1947 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D2P132)
The FBI received a request from Colonel Golbranson of the War Department to investigate the origin of flying discs. The memo suggests the situation is similar to previous investigations into Japanese balloons, and believes the discs are likely a military weapon or related to mili
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 132 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 July 21, 1947 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
The FBI received a request from Colonel Golbranson of the War Department to investigate the origin of flying discs. The memo suggests the situation is similar to previous investigations into Japanese balloons, and believes the discs are likely a military weapon or related to military experiments.
Witnesses on file: Colonel Golbranson.
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.