1947 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D3P47)
FBI agents Smith and Arnold investigated anonymous phone calls regarding a possible sabotage of an Army B-25 crash that killed Captain Davidson and Lieutenant Brown. They received conflicting information about the crash, including claims of the plane being shot down with 20mm she
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 47 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
FBI agents Smith and Arnold investigated anonymous phone calls regarding a possible sabotage of an Army B-25 crash that killed Captain Davidson and Lieutenant Brown. They received conflicting information about the crash, including claims of the plane being shot down with 20mm shells and the presence of alleged disc fragments on the plane. One individual involved reportedly left for Alaska.
Witnesses on file: FBI agents SMITH and ARNOLD.
Verbatim from the file
“Yes, they were.”. “the Army B=25 carrying Captain DAVIDSON and Lieutenant BROWN had been shot down with 20 mm, shells”. “one of the two ons who had been talking to ARNOLD and TH had now left for Alaska.”
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.