1947 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D3P77)
A letter dated September 10, 1947, from an unnamed Colonel, contains a detailed account of an investigation into flying discs. The letter appears to be related to attempts to sell information about the investigation. The content is focused on the investigation itself.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 77 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 10, 1947 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
A letter dated September 10, 1947, from an unnamed Colonel, contains a detailed account of an investigation into flying discs. The letter appears to be related to attempts to sell information about the investigation. The content is focused on the investigation itself.
Witnesses on file: Colonel.
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.