1949 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D4P125)
The Department of the Air Force provided a memorandum to the FBI regarding 'Unconventional Aircraft'. The memo outlined the type of information the Air Force desired regarding these objects. The FBI was instructed to refer to this memo when collecting data from individuals who vo
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 125 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 February 15, 1949 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
The Department of the Air Force provided a memorandum to the FBI regarding ‘Unconventional Aircraft’. The memo outlined the type of information the Air Force desired regarding these objects. The FBI was instructed to refer to this memo when collecting data from individuals who voluntarily offered information.
Witnesses on file: Department of the Air Force.
Verbatim from the file
“Unconventional Aircraft”
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.