SOURCES

• National Archives • Reference reportProject BLUE BOOK — Unidentified Flying Objects — the Archives’ own guide to the program, the numbers, and the records.
• National Archives • Case file • 168 imagesSocorro, New Mexico, April 1964 — the record card marks it “Unknown.”
• National Archives • Case file • 118 imagesLubbock papers, August–September 1951 — filed in the unit catalogued as “Orange, Va, September 1951”; images 7–118 are the Lubbock papers, including the Hart photographs.
• National Archives • Case file • 81 imagesLevelland, Texas, November 1957 — record card: “Ball lightning.” The field report was “forwarded as unresolved.”
• National Archives • Administrative filesProject Blue Book Administrative Files, 1947–1969 — the program’s own paperwork, separate from the case files.

• war.gov/ufo • Release portalPURSUE — Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters — every release, newest first.
• AARO • March 8, 2024 • 63 pagesReport on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with UAP, Volume I — eight decades reviewed, 1945–2023. Finding: no evidence any investigation confirmed a sighting as extraterrestrial technology.
• Joint Staff • November 20, 2023 • FOIA releaseThe UAP “Space Tiger Team” document — AARO was to convene a team to build a framework for spaceborne and transmedium UAP. A planning document, not encounter evidence. Released via FOIA through The Black Vault, May 1, 2026.
• AARO • 2024 • via the Historical Record ReportKONA BLUE — the proposed DHS program — the report’s KONA BLUE section: a prospective special access program proposed in 2011, disapproved, which never received any material. See also the DHS box below.
• ODNI / DoD • November 14, 2024FY2024 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP — 757 reports in the period; 49 cases at or above 100 km altitude.

• CIA • January 17, 1953Report of the Scientific Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects — the Robertson Panel: five scientists, four days, the Air Force’s best cases. No evidence of a direct threat, no evidence of extraterrestrial craft.
• CIA • February 16, 1953Durant memorandum on the panel’s meetings — the fuller record of the Robertson Panel sessions, by F. C. Durant.

The Reading Room holds far more UFO material than the two documents above. We link what we have verified, one document at a time — more will be added as each is checked.

• FBI Vault • FOIA libraryThe Vault — Unexplained Phenomenon — the 16-part UFO file, the Roswell teletype, the Guy Hottel memo, Project Blue Book correspondence, NICAP, and more.
• FBI • March 25, 2013UFOs and the Guy Hottel Memo — the Bureau’s own account of its most-viewed Vault document: a March 22, 1950 memo relaying a third-hand claim of three recovered saucers. The FBI says it never investigated it, and it is not proof of anything.
• FBI • July 8, 1947Roswell teletype — the Dallas Field Office’s teletype about a “flying disc” near Roswell, in the Vault’s UFO file. Find it through the Vault link above.

• NSA FOIA • Released May 18, 2026 • 334 pagesUnidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) — the NSA’s UFO page: the May 2026 release of historical UAP records, formerly Top Secret UMBRA, after a FOIA appeal by the Disclosure Foundation.

Redactions in this release cite Public Law 86-36 / 50 U.S.C. 3605, which protects NSA organization, functions, and sources and methods, and Executive Order 13526. The exemption markings are printed on the pages themselves.

• ODNI / DoD • November 14, 2024FY2024 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP — 757 reports received May 1, 2023–June 1, 2024; every case closed in the period resolved to an ordinary object. AARO: no verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity, or technology.
• ODNI / DoD • January 20232022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena — the first congressionally mandated annual report: 247 new reports plus 119 identified later, 510 on record as of August 30, 2022; about half assessed as ordinary explanations.

• DIA FOIA • Electronic Reading RoomDIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room — open the “UFOs and Exotic Technology” section for the Defense Intelligence Reference Documents, the AATIP material, and the AAWSAP status briefs.
• PURSUE • Release 07 • October 23, 2026AAWSAP contract files — nine files from the contractor’s side in the latest PURSUE release: the December 2008 project management plan, the Project Capella database proposal, MUFON papers, monthly reports, a self-assessment, and a 2010 investigation report on a Utah ranch.

The 38 DIRDs are exploratory technical papers — warp drives, wormholes, invisibility, advanced materials. None is an engineering report on a recovered object.

• AARO • March 8, 2024 • via the Historical Record ReportKONA BLUE, in AARO’s Historical Record Report, Volume I — AARO’s finding: the program was never approved, never funded, and “no data or material of any kind was ever transferred to or collected by DHS under the auspices of KONA BLUE.” The craft it was meant to receive were only assumed to exist by its advocates.

• NASA • September 14, 2023UAP Independent Study Team — Final Report — found no evidence of extraterrestrial origin; the data available were insufficient for conclusions. Recommended better data collection, not speculation.
• NASA • Landing pageNASA — Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena — the agency’s UAP hub, with the report and its follow-up work.

• The National Archives (UK) • Research guideUFOs — research guide — where the MoD files live, what survives (files were routinely destroyed at five-year intervals until 1967), and how to search the catalogue by series: DEFE, AIR, FCO, BJ.
• The National Archives (UK) • File DEFE 24/1948Rendlesham Forest, December 1980 — the most-cited file in the collection. Find it through the research guide’s catalogue search.
• Defence Intelligence Staff • 2000 • Declassified 2006The Condign report — a 460-page classified study whose conclusion was that UAP exist but there is no evidence of intelligent control. Find it through the research guide.

The MoD’s own position, given when the desk closed: in more than 50 years, no UFO sighting reported to the department indicated a military threat to the UK, and there was no defence benefit in recording, collating, analysing, or investigating sightings.

• National Archives • Record Group 237 • NAID 733667Information Releases Relating to Unidentified Flying Object, 1986 (FAA — Japan Airlines Flight 1628) — the FAA’s releases on Captain Kenju Terauchi’s November 17, 1986 encounter over Alaska, when a 747 cargo crew reported large objects pacing the aircraft.
• National Archives • Finding aidRecords Related to UFOs and UAPs at the National Archives: Research by Record Group or Collection — the full map: Blue Book (RG 341), CIA (RG 263), FAA (RG 237), NASA (RG 255), the UAP Records Collection (RG 615), and more.

No NRC UAP record unit appears in the National Archives’ UAP listing. If one surfaces, it goes here.

• SETI Institute • ResearchSETI — The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence — the Allen Telescope Array, the COSMIC project at the Very Large Array, and LaserSETI: what the search actually does, and what it has and hasn’t found.

SETI listens for signals. It does not investigate sightings, and it has found no confirmed extraterrestrial signal. That distinction is the point.