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DocumentLocal Law Enforcement2023Source asset: LLE-UAP-D001, Transcript of an Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado, October 2023

The officer reported an object roughly 300 feet above ground

The transcript records the officer calling the object an “orb” and estimating it at approximately 300 feet above ground. The estimate is attributed and unverified.

I am watching another orb that is flying approximately... ...300 feet up off the ground.

DocumentLocal Law EnforcementColoradoOrb (witness description)
Colorado
DocumentDoW1957Source asset: DOW-UAP-D155, Air Intelligence Information Report, Saudi Arabia, 1957

Gunnery radar return reported near Saudi Arabia

Capt. Alva Smith’s January 19, 1957 report concerns radar information obtained the preceding day over Saudi Arabia.

Date of report: 19 January 1957. Date of information: 18 January 1957.

DocumentDoWSaudi ArabiaUSAFRadar
Saudi Arabia
DocumentDoW1953Source asset: DOW-UAP-D163, Air Intelligence Information Report, Sweden, 1953

Swedish flight crew supplied the press account

The translated report identifies Transair pilot Ulf Christiernsson and crew chief Olle Johansson as observing an object from their DC-3 at 1437.

Capt. Ulf Christiernsson, and his crew chief, Olle Johansson

DocumentDoWSweden
Sweden
DocumentDoW1953Source asset: DOW-UAP-D162, Air Intelligence Information Report, Alaska, 1953

Iknokinok reported a light near Gambell

The December 8, 1953 report by John V. Wright concerns Iknokinok’s observation at 1110Z on December 1, west of Gambell.

011110Z December 1953. Light was observed on a true heading of 283° from Gambell.

DocumentDoWAlaskaLight / Glare
Alaska
DocumentDoW1954Source asset: DOW-UAP-D180, Final Personnel Record for McCoy, Howard M., U.S. Air Force, 1954

McCoy’s record supports a master’s degree and doctoral candidacy

McCoy’s 1940 Caltech letter records a 1935 master’s degree and later doctoral candidacy, while explicitly stating that he would receive no degree that school year.

Hence no degree will be received.

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DocumentDoW1952Source asset: DOW-UAP-D179, Air Intelligence Information Report, Catalina Island, 1952

Boy Scouts reported an object over Camp Fox

The August 28, 1952 report says three Boy Scouts at Camp Fox reported a sighting during a Catalina Island hike on or about June 25.

three (3) Boy Scouts in summer camp (Camp Fox) on 25 June 1952.

DocumentDoWCatalina Island, California
Catalina Island, California
DocumentDoW1952Source asset: DOW-UAP-D157, Air Intelligence Information Report, Italy, 1952

Report contains conflicting August observation dates

The cover dates the sighting August 28, while Sias’s quoted newspaper article says it occurred on August 27 at 2145 hours; the file does not resolve that discrepancy.

Yesterday evening, 27th of August, at 2145 hours

DocumentDoWItalySphere
Italy
DocumentU.S. Government1962Source asset: USG-UAP-D002, Interagency Correspondence Concerning Space Fragments, 1962-1964

Proposed directive remained an unnumbered draft

The October 23 NSAM is explicitly a draft with no memorandum number; its proposed presidential-approval wording does not prove an issued presidential directive.

NATIONAL SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDUM NO.

DocumentU.S. GovernmentWashington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
DocumentDoW1949Source asset: DOW-UAP-D181, Unresolved UAP Report, Catalina Island, 1949

Mackey relayed the reports through Kenneth Arnold

Percy E. Mackey wrote to Kenneth Arnold from Avalon on May 1, 1949, offering a fuller account of the reported observations.

Avalon, Calif., May 1st, 1949. Kenneth Arnold, Boise, Idaho.

DocumentDoWCatalina Island, CaliforniaMultiple objects
Catalina Island, California
DocumentDoW1953Source asset: DOW-UAP-D164, Flying Object Report, Indiana, 1953

Hiram and Gladys Jones described the sighting

The report identifies Hiram and Gladys Jones as the observers near Seymour, Indiana.

Mr Hiram and Mrs Gladys Jones

DocumentDoWMultiple objects
DocumentDoW2008Source asset: DOW-UAP-D167, Project Capella, December 2008

Database plan warned that earlier punched-card records were lost

The proposal reviews Battelle’s Blue Book statistical work and says the punched cards were not retained.

