1947 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D5P157)
UFO/UAP reports began in the US in 1947 and continued for some time. These reports received significant press coverage and prompted semi-official opinions. The USAF investigated hundreds of incidents and attributed approximately 75% to known causes like balloons, aircraft, and me
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 157 of 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_5, 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
UFO/UAP reports began in the US in 1947 and continued for some time. These reports received significant press coverage and prompted semi-official opinions. The USAF investigated hundreds of incidents and attributed approximately 75% to known causes like balloons, aircraft, and meteors.
Witnesses on file: civilian observers.
Status of the case
The page-level assessment recorded in the file is: identified as star or planet. 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.