Agencies
Understanding which agency produced a document, which agency released it through FOIA, and which agency returned no records are three different pieces of the same puzzle.
This index organizes every document on this site by the government body that created, released, or was formally asked about it. Each entry includes the agency's FOIA portal for further research.
Central Intelligence Agency
The CIA is the source agency for more documents on this site than any other. The MKUltra record, the ARTICHOKE record, the STARGATE remote viewing program, the Gateway Process study, Project OFTEN, the Malech-era psychological research, the JFK assassination pre-assassination Oswald file, and the consciousness research filed in the STARGATE collection all originated within CIA programs or were produced through CIA coordination. The CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room, known as the CREST database, holds millions of pages of declassified records. The CIA destroyed a significant portion of the MKUltra record in 1973 on the order of Director Richard Helms. What remains is acknowledged by the CIA to be incomplete.
The CIA FOIA Reading Room is searchable at cia.gov/readingroom. Specific document numbers can be used to locate individual records. The MKUltra, ARTICHOKE, and STARGATE collections are organized into named groups within the reading room.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The FBI appears in two primary document sets on this site. The Tesla FBI Files cover the Bureau's 1943 seizure of Nikola Tesla's papers following his death, the Office of Alien Property Custodian's involvement, and the ongoing classification of portions of those records. The Animal Mutilation files cover the Bureau's 1974 to 1978 investigation of livestock mutilations across western and midwestern states. The FBI investigated 15 cases on New Mexico Indian lands, explored theories including satanic cults and covert government activity, and never identified any responsible party. The FBI also appears in the JFK record and the Operation Paperclip record.
The FBI Vault at vault.fbi.gov holds thousands of declassified FBI records searchable by subject. The Tesla files and Animal Mutilation files are both available there. FOIA requests for additional records can be submitted through the FBI's FOIA portal.
National Security Agency
The NSA is the source agency for two major document sets on this site. The SHAMROCK and MINARET programs document the NSA's interception of international telegrams and domestic surveillance of American citizens from 1945 to 1975, exposed by the Church Committee. The Gulf of Tonkin documents, including NSA historian Robert Hanyok's classified 2001 study declassified in 2005-2006, establish that intelligence officials deliberately omitted the signals intelligence showing no August 4, 1964 attack occurred when presenting evidence to policymakers. The NSA denied FOIA requests pertaining to AAWSAP's contractor BAASS.
NSA declassified documents are available at nsa.gov. The Gulf of Tonkin document collection, including the Hanyok study, is available at nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/gulf-of-tonkin/. The NSA FOIA portal processes requests at nsa.gov.
Department of Defense / Pentagon
The DoD appears across the widest range of documents on this site. The Vietnam Study Task Force that produced the Pentagon Papers operated under DoD. The nuclear programs documents involve multiple DoD components including Sandia National Laboratories. The directed energy weapons research involved Air Force Research Laboratory and GAO under DoD oversight. The AAWSAP program was a Defense Intelligence Agency program under DoD. The Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review, which cleared the Skinwalker Ranch accounts for public release, is a DoD component. The DoD's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office published the 2024 Historical Record Report central to the UAP disclosure record.
DoD FOIA requests are processed through individual component offices. The main portal is open.defense.gov. The Defense Intelligence Agency FOIA portal is at dia.mil/FOIA. AARO materials are at aaro.mil.
Defense Intelligence Agency
The DIA is the source agency for the AAWSAP program, the $22 million classified investigation into UAP and paranormal phenomena including poltergeist research, consciousness studies, and animal mutilations that ran from 2008 to 2012. The DIA received more than 100 technical reports from the program's contractor BAASS. The DIA cancelled the program in 2012. The technical reports delivered to the DIA remain classified. The DIA also produced the STARGATE program assessments and appears in the JFK record. A 2021 FOIA request to the DIA seeking records on research activities at Camp Hero returned no records.
The DIA Electronic Reading Room is at dia.mil/FOIA. FOIA requests for AAWSAP records have not produced the program's technical reports. The DIA's FOIA responses for Camp Hero and Montauk returned no records.
