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2026

  1. NSA records on the Pentagon's 1992 search for missing Cold War reconnaissance aircrews
    NSA · written 1992 · released 9 Oct 2026 · 34 years unreleased
  2. The 1980 Reagan–Carter ‘Debategate’ scandal files
    House · written 28 Oct 1980 · released 7 Oct 2026
  3. Navy advanced naval vehicles study: nuclear-powered aircraft, 80-knot ships, giant airships (late 1970s)
    Navy · written 1979 · released 30 Sep 2026 · 47 years unreleased
  4. NSA Technical Journal: ‘Coupon Collecting and Cryptology’ (1966)
    NSA · written 1966 · released 22 Sep 2026 · 60 years unreleased
  5. NSA ‘Point Forecasts’: technology forecasting studies (brain–network interfaces, terahertz, energy harvesting)
    NSA · written 2010 · released 22 Sep 2026 · 16 years unreleased
  6. NSA Technical Journal: ‘Maybe It's Related to the Phase of the Moon…’ (1972)
    NSA · written 1972 · released 16 Sep 2026 · 54 years unreleased
  7. KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation manual (1963), most complete release
    CIA · written Jul 1963 · released 28 Jul 2026 · 63 years unreleased
  8. AARO FY2025 Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena
    AARO · written 2025 · released 21 Jul 2026 · 1 years unreleased
  9. Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records (Central Intelligence Agency, July 2026)
    CIA · written 1 Jul 2026 · released 1 Jul 2026
  10. Ministers' Gifts and Hospitality, January to June 2026 (Northern Ireland)
    NI Executive · written Jan 2026 · released 20 May 2026
  11. NIC Sense of the Community Memorandum: Kremlin-Ordered Assassinations Abroad Will Probably Persist (2016)
    ODNI · written 2016 · released 11 May 2026 · 10 years unreleased
  12. USTR emails on the President's intent to impose 100% tariffs on foreign movies (May 2025)
    USTR · written May 2025 · released 11 May 2026
  13. Amending the Department of Commerce's Regulations Implementing the HAVANA Act
    Commerce · written 4 May 2026 · released 4 May 2026
  14. NASA internal planning on how to announce discovery of extraterrestrial life (2025)
    NASA · written 2025 · released 1 May 2026
  15. U.S. Space Command records on the 2023 ‘UAP Space Tiger Team’
    DoD · written 2023 · released 1 May 2026 · 3 years unreleased
  16. State Department contract to study detecting nuclear tests with smartphones (2014–2015)
    State · written 2014 · released 27 Apr 2026 · 12 years unreleased
  17. CIA List of Clandestine Services Historical Publications (1995)
    CIA · written 1995 · released 6 Apr 2026 · 31 years unreleased
  18. Exit the Silkmaker: The CIA and Jim Thompson (Studies in Intelligence, 1993)
    CIA · written 1993 · released 23 Mar 2026 · 33 years unreleased
  19. ABMC records regarding removal of Black soldier panels at the Margraten cemetery, Netherlands (2025)
    ABMC · written 2025 · released 9 Feb 2026
  20. NRC: U.S. Purchase of Russian Highly Enriched Uranium Recovered From Nuclear Weapons (1993)
    NRC · written 1993 · released 2 Feb 2026 · 33 years unreleased
  21. Secret Service Mission Assurance reports on the shootings of Reagan and Wallace and the attempt on Ford (1981)
    USSS · written 1981 · released 2 Feb 2026 · 45 years unreleased
  22. NASA: Lessons Learned from Fifty Years of Observing Hardware and Human Behavior (2011)
    NASA · written 2011 · released 26 Jan 2026 · 15 years unreleased
  23. DOE classified human subjects research records, from ‘Blue Dragon’ to ‘Woodstock’
    DOE · written 2018 · released 23 Jan 2026 · 8 years unreleased
  24. NRC memo regarding radioactive metal sent to the United States from Mexico (SECY-92-042)
    NRC · written 1992 · released 19 Jan 2026 · 34 years unreleased
  25. Project Crested Ice: The Thule Nuclear Accident, Vol. 1 (SAC Historical Study #113, 1969)
    SAC · written 23 Apr 1969 · released 19 Jan 2026 · 57 years unreleased
  26. Department of the Navy Supplemental Report of Human Radiation Experiments (1994)
    Navy · written 31 Mar 1994 · released 19 Jan 2026 · 32 years unreleased

