1991 CIA Broadcast Summary Notes Vietnamese TV Calling UFOs 'a Myth for Scientists'

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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.

Published

September 23, 2026

Declassified

Date not listed

Source agency

The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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CIA-released Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) products, all hosted in The Black Vault's CIA UFO collection, show how UFO-adjacent language enters the declassified record through routine media monitoring rather than through investigations of anomalous phenomena.

The newly merged document in this collection is a CIA-released FBIS summary of a Hanoi Vietnam Television Network broadcast in Vietnamese, 1200 GMT 10 Sep 91, identified as file C00175464, pages 16-17 of 149, marked UNCLASSIFIED. Its only anomalous-content reference is item 21k, a one-minute world-news item stating "ufo's continue to be a myth for scientists." That single line carries no further detail about the broadcast segment, its sourcing, or the claims it addressed.

The broadcast is a "Hanoi Television Program Summary" with 28 numbered items. Domestic coverage includes a ceremony bestowing the Ho Chi Minh Order on Dam Quang Trung, a microwave communications network linking Mong Cai and Hanoi commissioned 6 Sep, industrial and…

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This article is based on a CIA-released Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) summary of a Hanoi Vietnam Television Network broadcast dated 10 September 1991, contained in a declassified file (C00175464, pages 16-17 of 149). The document is marked UNCLASSIFIED and bears a Black Vault FOIA watermark. The article also incorporates prior merged documents from the same collection, including C05516692, C05516691, C05516730, C05516703, and C05516694. All facts are drawn from the source document text and the source brief; no outside claims have been added. Official source documents referenced in this article: - https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/ufos-the-central-intelligence-agency-cia-collection/

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