All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office
AARO is the Pentagon's official UAP investigation body, created by Congress in 2022. It appears on this site in two contexts. First, its March 2024 Historical Record Report is one of the key documents in the UAP disclosure record, finding no verifiable evidence of crash retrieval or reverse engineering programs while directly contradicting the ICIG's 2022 finding that whistleblower David Grusch's complaint was credible and urgent. Second, the AARO report is the official government source confirming that AAWSAP conducted paranormal research at Skinwalker Ranch and that a follow-on DHS proposal called KONA BLUE sought to continue that research under a Special Access Program.
AARO materials are publicly available at aaro.mil. The AARO Historical Record Report Volume I is available at media.defense.gov. AARO maintains a secure mechanism for current and former government personnel to report UAP-related information.
Intelligence Community Inspector General
The ICIG appears on this site as the government body that formally determined David Grusch's 2022 whistleblower complaint about covert UAP retrieval programs was credible and urgent, notifying the congressional intelligence committees. This determination is the core contradiction at the center of the UAP disclosure record: the ICIG found the complaint credible and urgent in 2022; AARO found no verifiable evidence of the programs described in 2024. The ICIG classified complaint and the basis for its credible and urgent finding remain unavailable to the public.
The ICIG determination letter is classified. Its existence and finding are confirmed through public statements by Grusch, his legal counsel, and congressional members who received the notification. The ICIG closed-door session with House members in January 2024 is part of the congressional record.
U.S. Senate / Congressional Committees
The Senate appears across multiple document sets on this site. The Church Committee, formally the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, produced the definitive investigation of NSA surveillance programs SHAMROCK and MINARET and the CIA MKUltra program. The 1977 Senate hearing on MKUltra is one of the key primary source documents on the site. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid secured the $22 million for AAWSAP and wrote to the Pentagon requesting Special Access Program status for the program. The House Oversight Committee held the July 2023 and November 2024 UAP hearings at the center of the UAP disclosure record. The Immaculate Constellation report is in the Congressional Record submitted by Rep. Nancy Mace.
Congressional records including hearing transcripts, submitted documents, and committee reports are available at congress.gov. The Church Committee reports are in the public record. The Grusch classified supplement to his July 2023 testimony has not been released.
NASA
NASA appears on this site in two contexts. The Apollo Unexplained Phenomena documents cover the formally recorded observations by Apollo mission crews that were documented in NASA debriefing records. NASA also appears in the UAP disclosure record: the agency published its UAP Independent Study Team report in September 2023, created a Director of UAP Research position, and immediately kept the person's identity secret to prevent harassment. NASA's UAP study found current data insufficient for scientific conclusions and called for reduced stigma in reporting.
NASA FOIA requests are processed through the agency's FOIA portal. The NASA UAP report and study team materials are publicly available at science.nasa.gov/uap. Apollo mission debriefing records are available through NASA's history office.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
The NRC appears on this site through its Three Mile Island investigation documents. The NRC commissioned two major investigations following the March 28, 1979 accident: NUREG-0600 and the Rogovin Report, NUREG/CR-1250. The Rogovin Report concludes that information provided to the public during the crisis was fragmented, sometimes contradictory, and generally understated the severity of the accident in public communications. The NRC documents are a primary source for the nuclear programs page.
NRC documents including NUREG-0600 and NUREG/CR-1250 are available through the NRC public document room at nrc.gov. FOIA requests for additional NRC records can be submitted through the NRC FOIA portal.
Department of Justice / FBI
The DOJ appears on this site through the JFK assassination record — specifically the Katzenbach memo of November 25, 1963, in which Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach wrote that the public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin while explicitly noting the evidence was not sufficient to convict him at trial. The DOJ also funded Operation Animal Mutilation, a 1979 federal investigation of livestock mutilations directed by retired FBI agent Kenneth Rommel, through a $44,170 Law Enforcement Assistance Administration grant.
