{"type":"documents","slug":"2026-pursue-release-05-016-cia-uap-d022-memorandum-for-the-director-aerial-sightings-in-puerto-rico-19","title":"CIA-UAP-D022, Memorandum for the Director, Aerial Sightings in Puerto Rico, 1962","url":"https://disclosdex.com/documents/2026-pursue-release-05-016-cia-uap-d022-memorandum-for-the-director-aerial-sightings-in-puerto-rico-19","description":"A CIA Director briefing memorandum reviewing naval intelligence summaries of recurring anomalous aerial contacts observed near Roosevelt Roads Naval Station.","date":"1962-11-14T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["Report"],"updated":"2026-08-07T00:00:00.000Z","disclosureRating":5,"connectionCount":0,"content":{"markdown":"CIA-UAP-D022 is a memorandum for the Director of Central Intelligence, dated November 14, 1962, on recurring aerial contacts near Roosevelt Roads Naval Station in Puerto Rico. The document was declassified and released publicly for the first time as part of PURSUE Release 05 on August 7, 2026. [^1][^2][^3]\n\n<PDF src=\"https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/080726/release_05/documents/CIA-UAP-D022.pdf\" />\n\n## Provenance and Context\n\nThe memorandum draws on naval intelligence summaries forwarded from the Caribbean Sea frontier and was prepared for the Director in the weeks after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Its subject is a series of unexplained aerial, and potentially trans-medium, contacts concentrated around the Navy's Roosevelt Roads facility during late 1962.[^3]\n\n## Detailed Content / Analysis\n\nThe intelligence summaries describe objects operating close to a naval installation under heavy surveillance and apparently evading interception. The CIA's review weighs two explanations: that the contacts were a Soviet intelligence-gathering platform, or that they were an unrelated phenomenon. The memo does not settle the question. It shows only that the sightings were treated as serious enough to reach the Director's desk within weeks of the missile crisis, and that naval intelligence could not identify the source of the contacts.[^3]\n\n## References\n\n[^1]: [Department of War PURSUE page](https://www.war.gov/UFO/#release)\n[^2]: [Department of War PURSUE data file (uap-data.csv)](https://www.war.gov/Portals/1/Interactive/2026/UFO/uap-data.csv)\n[^3]: [CIA-UAP-D022, Memorandum for the Director, Aerial Sightings in Puerto Rico, 1962 remote release asset](https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/080726/release_05/documents/CIA-UAP-D022.pdf)","readingTime":"2 min read"},"relatedRecords":[],"citation":{"canonicalUrl":"https://disclosdex.com/documents/2026-pursue-release-05-016-cia-uap-d022-memorandum-for-the-director-aerial-sightings-in-puerto-rico-19","title":"CIA-UAP-D022, Memorandum for the Director, Aerial Sightings in Puerto Rico, 1962","publisher":"Disclosdex","retrievedFrom":"https://disclosdex.com/api/v1/documents/2026-pursue-release-05-016-cia-uap-d022-memorandum-for-the-director-aerial-sightings-in-puerto-rico-19","license":"CC-BY-4.0"}}