1947 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D33P129)
An air-liner crew reported observing nine flying disks for a duration of twelve minutes. This sighting was part of a larger wave of reports across the country.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 129 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 1947 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
An air-liner crew reported observing nine flying disks for a duration of twelve minutes. This sighting was part of a larger wave of reports across the country.
Witnesses on file: Air-liner crew.
Verbatim from the file
""Report new Red Planes resemble’Flying Saucers’.-Air-liner crew reports seeing 9 flying diske for 12 minutes"". “These so-@alled saucers may be kites,but accortling to reports,these things didn’t flutter or float,they sailed and kites don’t sail,sthe stwanges part is, they all sailed in the same direction,from West to Haste”
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.