The FBI's 1964 Socorro file and a 2023 UAP report carry word-for-word identical custody language. The Bureau never stopped taking these reports, even after Blue Book closed.

I spent eight years in the Navy as an Operations Specialist, four of them running the Fleet Air Defense Identification Zone in the Pacific. The job was contact resolution: decide whether what's in your airspace is friendly, hostile, or unknown, and decide whether the witness reporting it is reliable enough to escalate. I've been working through the declassified UAP record the way I'd work a watch, by reading what the documents actually say. Most people know the Socorro case. April 24, 1964, O...