1947 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D3P137)
An FBI agent observed an unidentified object while driving. The object was described as frosty white and moving at high speed. The agent believed it was not a meteor and speculated it might be radically built and powered, possibly by atomic energy.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 137 of 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_3, 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 April 1947 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
An FBI agent observed an unidentified object while driving. The object was described as frosty white and moving at high speed. The agent believed it was not a meteor and speculated it might be radically built and powered, possibly by atomic energy.
Witnesses on file: FBI agent Savage.
Verbatim from the file
""this object appeared to be frosty white in color at all times"". ""this object was not a meteor and in his opinion it must be radically built snd powered, probably atomic."". ""he distinguished a swishing sound like the rushing of air""
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.