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CIA's January 2017 online release of its full CREST database (approximately 13 million declassified pages) included a curated 'UFOs: Fact or Fiction' collection of roughly 2,780 UFO-related pages spanning 1947 through the 1990s.
CIA's January 2017 online release of its full CREST database (approximately 13 million declassified pages) included a curated 'UFOs: Fact or Fiction' collection of roughly 2,780 UFO-related pages spanning 1947 through the 1990s.
On January 17, 2017, the Central Intelligence Agency placed its CREST (CIA Records Search Tool) database online in full, ending a regime in which researchers had to travel to the National Archives in College Park, Maryland to query the records on dedicated terminals. The release covered approximately 13 million declassified pages and surfaced a curated 'UFOs: Fact or Fiction' collection of about 2,780 pages of UFO-related material spanning 1947 through the 1990s. The collection is anchored editorially by Gerald K. Haines's in-house history, 'CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90,' originally published in the agency's Studies in Intelligence journal. The underlying source text for this index entry was not extracted, so no verbatim quotes are emitted.