Kodiak, Alaska UFO Sighting (April 8, 1949) — USAF Files (D25P56 v3)
A first saucer wave case from Kodiak, Alaska. Paul Kreuger, a bus driver, reported seeing a greenish-blue object flash across the sky from Old Woman Mountain to Nyman Peninsula.
Background
On April 8, 1949, in Kodiak, Alaska, U.S. government investigators recorded an unidentified-object incident later released to the public on May 8, 2026 as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). The incident is one of the first wave of “flying saucer” reports that swept the United States after the Kenneth Arnold sighting of June 1947 and the Roswell incident of July 1947. The case appears in U.S. Department of Defense documents.
What the document records
Paul Kreuger, a bus driver, reported seeing a greenish-blue object flash across the sky from Old Woman Mountain to Nyman Peninsula. He described it as 1.5 feet in diameter and 10 feet long, flying at approximately 500 feet. The object faded from view as it passed over Nyman Peninsula.
The number of witnesses is not specified in the released document.
Verbatim from the file
“a strange creenish=bluc object flash across the sky”. “approximately 10 feet long”. “It had the appearance of a large greenish tracer shell”
Type of case
The case is a visual sighting reported by ground or air observers.
Status
All records released under the PURSUE program are designated unresolved by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) by default. The federal government has not concluded that the events were anomalous, has not concluded that 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 in the late 1940s), atmospheric optical phenomena such as sundogs and lenticular clouds, and astronomical objects including Venus, the Moon, and meteors near the horizon.