Miami, Florida UFO Sighting (March 14, 1945) — FBI Files
A foo fighters era case from Miami, Florida. Peyerl stated he was shot down by the British on March 14, 1945, while reassigned to the Western Front.
Background
On March 14, 1945, in Miami, Florida, U.S. government investigators recorded an unidentified-object incident later released to the public on May 8, 2026 as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). The incident is one of the foo-fighter-era reports from the Second World War, when allied aircrews repeatedly described unexplained luminous objects pacing their bombers. The case was filed with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, whose Knoxville, Albuquerque, Los Angeles, and other field offices routed UFO reports to headquarters under the Bureau’s standing protocols for the protection of vital installations.
What the document records
Peyerl stated he was shot down by the British on March 14, 1945, while reassigned to the Western Front. He was subsequently held as a prisoner of war in London and Brussels until 1946. He later immigrated to the United States in 1952 and became a naturalized citizen in 1958.
The number of witnesses is not specified in the released document.
Type of case
The case is a visual sighting reported by ground or air observers.
Status
All records released under the PURSUE program are designated unresolved by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) by default. The federal government has not concluded that the events were anomalous, has not concluded that 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 in the late 1940s), atmospheric optical phenomena such as sundogs and lenticular clouds, and astronomical objects including Venus, the Moon, and meteors near the horizon.