Battelle used punched cards for this work

DocumentDoWSan Fransisco, California
San Fransisco, California
DocumentDoW2008Source asset: DOW-UAP-D166, MUFON Reports Prepared for BAASS, November 2008

Toroidal propulsion proposal acknowledged stability problems

The lift proposal recognizes that an incorrectly oriented magnetic toroid could overturn and proposes rotation as a stabilization concept.

misalignment of torque would have the tendency to turn it upside down

DocumentDoWLas Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
DocumentDoW1953Source asset: DOW-UAP-D161, Air Intelligence Information Report, Alaska, 1953

Brown and Iyapanna reported the light

Francis M. Brown’s report, dated November 24, 1953, attributes the light sighting to Raleigh Iyapanna on Little Diomede.

Date of report: 24 November 1953. Date of information: 8 October 1953.

DocumentDoWAlaskaLight / Glare
Alaska
DocumentDoW2008Source asset: DOW-UAP-D168, BAASS Project Management Plan, December 2008

Requested security clearances were not confirmed

The plan requests clearances for BAASS staff, including its administrator by the end of January; it does not establish that those clearances or requested records were provided.

clearances approved for the BAASS Administrator by the end of January

DocumentDoWLas Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
DocumentExecutive Office of the President1963Source asset: EOP-UAP-D002, Memorandum on Interagency Coordination for the Recovery of Foreign Materiel, May 1963

Hale described Frutkin’s objections to the proposal

Hale describes Frutkin as negative toward the fragments project and says he reviewed the previous year’s meetings because Frutkin had been away.

It was necessary to review the background and course of the meetings held last year because he was away at the time and now is very negative on the project.

DocumentExecutive Office of the PresidentWashington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
DocumentDoW1953Source asset: DOW-UAP-D160, Air Intelligence Information Report, Morocco, 1953

V, W and M described radar returns, not object shapes

The report describes radar returns that changed among V, W and M shapes and faded after several minutes; it does not supply a visual craft outline.

The return varied in shape from a V shape to W shape to M shape. It faded after several minutes of observation.

DocumentDoWMoroccoRadar
Morocco
DocumentDoW2009Source asset: DOW-UAP-D169, BAASS Monthly Report, March 2009

BAASS reported 33 full-time and seven part-time staff

BAASS reports receiving 526 resumes during March and having 33 full-time and seven part-time employees, in addition to its administrator and deputy, at month’s end.

thirty three full time employees and seven part time employees

DocumentDoWLas Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
DocumentDoW2009Source asset: DOW-UAP-D170, BAASS Monthly Report, April 2009

MUFON triage produced few deployment-level cases

MUFON reports 319 U.S. cases in April: nine category-two cases, no category-three cases and 310 category-one cases; three deployments occurred in April and one followed in May.

There were no category three cases in April, 2009

DocumentDoWLas Vegas, NevadaRadarChevron / VTriangle
Las Vegas, Nevada
DocumentDoW2009Source asset: DOW-UAP-D171, BAASS Monthly Report, June 2009

Proposed secure vault did not establish possession of material

The proposed underground vault was designed for materials BAASS hoped to acquire; the construction description does not establish possession of recovered exotic hardware or tissue.

exotic material or tissue that the organization could obtain.

DocumentDoWLas Vegas, NevadaLight / Glare
Las Vegas, Nevada
DocumentDoW1956Source asset: DOW-UAP-D156, Air Intelligence Information Report, Guam, 1956

F-86D pilot pursued a light near Guam

The report concerns a blinking aerial light seen by an F-86D pilot over Guam on the night of December 31, 1956.

unidentified aerial blinking light observed by an F-S6D pilot flying in the Guam radio range holding pattern on the night of 31 Dec 56.

DocumentDoWGuamUSAFLight / Glare
Guam
DocumentDoW1953Source asset: DOW-UAP-D159, Air Intelligence Information Report, Germany, 1953

British European Airways crew reported red rocket-like lights

At 1936Z on August 10, a British European Airways DC-3 pilot reported what appeared to be red rockets about a mile ahead.

reported observing what appeared to be red colored rockets, being fired approximately one (1) mile in front of him.

