1947 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D16P3)
Multiple witnesses reported seeing unidentified flying objects near an unspecified location for over an hour. The objects were observed near military bases, airports, and U.S. Weather facilities. Investigators confirmed there were no jets or weather balloons in the area at the ti
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 3 of 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_SUB_A, a declassified FBI vault file released by the Department of War on May 8, 2026 as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). The incident is dated August 9, 1947 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
Multiple witnesses reported seeing unidentified flying objects near an unspecified location for over an hour. The objects were observed near military bases, airports, and U.S. Weather facilities. Investigators confirmed there were no jets or weather balloons in the area at the time of the sightings, which occurred between 10:40 PM and 11:30 PM.
Witnesses on file: nine persons.
Status of the case
The page-level assessment recorded in the file is: no agency assessment. All records released under the PURSUE program are designated unresolved by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office unless otherwise stated, meaning the federal government 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 this period include experimental aircraft, weather balloons (especially the Project Mogul series), atmospheric optical phenomena, and astronomical objects.