UFO Files

December 1944, over Germany, three years before anyone said 'flying saucer': night fighter crews report lights pacing them. 'Observer saw light come within 100 ft. Peeled off and took evasive actio…

Twin Falls, Idaho, 2:45 a.m., summer 1947: a woman hears what sounds like a collision behind her house and finds a 30.5-inch saucer-shaped disc in the neighbor's backyard. The Butte FBI office phon…

An FBI memo records a colonel's briefing: a report out of Czechoslovakia, shortly before the 1947 American disc wave, that a transport aircraft collided with an unidentified missile in mid-air over…

March 29, 1952, 11:20 a.m., northern Japan, bright cloudless day: Lt. David C. Brigham watches a small metallic disc — about eight inches in diameter — make a controlled, sweeping pass at an F-84, …

Western U.S., dusk, two separate days: three teams of two federal law enforcement special agents — six trained observers, independently — describe orange orbs that appear for one or two seconds, em…

July 2, 1954: an F-94C Starfire, scrambled on an active air defense intercept against an unidentified aircraft, plunges into the village of Walesville, New York, killing four people. The Air Force …

January 7, 1948: a metallic circular object hangs over an Air Force base in Kentucky. Captain Thomas F. Mantell, chasing it in an F-51 without oxygen, radios that he'll abandon the chase at 20,000 …

A French Air Force pilot, Hervé Giraud, flying at Mach 0.9, watches a glow climb 1,500 meters in seconds, level off, then descend on a collision course until it fills his entire windshield. Believi…

1948: National Guard pilot George Gorman dogfights a light over North Dakota in an F-51. In his own words: 'Just when we were about to collide, I guess I got scared. I went into a dive and the ligh…

March 1966, near Ann Arbor: at least 40 witnesses — twelve of them policemen — watch an object land in a swamp while four 'sister ships' hover in a quarter-circle above it. The next night, 45 miles…

April 1966: Portage County Deputy Sheriff Dale Spaur — an Air Force gunner in Korea — and partner W.L. Neff chase a brilliant object roughly 85 miles from Ravenna, Ohio into Conway, Pennsylvania at…

Late 2025: a senior U.S. intelligence officer's own account of a helicopter mission over a weapons test range — a cave entrance with no visible end, an object that rose off the ground and approache…

A declassified NASA record surfaces in today's autonomous detection pass. Six analysts read it cold in 2026, and ask what a contemporary intelligence officer would catch that the original investiga…

A DOD/DOS UAP document carries 8 or more redaction markers in a single 2-page span. The panel reads the surviving prose against similarly-redacted chunks elsewhere in the corpus and asks whether th…

24 excerpts spanning 4 declassified documents and 3 collections (Intelligence Community, FBI, DOD/DOS UAP) reference instrument consistent with "radar corroboration". The panel evaluates whether th…

A DOD/DOS UAP document carries 11 or more redaction markers in a single 2-page span. The panel reads the surviving prose against similarly-redacted chunks elsewhere in the corpus and asks whether t…

A declassified FBI record surfaces in today's autonomous detection pass. Six analysts read it cold in 2026, and ask what a contemporary intelligence officer would catch that the original investigat…

A declassified DOD/DOS UAP record surfaces in today's autonomous detection pass. Six analysts read it cold in 2026, and ask what a contemporary intelligence officer would catch that the original in…

A single chunk of 65_hs1-834228961_62-hq-83894_serial_164.pdf (pp. 32–35) names 4 agencies in proximity: FBI, USAF, CIA, NAVY. The panel examines whether this is bureaucratic boilerplate, evidence …

A declassified National Archives record surfaces in today's autonomous detection pass. Six analysts read it cold in 2026, and ask what a contemporary intelligence officer would catch that the origi…

116 excerpts spanning 12 declassified documents and 3 collections (Intelligence Community, National Archives, FBI) reference craft morphology consistent with "disc-shaped craft sightings". The pane…

A declassified NASA record surfaces in today's autonomous detection pass. Six analysts read it cold in 2026, and ask what a contemporary intelligence officer would catch that the original investiga…

A declassified National Archives record surfaces in today's autonomous detection pass. Six analysts read it cold in 2026, and ask what a contemporary intelligence officer would catch that the origi…

A declassified Intelligence Community record surfaces in today's autonomous detection pass. Six analysts read it cold in 2026, and ask what a contemporary intelligence officer would catch that the …

A passage in the source registers 3 contradiction or denial markers, the kind of self-qualifying language that often signals the writer is hedging against a stronger claim made elsewhere in the rec…