Audio dispatches from declassified U.S. government case files. Each episode walks through one document — the cover memo, the redactions, what made it into the daily briefing — narrated in the official record's own voice. New case files are added as the war.gov FOIA pipeline releases them.
JUN 21 · 2026 · Narrated by daily-declassified-declassified-top-secret-cia-memo-reveals-senator-s-saucer- · 3 min
A 1955 memo has recently been further declassified by the Central Intelligence Agency, detailing a unique event: the sighting of a "saucer-like" craft by a former U.S. Senator while in Russia during the height of the Cold War. The document, written by Herbert Scoville Jr., then-Assistant Director…
JUN 21 · 2026 · Narrated by daily-declassified-atic-the-1950s-and-national-security-policy-by-bruce-ashcr · 5 min
This is the declassified briefing for document ATIC, The 1950s, and National Security Policy, written by Bruce Ashcroft, NAIC Historian, and released in 2023. The document was released through a Freedom of Information Act request by John Greenewald, Jr., and is archived on The Black Vault's…
JUN 21 · 2026 · Narrated by daily-declassified-cia-document-talks-about-flying-saucers-traveling-7-400-mp-2 · 5 min
Document: Report of Unusual Flying Object Sightings and Attendant Scientific Activity Agency: Central Intelligence Agency Date: 17 April 1955 Notable for: Discussing "flying saucers" traveling at speeds over 7,400 miles per hour. The document is made available through the declassification efforts…
JUN 21 · 2026 · Narrated by daily-declassified-cia-document-talks-about-flying-saucers-traveling-7-400-mp · 6 min
Document Title: Report of Unusual Flying Object Sightings and Attendant Scientific Activity Agency: Central Intelligence Agency Date: 17 April 1955 Notable for: Describing "flying saucers" traveling at speeds of over 7,400 miles per hour. This document is part of a collection released by The Black…
JUN 14 · 2026 · Narrated by daily-declassified-hottel-pilot · 5 min
On March twenty-second, nineteen-fifty, a Special Agent in Charge in the FBI's Washington Field Office typed a one-page memo to Director J. Edgar Hoover. It is one page long. Three short paragraphs. And for seventy-five years, it has been one of the most-requested documents in the FBI's public…
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