2025

  1. JFK Assassination Records — 2025 documents release
    NARA · written Nov 1963 · released 18 Mar 2025
  2. Executive Order 14176: Declassification of Records Concerning the Assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
    White House · written 23 Jan 2025 · released 31 Jan 2025

2024

  1. Senate Homeland Security Committee interim report on the 13 July 2024 Trump assassination attempt
    HSGAC · written 25 Sep 2024 · released 25 Sep 2024
  2. House report: how federal law enforcement commandeered financial institutions to spy on Americans (2024)
    House · written Mar 2024 · released 9 Mar 2024
  3. FBI Domestic Terrorism Reference Guide: Sovereign Citizen Violent Extremism (U//FOUO)
    FBI · written 2023 · released 29 Jan 2024
  4. Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Records Collection (NARA)
    NARA · written 1947 · released 2024

2023

  1. NASA Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study Team — final report
    NASA · written 14 Sep 2023 · released 14 Sep 2023
  2. Report of the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme (2023)
    Robodebt RC · written 7 Jul 2023 · released 7 Jul 2023

2022

  1. Thaler v. Perlmutter, 1:22-cv-01564 (D.D.C.) — copyright for AI-generated art
    D.D.C. · written 2 Jun 2022 · released 2 Jun 2022
  2. The Nixon Collection: CIA support for the 1972 presidential trip to China
    CIA · written Feb 1972 · released Feb 2022

2021

  1. What We Need to Learn: Lessons from Twenty Years of Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR-21-46-LL)
    SIGAR · written Aug 2021 · released Aug 2021
  2. Investigation and Review of the FBI's Handling of Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Former USA Gymnastics Physician Lawrence Gerard Nassar
    DOJ OIG · written 14 Jul 2021 · released 14 Jul 2021
  3. Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (ODNI, 2021)
    ODNI · written 25 Jun 2021 · released 25 Jun 2021

2020

  1. United States v. Google LLC, 1:20-cv-03010 (search monopoly docket)
    D.D.C. · written 20 Oct 2020 · released 20 Oct 2020
  2. Elite Capture of Foreign Aid: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts (World Bank WPS 9150)
    World Bank · written Feb 2020 · released Feb 2020

2019

  1. Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane Investigation
    DOJ OIG · written 9 Dec 2019 · released 9 Dec 2019
  2. Nuclear Lunar Logistics Study (Marshall Space Flight Center, 1963)
    NASA MSFC · written 18 Jul 1963 · released 12 Jul 2019 · 56 years unreleased

2018

  1. U.S. Patent 10,144,532: Craft using an inertial mass reduction device (U.S. Navy)
    USPTO · written 28 Apr 2016 · released 4 Dec 2018 · 3 years unreleased
  2. Management Weaknesses Delayed Response to Flint Water Crisis (EPA OIG 18-P-0221)
    EPA OIG · written 19 Jul 2018 · released 19 Jul 2018
  3. Building and Implementing the Phoenix Pay System (Auditor General of Canada, Spring 2018, Report 1)
    OAG Canada · written May 2018 · released May 2018

2017

  1. U.S. Embassy tracked Indonesia mass murder, 1965
    State · written Oct 1965 · released 17 Oct 2017

2016

  1. Netaji Papers: declassified files on Subhas Chandra Bose
    NAI · written 1941 · released 23 Jan 2016
  2. Nikola Tesla: FBI file on the seizure of his papers
    FBI · written Jan 1943 · released 2016 · 73 years unreleased

2015

  1. Strategic Air Command declassifies nuclear target list from the 1950s
    SAC · written Jun 1956 · released 22 Dec 2015
  2. President's Daily Brief, 1961–1969 (Kennedy and Johnson)
    CIA · written 17 Jun 1961 · released 16 Sep 2015
  3. Healthcare.gov: CMS Has Taken Steps to Address Problems, but Needs to Further Implement Systems Development Best Practices (GAO-15-238)
    GAO · written 4 Mar 2015 · released 4 Mar 2015
  4. Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department (DOJ Civil Rights Division, 2015)
    DOJ · written 4 Mar 2015 · released 4 Mar 2015
  5. Final 2014 Remedial Action Report, Project Chariot, Cape Thompson, Alaska
    DOE-LM · written 1 Mar 2015 · released 1 Mar 2015
  6. Drone Sightings Near Airports (FAA UAS sightings reports)
    FAA · written 2014 · released 2015
  7. OSHA Severe Injury Reports
    OSHA · written Jan 2015 · released 2015
  8. Abhilekh Patal — National Archives of India online portal
    NAI · written 1748 · released 2015

