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Everything Wild in the FBI’s UFO Files, Including ‘Human-Like’ Beings, Flying Discs, and One Extremely Weird Memo

The FBI’s UFO archive includes flying saucers, giant “human-like” visitors, and one very strange 1947 memo.

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The FBI released even more UFO files today, May 8, and they are filled with the exact kind of juicy details that make you want to play the X-Files theme on loop.

The files are available through the FBI’s public Vault. They cover the bureau’s findings and investigations on UFO reports from 1947 and 1954. That’s a time period where UFO reports were extremely popular in the United States, so there’s a lot of stuff to read here. The archive is split into 16 parts and includes memos, letters, clippings, and field office reports.

So, let’s answer the question that you probably have right now: what’s the wildest thing found in the report? It’s actually a memo from July 8, 1947, titled “A Memorandum of Importance.” Note that it was not written as an official FBI conclusion, which is important to remember. Still, the........

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