1949 UAP Sighting — USAF Files (D25P63)
On March 4, 1949, an unidentified object was sighted displaying a red light similar to that of an aircraft. The object was estimated to be at an altitude of approximately one thousand feet and traveling at around two hundred miles per hour in a west to east direction. It remained
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 63 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 March 4, 1949 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
On March 4, 1949, an unidentified object was sighted displaying a red light similar to that of an aircraft. The object was estimated to be at an altitude of approximately one thousand feet and traveling at around two hundred miles per hour in a west to east direction. It remained visible for about three minutes without producing any sound.
Witnesses on file: four reliable witnesses.
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.