Unknown UAP Encounter, 1947 — USAAF Box 7 #191
Incident #191 of the 1947-era U.S. Army Air Forces UFO incident summaries (Box 7 of file 38_143685): an unspecified observer reported an unidentified flying object near RB, Srehbiel.
Background
Incident #191 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 RB, Srehbiel.
What the form records
The form’s descriptive fields are not legible in the current scan beyond the basic observer and location data.
Status of the case
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 sightings of this period include experimental aircraft, weather balloons (especially the Project Mogul series active over the U.S. Southwest in 1947), atmospheric optical phenomena, and astronomical objects.