The records were made public on Friday as part of a transparency initiative led by the Trump administration. Among hundreds of documents, photos and videos uploaded to the War Department website, an internal memo from 1966 stands out for its description of a “crew” involved in UFOs.
little creature wearing a space suit
According to a 1966 memo from the FBI’s San Francisco field office to Director J. Investigators, led by Edgar Hoover, followed reports of the landing craft and its crew. The document states that “some witnesses have reported seeing crew members landing from these objects,” describing the entities as being “three and a half to four feet tall and wearing what appeared to be space suits and helmets.”The reports were part of a broader review of 1965, which the bureau noted was the world’s “leading year for UFO sightings.” The sightings involve polished metal objects that are capable of hovering in complete silence and then accelerating at “alarming speeds.”
advanced technology
The documents show the physical impact these objects allegedly had on their environment. Witnesses reported that the force field emitted by the aircraft disrupted power supplies and electromagnetic equipment. In some cases, the ground beneath the objects was found scorched after they left.FBI records also indicate that the wreckage of the crashed flying saucer has been recovered on three separate occasions. Laboratory analysis mentioned in the document described the fragments as “an unusually hard unknown metal” and a magnesium alloy. One particular material is known to contain “thousands of 15-micron metal balls” and shows clear evidence of micrometeorites impacting its surface.
national controversy
The 1966 memo focused on the public frenzy caused by Frank Edwards’s book “Flying Saucers—Serious Matter.” The FBI monitored Edwards’ claims that the Air Force “deliberately withheld information and gave misleading explanations because it feared it would cause mass public panic if the public were informed of the truth.”The document also referenced the political climate at the time, noting that future president and then-Congressman Gerald Ford was calling for formal hearings. The pressure eventually led the Air Force to commission a $300,000 study from University of Colorado physicist Edward U. Condon investigated this phenomenon.
Promote disclosure
This release comes after President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to declassify records related to unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).Despite the sensational nature of the reports, officials urged caution. The FBI memo is a summary of contemporary eyewitness accounts and popular literature, not a verification of extraterrestrial life.