1947 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D2P125)
A complete survey of research activities within the Army Air Forces was conducted to determine if any projects matched the characteristics of reported flying discs. The survey found no such projects. This information was communicated in a letter to the Director.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 125 of 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_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 September 5, 1947 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
A complete survey of research activities within the Army Air Forces was conducted to determine if any projects matched the characteristics of reported flying discs. The survey found no such projects. This information was communicated in a letter to the Director.
Witnesses on file: Brigadier General George F. Schmigen.
Status of the case
The page-level assessment recorded in the file is: no project with characteristics similar to those which have been associated with the flying discs. 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.