1947 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D33P163)
Lt. Col. Springer had previously provided information regarding a security matter, but now states he has no further details. The Seattle office is handling the matter and any dissemination of information should be paraphrased to protect coding systems. This communication concerns
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 163 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 9, 1947 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
Lt. Col. Springer had previously provided information regarding a security matter, but now states he has no further details. The Seattle office is handling the matter and any dissemination of information should be paraphrased to protect coding systems. This communication concerns a request for all information known by Springer.
Witnesses on file: Lt. Col. Donald C. Springer.
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.