U.S. Air Force • Project Blue Book • 1952–1969
They closed the book in 1969.
The files stayed open.
Declassified UFO records, in the open.
The discussion, in private.
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Newest declassified batches first. Every file below comes from the Pentagon’s public release portal, war.gov/ufo.
On October 23, 2026, the Department of War published the seventh release of declassified and historical UAP files under PURSUE, the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters. The release adds 28 files and brings the portal’s public total to 478.
The Department says it is “actively working on the next release.” Releases arrive every few weeks, as files are found, reviewed, and declassified.
Official source: war.gov/UFO — Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters
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Every Monday, one case from the official record. This week’s case, and the file that carries it.
Week of November 9, 2026 • Project Blue Book • Case file: Socorro, New Mexico, April 1964
On the evening of April 24, 1964, at about 5:45 p.m., Socorro police officer Lonnie Zamora broke off a speeding-car pursuit to investigate a roar and a flame south of town. In a shallow arroyo he found a smooth, white, egg-shaped object resting on the desert floor on small legs. He reported two small figures standing beside it.
New Mexico State Police Sergeant Sam Chavez arrived within minutes and found the physical traces Zamora described: burned brush and four rectangular depressions in the soil, measured and photographed by investigators in the days that followed. The Army, the FBI, and Project Blue Book’s scientific consultant, Dr. J. Allen Hynek — who visited the site in person that August — all investigated. No conventional vehicle could be placed at the site.
Project Blue Book’s record card marks the case “Unknown” and comments: “Effort to date cannot place vehicle at site. Case carried as UNIDENTIFIED pending additional data.”
The case file runs to 168 images in the National Archives: Zamora’s account, the Army and Air Force field reports, Hynek’s notes, the correspondence with aerospace firms checking whether any lunar-module project matched, and the press clippings that followed. It is one of the 701 cases Blue Book carried as unidentified when the program closed.
What “unidentified” means: the Air Force investigated and could not identify it. That is all it means — and it is enough. It is not a finding of alien origin.
Official source: National Archives catalog — “Socorro, New Mexico, April 1964” (NAID 302532129), Record Group 341
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A heavily redacted document, read for what it shows — not for what it hides.
On May 18, 2026, the National Security Agency released 334 pages of historical UAP records, many formerly held at the Top Secret UMBRA level — the codeword compartment for the most sensitive signals-intelligence material. The release came after a Freedom of Information Act appeal by the Disclosure Foundation, in a fight that traces back to a 1980 lawsuit.
What the pages show, in the parts that are visible: signals-intelligence radar-tracking messages from the 1940s and 1950s, administrative material, and the paper trail of a decades-long FOIA dispute. The underlying intelligence supported a classified affidavit the NSA submitted for a judge’s private review — declassified in 2009, with the material behind it withheld until now.
What the redactions cite: Public Law 86-36 / 50 U.S.C. 3605, the statute that protects NSA organization, functions, and sources and methods, and Executive Order 13526, the framework for classified national security information. The exemption markings are printed on the pages themselves.
The black bars above are a design motif, not the document itself. Read the document at the official source below.
A redaction hides something. It doesn’t prove what it hides. The theorizing about what sits under the black bars belongs in the forum — this page stays with the visible record.
Official source: NSA FOIA — Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)
Where the files live, and how to start reading them.
The Air Force program that investigated 12,618 sightings and left 701 unidentified. Terminated December 17, 1969. The records — 94 rolls of microfilm, publication T-1206 — sit with the National Archives, Record Group 341, open to the public.
Markings, redactions, stamps, and file numbers — the guide on this site walks through a real document, line by line. The same guide is pinned in the forum’s Research Help category.
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