The NSA's UFO collection includes records concerning a reported UFO sighting in Iran on September 19, 1976, including a Joint Chiefs of Staff report and a routing slip from Louis E. Foster of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Notes on verification
Confirmed via NSA's own FOIA document index and corroborated by multiple independent mirrors (cryptome.org, MysteryWire) listing identical document titles. [tier=unverified indep_score=0.3 clusters=2 claim_tier=notable] [rescored 2026-09-15: curated origin-host map (PR #65); unclassified hosts no longer scored as aggregators]
Sources
- Annual FOIA Reports (seed:military_and_intelligence)
- https://cryptome.org/jya/nsa-ufo.htm (corroboration)
- https://www.mysterywire.com/documents/nsa-ufo-documents/ (corroboration)