A declassified DIA reference document from 2010 details concepts for launching nanosatellites using ground-based lasers, a propulsion method that could reduce launch costs and enable swarms of small spacecraft. The report, produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications program, also examines potential weapon applications of laser Lightcraft.
In November 1957, multiple witnesses near Levelland, Texas, reported a glowing object that stalled car engines. The Air Force's Project Blue Book concluded the sightings were 'probably due to a phenomena known as ball lightning,' but requested further scientific review.
A February 18, 2020 Defense Health Agency letter confirms that records titled 'UFO Article' from the OHA 315.5 Stahl Collection were located and released in full in response to a Black Vault FOIA request.
The document states that anomalous propagation effects are probably responsible for many UFO reports, but acknowledges a small, significant residue of cases with no plausible explanation.
In a 1973 report released under an NSA file number, Harold Sherman and Ingo Swann described a simultaneous psychic probe of Jupiter — comparing impressions of crystal clouds, mountain ranges, and a possible hydrogen mantle — while NASA's Pioneer 10 was en route to the planet.
A recent FOIA response indicates that while a record related to UAP communications was found, it is partially exempt from disclosure due to privacy concerns.
A declassified 1954 letter from the Public Health Service Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, details experiments with LAE-32, a compound similar to LSD-25, which showed no effects at high doses. The letter was part of the MKULTRA document collection and was addressed to the Office of Naval Research.
A newly surfaced CIA document from September 1951 orders field stations to ship all medicines, drugs, and related items secured from captured hostile agents or defectors to Washington, with strict instructions against field analysis.
A newly declassified CIA document from the MKULTRA collection references Project Artichoke, noting that its chairman had only SECRET clearance and was seeking assistance for briefings at higher classification levels.
Newly released Air Force emails show public-affairs officials scrambling in September 2019 to answer media questions about UAP sightings off Virginia, checking whether Langley F-22 and T-38 crews saw what Navy pilots reported—and noting that OSD had taken the lead on all such queries.
In September 2019, as the Navy confirmed that three widely circulated videos showed unidentified aerial phenomena, U.S. Air Force public affairs staff circulated queries from The Drive and The New York Times. Internal emails show the 633rd Air Base Wing and 1st Fighter Wing could not confirm Joint Base Langley-Eustis airmen witnessed the phenomenon, while the Air Force Safety Center said it does not track UAP unless a pilot nearly crashed — and OSD took the lead on all such queries.
