1947 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D16P64)
The crew of a United Airlines flight reported observing several round, flat objects for approximately 12 minutes. This sighting, from trained observers, contributed to the growing reports of unidentified aerial phenomena.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 64 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 July 6, 1947 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
The crew of a United Airlines flight reported observing several round, flat objects for approximately 12 minutes. This sighting, from trained observers, contributed to the growing reports of unidentified aerial phenomena.
Witnesses on file: crew of a United Airlines plane.
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.