Pentagon UAP Files Revive Chilling 1966 Reports of Tiny Humanoids

The U.S. government has just released a 1966 memo from the Federal Bureau of Investigation that provides a summary of eyewitness descriptions of tiny, humanoid figures that were allegedly observed near unidentified flying objects. The documents provide background information on the Pentagon’s current initiative to declassify documents regarding unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP.

On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) published a new set of documents about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) that included a memo from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1966 summarizing the experiences of witnesses that described what were described as “three and a half to four feet tall” beings wearing what appeared to be spacesuits and helmets.

The sightings were not confirmed in the memo dated Oct. 19, 1966. It prepared reports and commentaries relating to the public interest in the phenomenon of unidentified flying objects, or as it was then known, Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO). It reported that and described what witnesses thought they saw in the vicinity of landed craft.

The release comes as part of a broader Pentagon transparency push spearheaded by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the office created in 2022 to look into objects in the air, water and space that have eluded identification. The office has stated several times that it has no evidence that any UAP observed involved extraterrestrial technology.

What the 1966 FBI Memo Says

The 1966 memo was inspired in part by the book Flying Saucers – Serious Business by broadcaster Frank Edwards which suggested that the U.S. Government was keeping UFO sightings a secret. One of the more talked about parts of the passage read: “They saw ‘crewmen who had landed from’ unidentified craft.

The memo said those were “three and a half to four feet tall, with what look like space suits and helmets. It also referred to reports from airplane pilots, military personnel and civilians of seeing flying, metallic or glowing objects that moved silently hovered and shot through the air at high speeds. Those claims were not endorsed by the FBI document nor did it conclude that the objects were extraterrestrial.

The NewYork Post further stated that the memo details Edwards’ eerie claims that UFOs were “space vehicles sent to observe activities on earth” and stated the United States Air Force had “deliberately withheld information and given misleading explanations because it fears a mass panic by the public if the public were told the truth.”

In 2024, the Pentagon responded to separate allegations of a secret UAP program by stating that there is no record, present or historical, of such a Special Access Program under its command known as ‘Immaculate Constellation’.

The Pentagon spokesman Sue Gough said in a statement that ‘there is no record, present or historical of any such Special Access Program called ‘Immaculate Constellation’ under the command of the Department of Defense.

AARO indicated in its historical review for 2024 that, “All investigations, regardless of classification, resulted in most sightings being ordinary objects and phenomena and the result of misidentification.”

Pentagon Pushes for Greater Disclosure

Additional documents, photos and videos that document decades of government investigations into unusual sightings are expected to be released as agencies finish declassifying records, the Pentagon said.

Interest in UAP has grown in popularity since Congress organized a series of hearings in 2022 and several videos by the military were officially authenticated by the Department of Defense. Those developments brought back the debate on the unexplained sightings and the way federal agencies have dealt with them.

The new memo is a window into how federal agencies recorded extraordinary claims during the Cold War period. It does not prove the existence of the reported beings, but it contributes to the historical record that’s under scrutiny by lawmakers, researchers and the public now.

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