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An unidentified object report with enhanced imagery from a PANTEX radar tower.
UFO 2026

Enhanced PANTEX Imagery — Department of Energy File

Pantex Plant, Texas

A Pantex Unidentified Object Incident Report that includes an enhanced image from ground surveillance radar tower.

A document shows a black and white image from a ground surveillance radar tower, with a small object circled in red in the sky above a flat landscape.
UFO 2015

Pantex Unidentified Object Incident Report, September 1, 2015 — Department of Energy File

Texas

This file contains imagery and a report documenting the circumstances surrounding a September 1, 2015, incident involving an unidentified object intruding the airspace above the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas. The Pantex Plant is a sensitive national security site that contains the primary…

A letter announcing an upcoming talk on UFOs.
UFO 1986

Pajarito Astronomers Invitation, May 20, 1986 — Department of Energy File

New Mexico

A letter to the members of the Pajarito Astronomers club regarding an upcoming meeting featuring a presentation from a Los Alamos National Laboratory-affiliated physicist, Dr. John Warren, titled “Why Should a Scientist be Concerned about UFOs?” The referenced event was not officially hosted by…

Personal correspondence to and from James Tuck, a Los Alamos National Laboratory-affiliated physicist, regarding his interest in unidentified anomalous phenomena circa 1970s.
UFO 1970

James Tuck Correspondence, 1970s — Department of Energy File

Undisclosed location

Personal correspondence to and from James Tuck, a Los Alamos National Laboratory-affiliated physicist, regarding his interest in unidentified anomalous phenomena circa 1970s.

A declassified secret transmittal letter from the United States Atomic Energy Commission, dated March 22, 1949, regarding a conference on aerial phenomena.
UFO 1949

Los Alamos Conference on Aerial Phenomena, March 22, 1949 — Department of Energy File

New Mexico

This document is a transcript of a 1949 conference held at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (now Los Alamos National Laboratory), Los Alamos, New Mexico. Attendees included several eminent scientists and physicists, many of whom had contributed to the development of the first nuclear weapons…