1947 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D33P159)
A photographer captured images of flying discs over his apartment. He estimated the observation lasted 20-30 seconds, requiring him to look almost straight up to photograph them. The weather was hazy and cloudy with a slight breeze.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 159 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 August 8, 1947 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
A photographer captured images of flying discs over his apartment. He estimated the observation lasted 20-30 seconds, requiring him to look almost straight up to photograph them. The weather was hazy and cloudy with a slight breeze.
Witnesses on file: Billy (photographer).
Status of the case
The page-level assessment recorded in the file is: no further investigation. 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.