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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.
The Turkish Islamist press discusses national security and the curious public reaction to UFO sightings.
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.
A merged reading of two official releases — a Department of the Air Force FOIA production on UAP media queries and a U.S. Navy-released UAP briefing package with July 2020 interagency emails — showing how the UAP Interagency Task Force was briefed, how stigma shaped reporting, and what the record still does not prove.
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.
A NASA FOIA release of internal emails shows how the agency's communications staff handled UAP and UFO queries, prepared internal talking points, and coordinated media interviews while the 2021 ODNI assessment was being released.
ONI's final response to a FOIA request for UAP-related emails involving Captain Scott Chesbrough states that several responsive emails were found and that releasable records would be posted to the FOIA Reading Room. Embedded email fragments reference a 'Classification Guide on UAP' being prepared for promulgation across the Fleet.
NASA is commissioning an UAP Independent Study Team in order to examine UAP from a scientific perspective, focusing on how NASA can use data and the tools of science to move our understanding forward. The study, chaired by Dr. David Spergel with Dr. Dan Evans as Designated Federal Officer, is described as open, independent, and unclassified.
In April 2019, an Air Force press desk officer told CNN the service was 'not working any guidelines for reporting UFOs,' even as the Navy was updating its procedures. Newly released emails show OSD later instructed the Air Force to coordinate all UAP responses through OSD and to monitor FOIA requests for UAP videos.
A partially redacted Navy email chain titled 'USS Stout UAV Interaction' shows OPNAV N2N6 and ONI personnel coordinating a response to an RFI from the IKE N2, with a storyboard shared for situational awareness and a response requested via JWICS.
The Department of Defense has responded to a FOIA request, revealing the existence of 263 pages of documents while applying multiple exemptions for withholding information.