DocumentDoWGermanyLight / Glare
Germany
DocumentDoW2009Source asset: DOW-UAP-D173, BAASS Monthly Report, November 2009

Modesto objects were identified as model gliders

The Modesto investigator changed the case to identified man-made objects after information about locally flown model gliders with blue lights.

IFO-Man-Made Objects.

DocumentDoWLas Vegas, NevadaLight / Glare
Las Vegas, Nevada
DocumentDoW2010Source asset: DOW-UAP-D174, Utah Ranch Investigation Report, April 2010

Map intersections could have arisen arbitrarily

The creature-sighting map extrapolates straight paths from eyewitness directions and explicitly concedes that their intersections could be arbitrary if paths changed.

these intersection points could be construed as arbitrary

DocumentDoWLas Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
DocumentDoW2010Source asset: DOW-UAP-D175, BAASS Self-Assessment of UAP Analysis Capabilities, November 2010

Catalog conversions were incomplete

Project Capella comprised eleven separate databases; seven were completed and four continued cataloguing reports, with some cases overlapping databases.

although some of the reported cases do overlap.

DocumentDoWLas Vegas, NevadaNavyFLIRRadar
Las Vegas, Nevada
DocumentFBI2026Source asset: FBI-UAP-D043, FD-302, Unidentified Aerial Object Observation Report, 2026

Two agents signed the observation account

The FBI form reproduces a written statement co-signed by two special agents; their names and the precise site and date are redacted.

a written statement co-signed by

DocumentFBIWestern United StatesInfraredTriangleRedacted
Western United States
DocumentDoW1953Source asset: DOW-UAP-D158, Flying Object Report, Canada, 1953

Arvel Lee Daniel and John Bricker supplied the account

The report identifies Arvel Lee Daniel and John Junior Bricker as the airmen observing the light while guarding a B-29 at Prince George Airport.

Daniel, Arvel Lee, T/Sgt, Provost Sergeant, 918th AC&W Sq, reliable. Bricker, John Junior, S/Sgt, Air Policeman, 918th AC&W Sq, reliable.

DocumentDoWCanadaUSAFLight / Glare
Canada
DocumentDoW2026Source asset: DOW-UAP-D176, Triangular UAP AARO Memorandum for Record, 2026

Memo combines two primary witnesses and a third account

The memorandum describes two primary interviewees and an additional corroborating witness, with their identities and the event’s precise date or location redacted.

Primary Interviewees: - 1843(a)(2) (SOURCE 1): 1843(a)(2) 1843(a)(2) 1843(a)(2) (SOURCE 2): 1843(a)(2) 1843(a)(2) 1843(a)(2) Additional Corroborating Witness: 1843(a)(2) (SOURCE 3): 1843(a)(2) 1843(a)(2)

DocumentDoWWestern United StatesInfraredTriangleRedacted
Western United States
DocumentDoW1955Source asset: DOW-UAP-D177, Unresolved UAP Report, Catalina Island, 1955

Avalon report described an orange-red light

The record card dates the Avalon sighting March 15, 1955 and summarizes a bright, round light changing from orange to red and falling straight down.

Round. Changed from orange to red. Very bright. Fell straight down.

DocumentDoWCatalina Island, CaliforniaLight / Glare
Catalina Island, California
DocumentDoW1953Source asset: DOW-UAP-D178, Unresolved UAP Report, Catalina Island, 1953

Blue Book card identified Jupiter

The summary card classifies the sighting as astronomical and identifies Jupiter; that is the file’s recorded conclusion.

CONCLUSION: Astronomical (JUPITER).

DocumentDoWCatalina Island, CaliforniaLight / GlareResolved / prosaic
Catalina Island, California
DocumentFBISource asset: 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_438

Officer Lonnie Zamora observed an unidentified flying object on April 24, 1964

The released document states that officer Lonnie Zamora observed an unidentified flying object on April 24, 1964.

The following data were obtained from Officer Lonnie Zamora, Police Department, Socorro, New Mexico, the night of April 24, 1964, and early morning, April 25, 1964, as related by Officer Zamora.

