CIA Tranche 3 — Zimbabwe UFO incident, 2008

Central Intelligence Agency · 2008 / released 2026

Declassified CIA (PURSUE tranche 3)

Request

Not Hume's FOIA — he flagged it as the most recent CIA item in tranche 3.

Outcome

CIA document on a 2008 Zimbabwe (Harare) UFO incident. Hume groups 2008 with Needles, Stephenville, Vietnam, Kumburgaz.

Recent CIA paper, not a Hume original, but logged because he is tracking CIA holdings.

Names on this file

RG Hume

Independent FOIA researcher

UK researcher who files FOI/FOIA against MOD, DSTL, AARO, NNSA, DOE, FBI, CIA-adjacent holdings, EPA, CBP and police. Publishes as @rgh_ufos. Has said his name is on requests, has appeared in BBC and Mail Online, and was cited by Jesse Michels for the NNSA Starfish Prime response.

Cases

2008

2008 wave: Needles, Harare, Stephenville

CIA on high alert; two crashes probably man-made, says Hume

CIANeedles2008

Documents & links

Official or archived copies. If Open does nothing, copy the URL into a new tab — the preview cannot leave this window.

PURSUE UAP releases (DoW)
PURSUE UAP releases (DoW)

Source posts

Public posts by @rgh_ufos. Open may be blocked inside this preview — copy the URL and paste it in a new tab.

2026-06-12
CIA doc from Tranche 3 about a ufo incident in Zimbabwe 2008. Most recent thing I seen so far from CIA
2026-06-12