A2 [Air Force Intelligence]
AA Anti-Aircraft
AAA Anti-Aircraft Artillery
AAB Army Air Base
AAAS American Association for the Advancement of Science
AAC Alaskan Air Command
AAF Army Air Field [precursor of Air Base]
AAF Army Air Force [precursor of AF]
AARTC Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center
AB Air Base
ABW Air Base Wing
A/C Aircraft
AC&W Aircraft Control and Warning
ACOM Asian Communist [1 of NSA’s 4 major operational divisions]
ADC Aerospace Defense Command
ADLA Assistant Director for Legal and Legislative Affairs [NSA]
ADM Admiral
ADPL Assistant Director for Policy and Liaison [NSA]
ADPR Assistant Director for Plans/Resources [NSA]
ADT Assistant Director for Training [NSA?]
ADVA Advanced Soviet [1 of 4 major operational divisions of NSA’s production organisation; combined with GENS into a group]
AEC Atomic Energy Commission
AF Air Force
AFB Air Force Base
AFESC Air Force Electronic Security Command
AFGWC Air Force Global Weather Control
AFIS Air Force Intelligence Service
AFOC Air Force Operations Center
AFOSI Air Force Office of Special Investigations
AFOSP Air Force Office of Security Police
AFP Agence France-Presse
AFR Air Force Regulation(s)
AFSA Armed Forces Security Agency
AFSAC Armed Forces Security Agency Council
AFSC Air Force Systems Command
AFSS Air Force Security Council
AFWL Air Force Weapons Laboratory
AISS Air Intelligence Service Squadron
ALLO All Others [1 of 4 major operational divisions of NSA’s production organisation – now known as G Group]
ALP Advanced Language Programme
Alt Altitude
AM Ante-Meridian [before 12.00]
AMB Ambassador
AMC Air Materiel Command
AMN Airman
ANCIB Army-Navy Communications Intelligence Board
ANCICC Army-Navy Communications Intelligence Co-Ordinating Committee
ANG Air National Guard
AP Associated Press
APC Armed Personnel Carrier?
APG Aerial Phenomena Group
APN Associated Press News
APRO Aerial Phenomena Research Organization
ARC Ad Hoc Requirements Committee
ARDF Airborne Radio Direction-Finding
ARFCOS Armed Forces Courier Service
ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency
ARTC Air Route Traffic Control
ARTCC Air Route Traffic Control Centre
ASA Army Security Agency
ASD Applied Science Division [CIA]
AST Atlantic Standard Time
ATC Air Traffic Control(ler)
ATIC Air Technical Intelligence Center [Air Force]
AWOL Absent Without Leave
AZ Arizona, America, North America
BA British Airways
BAF Belgian Air Force
BBC British Broadcasting Corporation
BGen Brigadier General
BUFORA British UFO Research Association
BWI British West Indies?
CA Civil Affairs
CACEX Carteira de Comércio Exterior do Banco do Brasil
CAP Combat Air Patrol
Capt Captain
CAS Chief of the Air Staff
CAUS Citizens Against UFO Secrecy
CAVU Ceiling And Visibility Unrestricted
CC Command Center?
Cdr Commander
CE Close Encounter
CE1 Close Encounter of the First Kind
CE2 Close Encounter of the Second Kind
CE3 Close Encounter of the Third Kind
CERT Committee on Energy, Research and Technology
CFS Canadian Forces Station
CG Commanding General
CGS Chief of the General Staff?
CGS Coast Guard Station
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CIC Counter-Intelligence Corps
CIG Central Intelligence Group
CINC/NORAD Commander in Charge, NORAD
CINCPAC Commander-in-Chief, US Pacific Command
CIOVI Centro de Investigación de Objetos Voladores Inidentificados
CIRVIS Communication Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings
Civ Civilian
CNES Centre National d’Etudes Spatiaux
Co Company
Col Colonel
COMINT Communications Intelligence [NSA]
CP Command Post
CR Clarification Request
CSC Central Security Council [Air Force]
CST Central Standard Time
CT Connecticut
CUFORN Canadian UFO Research Network
CUFOS Center for UFO Studies
DATT Defense Attache [US Embassy]
DC District of Columbia
DCD Domestic Collections Division [CIA]
DCI Director of Central Intelligence
DCII Defense Central Index of Investigations
DCSOPS Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans [Air Force]
DDO Deputy Director for Operations [Air Force]
Det Detachment
DIA Defense Intelligence Agency
DMO&P Directorate of Military Operations and Plans
DMZ Demilitarized Zone
DNI Director of Naval Intelligence? Director of National Intelligence?
