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UFO / UAP
Unidentified aerial phenomena documented in officially released government archives.
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The Gemini VII Technical Debriefing, dated December 23, 1965, includes a table-of-contents entry for 'VISUAL SIGHTINGS' spanning pages 131–138 — but the provided text does not contain that section's content.
In a March 28, 1996 letter, the Washington National Records Center told NASA Headquarters it could not locate two boxes of records identified as 'Fragology Files' from accession 255-68A-2062, noting they were identified as missing in 1987.
Two Defense Intelligence Agency reference documents produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSAP) Program survey quantum and DNA computing for future space travel, and the detection and high-resolution tracking of vehicles at hypersonic velocities — including vehicles designed to be undetectable.
NDAA language directed that ONI lead a joint interagency task force to collect, exploit, and analyze operational and scientific and technical data of unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP), with a focus on aviation safety of flight and national security.
The UAP Task Force has collected reports dated from the last years that describe encounters with UAP. More than half have been detected via [redacted]. Potential Explanations: 1. [redacted] 2. Unknown Weather or other Natural Phenomena 3. [redacted]
The National Reconnaissance Office partially granted a FOIA appeal for records on 'UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS' and 'UAPs,' releasing a heavily redacted four-page document while upholding denials under Executive Order 13526 and 10 U.S.C. § 424.
In a July 16, 2019 letter to Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer, Rep. Mark Walker cited press reports of UAP encounters with Naval aviators and asked whether the Department continued to log and investigate such sightings after the 2017 end of AATIP.
The DoD Office of Inspector General released 14 pages in part under FOIA exemption (b)(6) in response to a request for all communications between DARPA and the UAP Task Force and between DARPA and ODNI related to the creation of the UAP report, referring additional pages to OSD/JS.
A September 20, 2022 FOIA response to The Black Vault's John Greenewald, Jr. released 27 of 50 responsive pages, including a November 23, 2021 memo establishing the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group as successor to the Navy-led UAP Task Force.
A 1993 RAAF brief recommended the Air Force stop investigating unusual aerial sightings; by 2013 the policy was cancelled, and in 2021 Defence told the Senate it had never formally reviewed the US ODNI's UAP assessment.
The NRO released two partially redacted documents in response to a FOIA request for emails to/from Director Christopher Scolese containing UAP keywords, including an internal update on the UAP Task Force Report to Congress and a DoD IG project on UAPs.
A September 22, 2008 Standard Form 1449 shows the Virginia Contracting Activity awarding contract HHM402-08-C-0072 to Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, LLC, with a total award amount of $21,948,810.00 and line items including research reports and a Comprehensive Integrated Threat Assessment.