CAP Liaie Officer, Kirtlend UAP Encounter, 1947 — USAAF Box 7 #227
A first saucer wave case from CAP Liaie Officer, Kirtlend. Incident #227 of the U.
Background
In 1947, near CAP Liaie Officer, Kirtlend, the U.S. Army Air Forces recorded an unidentified-object incident that became Incident #227 in the “Check-List - Unidentified Flying Objects” series archived in Box 7 of file 38_143685. The records were released by the Department of War on May 8, 2026 as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). The case is one of the first wave of “flying saucer” reports that swept the United States after the Kenneth Arnold sighting of June 1947 and the Roswell incident of July 1947.
What the form records
Incident #227 of the U.S. Army Air Forces “Check-List - Unidentified Flying Objects” series, archived in Box 7 of file 38_143685 and released by the Department of War on May 8, 2026 as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). The summary records that an unspecified observer reported a sighting near CAP Liaie Officer, Kirtlend.
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. The federal government has not concluded these 1947-era incidents were anomalous, has not concluded they were conventional, and has not ruled out either possibility. Conventional candidates for the 1947 saucer wave include the Project Mogul balloon flights then active over the U.S. Southwest, experimental jet and rocket aircraft, atmospheric optical effects, and astronomical objects misidentified at unusual angles.