U.S. Coast Guard

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U.S. Coast Guard

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The U.S. Coast Guard is a military service and maritime law-enforcement agency responsible for safety, security, stewardship, border operations, and defense readiness.

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The United States Coast Guard is an armed service, federal law-enforcement organization, and maritime regulatory agency. Founded through predecessor services beginning with the Revenue Cutter Service in 1790, it now operates within the Department of Homeland Security in peacetime and can serve under the Navy during war or presidential direction.

Its eleven statutory missions include search and rescue, port and waterway security, drug and migrant interdiction, aids to navigation, marine safety, environmental protection, fisheries enforcement, ice operations, law enforcement, and defense readiness. Ships, aircraft, coastal stations, intelligence units, and command centers give the service persistent awareness of American maritime approaches. Air stations operate fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters for patrol and rescue, while cutters and shore commands maintain surface and coastal awareness. The service also contributes to the national Intelligence Community through its intelligence component. A single incident may therefore create flight logs, command-center messages, law-enforcement records, and sensor files under different retention rules.

Coast Guard crews sometimes record or report unidentified airborne or maritime objects. Such observations may involve aviation safety, border surveillance, military coordination, or search-and-rescue sensors. A video or crew description deserves preservation and technical review, but “unidentified” initially describes the state of knowledge rather than an extraordinary source.

The service matters in the public record because it connects airborne UAP with maritime jurisdiction and operational sensor data. Analysis should identify the cutter or aircraft, sensor mode, crew, mission, location, and whether the contact was resolved. The Coast Guard’s dual military-civil character also requires precision about which authority it exercised and which other agencies received the record.

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/u/water_base

Oct 2

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Three years ago I asked the same question (original post here). So much has happened since 2023: more hearings, more whistleblowers, more legislation, and more "breaking" news. But I want to know whether any of it has made a real difference. So I ask again, members of the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, Navy, and Space Force: What is the current sentiment towards UAPs? Here is roughly what you told me back then: Navy aviation took it (somewhat) seriously. An F/A-18 avionics tech w...

ReportAnalyzed

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DOW-UAP-D105, U.S. Air Force Flying Discs File, 1952

Department of War253 pagesSep 18, 2026RELEASE-06-FILE-013-DOW-UAP-D105-U-S-AIR-FORCE-FLYING-DISCS-FILE-1952

This Air Force correspondence file follows film-analysis requests, witness statements, interservice coordination and physical-evidence inquiries during 1952. It includes Newhouse’s explicit limits on estimating the Tremonton objects, the effort to recover a misplaced Mariana film copy, and FBI examination of a reportedly burned cap. Questions and proposed explanations remain distinct from established identifications.

War.gov PURSUEunclassifiedOpen Original

/u/SystematicApproach

Sep 13

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On a cold October night in 1967, something lit up the sky over Shag Harbour, a small fishing community on the southern edge of Nova Scotia. The witnesses were ordinary people: teenagers, fishermen, residents looking out toward the Atlantic. What they described was not subtle. Orange lights appeared over the horizon, moved rapidly through the sky, then seemed to descend toward the ocean. Some believed they had just watched an aircraft go down. That assumption mattered, because it transformed a...

Richard Dolan Intelligent Disclosure

@I_D_Official · Aug 17

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Larry Bryant was one of the genuine pioneers of UFO FOIA research and one of the good people in this field. In 1974 he wrote to the FBI asking about a 1954 Army report describing a landed UFO with beings, witnessed by Coast Guard personnel and civilians. The Army's distribution list showed the FBI had received a copy. That's the kind of detail that keeps surfacing in these declassified files.

Preview of DOW-UAP-D100, Air Materiel Command Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, 1947-1948

ReportAnalyzed

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DOW-UAP-D100, Air Materiel Command Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, 1947-1948

Department of War245 pagesAug 7, 2026RELEASE-05-FILE-015-DOW-UAP-D100-AIR-MATERIEL-COMMAND-REPORT-ON-UNIDENTIFIED-FLYING-OBJECTS-1947-1948

This 245-page historical file assembles 1947-1948 Air Force correspondence, sighting reports, investigative requests, policy memoranda, and analytical papers associated with flying-disc inquiries and Project SIGN. It documents how Air Materiel Command gathered reports, coordinated intelligence collection, evaluated possible explanations, and considered the problem unresolved despite identifying some reports as balloons or astronomical objects.

War.gov PURSUEunclassifiedOpen Original

MemoAnalyzed

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Preliminary Guidance for Implementation of NDA Waiver

Office of the Director of National Intelligence2 pagesJul 31, 2026ES 2026-00818

An unclassified July 31, 2026 memorandum from Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Aaron Lukas provides preliminary implementation guidance for a presidential UAP NDA waiver. It directs Intelligence Community elements to establish PURSUE designees, notify personnel about authorized reporting channels, and await detailed reporting and implementation procedures.

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Richard Dolan Intelligent Disclosure

@I_D_Official · Jul 30

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This document release includes an FBI file connected to Larry Bryant, one of the pioneers of UFO FOIA research. In 1974, Bryant asked the FBI about a 1954 Army report describing a UFO landing witnessed by Coast Guard personnel. The FBI's answer: no information; we don't investigate #UFOs. Larry passed away in 2020 at 82. Good to see his name in the record. https://t.co/HFdXezMtt5

/u/twist_games

Jul 10

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This case came from the DOD file drop today. https://preview.redd.it/4erq7r13dfch1.png?width=568&format=png&auto=webp&s=83d603b760a52bf3f0bc48789d34ff2bafb5aefa

Joe Murgia

@TheUfoJoe · Jul 10

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UFO landed and the occupant, "strolled about." "Through inquiry of the Department of the Air Force, I've obtained a copy of a U.S. Army report of an alleged April 8, 1954 sighting of an occupied UFO which was pursued by U.S. Coast Guard personnel, landed briefly on the ground (discharging the occupant, who strolled about and returned to the object), and which was seen by at least three civilian observers before it departed." (I think this had been released before but it's still worth sharing....

govMay 22

DOW-UAP-PR065, "USCG C-144 Tyndall UAP 2 TIC TAC IR hot 24 April 2024"

On March 6, 2026, eight members of the U.S. House of Representatives requested access to 51 potentially UAP-related records allegedly held by the Department of War and the Intelligence Community. The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) identified a collection of responsive materials held on a classified network. Many of these materials lack a substantiated chain-of-custody. AARO assesses that this video, whose uploader-defined title is, “USCG C-144 Tyndall UAP 2 TIC TAC IR hot 24 April 2024,” is likely derived from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. Coast Guard platform operating in the Southeastern United States in 2024. A user uploaded this video to a classified network in June 2024. Video Duration: 00:00:38 Video Description: 00:00-00:32: A sensor pans to keep an area of contrast in its field-of-view. 00:33: The sensor pans to the left causing the area of contrast to leave the field-of-view on the right side of the frame. This video description is provided for informational purposes only. Readers should not interpret any part of this description as reflecting an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination regarding the described event’s validity, nature, or significance.

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