2014

  1. Committee Study of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program (S. Rept. 113-288)
    SSCI · written 9 Dec 2014 · released 9 Dec 2014
  2. Review of Alleged Patient Deaths, Patient Wait Times, and Scheduling Practices at the Phoenix VA Health Care System
    VA OIG · written 26 Aug 2014 · released 26 Aug 2014

2013

  1. Nixon White House tapes
    Nixon Library · written Feb 1971 · released 21 Aug 2013
  2. CIA confirms role in 1953 Iran coup
    CIA · written Aug 1953 · released 19 Aug 2013
  3. The Secret History of the U-2 — and Area 51
    CIA · written 1992 · released 15 Aug 2013
  4. Inappropriate Criteria Were Used to Identify Tax-Exempt Applications for Review (TIGTA 2013-10-053)
    TIGTA · written 14 May 2013 · released 14 May 2013
  5. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
    HMLR · written Jan 1995 · released 2013

2012

  1. A Review of ATF's Operation Fast and Furious and Related Matters
    DOJ OIG · written Sep 2012 · released Sep 2012

2011

  1. Warp Field Mechanics 101 (Harold White, NASA JSC)
    NASA JSC · written 30 Sep 2011 · released 30 Sep 2011
  2. Pentagon Papers: full declassified Report of the OSD Vietnam Task Force
    NARA · written Jan 1969 · released 13 Jun 2011 · 42 years unreleased
  3. The National Programme for IT in the NHS: an update on the delivery of detailed care records systems (NAO, 2011)
    NAO · written 18 May 2011 · released 18 May 2011
  4. Guy Hottel memo on ‘flying saucers’ recovered in New Mexico
    FBI · written 22 Mar 1950 · released Apr 2011 · 61 years unreleased
  5. FBI ‘UFO’ file (flying disc reports, 1947 onward)
    FBI · written Jul 1947 · released Apr 2011 · 64 years unreleased
  6. Roswell UFO: FBI Dallas teletype of 8 July 1947
    FBI · written 8 Jul 1947 · released Apr 2011 · 64 years unreleased
  7. Majestic 12: FBI investigation of the MJ-12 documents
    FBI · written 1988 · released Apr 2011 · 23 years unreleased
  8. Animal Mutilation: FBI records on 1970s cattle mutilation reports
    FBI · written 1979 · released Apr 2011 · 32 years unreleased
  9. Albert Einstein: FBI surveillance file
    FBI · written 1932 · released Apr 2011 · 79 years unreleased
  10. COINTELPRO: FBI counterintelligence program files
    FBI · written 1956 · released Apr 2011 · 55 years unreleased
  11. Rosenberg case: FBI atomic espionage files
    FBI · written 1950 · released Apr 2011 · 61 years unreleased
  12. Gasbuggy Site Assessment and Risk Evaluation
    DOE-LM · written 1 Mar 2011 · released 1 Mar 2011
  13. The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report (FCIC, 2011)
    FCIC · written Jan 2011 · released Jan 2011

2010

  1. FEC Advisory Opinion 2010-11 (Commonsense Ten)
    FEC · written 22 Jul 2010 · released 22 Jul 2010
  2. Amerithrax Investigative Summary (2010)
    DOJ · written 19 Feb 2010 · released 19 Feb 2010
  3. Road Safety Data (STATS19)
    DfT · written 1979 · released 2010

2009

  1. Investigation of Failure of the SEC to Uncover Bernard Madoff's Ponzi Scheme (OIG-509, public version)
    SEC OIG · written 31 Aug 2009 · released 2 Sep 2009
  2. Unclassified Report on the President's Surveillance Program (2009)
    DOJ OIG · written 10 Jul 2009 · released 10 Jul 2009
  3. Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience (SIGIR, 2009)
    SIGIR · written Feb 2009 · released Feb 2009
  4. RECAP Archive: free PACER federal court records (CourtListener)
    Federal courts · written 2009 · released 2009
  5. End of Term Web Archive
    End of Term · written 2008 · released 2009

