1947 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D33P125 var 2)
On July 9, 1947, Special Agent Reynolds met with Brigadier General Schulgen to discuss flying disks. General Schulgen explained the Air Corps was investigating these sightings to determine their nature, considering both celestial and mechanically-created origins. He also noted th
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 125 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 9, 1947 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
On July 9, 1947, Special Agent Reynolds met with Brigadier General Schulgen to discuss flying disks. General Schulgen explained the Air Corps was investigating these sightings to determine their nature, considering both celestial and mechanically-created origins. He also noted the possibility of false reports motivated by publicity or political reasons, and even mass hysteria.
Witnesses on file: FBI agent S. W. Reynolds.
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.