DocumentFBI
DocumentDepartment of Energy1949Source asset: DOE-UAP-D004, Los Alamos Conference on Aerial Phenomena, 1949

LaPaz distinguished the Starvation Peak fireball from a conventional meteorite fall

At the Los Alamos conference, meteorics specialist Lincoln LaPaz said the December 1948 Starvation Peak event was not a conventional meteorite fall. He emphasized its instant full intensity, green or yellow-green color, nearly horizontal path, and green fragmentation. This was his interpretation of the observation, not a settled attribution by the conference.

was most certainly not a conventional meteorite fall. It was the so-called Starvation Peak incident on the night of December 12, 1948. This fireball appeared in full intensity instantly — there was no increase in light. Its color ... was a hue green, or yellow-green,...

DocumentDepartment of EnergyNew Mexico
New Mexico
VideoDoW2025Source asset: DOW-UAP-PR135, Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2025

Several contrast areas cross the sensor field from top to bottom

Official DVIDS metadata states that from 00:05 to 00:10, several contrast areas crossed the sensor field from top to bottom.

00:05-00:10: Several areas of contrast transit the sensor field-of-view, entering from the top of the frame and exiting from the bottom.

VideoDoWMiddle EastInfrared sensor
Middle East
DocumentDoW2010Source asset: DOW-UAP-D121, AAWSAP DIRD, Pulsed High-Power Microwave Source Technology, January 2010

High-power microwave sources need linked technologies

The report provides an overview of high-power microwave source types and the critical technologies needed to build them.

major types of high-power microwave (HPM) sources and the critical technologies required to build them.

DocumentDoWLas Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
DocumentDoW2010Source asset: DOW-UAP-D124, AAWSAP DIRD, Space Access: Where We’ve Been and Where We Could Go, March 2010

Scramjets feature in high-speed space-access concepts

The report discusses scramjet propulsion among concepts relevant to high-speed access-to-space systems.

scramjets became available, that would be extended to higher mach numbers and altitudes.

DocumentDoWLas Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
DocumentDoW2010Source asset: DOW-UAP-D125, AAWSAP DIRD, Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion, March 2010

IEC research spans theory, stability, and neutron sources

The report organizes its technical discussion into sections including IEC theory, potential-well structure, stability analysis, and neutron-source simulations.

Section IV.

DocumentDoWLas Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
DocumentDoW2010Source asset: DOW-UAP-D123, AAWSAP DIRD, Positron Aerospace Propulsion, March 2010

Positrons frame conceptual propulsion studies

The report introduces positrons in the context of antimatter and propulsion concepts.

Antimatter is considered an extremely attractive fuel for aerospace propulsion because of its enormous advantage in energy density over all other known sources of energy.

DocumentDoWLas Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
DocumentDoW2010Source asset: DOW-UAP-D136, AAWSAP DIRD, Biosensors and BioMEMS: A Survey of the Present Field, March 2010

Implants required safety and biocompatibility validation

The report says implanted-device development must address biocompatibility, tissue degradation, clinical trials, safety, and FDA requirements.

Devices must be shown to be effective for their intended use, and above all devices must be proved safe.

DocumentDoWLas Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
DocumentDoW2010Source asset: DOW-UAP-D127, AAWSAP DIRD, An Introduction to the Statistical Drake Equation, March 2010

The model estimates civilizations and their distance

The report frames a central question as estimating whether alien civilizations exist and how far away they might be.

SETI (an acronym for "Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence") is a relatively new branch of scientific research, having begun only in 1959.

DocumentDoWLas Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
AudioDoW1952Source asset: DOW-UAP-PR160, Presentation by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, 1952

The briefing identifies report concentrations without assigning a cause

Official D154 companion transcript: The presentation reported concentrations around Los Alamos and Albuquerque, while saying that the Oak Ridge and Albuquerque concentrations might mean something but were not understood.

Around Los Alamos and the Albuquerque area, there's concentrations. … the ones around Oak Ridge and the ones around Albuquerque may possibly mean something, we don't know.

AudioDoWBoston, MassachusettsHistorical presentation
Boston, Massachusetts
DocumentDoW2010Source asset: DOW-UAP-D126, AAWSAP DIRD, Advanced Nuclear Propulsion for Manned Deep Space Missions, March 2010

Antimatter production and storage are major barriers

The report describes production and storage of even nanogram quantities of antimatter as major technical challenges for proposed propulsion applications.

antimatter annihilation reaction, however, it is an enormous technical challenge to produce antimatter in appreciable quantities.

