1949 UAP Sighting — USAF Files
Mr. Clark, a pilot, observed a dark, delta-shaped formation of objects while flying at 10,000 feet. The objects were larger than an F-51, darker than normal aluminum, and moved at an estimated 600 miles per hour. The formation initially headed at 300 degrees, then turned 180 degr
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 29 of 342_HS1-416511228_319.1 Flying Discs 1949, 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 25 July 1949 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
Mr. Clark, a pilot, observed a dark, delta-shaped formation of objects while flying at 10,000 feet. The objects were larger than an F-51, darker than normal aluminum, and moved at an estimated 600 miles per hour. The formation initially headed at 300 degrees, then turned 180 degrees to 120 degrees.
Witnesses on file: Mr. Clark.
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.