DO Duty Officer
Dom Observ Domestic Observer
DOT Department of Transport
DPS Department of Public Safety
Dr Doctor
DRB Defence Research Board
DRB Defence Research Board Committee
DSTI Department of Scientific and Technical Intelligence
EBE Extraterrestrial Biological Entity
EC European Community
EEC European Economic Community
EM Electromagnetic
EMP Electromagnetic Pulse
EST Eastern Standard Time
ETA Estimated Time of Arrival
ETH Extraterrestrial Hypothesis
F Fahrenheit
FAA Federal Aviation Administration
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
FISA Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
F/L Flight Lieutenant
Fm Form
FOIA Freedom of Information Act
FPS Frames Per Second
Ft Feet
Ft Fort
FTD Foreign Technology Division
FTS Flying Training School
G2 [Army Intelligence]
GAO Government Accounting Office
GCA Ground-Controlled Approach
GCCS Government Code and Cipher School
GCHQ Government Communications HQ
GCI Ground Control Intercept
GENS General Soviet [1 of 4 major operational divisions of NSA’s production organisation; combined with ADVA into “a group”]
GEPAN Groupe d’Etude des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-Identifiés
GG Government Grade [used in place of GS1 to GS10 – only for Government employees for, eg, NSA]
GMT Greenwich Mean Time
GOC Ground Observer Corps
Govt Government
GSW Ground Saucer Watch
HFDF High-Frequency Direction Finding
Hon Honourable
HQ Headquarters
HUAC House Un-American Activities Committee
HUMINT Human Intelligence
I Interstate [highway]
IAC Intelligence Advisory Committee
ICI Intelligence Collection Instructions
ICI Interagency Committee on Intelligence
ICUFON Intercontinental UFO Galactic Spacecraft Research and Analytic Network
IDA-CRD Institute for Defense Analysis – Communications Research Division
IDP Intercept Deployment Plan
IEC Intelligence Evaluation Commitee
ILS Instrument Landing System
In Inch
INF Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces
INS International News Service
INSCOM Intelligence and Security Command [US Army]
INTELPOST International Electronic Post
INTELSAT International Telecommunications Satellite
INYSA Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, USAF, Science and Technology branch, Directorate of Response Management
INZ Aerospace Intelligence Division [AFIS]
INZA Editing, Debriefing and Continuity Branch [AFIS]
IPB Intercept Priorities Board
IPU Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit
IR Infrared
ITN Independent Television News
ITV Independent Television
JACL Judge Advocate General, Litigation Division [USAF]
JANAP Joint Army/Navy/Air Force Publication
JCS Joint Chiefs of Staff
JIC Joint Intelligence Committee
JIS Joint Intelligence Staff
JOSAF Joint Operations Support Activity – Frankfurt
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jr Junior
JRC Joint Reconnaissance Center
JRDB Joint Research and Development Board
JSPC Joint SOBE Processing Center
JTLS Joint Technical Language Serivce
KAFB Kirtland Air Force Base
KGB Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti [Committee for State Security – USSR]
KISR Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research
KM Kilometre
KMH Kilometres Per Hour
KS Kansas
KW Kilowatts
LASP Low Altitude Surveillance Platform
Lb Pounds [weight]
LCF Launch Control Facility [Air Force]
LEM Lunar Exploration Module
LOB Raymond E Linn Operations Building
LPMEDLEY [CIA cryptonm for an operation in support of the NSA]
LRTS Long Range Technical
Lt Lieutenant
Lt Cdr Lieutenant Commander
Ltd Limited
LUFOS London UFO Studies
M Monsieur
M5 [NSA Office of Security]
Maj Major
MEP Member of the European Parliament
MI-8 Military Intelligence Section 8 [codes and ciphers]
MIB Men In Black
MID Military Intelligence Division
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mlle Mademoiselle
MO Missouri
MOD Ministry of Defence
MP Member of Parliament
MP Military Policeman
MPH Miles Per Hour
MPRO Machine Processing Section of NSA’s production organisation
MPS Manipulations Per Sequence
MSL Mean Sea Level
MST Mountain Standard Time
Mt Mount
MUFON Mutual UFO Network
MW Megawatts
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NAVSPASUR Naval Space Surveillance System
NCOC National Combat Operations Center
NDI Near-Death Experience
NDRC National Defense Research Committee
NEPA Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft
NIA Naval Intelligence Agency
NICAP National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena
NM Nautical Mile
NM New Mexico
NMCC National Military Command Center
NMPH Nautical Miles Per Hour
No Number
NORAD North American Aerospace Defense Command
NPIC National Photographic Interpretation Center
NRC National Research Council [Canada]
NRL Naval Research Laboratory
NSA National Security Agency
NSC National Security Council
NSF National Science Foundation
NYPD New York Police Department
OAM Operation Animal Mutilation
OCI Office of Current Intelligence
OFI Office of Federal Investigation
OH Ohio
OMI Office of Military Intelligence?
