Declassified NSA Memo: 1978 MUFON Symposium, Alleged CIA Letter Fraud, and a Researcher's Request for Inside Information

Declassified NSA Memo: 1978 MUFON Symposium, an Alleged CIA Letter Fraud, and a Researcher's Request for Inside Information

A newly released NSA Mandatory Declassification Review package adds a 1978 internal memorandum to the public record on UFO-related records — documenting an employee's attendance at a MUFON symposium, an alleged CIA letter fraud, and a researcher's request that the employee look for UFO information inside NSA.

Published

September 16, 2026

Declassified

Date not listed

Source agency

The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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S. government's UFO and UAP records reach the public — and what remains withheld. In one case, the Central Intelligence Agency told a requester that it could not locate a full-text version of a 1976 UFO research document and that the best available copy was already posted in its Electronic Reading Room.

In another, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a partially redacted version of the classified UAP assessment that had been given to Congress in June 2021, after a Mandatory Declassification Review request from John Greenewald, Jr. of The Black Vault. In the newest addition to this record, the National Security Agency released a Mandatory Declassification Review package that includes a 29 August 1978 internal memorandum for the record — a chronology drafted for the S group security officer — documenting an NSA employee's interactions with the UFO community, an alleged CIA letter fraud, and a…

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This article is based on official source URLs provided by The Black Vault document archive. The NSA release is an NSA/CSS Mandatory Declassification Review package responding to a request dated 19 July 2021, signed by Jacqueline M. Amacher, Chief, Declassification Service, NSA/CSS. The enclosed 29 August 1978 memorandum for the record was approved for release by NSA on 09-12-2017 pursuant to E.O. 13526 MDR Case 100643. The ODNI release is an MDR response tracked as DEOM-2021-00006, signed by Gregory Koch, Chief, Information Management Office, ODNI. The CIA release is an MDR response concerning a 1976 UFO research document. The NSA document text is partially garbled and contains OCR artifacts; some names and phrases are incomplete or unclear. Several names and details are redacted under PL 86-36 / 50 USC 3605. Official source documents referenced in this article: - https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/cia-loses-1976-document-detailing-physical-evidence-relating-to-ufo-phenomena/ - https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/june-2021-classified-uap-ufo-report-given-to-congress-partially-released/ - https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-nsa-and-a-1978-mufon-conference-more-lost-ufo-material/

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