The Freedom of Information Act (F.O.I.A) is an American law that allows members of the public to obtain copies of classified documents by having all or parts of the documents declassified by order of a federal judge. The judge may refuse the declassification of a document if it is necessary for the document to remain classified because it affects national security. At least, that is in theory. In practice it has been very unreliable, if one group requests for a set of documents and gets them, it does not necessarily mean that a second group will be able to get them. If the government denies they have got the documents that you are looking for, they may not be telling the truth. It has been known for a government agency to deny that it has ANY documents on an incident yet release it some months later.
| Ghost rockets again | ONI document Scandinavian "Ghost Rocket". | 1947 |
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| FBI | 8 July FBI memo on flying disk recovery in Roswell. | 1947 |
| FBI | Interview of pilot who saw two UFOs. | 1947 |
| FBI | Memo for M. Ladd: FBI wants access to "flying discs". | 1947 |
| Routing slip | General Twining's routing slip of UFO observations summaries. | 1947 |
| EEI memo | AMC is in the opinion that flying saucers exist. | 1947 |
| Air Force to FBI | Air Force says UFOs are no secret aircraft. | 1947 |
| Vexed FBI on UFOs | The famous letter from FBI director angry at Air Forces because they asked FBI to study only uninteresting UFO cases. | 1947 |
| FBI memo | Subject: flying disks. | 1947 |
| Ghost rockets | Scandinavian "Ghost Rockets" explained as Russians. | 1948 |
| USAF Memo, how to report a UFO | USAF Memo, how to report on flying disks. | 1948 |
| Letter | Summary of UFO problem for 4th army Chief by Major C.P. Cabell, USAF. | 1949 |
| Observations report | Kirkland AFB chief reports UFO over Roswell and Socorro. | 1949 |
| Project SIGN | The introduction of the Project SIGN document. | 1949 |
| Project SIGN | Pages 8,9 and 10 of the Project SIGN document. | 1949 |
| Project SIGN | ETH pages of the Project SIGN document. | 1949 |
| Project SIGN | USAF wonders is UFOs are from Mars. | 1949 |
| SAC to FBI | UFOs fly above Los Alamos atomic plant and other sensitive installations. | 1949 |
| Report | Colonel writes about exceptional importance of sightings near sensitive installation. | 1949 |
| USAF Report | "To date, no plausible explanation for the presence of these lights has been developed." | 1949 |
| Meeting | Minutes of the Los Alamis conference on the freen fireballs. | 1949 |
| USAF AMC Report | "Only 20% of the unusual events have been explained." | 1949 |
| G-2 Memorandum | To explain actions to be taken regarding UFO to certain commanders of the USAF. | 1950 |
| USAF Memorandum | A must: Air Forces chased UFOs with no success over Hanson AEC. | 1950 |
| FBI Memorandum | Rumours of recovery of crashed saucers and their occupants. | 1950 |
| AEC Report | Report on UFO incident at Atomic Energy Commission. | 1950 |
| Report | Report on UFO sightings near Oak Ridge vital installations. | 1950 |
| US Air Force, letter | Colonel asks what to do of a civilian report. | 1950 |
| US Air Force, letter | "...the frequency of unexplained aerial phenomena in the New Mexico area was such that..." | 1950 |
| CIA | UFO flyovers above Oak Ridge atomic plant. | 1950 |
| Observation report, NJ | Report of UFO by Ballard and Rogers. | 1951 |
| Roswell observation | Sgt. Bare's statement about his observation of a UFO. | 1952 |
| Roswell again | Roswell AFB reports UFO. | 1952 |
| CIA | UFO landing reported in East Germany. | 1952 |
| USAF UFO study | Hypothesis and speculations about the UFO phenomenon. | 1952 |
