The Luddites are remembered mostly for broken machinery. Inside the Home Office’s surviving papers from that period there is something quieter and colder: a written death threat, issued in the name of a king who never lived, filed away with no record of whether anyone ever carried it out. A single sheet in the Home … Read more
A Peruvian intelligence report dated May 1988 quotes Prime Minister Armando Villanueva telling senior army officers that he had no objection to executing captured Shining Path fighters, as long as it was done “discreetly.” The same report says an investigation into a recent peasant massacre in the Ayacucho highlands “would be rejected immediately.” Both lines … Read more
The Filing In mid-December 2023, Judge Loretta Preska of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York set January 1, 2024, as the date a long-contested batch of sealed court records would finally become public. The case was Giuffre v. Maxwell, Virginia Giuffre’s 2015 defamation suit against Ghislaine Maxwell, and the fight … Read more
Two Dates on One Case Number The record here is short: sixteen pages, about 2.5 MB as a PDF, carrying the plain title “Evaluation of the DoD’s Actions Regarding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).” It is Report No. DODIG-2023-109, produced by the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General under Inspector General Robert P. Storch, and … Read more
The Posting A staff study runs sixty-two pages under a title that gives nothing away: “Covert Action in Chile, 1963-1973.” Senator Frank Church’s Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities released it on December 4, 1975, the same day it opened the first public congressional hearing ever held on a … Read more
The Document An email from Luis Elizondo to Neill Tipton had already been read by the public, in pieces, years before the Pentagon handed over its own copy. Elizondo, a former Department of Defense (DoD) counterintelligence official, sent it on September 25, 2017, at 11:23 a.m. Tipton was then Director for Defense Intelligence, Collection and … Read more
No classified material, under any circumstance, for as long as the project ran. That was the condition before anything else, at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, California, now Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The National Security Archive’s January 23, 2025 posting lays out what happened when two, then three, young physicists were held to that … Read more
The Briefing Book Fifteen declassified U.S. government documents, drawn from CIA analytical briefs, State Department reporting, embassy cables and military attaché dispatches, span the years 1972 to 1998. Most were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, the U.S. law that lets the public request the declassification of government records. The National Security Archive, a … Read more
A business jet cruising at 35,000 feet (10,668 meters) over southwestern Kansas told air traffic control it was looking down at a “whole sea” of flashing white lights, stretching for more than 100 nautical miles (185 km) with no obvious source. The crew’s radio call survives. The agency’s own paperwork survives too. Between the two … Read more
The Marine Corps’ UAP Reporting Policy A policy document is not a sighting report, and that distinction is the whole story here. The U.S. Marine Corps has released a procedure for passing Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) information to the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). What follows is an account of a bureaucratic mechanism, not … Read more
