1910 UAP Sighting — FBI Files
Early research into aircraft design showed circular surfaces had good non-stalling characteristics, but were abandoned in favor of designs with longer wings to minimize air slip. The author notes that disc-like aircraft could have existed for decades.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 45 of 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_SUB_A, a declassified FBI vault file released by the Department of War on May 8, 2026 as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). The incident is dated 1910 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
Early research into aircraft design showed circular surfaces had good non-stalling characteristics, but were abandoned in favor of designs with longer wings to minimize air slip. The author notes that disc-like aircraft could have existed for decades.
Witnesses on file: unknown.
Status of the case
The page-level assessment recorded in the file is: no agency assessment. All records released under the PURSUE program are designated unresolved by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office unless otherwise stated, meaning the federal government has not concluded the events were anomalous, has not concluded they were conventional, and has not ruled out either possibility. Conventional candidates for sightings of this period include experimental aircraft, weather balloons (especially the Project Mogul series), atmospheric optical phenomena, and astronomical objects.