1947 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D4P202)
Marquardt wrote to the FBI requesting information about a powder or dust used to catch thieves. This request occurred after an incident involving a possible impact on a house, which he believed was not a meteor. He also suggested further inquiries regarding the incident be direct
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 202 of 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_4, 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 14, 1947 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
Marquardt wrote to the FBI requesting information about a powder or dust used to catch thieves. This request occurred after an incident involving a possible impact on a house, which he believed was not a meteor. He also suggested further inquiries regarding the incident be directed to the State Police.
Witnesses on file: MARQUARDT.
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.