DocumentDoWLas Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
DocumentDoW2010Source asset: DOW-UAP-D130, AAWSAP DIRD, Technological Approaches to Controlling External Devices, March 2010

The report sets a high-bandwidth control target

The report defines its target as thought-based operation of remote machinery during normal activity, with more than 5–10 bits per second and command selection within 300 milliseconds.

Data transfer rates are sought to exceed 5-10 bits/second to be useful for operation of complex devices; this rate range and above is referred to as high-bandwidth BMis.

DocumentDoWLas Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
DocumentDoW2010Source asset: DOW-UAP-D128, AAWSAP DIRD, Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Biological Tissues, March 2010

The opening case is a reported symptom account

The preface describes three individuals who experienced an aerospace-related event and subsequently reported signs and symptoms; it presents this as a motivating case description.

Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Biological Tissues Preface and Summary PREFACE Several years ago three previous fit and active individuals experienced an anomalous ["irregular, incongruous and inconsistent with their domain"] aerospace-related event.

DocumentDoWLas Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
DocumentDoW2010Source asset: DOW-UAP-D132, AAWSAP DIRD, Advanced Space Propulsion Based on Vacuum (Spacetime Metric) Engineering, March 2010

Required energy exceeds present engineering by many orders

It states that energy densities required for significant spacetime perturbation exceed existing engineering capability by many orders of magnitude.

the required energy densities predicted by present theory exceed by many orders of magnitude values achievable with existing engineering techniques.

DocumentDoWLas Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
DocumentDoW2010Source asset: DOW-UAP-D131, AAWSAP DIRD, The Role of Superconductors in Gravity Research, March 2010

Laboratory gravity signals should be extraordinarily small

The report says ordinary matter cannot generate measurable laboratory gravitational fields and that any claimed new force must be separated from numerous prosaic artifacts.

Observations to date demonstrate that interactions between gravity and electromagnetic fields, given the field densities and strengths available to even the most well-equipped laboratory, are many orders of magnitude smaller than those required

DocumentDoWLas Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
DocumentDoW2010Source asset: DOW-UAP-D135, AAWSAP DIRD, Antigravity for Aerospace Applications, March 2010

No active gravity-control technology existed

The report states directly that no technology available in 2010 could actively control gravity.

To date, there is no technology that can achieve the active control of gravity.

DocumentDoWLas Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
DocumentDoW1957Source asset: DOW-UAP-D104, Final Personnel Record for Newhouse, Delbert C., U.S. Navy, 1957

The biography records a 1933 Navy enlistment

The dated service entry establishes the beginning of Newhouse’s Navy career; it is an administrative fact rather than testimony about the later film.

Enlisted Portland, Oregon 23 January 1933

DocumentDoW
DocumentDoW2010Source asset: DOW-UAP-D133, AAWSAP DIRD, The Space Communication Implications of Quantum Entanglement and Nonlocality, March 2010

Usable nonlocal communication remained unresolved

It says the central question had no compelling answer and treats practical nonlocal communication as conditional on future experimental evidence.

The question investigated in this paper is whether quantum nonlocality is the private domain of nature or whether it can be used in experimental situations to send signals from one observer to another.

DocumentDoWLas Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
DocumentDoW2010Source asset: DOW-UAP-D151, AAWSAP DIRD, Cognitive Limits on Simultaneous Control of Multiple Unmanned Spacecraft, December 2010

A sixteen-craft limit for simple monitoring or destination-selection tasks

The report estimates a sixteen-craft limit for simple monitoring or destination-selection tasks.

cognitive limits on the number of craft capable of simultaneous control is 16 for simple destination selection

DocumentDoWLas Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
DocumentDoW1952Source asset: DOW-UAP-D103, Project Blue Book Photo File Relating to Tremonton Film, Utah, 1952

Newhouse is named in the photo-file summary

The photo-file summary identifies CPO Delbert C. Newhouse in connection with the observation.

CPO Delbert C. Newhouse

DocumentDoWTremonton, Utah
Tremonton, Utah
DocumentDoW2010Source asset: DOW-UAP-D150, AAWSAP DIRD, Quantum Computing and Utilizing Organic Molecules in Automation Technology, December 2010

Commercial silicon trends alone were unlikely to yield compact radiation-hard supercomputers

The report says commercial silicon trends alone were unlikely to yield compact radiation-hard supercomputers.

not likely to produce a radiation-hard or small and portable supercomputer

DocumentDoWLas Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada