About this project

UFOScans.com — The Archive

UFOScans.com is a free public archive of 17,909 documents related to UFO and UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) sightings, investigations, and research. Every document has been digitised, indexed, and AI-summarised to make the archive accessible to researchers, journalists, and curious readers worldwide.

17,909 Documents

25+ Countries

1940s– Time span

Free Public domain

Sources & Collections

Documents are sourced from official government archives, FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) releases, and public domain repositories. Major collections include:

CIA UFO files — Released in full via the CIA CREST database
Project Blue Book — The US Air Force's official UFO investigation (1952–1969)
AARO — All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office reports (2022–present)
FOIA releases — From the NSA, DIA, US Army, and other agencies
International files — UK, Australia, France, Canada, Brazil, New Zealand, Denmark, and more
NUFORC — National UFO Reporting Center records

AI Summaries — Methodology

Each document has been processed through a two-stage pipeline:

Vision model — Extracts raw text from scanned PDF pages
Language model — Generates a structured summary including date, location, agency, witnesses, and key findings
Confidence score — Each summary is rated 1–5 for extraction reliability. Scores of 4–5 indicate high-quality source documents with clear text.

AI summaries are provided as a research aid. They may contain errors — always refer to the original document for authoritative content.

Contact

General enquiries can be sent to [email protected].

Copyright

Documents on this site are sourced from government archives, research organisations, and public domain repositories. If you believe a file has been included in error, please get in touch at [email protected] — include the filename or page URL in your message and we will review and remove it promptly.

For Researchers & Developers

The full archive is available in machine-readable formats for AI ingestion, academic research, and application development. All content is public domain — no licence or attribution required.

llms.txt Discovery index for AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Googlebot, etc.) llms-full-1.txt Full-text AI chunks — complete summaries and metadata for all documents catalog.json Structured JSON catalog with slugs, titles, dates, locations, and agencies sitemap.xml XML sitemap index — all 17,909 document URLs for search engine indexing robots.txt Crawler policy — all major AI bots and search engines explicitly allowed

Didn't Find What You Were Looking For?

UFOScans.com focuses on official and public UFO and UAP documents, but the research landscape is vast. If you haven't found what you need here, The Black Vault is worth exploring.

The Black Vault, run by researcher John Greenewald Jr., is one of the largest privately maintained archives of government documents in the world. Since 1996 it has accumulated hundreds of thousands of pages obtained through FOIA requests — covering not just UFOs and UAPs but also CIA programs, NSA surveillance, military projects, and more. It is a well-established and seriously run resource that complements what you find here.

theblackvault.com Independent FOIA archive — hundreds of thousands of declassified government documents