Case File · AARO · First Saucer Wave (1947-1952) Declassified May 8, 2026 · PURSUE Release 01

1947 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D196P2)

UFO Disc / Saucer Sighting

Project SAUCER was initiated in 1946/1947 and continued through January 1948. The document does not provide details about specific observations or findings of this project, only its timeframe.

1946/1947
Unknown location
Source document: PURSUE doc 196
Source document: PURSUE doc 196 · Source: declassified document

Background

A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 2 of AARO Historical Record Report Vol 1 2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated 1946/1947 and located in Unknown location.

What the document records

Project SAUCER was initiated in 1946/1947 and continued through January 1948. The document does not provide details about specific observations or findings of this project, only its timeframe.

Witnesses on file: not specified in the released document.

Status of the case

The page-level assessment recorded in the document is: no agency assessment. AARO designates unresolved cases as those for which the agency 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 recent periods include drones, classified test platforms, satellite re-entry, balloon traffic, atmospheric optical phenomena, and astronomical objects.

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