Organization
Central Intelligence Agency
Also known as CIA
The Central Intelligence Agency is the main U.S. foreign-intelligence agency. Its UAP history includes the Robertson Panel, the scientific panel it convened in January 1953 after the Washington sightings, which recommended debunking public interest in UFOs, and funding for the Stargate remote-viewing research.
The CIA contributed 23 records to the PURSUE releases, and its declassified reading room holds many earlier documents; those filed here are linked below.
Sources: CIA reading room · PURSUE records
Facts and claims
- documented The CIA convened the scientific panel chaired by H. P. Robertson that met in January 1953 and concluded UFOs posed no direct threat to national security. Source: Robertson Panel report (Durant Report): Report of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects
- documented The CIA contributed 23 records to PURSUE releases 01–06. Source: PURSUE — Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters
Connected files
Documents
- CIA/FBIS Foreign Press Note FB PN 90-123: "USSR: UFO sightings no. 2 — General Maltsev comments" (1990) (published)
- CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–90 (Gerald K. Haines, Studies in Intelligence, 1997) (produced)
- CIA memorandum: “Flying Saucers” (Office of Scientific Intelligence to the Director of Central Intelligence) (produced)
- Robertson Panel report (Durant Report): Report of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects (produced)
Incidents
- Harare International Airport object (reported)
Organizations
- National Reconnaissance Office (runs) — Founded in secret in 1961 and run jointly by the Air Force and the CIA
People
- Glenn Gaffney (staff)
Places
- Area 51 (used)
Programs
- Project Magnet (noted)
- Stargate Project (funded)
Official records (PURSUE)
- CIA-UAP-002 — Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, Report, 1952-1953 (released)
- CIA-UAP-003 — The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance; The U-2 and OXCART Programs, 1954-1974 (released)
- CIA-UAP-004 — CASE 17708 (CLOSED) and DR. Leon Davidson (released)
- CIA-UAP-005 — German Scientist's Article on 'Flying Discs' (released)
- CIA-UAP-006 — Sighting Of Unconventional Aircraft (released)
- CIA-UAP-007 — Current Status Of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) Project. (released)
- CIA-UAP-008 — Speculative Paper By N Kardashev and A Sakharov on Charged Mass in Space at Conference on Origins Of Life, Armenia, 6-8 September 1971/Low Scientific Level Of Other Soviet Papers (released)
- CIA-UAP-009 — Unknown Flying Objects Observed Over Budapest (released)
- CIA-UAP-010 — Report on Conversations with Soviet Scientists on Subject of Unidentified Flying Objects in the USSR (released)
- CIA-UAP-011 — The Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range (released)
- CIA-UAP-012 — Combating Fatigue In Crewmembers (released)
- CIA-UAP-013 — Report of Unusual Flying Object Sightings and Attendant Scientific Activity (released)
- CIA-UAP-014 — British activity in the Field of "Unidentified Flying Objects" (released)
- CIA-UAP-015 — Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 (Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects) (released)
- CIA-UAP-016 — Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects in Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan (released)
- CIA-UAP-017 — Placement on High Alert Due to Perceived Aggressive Foreign Posturing (released)
- CIA-UAP-018 — Report of Unusual Flying Object Sightings and Attendant Scientific Activity (released)
- CIA-UAP-019 — Australian Dept of Defense Scientific and Intel Aspects of the UFO Problem (released)
- CIA-UAP-D001 — Intelligence Information Report, USSR, 1973 (released)
- CIA-UAP-D020 — Memorandum on Unconventional Aircraft Sightings, 1955 (released)
- CIA-UAP-D021 — Analysis of Unconventional Aircraft Sightings, 1955 (released)
- CIA-UAP-D022 — Unidentified Flying Object Reported near Puerto Rico, 1965 (released)
- CIA-UAP-D023 — Briefing Notes for Mr. Walter Elder (released)
Videos
- Citizen Hearing 2013: A Global Phenomenon, Part 2 (discussed in)