2008

  1. Jewel v. National Security Agency, 4:08-cv-04373 (N.D. Cal.)
    N.D. Cal. · written 18 Sep 2008 · released 18 Sep 2008
  2. American Cryptology during the Cold War, 1945–1989 (Thomas R. Johnson)
    NSA · written 1995 · released 2008 · 13 years unreleased
  3. SIAN — Arquivo Nacional information system (incl. Brazilian Air Force UFO records)
    Arquivo Nacional · written 1952 · released 2008
  4. eGazette of India
    GoI Printing · written 1922 · released 2008

2007

  1. The “Family Jewels”: CIA internal compilation of questionable activities
    CIA · written May 1973 · released 25 Jun 2007 · 34 years unreleased
  2. Nazi War Crimes Interagency Working Group records
    NARA · written 1945 · released Mar 2007
  3. A Review of the FBI's Use of National Security Letters (2007)
    DOJ OIG · written Mar 2007 · released Mar 2007
  4. GEIPAN case archive (French space agency UFO bureau)
    CNES / GEIPAN · written 1977 · released Mar 2007
  5. EU Financial Transparency System
    EC · written 2007 · released 2007

2006

  1. Hepting v. AT&T Corporation, No. 06-17132 (9th Cir.)
    9th Cir. · written 8 Nov 2006 · released 8 Nov 2006
  2. U.S. Intelligence and the Indian Bomb
    CIA · written May 1974 · released Apr 2006
  3. Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) filings
    DOJ · written 1938 · released 2006

2005

  1. The FBI's Management of the Trilogy Information Technology Modernization Project (Audit 05-07)
    DOJ OIG · written Feb 2005 · released Feb 2005
  2. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XI: South Asia Crisis, 1971
    State · written 1971 · released 2005 · 34 years unreleased

2004

  1. The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 40 Years Later
    NSA · written 4 Aug 1964 · released 4 Aug 2004
  2. Consolidated list of persons, groups and entities subject to EU financial sanctions
    EC · written 2004 · released 2004

2003

  1. Columbia Accident Investigation Board Report, Volume II (technical appendices)
    NASA · written 1 Oct 2003 · released 17 Nov 2003
  2. Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process
    US Army · written 9 Jun 1983 · released Sep 2003 · 20 years unreleased
  3. The 1960s ‘Nth Country Experiment’ (Lawrence Livermore)
    LLNL · written Mar 1967 · released 1 Jul 2003
  4. UK Government Web Archive
    TNA · written 1996 · released 2003

2002

  1. The Tilt: The U.S. and the South Asian Crisis of 1971
    State · written 6 Apr 1971 · released 2002

2001

  1. EEOICP Site Exposure Matrices (toxic substances at DOE weapons sites)
    DOL · written 2001 · released 2001

2000

  1. A Sitting President's Amenability to Indictment and Criminal Prosecution (OLC, 2000)
    DOJ · written 16 Oct 2000 · released 16 Oct 2000
  2. Senate Appropriations Committee Congressionally Directed Action, STAR GATE
    CIA · written 10 May 1995 · released 4 Apr 2000 · 5 years unreleased

1999

  1. U.S. v. Microsoft: Court's Findings of Fact (1999)
    D.D.C. · written 5 Nov 1999 · released 5 Nov 1999
  2. The Space Shuttle Decision: NASA's Search for a Reusable Space Vehicle (SP-4221)
    NASA · written 1 Jul 1999 · released 13 Aug 1999
  3. NRC Event Notification Reports
    NRC Ops · written 1999 · released 1999
  4. World Bank Listing of Ineligible Firms and Individuals
    World Bank · written 1999 · released 1999

1998

  1. Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report
    TRC · written 29 Oct 1998 · released 29 Oct 1998

1997

  1. Historical events associated with fallout from Bravo Shot – Operation Castle, and 25 years of medical findings
    BNL · written 1 Jul 1997 · released 1 Jul 1997
  2. Operation Northwoods: Joint Chiefs memo ‘Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba’
    JCS · written 13 Mar 1962 · released 1997 · 35 years unreleased
  3. CyberCemetery: websites of defunct U.S. government agencies and commissions
    CyberCemetery · written 1997 · released 1997

