1947 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D3P45)
Arnold received a call from Crisman stating a B-25 had crashed, believed to be the same plane flown by Brown and Davidson. Crisman and Dahl attempted to gather information about the crash by calling McChord Field, and Arnold spoke with Colonel Gregg, who confirmed it was the only
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 45 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 August 1, 1947 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
Arnold received a call from Crisman stating a B-25 had crashed, believed to be the same plane flown by Brown and Davidson. Crisman and Dahl attempted to gather information about the crash by calling McChord Field, and Arnold spoke with Colonel Gregg, who confirmed it was the only plane to take off. Raymond Palmer then instructed Arnold to discontinue the investigation.
Witnesses on file: ARNOLD, CRISMAN, DAHL.
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.