- Citizen Hearing 2013: History & Background, Part 2 (discussed in)
- Citizen Hearing 2013: The Truth Embargo (discussed in)
- Citizen Hearing 2013: Truth, Lies & the Cover-up, Part 2 (discussed in)
- Richard Doty on disinformation, Paul Bennewitz and Linda Moulton Howe (Rebelliously Curious with Chrissy Newton, The Debrief, February 2025) (discussed in)
- Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection (discussed in)
- Jay Stratton on CUOMO: a non-human being at his window and the Legacy Program (NewsNation, 20 October 2026) (discussed in)
- Joe Rogan Experience #2314: Hal Puthoff (discussed in)
Mentioned in this file
Mentioned in videos
- UFO Cover-Up Live with Larry King (CNN/TNT, 1994)
- Col. Philip J. Corso: The Day After Roswell lecture “at the Ranch” (22 February 1998)
- UFOs and Nukes press conference, National Press Club (27 September 2010)
- Citizen Hearing 2013: A Global Phenomenon, Part 2
- Citizen Hearing 2013: History & Background, Part 2
- Citizen Hearing 2013: Opening statements (Mitchell, Hellyer)
- Citizen Hearing 2013: Rendlesham Forest Encounter, Part 1
- Citizen Hearing 2013: Truth, Lies & the Cover-up, Part 1
- Richard Doty on disinformation, Paul Bennewitz and Linda Moulton Howe (Rebelliously Curious with Chrissy Newton, The Debrief, February 2025)
- Understanding UAP: Science, National Security & Innovation (House Oversight and Government Reform)
- Varginha press conference at the National Press Club: James Fox and the Brazilian witnesses (NewsNation live, 20 January 2026)
- David Grusch on the Dr. Phil Podcast: craft, cadavers and the retrieval program (August 2026)
- Jay Stratton's first on-camera interview, recorded 2022 (WEAPONIZED, released October 2026)
- Rep. Eric Burlison on UAP disclosure, government secrecy and David Grusch (Rebelliously Curious, October 2026)
- Disclosure Project press conference, National Press Club (May 9, 2001), full event
- Hal Puthoff Presentation 06/08/2018
- What Trump’s Files Are About To Expose About UAPs & Nonhuman Observers — Luis Elizondo Warns Us
- “A Top Government Official Told Me Aliens Run Everything!” -Dylan Borland UNLEASHED
- Eric Davis: “A US President Was Briefed on UFOs!”
- NASA Doctor: “I Saw This UFO In A Secret Hangar!” (Ft. Greg Rogers)
- "I Retrieved a UFO With My Helicopter!" -Jake Barber
- Breaking UFO Story: ‘Immaculate Constellation’ UFO Program (Ft. Michael Shellenberger)
- Joe Rogan Experience #2365 - Rep. Anna Paulina Luna
- Joe Rogan Experience #2065 - David Grusch
- Joe Rogan Experience #2314: Hal Puthoff
- National Press Club - November 12th, 2007. UFO Close Encounters
- Joe McMoneagle - CIA's Project Stargate | SRS #95
Mentioned in documents and records
- Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Ability
- Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy
- UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973
- The U.S. government has deliberately spread false or misleading information about UFOs
- Remote viewing & telepathy
- Government UFO disinformation
- Air Force Regulation 200-2, Unidentified Flying Objects Reporting (12 August 1954)
- U.S. Defense Attaché / DIA report: UFO sighting in Iran, 19 September 1976 (NSA-released reproduction)
- The National Reconnaissance Office at 50 Years: A Brief History (NRO, second edition, 2018)
- War Department UAP/UFO page
- PURSUE Release 02
- PURSUE Release 03
- PURSUE Release 04
- PURSUE Release 05
- Conde, Bahia “crashed sphere” report
- Washington, D.C. UFO incident
- Scandinavian “ghost rockets”
- Holloman AFB landing film (claimed)
- Iranian air defence encounters over nuclear sites
- Japan Airlines flight 1628 incident
- Tajik Air 747SP sighting over Kazakhstan
- Ladakh border luminous objects (Thakung / Pangong)
- Pereslavl-Zalessky air-defence alert and interception (USSR, 1990)
- Roswell crash
- Tehran UFO incident
- Tremonton film (Utah, 1952)
- National Air and Space Intelligence Center
- To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
- Project Blue Book
- DOW-UAP-D085_Transmission-of-CIA-Scientific-Advisory-Panel-Rept_1953 — DOW-UAP-D085_Transmission-of-CIA-Scientific-Advisory-Panel-Rept_1953
- EOP-UAP-D001 — NASC Inquiry into Bahia, Brazil Incident, November 13, 1963