The UFO Files

Епизоди

• UFO Files: The Saucer Letters the Public Mailed In 29.05.2026 28мин

  On April 7, 1950, the FBI New York office processed a multi-page translation Document, cataloged under Class and Case Number 0062 83894, Sub 1, Serial 220. The file, marked with the administrative instruction DO NOT DESTROY, contained a letter from a Veracruz, Mexico resident named Miguel Angel García Macías, who claimed the United States possessed atomic-powered stratospheric aerostats. This episode investigates how the Federal government managed the influx of unsolicited public theories and...
• UAP and Defense: Examining the COMETA Report 27.05.2026 31мин

  On a century-old night in the French town of Laigle, stones fell from the sky, transitioning from dismissed myth to scientific object. One hundred years later, this shift serves as the opening argument for the COMETA report, a translated analysis titled "UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?" that reached U.S. records in the spring of two thousand and one. This episode examines how a private association of retired French defense experts, military officers, and aerospace engineers comp...
• UAP Reports: The 1950 Kansas City Investigation 26.05.2026 34мин

  On the night of January 6, 1950, two spherical objects appeared over Olathe, Kansas, remaining motionless for ten to fifteen minutes before accelerating silently toward the southwest. Within seventy-two hours, this observation was transformed into a restricted military intelligence report, formally cataloged and routed to the Commanding General of the Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. This episode examines how the United States military built a standardized administrati...
• UFO Files: The FBI Bureaucratic Response to Citizen Inquiries 25.05.2026 41мин

  On September 2, 1966, a letter arrived at the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., from a widow in Goffstown, New Hampshire. Florence C. Dow, a manager at the New Hampshire Insurance Company, wrote to J. Edgar Hoover to express her fear that a three-dollar subscription to the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America had unintentionally linked her name to the communist party. This episode examines FBI file 62-HQ-83894, Section 10, which contains Mrs. Dow’S letter, her promotional flyers for...
• UFO Accounts: Reconciling Conflicting Pilot Reports 24.05.2026 40мин

  At exactly 16:00 P.M. on August 4, 1947, a Pan American Airways Constellation cruising at 8,000 feet near the Bedford Radio Beacon encountered an unexpected aerial event. A navigator in the co-pilot seat sighted a deep gold, elliptical object flying five miles away, while the aircraft commander, banking to investigate, simultaneously reported a bright orange, cylindrical object on the opposite side of the plane. This episode analyzes the official interview summaries of Captain Alpheus O. Powe...
• UAP Evidence: The Socorro Landing Site of 1964 23.05.2026 40мин

  On April 24, 1964, in a barren arroyo southwest of Socorro, New Mexico, Officer Lonnie Zamora discovered a series of physical markings pressed into the desert floor. These included four distinct, rectangular depressions, each measuring sixteen by six inches, paired with four scorched patches of grass and three shallow, four-inch diameter circular indentations resembling the impression of a jar lid. These physical traces open onto a rigorous examination of the official federal investigation in...
• NASA UFO Files: What Apollo and Gemini Crews Reported 21.05.2026 31мин

  On July 31, 1969, inside a secure briefing room at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins reviewed the Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing. The conversation turned to a sighting of an object of sizeable dimension, described by Armstrong as an open suitcase, observed through a monocular while the crew traveled toward the Moon. This investigation examines how these official records address unexplained phenomena in deep space, from tumbling cyli...
• UFO Files: The Military's Earliest UFO Sighting Reports (1947) 21.05.2026 44мин

  On February 18, 1948, Leland Sammons stood six feet from a four-foot funnel-shaped object hovering above his home near Stockton, Kansas. The device wobbled, belched fire, and protruded a pipe toward his midsection before departing in a shower of sparks, leaving behind a wet yard that remained unburned despite the intense heat radiating from the object. This account, labeled Exhibit B in an investigation of a sky explosion, serves as a point of entry into the military'S broader, standardized s...
• UFO Files: The 1949 Memo That Made UFO Reporting Official 21.05.2026 38мин

  If the object came sufficiently near other aircraft or known objects, check surfaces with Geiger counters for possible radioactivity. This instruction, written for field officers, was not the work of a laboratory team but was issued by the Headquarters of the United States Air Force Directorate of Intelligence on February 16, 1949. This directive, officially titled Air Intelligence Requirements Memorandum Number 4 and filed under FBI number 62-HQ-83894, Serial 164, transformed the study of un...
• UFO Files: The FBI and the Contactee Phenomenon 21.05.2026 27мин

  On the first page of the February 6, 1954, issue of the publication Valor, a handwritten inscription by Redondo Beach truck driver Truman Bethurum declared his alleged encounters with a female commandant and her crew of space explorers as a true story. This handwritten claim, preserved within federal records, signals a pivotal moment when the government’s interest in aerial phenomena collided with the emergence of individuals claiming direct contact with occupants of flying saucers. This epis...
• UFO Files: The New Mexico Green Fireball Investigation 21.05.2026 35мин

  On May 24, 1950, personnel from the private contractor Land-Air, Incorporated, stationed near Vaughn, New Mexico, logged the sighting of eight to ten unexplained aerial objects. This was not a civilian report, but a coordinated observation by a scientific team operating under a United States Air Force contract as part of Project Twinkle, a twenty-four-hour watch established to monitor mysterious phenomena appearing repeatedly near sensitive military installations. This episode examines FBI me...
• Pentagon UFO Files: When a UFO Enters Restricted Airspace 21.05.2026 39мин

  On October 27, 2020, at 01:12:21 Zulu time, an aircrew member of the 77th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron encountered two infrared-significant contacts that circled one another before vanishing from sensors in one-thirtieth of a second. This encounter, recorded under document identifier DOW-UAP-D58, featured noise jamming and two red blinking strobes, marking a high-stakes moment in an otherwise routine defensive counter-air mission. This episode examines the standardized, bureaucratic infrast...
• Pentagon UFO Files: The Modern UAP Mission Reports 21.05.2026 35мин

  Over Iraq in May 2022, an American surveillance crew tracked a Russian-built Sukhoi fighter landing near Al Asad airfield and identified it on sight — down to the variant. The same crew, the same sensors, the same night, logged one more object they could only call a possible UAP. That contrast — professionals who can name everything in the airspace, hitting the one entry where their skill ran out — runs through the twenty-nine modern Department of War mission reports in the 2026 release. File...
• UFO Files Released: The 3,800+ Pages Nobody Has Explained 20.05.2026 31мин

  In June 1947, a government office logged a sighting on a standardized form that was already printed with fields for altitude, speed, color, shape, and sound. The witness was an agent of a science fiction magazine, and the government filed the report anyway. That single checklist is one of 111 files the Department of War released in 2026, more than 3,800 pages spanning from 1947 to the present day. Episode 1 follows the paper trail that checklist opens: the Air Materiel Command assessmen...