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DoD Releases AARO Case Serial Number List in Full FOIA Grant

The enclosed responsive document is titled 'List of all cases analyzed by, being analyzed by, or archived at, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office. Current as of 12/06/2022.'

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Project Blue Book File: Kenneth Arnold's 1947 UFO Sighting and the Air Force's Temperature Inversion Explanation

A declassified Project Blue Book record details pilot Kenneth Arnold's 1947 sighting of nine mirror-like objects near Mount Rainier, timed at 1,656.71 mph, and the Air Force's official conclusion that the phenomenon was caused by a temperature inversion.

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Project Blue Book: The 1957 RB-47 'Unknown' Over Fort Worth, the 1955 Statistical Study Behind It, and the Catalina Island 'Probable Meteor'

Three declassified Air Force records trace how Project Blue Book handled UFO reports: a massive 1955 statistical study, a 1957 RB-47 case carried as 'unknown,' and a 1955 Catalina Island sighting logged as 'probably a meteor' yet still filed as an unresolved UAP report.

The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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FBI FD- Interview Record Documents UAP Sightings and a 1996 New Mexico Vehicle Shutdown

An FBI FD-1057 electronic communication dated October 2024 documents an interview with an individual who reported multiple UAP sightings from their property, including a 2021 triangular light formation and a 1996 incident in New Mexico where a vehicle shut down and a large light shined on the occupants.

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FBI Site Survey Documents Multi-Year UAP Reports at Northeastern Property

FBI agents surveyed a private property in the Northeastern United States after a resident reported seeing Unidentified Aerial Phenomena over three years, according to a newly released FBI Electronic Communication dated November 1, 2024. The document records that a trail camera on the property captured UAP activity facing west of the home, and that the resident agreed to allow equipment setup for time-lapse video during evenings when the phenomenon is often observed.

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Congressional Oversight

CIA's 1979 MKULTRA Report: Unwitting LSD Tests and the Search for Victims

In a 1979 letter to Senator Birch Bayh, CIA Director Stansfield Turner reported that the agency had located and notified two unwitting subjects of LSD experiments conducted in the 1950s, one of whom recalled a 'terrifying experience' and expressed relief at finally having an explanation.

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AARO Resolves Puerto Rico UAP Case: Sky Lanterns, Not Anomalous Craft

AARO assessed with high confidence that the objects did not exhibit anomalous behavior or transmedium capabilities, and with moderate confidence that the objects were a pair of sky lanterns.

The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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NASA FOIA Release Exposes Administrator Nelson's UAP Emails and Internal Meeting Records

NASA released 92 pages in full and 6 in part in response to a FOIA request for Administrator Bill Nelson's emails containing UAP/UFO keywords, including calendar entries for an 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Meeting' and a May 2022 email from Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb urging open scientific analysis of UAP data.

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Declassified ONI Briefing Details Joint Interagency UAP Task Force and 'Near Daily' Incursions

A declassified Office of Naval Intelligence briefing dated 27 Feb 2020 describes a joint interagency task force led by ONI to 'collect, exploit, and analyze operational and scientific and technical data of unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP),' framing UAP as both a safety-of-flight and national security concern.

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Army FOIA Emails Reveal TTSA CRADA Details: 'Mature Technologies,' CCDO, and Tests on 'Miniscule Materials'

Army correspondence released under FOIA states that TTSA 'has conveyed that they have mature technologies that can be extrapolated for military purposes' in the camouflage, concealment, deception, and obscuration area, and that the Army 'successfully executed a few tests on miniscule materials' under the CRADA.

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Army FOIA Release Reveals Internal Coordination on TTSA CRADA and UFO Task Force

Internal Army public affairs emails released under FOIA show that a media query about the Army's CRADA with To The Stars Academy was shifted to a Department of Defense task force 'set up to work the various UFO-related topics,' while the Army maintained its interest in TTSA materials was purely scientific.

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Inside the UAP Task Force: Declassified May 2021 Briefing Outlines National Security Concerns and Path to Congress

A redacted May 2021 briefing from the Director of the UAP Task Force to Naval Intelligence states that UAP 'may pose serious counterintelligence risk' and 'may represent significant technology advantage by adversary,' while noting that multi-sensor detections make up 55% of 144 reports from USG over the past 16 years.

