1941 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D8P45)
Donald Keyhoe and John J. Daly co-authored an article in Cosmopolitan magazine alleging a Hitlerian plan to seize the United States Merchant Marine. The FBI determined that the information Keyhoe claimed the Bureau possessed regarding this plan was false.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 45 of 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_9, 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 January, 1941 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
Donald Keyhoe and John J. Daly co-authored an article in Cosmopolitan magazine alleging a Hitlerian plan to seize the United States Merchant Marine. The FBI determined that the information Keyhoe claimed the Bureau possessed regarding this plan was false.
Witnesses on file: John J. Daly.
Verbatim from the file
“Hitler’s Plan to Seize the United States Merchant Marine.”. “indication was completely alse”
Status of the case
The page-level assessment recorded in the file is: identified as hoax. 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.