DOJ FOIA requests are processed through the Office of Information Policy at justice.gov/oip. JFK assassination records including the Katzenbach memo are in the National Archives JFK collection at archives.gov/research/jfk.
National Archives and Records Administration
NARA is the repository for multiple document sets on this site. The JFK Assassination Records Collection, which produced the March 2025 release of 80,000 pages under Executive Order 14176, is held at NARA. The Pentagon Papers, fully declassified in June 2011, are held at NARA in 48 boxes. Operation Paperclip records are in the National Archives RG 330. The Vela Incident records obtained by the National Security Archive through archival research at NARA are part of the Vela Incident primary source record. NARA also holds the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency records central to the Operation Paperclip documentation.
NARA research portals are at archives.gov. The JFK 2025 release is accessible at archives.gov/research/jfk/release-2025. The Pentagon Papers are at archives.gov/research/pentagon-papers. FOIA requests to NARA are processed through archives.gov/research/foia.
Joint Chiefs of Staff / Department of State
The Joint Chiefs of Staff are the source agency for Operation Northwoods, the 1962 proposal to fabricate pretexts for military intervention in Cuba that was sent to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and rejected by President Kennedy. The State Department appears in the JFK record through the Katzenbach memo, in the Vietnam record through the Foreign Relations of the United States series containing the McNamara memos, and in the Vela Incident record through the State Department cable documenting the White House panel's inconclusive findings.
Operation Northwoods documents are available through the National Security Archive. FRUS documents are available at history.state.gov. State Department FOIA requests are processed through the FOIA portal at foia.state.gov.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
The Army Corps of Engineers conducted environmental remediation surveys of Camp Hero following its transfer to New York State as a public park. The 2022 Final Decision Document spans 121 pages and is the most detailed physical documentation of the site infrastructure available in the public record. It confirms the existence of sealed underground bunkers, documents the battery emplacements and FPS-35 radar system, and excludes Areas H and K from the main investigation on separate CERCLA grounds.
The Army Corps Final Decision Document for Camp Hero FUDS Project C02NY002403 is a public record available through the NYSDEC. Additional Army Corps records can be requested through the New York District FOIA office.
United States Patent and Trademark Office
The USPTO is the granting authority for US Patent 3,951,134, filed in 1974 by Robert G. Malech of Dorne and Margolin Inc. The approval of the Malech patent indicates that USPTO examiners found the described device for remotely monitoring and altering brain waves met the criteria for novelty, non-obviousness, and utility. Patent records are public documents and are not subject to FOIA because they are never classified.
All USPTO records are public. Patent US3951134 is searchable through patents.google.com and at patents.uspto.gov. The full text, claims, abstract, and original drawings are available without restriction.
National Institutes of Health / NIAID / DARPA
NIH, NIAID, and DARPA appear on this site through the COVID-19 Origins FOIA documents. The DARPA EcoHealth Alliance DEFUSE proposal, submitted in 2018 and rejected by DARPA, described inserting furin cleavage sites into bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. NIAID, under Dr. Anthony Fauci, funded EcoHealth Alliance grants. The Fauci emails obtained by Buzzfeed News and The Washington Post through FOIA in 2021 document private scientific concern about SARS-CoV-2 origins in the days after the pandemic began.
The DARPA DEFUSE proposal was leaked and is not available through official FOIA. The Fauci emails were produced in response to FOIA requests filed in 2020. NIH FOIA requests are processed through the NIH FOIA office.
Air Force / Air Defense Command
The Air Force appears on this site through the Montauk Air Force Station documents and the directed energy weapons research record. The Air Force operated Montauk Air Force Station as part of the Air Defense Command continental radar network from 1953 to 1969. Air Force Research Laboratory documents appear in the directed energy weapons record alongside GAO reports. Post-decommission FOIA requests for Montauk AFS records have returned no documents.
Air Force historical records are held at the Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. Post-decommission records for Montauk AFS have not been released. Air Force Research Laboratory FOIA requests are processed through the AFRL FOIA portal.