1947 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D33P114)
A letter inquired whether recipients had observed unidentified "saucers" and posed philosophical questions about their potential significance. The letter's authors, the Combined and Amalgamated Committee of Sky-Scanners, Dise Decipherers and New-Product Introducers, suggested a r
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 114 of 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_1, 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 July 11, 1947 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
A letter inquired whether recipients had observed unidentified “saucers” and posed philosophical questions about their potential significance. The letter’s authors, the Combined and Amalgamated Committee of Sky-Scanners, Dise Decipherers and New-Product Introducers, suggested a revelation was forthcoming. The tone was speculative and promotional, hinting at a forthcoming product related to the observed phenomena.
Witnesses on file: the public (addressed in a letter).
Verbatim from the file
“Have you seen one of the mysterious “Saucers”?”. “We believe one of these startling discs is on its way to you.”. “Then the secret will be out.”
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.