Record 238 · 1950 (compiled)
DOW-UAP-D017 - UAP Reported at Sandia Base, 1948-1950
Department of War / Armed Forces Special Weapons Project · United States
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The tranche includes decades-old documents on early UFO investigations, an audio briefing from Project Blue Book's Edward Ruppelt, expense records from the AAWSAP program, and modern unresolved UAP reports with electro-optical and infrared sensor footage from U.S. military operations in the Middle East and Yellow Sea. Documents discuss observed anomalous objects but contain no confirmation of extraterrestrial origin, non-human intelligence, or crash retrieval. The release notes that the materials document unexplained phenomena without establishing they represent anything beyond conventional explanations or sensor artifacts in most cases, continuing the rolling declassification effort to increase public access to historical and current UAP records.
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