Official FOIA Archive
The FBI Vault separates authentic files from automatic endorsement
Worth Revisiting: the Bureau’s digital collection documents its limited role in early U.S. flying-object investigations and preserves searchable scans from 1947 through 1954.
Briefed August 10, 2026 · Aliens in the Clouds
Worth Revisiting
The FBI Vault’s UFO collection says the Bureau received many reports during the 1947 wave of unexplained-object sightings and worked for a period with the newly formed U.S. Air Force. The public release preserves scans documenting that activity from 1947 through 1954, alongside separately indexed records such as the Roswell teletype and Project Blue Book correspondence.
An authentic FBI document proves that information entered or moved through Bureau files; it does not prove that every statement inside was investigated, accurate, or adopted as an FBI conclusion. Researchers should read the complete file, distinguish incoming claims from agent findings, preserve page order and dates, and compare the record with Air Force and contemporary newspaper sources.
Why it matters
The Vault is a primary-source checkpoint against viral excerpts that use an official letterhead to imply an official conclusion the file itself never makes.
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