1949 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D7P20)
A translated German document describes a flying saucer-shaped weapon, potentially in Russian possession. The device is described as a disk approximately 48-50 meters in diameter with circular nozzles and a central plexiglass sphere containing control and measuring devices. The do
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 20 of 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_7, 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 November 1949 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
A translated German document describes a flying saucer-shaped weapon, potentially in Russian possession. The device is described as a disk approximately 48-50 meters in diameter with circular nozzles and a central plexiglass sphere containing control and measuring devices. The document claims it can carry atomic bombs and has a range of 30-35,000 km.
Witnesses on file: RIEDEL (German weapons constructor).
Verbatim from the file
““a V-weapon which has @ round body similar to a disk having a diameter of about 48-50 m.””. ““These weapons are in iussian hands and can have an effective range of 30-35,000 km.””. ““I am sure that the truth is better than a panic among ignorant people.””
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.