ONI Office of Naval Intelligence
ORTK Operation Right To Know
OSI Office of Scientific Intelligence [CIA]
OSI Office of Special Investigations [Air Force]
OSRD Office of Scientific Research and Development
OSS Office of Strategic Services
PAA Pan-American Airways
PFC Private First Class
PIL Photographic Interpretation Laboratory
PM Post-Meridian [after 12.00]
PR Public Relations
PR Puerto Rico
Prof Professor
PSAC President’s Science Advisory Committee
PSAPR Puget Sound Aerial Phenomena Research Inc
PSI Project Starlight International
R&D Research and Development
RAAF Roswell Army Air Field
RAAF Royal Australian Air Force
RAF Royal Air Force
RAPCOM Radar Approach Communications
RAPCON Radar Approach Control
RATCC Radar Air Traffic Control Center
RBAF Royal Belgian Air Force
RCMP Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Ret Retired
RPV Remotely Piloted Vehicle
RG Record Group
SA Special Agent
SAC Strategic Air Command
SAC/HO Strategic Air Command Office of History
SACEUR Supreme Allied Commander Europe
SAF Secretary of the Air Force
SAFOI Secretary of the Air Force Office of Information
SAO Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
SAS Special Air Service
SBI Special Background Investigation
SDC Space Defense Center
SDI Strategic Defense Initiative
SDS Students for a Democratic Society
Sen Senator
SEPRA Service d’Expertise des Phénomènes de Rentrée Atmosphérique
Sgt Sergeant
SHAEF Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
SIGINT Signals Intelligence [NSA]
SIGLEX Special Interest Group on Lexicography
SIGTRAN Special Interest Group on Translation
SIGVOICE Special Interest Group on Voice
SIPG Special Intercept Priorities Group
SIS Signal Intelligence Service
S/L Squadron Leader
SLR Single Lens Reflex
SOBEPS Société Belgique d’Etude des Phénomènes Spatiaux
SOLIS Sigint Online Intelligence System
SPADATS Space Detection and Tracking System [NORAD]
SPGp Scientific Planning Group
SPS Security Police Squadron
Sr Señor
Sra Señora
SSA Signal Security Agency
SSAN Social Security Account Number
SSB Soft Support Building [USAF]
S/Sgt Staff Sergeant
SSP Special Studies Project
SVHS Super VHS
TID Technical Intelligence Division
TIA Temperature Inversion Analysis
TID Technical Intelligence Division
UAO Unidentified Aerial Object
UFO Unidentified Flying Object(s)
UFOB Unidentified Flying Object(s)
UFOIS UFO Information Service
UFORC UFO Reporting Center
UHF Ultra-High Frequency
UN United Nations
UPI United Press International
UPS United Parcels Service
URE Unidentified Radar Echo
US United States
USA United States of America
USAAF United States Army Air Force
USAF United States Air Force
USG United States Government
USN United States Navy
UV Ultraviolet
VAR Visual And Radar
VAR Visual-Aural Radio Range
VC [Rate of closure]
VCR Video Cassette Recorder
VHF Very High Frequency
VUFORS Victorian UFO Research Society
WATC Wellington Air Traffic Control
WF Wright Field AFB
WH White House
W-PAFB Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Z Zulu [universal time]