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3D model Narrated

“Estimate of the Situation”

Stories2

The Chiles-Whitted Encounter

July 24, 1948 · 20 miles southwest of Montgomery, Alabama (near Hayneville, Lowndes County)

United States

UAP · Cigar · 66 sources

41Partially documented

The Twining Memo: AMC Opinion Concerning 'Flying Discs'

September 23, 1947 · Headquarters, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

United States

UAP · Disc / saucer · 27 sources

28Thinly documented

Documents216 · see all

Unidentified Flying Objects (Flying Saucers) FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 2000-01-06· 2 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 1 …Secretary of Defense alternatively: The NSC SUBJET: Unidentified Flying Objects (Flying Saucers) 1. The IAC has reviewed the current situation…
Deleted (on One Evening in Late Summer 1973, Source Observed an Unident Ified FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1977-11-02· 4 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 4 …The object was situated east of the site at an angle of sighting of approximately 70 degrees. The altitude of…
Air Intelligence Report No. 100-203-79 Report

USAF Directorate of Intelligence via NICAP· 19 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 7 …It would, therefore, be a mistake to analyze the technical aspects of the situation within the limits of our own…
- p. 8 the Russian oil situation (regardless of estimated oil reserves) is quite different from that in the U.S. For example…
National Investigation Committee on Aerial Phenomena (Nicap) Case (Delet Ed) FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1965-01-01· 2 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 2 …of speed, disappeared from the screen; (b) A single UFO picked up 39 miles southeast of Patuxent altitude estimated somewhere…
Unidentified Flying Object (Pubdate Estimated) FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1968-12-31· 2 pages

…This situation is beginning to change. In 1968 the Nauka Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences…
Unidentified Flying Object (Pubdate Estimated) FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1968-11-02· 2 pages

…This situation is beginning to change. In 1968 the Nauka Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences…

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Videos1

Released footageFBI-UAP-PR0042025

“Northeastern Orb Sighting,” 2025

PURSUE release