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The National Archives:
The UFO page contains an online archive of Ministry of Defence files released by The National Archives between 2008 and 2012. These can be downloaded as PDF files at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ufos. This website also contains a research guide and a collection of podcasts that add context to the file contents. Earlier files featured in this book can be found by searching the National Archives catalogue at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue and ordered online.
The Ministry of Defence
A selection of UFO documents can be downloaded from the MoD’s Freedom of Information Publication Scheme. These include a tabulated list of sighting reports received by the Ministry between 1997 and 2009 and examples of responses to Freedom of Information requests on UFOs and related subjects. Just type ‘UFO’ into the search engine at : http://tinyurl.com/7j26o5l.PDF copies of the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) Condign report on ‘UFOs in the UK Air Defence Region’ (see Chapter 6) are available here: http://tinyurl.com/kqll2
The National Archives and Records Administration
The US National Archives has a UFO page at http://www.archives.gov/foia/ufos.html and holds the Project Blue Book archive on microfilm at the National Archives II in Maryland. It also holds copies of The Roswell Report: Fact vs Fiction in the New Mexico desert (HQ USAF, 1994) and The Roswell Report: Case Closed (Washington DC, 1997). The latter two documents can be viewed online via the Galvin Library at the Illinois Institute of Technology at: http://contrails.iit.edu/history/roswell, while samples from the Project Blue Book files are available via the privately run Project Blue Book Archive at: http://www.bluebookarchive.org/
A number of US government agencies have released UFO documents under the Freedom of Information Act via online reading rooms.
A United States Department of Defense policy statement on UFOs can be downloaded at: http://www.defense.gov/faq/pis/16.html
A United States Air Force fact sheet can be found at: http://www.af.mil/information/roswell/index.asp
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
See: http://www.foia.cia.gov/ufo.asp; this collection of documents catalogues UFO information collected by the agency from the late 1940s through the early 1990s. This page also provides a link to historian Gerald Haines’ paper, ‘A die-hard issue: CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-1990’, originally published by Studies in Intelligence (1997).
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The FBI received many UFO reports between 1947 and 1954 and worked for a time with the US Air Force to investigate them. In 2011 a selection of these files were released on the agency’s online reading room at: http://vault.fbi.gov/UFO
National Security Agency (NSA)
This US intelligence agency is the equivalent of Britain’s GCHQ and is responsible for the interception and analysis of foreign communications. A collection of UFO-related documents released by the NSA in response to FOI requests can be found here: http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/declass/ufo/index.shtml
The National Library and Archives of Canada
This archive holds 9,500 documents relating to UFOs collected by Department of National Defence, the Department of Transport, National Research Council and Royal Canadian Mounted Police from 1947 until the early 1980s: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/ufo/index-e.html
Centre National D’Études Spatiales
GEIPAN, the French Space Agency unit responsible for research and investigations of ‘unidentified aerospace phenomena’ (UAPs) placed its archives online in March 2007 at: http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/geipan/ipn.html
The Spanish Air Force UFO files were declassified in 1992. Their contents are described in an article by private researcher, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos: http://www.anomalia.org/declass.htm
The National Archives of Australia
Royal Australian Air Force UFO files can be accessed via: http://www.naa.gov.au/ The RAAF first opened their files in 1982 to researcher Bill Chalker of the Australian UFO Research Network. He describes their content at: http://www.auforn.com/MilitaryFiles.html
Royal New Zealand Air Force
The New Zealand Ministry of Defence/RNZAF files on UFO and UAS (unidentified aerial sightings) were released in 2010. The files can be downloaded at: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4486327/Original-files-NZs-UFO-sightings
Archives for UFO Research
This Swedish site can be found at http://www.afu.info/
The Italian Centre for UFO Studies