| CIA newsclipping | Two flying saucers chased by aircraft over uranium mines in Belgian Congo. | 1952 |
| CIA newsclipping | Three foresters watch UFO in Norway. | 1953 |
| CIA | UFO near Rostov. | 1953 |
| Army, Oak Ridge | Report of UFOs in formation. | 1953 |
| Perrin AFB | CIRVIS report of 7 UFOs in formation. | 1953 |
| Langley AFB | 8 luminous circular object near Langlex AFB spotted by PAN AM pilot. | 1952 |
| Hilarious letter | Major Colburn has fun on Army Intelligence Office. | 1952 |
| Directorate of Intelligence | What UFOs are not. | 1952 |
| FBI | ATIC, the Flying Saucers, the Tremonton footage. | 1952 |
| CIA | Bahia Blanca AFP news releases. | 1952 |
| CIA | UFOs reported by family in Arnhem. | 1952 |
| CIA | Flying saucers and the national security. | 1952 |
| CIA | Flying saucers and psychological war. | 1952 |
| CIA memorandum | UK adopts CIA's policy on UFOs. | 1952 |
| CIA | UFO flyovers vital military installation are real and require immediate attention. | 1952 |
| Tragic accident | Two jets have a collision while chasing a UFO. | 1953 |
| Cover-up | What to indicate to the media when a UFO is observed. | 1953 |
| OSI Applied Science | Physics, electronics, intelligence and UFOs. | 1953 |
| USAF CIRVIS report | F-86 observes UFO. | 1953 |
| DCI to Secretary of Defense | Importance of the UFO problem for the Intelligence. | 1953 |
| The Durant Report | Including the Robertson Panel report. | 1953 |
| CIRVIS | Glowing green light observed by plane crew. | 1954 |
| It's raining UFOs | US Army says objects not of military origin. | 1955 |
| Pepperell AFB | Spectacular report of 49 minutes radar/visual UFO observation in Newfoundland. | 1955 |
| CIA | UFOs above Budapest. | 1956 |
| US Army | Radar-visual UFOs above Panama. | 1958 |
| CIA | Radar visual sighting in French Magazine, who to do about it? asks assistant director. | 1956 |
| SAC to FBI | Exceptional. Lonnie Zamora's close encounter near Soccoro. | 1964 |
| Ambassy in Argentina | Observations in Antarctic. | 1965 |
| CIA Report | Report on political situation in Argentina mentions Deception Island UFO case. | 1965 |
| Wright Patterson AFB | AFB orders study of UFO photographs. | 1967 |
| CIA-Condon | Condon gets a little help from CIA. | 1967 |
| Public affairs memo | End of Project Blue Book. | 1969 |
| Blacked out | The most ridiculous FOIA released document ever. | 1971 |
| CIA report | Blinding light over Lithuania. | 1976 |
| DIA report | The dogfight report between USAF jet fighter and UFO over Teheran. | 1976 |
| USAF report | UFO above weapon storage space of Eglin AFB. | 1976 |
| USAF report | UFO above weapon storage space of Fort Smith. | 1976 |
| Naval Security Group | Sighting report. | 1979? |
| US Embassy in Kuwait | Several spectacular UFO incidents are worrying Kuwaitian authorities. | 1979 |
| The Halt memo | Colonel Halt reports on close encounter of UFO at Rendlesham AFB. | 1981 |
| CIA Report | Multiple sightings of UFOs at Barbados. | 1987 |
| FBIS report | UFO sighting in China. | 1989 |
| FBIS report | Multitude of UFOs in USSR, a case of crash and recovery of debris. | 1989 |
| FBIS report | Many UFOs near Moscow. | 1990 |
| FBIS report | Aircraft-UFO encounter in Soviet Union. | 1990 |
| FBIS report | UFO interception attempt in Soviet Union. | 1990 |
| CIA report | CIA report has a paragraph about ufology's situation in China. | 1990 |
| FBIS report | Interview at the Soviet Ministry of Defence. | 1991 |
| CIA - TASS | Close encounter in URSS. | 1991 |
| CIA report | International UFO convention sponsored by Chinese government. | 1992 |
| CIA report | China continues to investigate UFOs. | 1992 |
| CIA interest in Lituanian UFO | An observation report of a UFO over Lithuania, formerly classified, by the CIA. | 1996 |
