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

Project Blue Book Case (1947) — USAF Records (D213P19)

UFO Visual Sighting

Project Blue Book: Project Blue Book began in 1947 and investigated over 12,000 sightings. The project concluded that no UFOs posed a threat to national security and there was no evidence of extraterrestrial vehicles.

1947
Unknown location
Source document: PURSUE doc 213
Source document: PURSUE doc 213 · Source: declassified document

Background

A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 19 of aaro historical record vol1 2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated 1947 and located in Unknown location.

What the document records

Project Blue Book began in 1947 and investigated over 12,000 sightings. The project concluded that no UFOs posed a threat to national security and there was no evidence of extraterrestrial vehicles.

Witnesses on file: USAF personnel.

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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