Air Force Report Came With a CIA Cover

A US Air Force document came with a cover from the Central Intelligence Agency, or CIA. The cover identifies it as an “Official Copy.” The official summary also explicitly mentions a handwritten note on the first page.

The document is part of Project Blue Book, an Air Force project that examined reports of unidentified things seen in the sky. But the summary says little about the report itself. It points to a small, concrete detail without revealing what the note says.

One Cover, Two Agencies

The document is titled “Special Report 14.” It analyzes reports of unidentified objects in the sky. The report belongs to the Air Force; the CIA is connected to it through the cover.

The cover is stamped “Official Copy.” That wording describes the copy, but the summary does not say the CIA wrote the report. It’s easy to conflate the two details: the report belongs to an Air Force project, while the cover is from the intelligence agency.

The Note the Summary Leaves Out

According to the summary, the document’s contents were already available on the CIA’s public website, except for the handwritten note on the first page. The summary neither reproduces the note nor says whether it adds information to the report or merely remarks on the document.

It also offers no example of a sighting or finding from the report. So it gives no indication of what people said they saw or what the report’s analysis concluded. The title promises a special report, but the only detail the summary singles out is the note.

What Remains Unknown

The summary does not reveal what the note says or detail the report’s findings. Nor does it offer an explanation for the reported phenomena; it only says the document deals with such reports.

The report was already available to read. Even so, one detail remains in the margins: a few handwritten words on the first page, which the summary does not disclose.