Miami, Florida UFO Sighting (March 14, 1945) — FBI Files (D1P69)
A foo fighters era case from Miami, Florida. PEYERL claimed to have been shot down by the British while flying an advanced aircraft.
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 claimed to have been shot down by the British while flying an advanced aircraft. He stated this aircraft utilized a fuel mixture of Methyl Alcohol and possessed high-speed rocket motors. He believed the Allies captured the aircraft and that the technology would be beneficial in Vietnam.
The number of witnesses is not specified in the released document.
Verbatim from the file
“Fuel mixture of Ng, in Methyl Alcohol (CH2Z0H) rather than ‘oxygen-holding’ mixture of hydrogen peroxide in water.”. “1,3m high two rocket motors; flow, rotary drive over 2,000 meters per second…”. “He feels such a weapon would be beneficial in Vietnam and would prevent the further loss of American lives”
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.