The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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CIA's Own U-2 History Includes a Chapter on UFOs and Operation BLUE BOOK

The CIA History Staff's 1992 monograph on the U-2 and OXCART programs lists a section titled 'U-2s, UFOs, and Operation BLUE BOOK' — an official acknowledgment of the link between secret reconnaissance flights and Cold War UFO reports.

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DoD FOIA Releases Reveal Contradictory Pentagon Statements on AATIP, Elizondo, and Navy UAP Videos

Two separate DoD FOIA releases — case 21-FR-0964 and case 21-F-0946 — surface internal 2017 AATIP records and 2019 email exchanges in which Pentagon public affairs officials gave journalists conflicting accounts of the program and Luis Elizondo's role.

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FAA Notice N 7110.800 Orders Controllers to Report UAP Activity

The FAA has replaced 'UFO' with 'UAP' in its air traffic control directives and now requires controllers to notify supervisors and the Domestic Events Network of any reported or observed unidentified anomalous phenomena.

The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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Declassified 1952 Transcript: Air Force UFO Chief Reported 20 Percent Unexplained

Out of approximately 800 historical cases reviewed by the Air Force, approximately 20% remained unexplained after technical analysis, according to a newly released 1952 transcript of Captain Edward J. Ruppelt.

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DIA's 2008 AAWSAP Solicitation Sought Studies on 'Spatial/Temporal Translation' and Breakthrough Aerospace Tech

The Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) Statement of Objectives, dated 18 July 2008, tasked contractors with studying breakthrough technologies including 'spatial/temporal translation' to assess foreign threats through 2050.

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AARO's UAP Records: From a Private Data Workshop to a Silent Black Triangle Debrief

Two official AARO records — a FOIA-released 2025 UAP data workshop file and a heavily redacted 2026 witness debrief of a silent black triangle — together show how the office documents UAP data and witness testimony, and how much of that record remains withheld.

The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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CIA File: Russian TV Unveiled a 'Saucer-Like' Aircraft — and Said It Wasn't a UFO

A declassified CIA media-monitoring report captures a 26 January 1993 Moscow broadcast describing a 'saucer-like' aircraft called BKIP, developed at the Saratov aviation factory — while the reporter noted that 'the meeting with a UFO did not take place after all.'

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Declassified Digest Logged a Soviet TV UFO Sighting Alongside Yeltsin's Rise

Within a June 1991 U.S. monitoring digest of Soviet broadcasts, one line item notes an 'anon on ufo sighting by two estonians' — a fleeting anomalous report buried among coverage of elections, arms talks, and economic reform.

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Declassified CIA Media Digests: UFO Lines, a Soviet 'Thermoplane,' and the 21 December 1990 Moscow Consolidated Takeall

A merged reading of declassified CIA Foreign Broadcast Information Service media-monitoring products released through The Black Vault, centered on the 21 December 1990 'TAKEALL' Moscow Consolidated digest (C05516659 / C00174709) and its single crop-circle and UFO listener item, alongside a 1992 TASS report on a saucer-shaped Soviet 'thermoplane.'

The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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CIA-Translated Russian Broadcast Teased a 'Secret UFO Laboratory' — Then Revealed an Airship

Attention! This is secret footage of a laboratory for the production of UFO's... Well, actually, it is something much more prosaic. It is a modern Russian airship, our 'thermoplane.'

The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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When a Bosnia War-Crimes Commentary Lands in a CIA UFO File: FBIS Media Logs, a Soviet 'Thermoplane,' and the Limits of the Declassified Record

A CIA-released FBIS summary of a 1991 Hanoi television broadcast joins a growing set of media-monitoring documents in The Black Vault's CIA UFO collection. Its only anomalous-content reference is a one-line world-news item stating that UFOs 'continue to be a myth for scientists' — a reminder that UFO language in the declassified record is often routine broadcast content, not intelligence analysis.

The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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Declassified CIA Broadcast Summaries: Soviet Media and the UFO Vocabulary, 1990–1993

Twenty-eight declassified Foreign Broadcast Information Service products in the CIA collection hosted by The Black Vault show how open-source media monitoring handled flying-saucer vocabulary — and how much of the same material had no UFO content at all.

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