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Monthly Featured · 2026-06: New Declassified Files
This issue spotlights 4 documents newly added to the archive, with source excerpts, cross-file comparison, and reading guides.
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A format sample for the monthly global roundup, showing each issue's structure: sightings and official developments sorted into UAP (air) / USO (underwater) / ULO (other), each with date, location and source type, closing with "This month's observations" and a "source-reliability note." Real issues are compiled from cited public sources and human-reviewed before publishing.
Classic Case: The Nimitz "Tic Tac" (2004)
In November 2004, during training off Southern California, the USS Nimitz carrier strike group recorded — across multiple sensors and F/A-18 aircrew — a white capsule-shaped ("Tic Tac") object showing anomalous acceleration and maneuver. The 2017 release of the "FLIR1" video and aircrew testimony made it central to the modern UAP debate.
Classic Case: The Phoenix Lights (1997)
On the evening of 13 March 1997, a mass sighting unfolded over Arizona: thousands reported a huge V-shaped craft drifting slowly overhead, and later a hovering row of lights. One of the most-witnessed events in modern history — and really two phenomena that must be separated.
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Apollo 12: "Particles escaping the Moon"
While in lunar orbit, LMP Alan Bean used the Alignment Optical Telescope to observe the dark Quadrant 1 and reported multiple flashing particles streaming away from the Moon. Mission Control simultaneously logged anomalous "all-81s" flashing patterns on the AGS display. The Apollo 12 crew captured at least four photographs featuring annotated zoom-boxes around UAPs.
Apollo 17: Rotating object with two-flash pattern, observed 24+ hours
Outbound to the Moon, the Apollo 17 crew observed a bright rotating object roughly 10–12 Earth-diameters away. It produced a rhythmic alternating bright/dim flash pattern visible across multiple revolutions for over 24 hours. The crew repeatedly questioned Mission Control's hypothesis that it was simply the spent S-IVB rocket stage.
FBI Flying Discs 1949 (Box 186, 319.1)
An FBI 1949 compendium of nationwide flying-disc reports, drawing from police, airport personnel, and military witnesses. The roughly 118 MB record contains numerous handwritten memos and routing slips to the Director.
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