1947 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D2P28)
EMLDYSMITH reported that Dahl and Chrisman repeated a false story about fragments belonging to a flying disc during a conference. Dahl later admitted the story was a hoax on August 2nd. The fragments were provided to Captain Davidson and Lieutenant Brown, who subsequently died in
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 28 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 30, 1947 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
EMLDYSMITH reported that Dahl and Chrisman repeated a false story about fragments belonging to a flying disc during a conference. Dahl later admitted the story was a hoax on August 2nd. The fragments were provided to Captain Davidson and Lieutenant Brown, who subsequently died in a flight.
Witnesses on file: EMLDYSMITH.
Verbatim from the file
""…Dahl and Chrisman apparently repeated their false story about the material being fragments of a flying disc…"". ""…Dahl admitted that the story was a hoax…"". ""…the officers probably would not have taken the alleged fragments on their fatal flight…""
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.