1947 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D3P157)
The FBI was asked by the Air Force to assist in investigating reported sightings of flying discs. The FBI was to investigate incidents of discs found on the ground, while the Air Force would interview observers. Hoover decided to discontinue FBI investigation of sightings and ref
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 157 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 September 27, 1947 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
The FBI was asked by the Air Force to assist in investigating reported sightings of flying discs. The FBI was to investigate incidents of discs found on the ground, while the Air Force would interview observers. Hoover decided to discontinue FBI investigation of sightings and refer complaints to the Air Force.
Witnesses on file: FBI agents.
Verbatim from the file
““ash can covers, toilet seats and whatnot.””
Status of the case
The page-level assessment recorded in the file is: discounted by investigators. 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.