Sept. 23, 2026

UFO Papers Released After Nine-Year FOIA — September 23, 2026

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Newly released NSA files reveal a 1966 cryptology paper and Cold War tech forecasts tied to UFO discussions. Listen to learn why these disclosures matter for historical transparency and modern UAP debates.

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UFO Daily is brought to you with the help of AI.

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This is UFO Sightings Today. The National Security Agency has

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released a small, old paper that had vanished from public view.

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The Black Vault reports that a nine-year Freedom of Information

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request finally produced a fall 1966 article titled Coupon Collecting

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and Cryptology by Marie Capozza in the NSA Technical Journal.

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The title appeared for years before in declassified indexes, but

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no copy was publicly available until this week. The paper

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shows how agency mathematicians turned a classic probability puzzle into

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cryptologic thinking. It matters because archived technical thinking informs how

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intelligence agencies once framed threats, and because the long delay

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is a reminder that transparency can take decades. Also out

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this week, The Black Vault published eight Cold War-style technology

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forecasts the NSA released after a separate Freedom of Information

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request dating to May 25, 2011. The collection ranges from

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brain network interfaces to terahertz electronics, energy harvesting, and privacy.

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These are forward-looking briefs from inside an intelligence shop, useful

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for historians and and for anyone trying to understand why

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some modern anomalies provoke strong institutional responses. Online community threads

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are buzzing. Some members flagged a recent interview where Ross

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Coulthart talks with Matthew Sydagus of the University of Albany

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about metamaterials, aneutronic fusion, and dark matter. Others point to

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a new study linking mysterious flashes in the 1950s to

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sightings during nuclear activity, and to parallels with the long-studied

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Hess-Dalen lights in Norway. These are discussion sparks, not confirmations. Officially,

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agencies say release schedules and national security exemptions explain the delays.

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Long redaction timelines and classification rules are the conventional reasons

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material stays hidden. That does not make the material uninteresting,

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If you want to know what's actually in the sky tonight, planets,

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ISS passes, aurora alerts, and yes, the occasional unexplained, check

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out our companion show, Space News and Weather Today. Link

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in the show notes. We'll keep watching the skies. UFO

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sightings today is for informational purposes only. Stories are drawn

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from publicly available sources. All claims are attributed to their

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original sources and and have not been independently verified.