1947 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D196P4)
Project Mogul was a US Air Force project conducted from 1947 to 1949. It involved the use of high-altitude balloons to detect Soviet nuclear tests.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 4 of AARO Historical Record Report Vol 1 2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated 1947-1949 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
Project Mogul was a US Air Force project conducted from 1947 to 1949. It involved the use of high-altitude balloons to detect Soviet nuclear tests.
Witnesses on file: not specified in the released document.
Status of the case
The page-level assessment recorded in the document is: identified as balloon. 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.