NASA & State Department UFO Files - Apollo Astronaut Testimonies & Diplomatic Cables
A collection of 14 UAP documents from NASA and the U.S. State Department, including astronaut transcripts from Apollo 11, 12, and 17 missions, plus diplomatic cables from Papua New Guinea (1985), Kazakhstan (1994), Georgia (2001), Turkmenistan (2004), and Mexico (2023). These files were released as part of PURSUE Release 1 on May 8, 2026, including testimony from Buzz Aldrin about a "hollow cylinder" sighting during Apollo 11, Alan Bean's report of "bright particles" during Apollo 12, and Harrison Schmitt's description of phenomena "like the Fourth of July" during Apollo 17. Also includes the July 1963 White House memo regarding "the alien race," with a 9.4/10 significance score. PURSUE Release 5 added the State Department cables of November 1963 on the Conde, Bahia affair in Brazil, including the FBIS report logging a radio broadcast about a "large metal sphere" that fell with a body inside, and the negative report from the U.S. Consulate in Salvador.
State Department Memorandum 711.5612: "Increased Reports of Unidentified Flying Objects," July 28, 1952
NASA-UAP-D015: Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963
National Space Council Memorandum: Thoughts on the Space Alien Race Question
EOP-UAP-D001, DOS-UAP-D001, DOS-UAP-D002: The Metal Sphere that Fell in Conde, Bahia - a UFO Story Checked and Debunked in Real Time, November 1963
Transcript of Frank Borman's 'Bogey' Sighting During Gemini 7 (GT-7/6)
NASA-UAP-D016: Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965
NASA-UAP-D017: Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965
NASA-UAP-D018: Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967
NASA Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965
NASA Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965
Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, December 1965
NASA Gemini IX Scientific Debriefing Transcript and Summary, June 1966
Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing: Three Anomalous Observations Outbound and Return, 1969
NASA-UAP-D1: Apollo 12 Technical Air-to-Ground Voice Transcript, November 1969
NASA-UAP-D5: Apollo 17 Science Crew Debriefing — Anomalous Ultraviolet Spectrum, 1973
NASA-UAP-D2: Apollo 17 Air-to-Ground Voice Transcript, December 1972
Apollo 17 Technical Crew Debriefing: Light Flashes and a Lunar Surface Observation, 1973
Skylab Technical Crew Debriefings, 1973–1974: Light Flashes, a 'Reddish Satellite,' and Maneuvering Lights Around the Space Station
Diplomatic Cable DOS-UAP-D1: Papua New Guinea Inquiry Regarding High-Speed Overflights, January 1985
Diplomatic Cable DOS-UAP-D2: Tajik Air Pilots Report UAP Over Kazakhstan, January 1994
An Unidentified Object from Columbia's Windows: The STS-80 Photographs, 1996