1947 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D3P45 var 2)
Lieutenants Brown and Davidson discussed the truth behind flying disc stories with others. They decided to return to Hamilton Field and later met with Crisman and Dahl, who presented fragments allegedly from a flying disc found on Maury Island. The fragments were given to Army of
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 19, 1947 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
Lieutenants Brown and Davidson discussed the truth behind flying disc stories with others. They decided to return to Hamilton Field and later met with Crisman and Dahl, who presented fragments allegedly from a flying disc found on Maury Island. The fragments were given to Army officers for examination.
Witnesses on file: Lieutenant BROWN, Captain DAVIDSON.
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.