1996

  1. U.S. Census Bureau raw file server (www2.census.gov)
    Census · written 1990 · released 1996

1995

  1. Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
    ACHRE · written Oct 1995 · released Oct 1995
  2. Results of a Search for Records Concerning the 1947 Crash Near Roswell, New Mexico (GAO/NSIAD-95-187)
    GAO · written 28 Jul 1995 · released 28 Jul 1995
  3. Declassified Satellite Imagery – 1 (CORONA, ARGON, LANYARD), USGS EarthExplorer
    USGS EROS · written 1960 · released Feb 1995

1993

  1. Expert judgment on markers to deter inadvertent human intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
    Sandia · written 1 Nov 1993 · released 1 Nov 1993

1992

  1. Stasi Records Archive (Bundesarchiv)
    Bundesarchiv · written 1950 · released 2 Jan 1992

1990

  1. The Hubble Space Telescope Optical Systems Failure Report
    NASA · written 1 Nov 1990 · released 1 Nov 1990
  2. FAA Wildlife Strike Database
    FAA · written 1990 · released 1990

1988

  1. Analysis of radiation exposure: service personnel on Rongerik Atoll, Operation Castle – Shot Bravo
    DNA · written 9 Jul 1987 · released 1 Sep 1988 · 1 years unreleased

1987

  1. Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair (1987)
    Congress · written Nov 1987 · released Nov 1987

1986

  1. Rogers Commission, Appendix F: Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle (Richard Feynman)
    NASA · written 6 Jun 1986 · released 6 Jun 1986

1985

  1. Operation Crossroads: atomic bomb tests Able and Baker at Bikini Atoll
    JTF-1 · written 1946 · released May 1985 · 39 years unreleased

1984

  1. Historical Archives of the European Union — archival database
    HAEU · written 1952 · released 1984

1979

  1. Skylab is falling: strategies for reentry
    NASA · written 1 Jun 1979 · released 1 Jun 1979
  2. Report of the House Select Committee on Assassinations (1979)
    House · written 29 Mar 1979 · released 29 Mar 1979

1977

  1. Project MKULTRA, the CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification (1977 hearing)
    Senate · written 3 Aug 1977 · released 3 Aug 1977
  2. The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, third edition (Glasstone & Dolan)
    DoD · written 1 Jan 1977 · released 1 Jan 1977
  3. Space Settlements: A Design Study (NASA SP-413)
    NASA Ames · written 1 Jan 1977 · released 1 Jan 1977

1976

  1. Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans
    Senate · written 26 Apr 1976 · released 26 Apr 1976
  2. Project BLUE BOOK — Unidentified Flying Objects (NARA holdings)
    USAF · written 1947 · released 1976
  3. Huston Plan: Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2
    Senate · written Sep 1975 · released 1976
  4. Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) database
    ASRS · written 1976 · released 1976

1970

  1. Report of Apollo 13 Review Board
    NASA · written 1 Jun 1970 · released 1 Jun 1970

1969

  1. Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, Vol. 1 (Condon Report, DTIC AD0680975)
    DTIC · written Jan 1969 · released Jan 1969

1967

  1. Report of the Apollo 204 Review Board (Apollo 1 fire)
    NASA · written 5 Apr 1967 · released 5 Apr 1967

1966

  1. MSRE Design and Operations Report, Part VIII: Operating Procedures
    ORNL · written 1 Jan 1966 · released 1 Jan 1966

1962

  1. Tory II-C hazards of operation (Project Pluto nuclear ramjet), Part 10
    LLNL · written 28 Dec 1962 · released 28 Dec 1962

1960

  1. Diffusion of nuclear weapons to additional countries: the ‘nth country’ problem (RAND RM-2484)
    RAND · written 15 Feb 1960 · released 15 Feb 1960

1955

  1. Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 (1955)
    USAF · written 1954 · released Oct 1955 · 1 years unreleased

Unknown

  1. The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb (Truman Library document collection)
    Truman Library · written Jul 1945 · released Unknown
  2. U-2 Spy Plane Incident (Eisenhower Library online documents)
    Eisenhower Library · written May 1960 · released Unknown
  3. Farewell Address: drafts and reading copy (Eisenhower Library)
    Eisenhower Library · written 17 Jan 1961 · released Unknown