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Declassified · Release 01 · 2026

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Featured · SP 16, 1963

The most underrated document in the entire release. A 1963 State Department staff memo that quietly asks: what if we actually find aliens?

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File: SP 16 / 59 214434
Date: July 18, 1963
From: Maxwell W. Hunter II · National Aeronautics & Space Council
To: Robert F. Packard · State Dept. Office of International Scientific Affairs
Subject: Thoughts on the Space Alien Race Question
Source: FRUS 1961-63 Vol. XXV, Doc. 383

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Why this memo matters

Most "UFO documents" are sighting reports. SP 16 is a policy memo. A staffer at the National Aeronautics & Space Council writes to a State Department peer to think through what the U.S. would actually do if extraterrestrial life turned up: diplomatically, scientifically, philosophically.

The three‑tier framework

Hunter argues the response depends entirely on the alien's tech level:

Chemical Martians. No problem. Current policy "made to order."
Nuclear‑era species. Travel at half lightspeed. We negotiate.
Faster‑than‑light. "Negotiate fast." They understand physics we don't.

The line that should be famous

"No one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic."

Why it sat in the dark

The memo was filed under SP 16, "outer space, general," at NARA. It's been published in the Foreign Relations of the United States series, but practically no one has seen it. The Department of War surfacing it in Release 01 of the PURSUE tranche turns it from archival footnote into the historical anchor of the entire modern UAP disclosure conversation.

How we built this

Full transparency on the data pipeline. Every detail you see is traceable to a government source URL.

Source

Every PDF, image and video on this site comes directly from war.gov/UFO: the Department of War's PURSUE release page, plus AARO information papers from aaro.mil and one memo retrieved from the State Department's FRUS archive (where SP 16 lives in its officially published form).

Index

We catalogued all 161 files in Release 01 (119 PDFs, 28 videos, 14 images) across 4 agencies (DoW, FBI, NASA, State). For each file we record agency, file ID, raw URL and document kind so anything you read here can be cross‑checked against the original.

Extraction

Every PDF was opened in a parallel browser worker (we ran 119 simultaneously) and passed through a schema‑driven LLM extractor that pulled summaries, named entities, codenames, craft descriptions, locations, verbatim "weird/funny" quotes and alien keywords. The schema is fixed; the model fills it.

Geocoding

Locations mentioned in each file are matched against a hand‑curated gazetteer of ~120 places (countries, cities, bases, oceans, Mars). When a file mentions both Greece and the Moon, both get a marker. Off‑world locations sit in the "off‑world" ring outside Earth and stay clickable.

Search

The search index is a single JSON file ranked by Fuse.js running entirely in your browser. No server, no analytics, no telemetry. Every record contains the full extracted bundle so a query like "mother orb" surfaces every file that mentions one.

Live updates

The Department of War has stated it will release further tranches "every few weeks." The pipeline is parameterised on the Release 01 URL pattern, so when Release 02 lands the same script re‑runs and this site updates. The plan is a monthly automated re‑build until the corpus stops growing.

What's under the hood

GlobeThree.js sphere · custom shader gradient · marker layer
SearchFuse.js fuzzy search · client‑side · zero round‑trips
Data3 JSON files (files · markers · search) generated from one CSV
HostingStatic, single S3 bundle. No backend. No tracking.
UpdatesRe‑run scripts/build_data.py on each new tranche

The documents speak for themselves; we just made them easier to find. If you spot an extraction mistake or a missing geocode, the source URL is on every card. Go straight to the original.

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