY2024, Sections 1841-1843: UAP Records Collection (Public Law 118-31), PLAW-118publ31.pdf, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (full text)
Public Law 118-31, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, signed December 22, 2023, contains Sections 1841-1843 establishing the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Records Collection at the National Archives.
July 28, 1995 GAO report to Rep. Steven Schiff finding that Roswell Army Air Field outgoing messages (Oct 1946 - Dec 1949) and administrative records (Mar 1945 - Dec 1949) were destroyed without a documented disposal authority.
NASA-UAP-D019, Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965
A NASA preliminary transcript records the Gemini 5 crew's technical debriefing at Cape Kennedy after the 1965 mission, with Part I focused on operational events from countdown through landing and recovery.
NASA-UAP-D021, Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965
NASA-UAP-D021 is a preliminary NASA transcript of the Gemini 7 crew's December 19-21, 1965 technical debriefing at Cape Kennedy, including visual observations from launch, orbit, reentry, and mission experiments.
DOW-UAP-D099, Intelligence Review of “Ghost Rocket” Incidents, 1947
A January 1947 War Department intelligence review assessed the 1946 Scandinavian "Ghost Rockets" reports and concluded that most were likely natural or explainable phenomena, while the best evidence supported only a small set of real low-flying V-1 type missile incidents.
To The Stars Academy / New York Times UAP Video Release, FLIR1, GIMBAL, GOFAST, Gimbal_The_First_Official_UAP_Footage_from_the_USG_for_Public_Release.webm
The GIMBAL clip, a Navy F/A-18 ATFLIR cockpit recording released December 16, 2017 alongside the New York Times AATIP exposé, is one of three U.S. Navy infrared videos cleared for public release as evidence of unidentified aerial phenomena encountered by naval aviators.
NASA-UAP-D015, Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963
NASA-UAP-D015 is a 1962-1963 NASA collection of astronaut debriefings and related scientific material on luminous phenomena reported during John Glenn's and Walter Schirra's spaceflights.
DOW-UAP-D27, Mission Report, United Arab Emirates, October 2023
A USCENTCOM Mission Report describing an Air Force Special Operations ISR crew observing a glowing spherical UAP with a vertical cylindrical pole on its underside, transiting at 140 knots just over the water during a return-to-base over the Gulf of Oman on 7 June 2024.
AARO Case Resolution: Go Fast (2015 USS Theodore Roosevelt Encounter), Go_Fast_Official_USG_Footage_of_UAP_for_Public_Release.webm
AARO video release of the 2015 'Go Fast' Navy FLIR encounter accompanying the office's high-confidence assessment that the object's apparent speed was a motion-parallax artifact.
To The Stars Academy / New York Times UAP Video Release, FLIR1, GIMBAL, GOFAST, Go_Fast_Official_USG_Footage_of_UAP_for_Public_Release.webm
Navy FLIR cockpit video 'GOFAST' released publicly on 2017-12-16, one of three declassified UAP clips disclosed alongside the New York Times AATIP exposé.
CIA-UAP-011, The Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range
A December 1973 CIA Intelligence Information Report on the Soviet Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range, including facilities, missile warhead details, rumored laser research, and an unidentified aerial phenomenon observed by the source.
NASA-UAP-D014, Mercury-Redstone 4, July 21, 1961
A NASA Project Mercury recovery-team record from the Mercury-Redstone 4 (Liberty Bell 7) mission on July 21, 1961, in which the recovery team discusses a water-marker dye pack that failed to activate.
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Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency, House Oversight Subcommittee Hearing (Grusch / Fravor / Graves), David Grusch Opening Statement.pdf
David Grusch's written opening and closing statement to the House Oversight National Security Subcommittee on July 26, 2023, asserting under oath that the US government runs a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program operating outside congressional oversight.
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency, House Oversight Subcommittee Hearing (Grusch / Fravor / Graves), HHRG-118-GO06-Transcript-20230726.pdf
Transcript of the July 26, 2023 House Oversight subcommittee hearing where David Grusch, David Fravor, and Ryan Graves testified on UAP under oath, with Grusch alleging a concealed U.S. retrieval and reverse-engineering program.
DOW-UAP-PR093, "May 05 2020 Gulf of Arabia [CALLSIGN] (Platform) Dual UAP"
An AARO release of a 30-second infrared video, uploader-titled "May 05 2020 Gulf of Arabia [CALLSIGN] (Platform) Dual UAP," assessed as likely from a U.S. military sensor in the CENTCOM area in 2020.