1947 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D33P131)
A memorandum details communication between the FBI and Brigadier General George F. Schulgen of the Army Air Corps Intelligence regarding flying discs. The Army Air Corps requested FBI cooperation in investigating the sightings, with the stipulation that the FBI have full access t
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 131 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 10, 1947 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
A memorandum details communication between the FBI and Brigadier General George F. Schulgen of the Army Air Corps Intelligence regarding flying discs. The Army Air Corps requested FBI cooperation in investigating the sightings, with the stipulation that the FBI have full access to any recovered discs. General Schulgen assured the FBI of complete cooperation and promised to share the results of his scientists’ studies.
Witnesses on file: FBI agents.
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.