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

1947 UAP Sighting — USAF Files (D17P28)

UFO Disc / Saucer Sighting

A communication indicates the Army Air Forces does not have a research project matching characteristics described in a previous comment. The document appears to be a response regarding flying saucer phenomena. It is an internal routing and record sheet.

August 29, 1947
Unknown location
Source document: PURSUE doc 17
Source document: PURSUE doc 17 · Source: declassified document

Background

A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 28 of 18_100754_ General 1946-7_Vol_2, 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 29, 1947 and located in Unknown location.

What the file records

A communication indicates the Army Air Forces does not have a research project matching characteristics described in a previous comment. The document appears to be a response regarding flying saucer phenomena. It is an internal routing and record sheet.

Witnesses on file: Mr. Roddy.

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.

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