1952 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D6P173)
Drew Pearson displayed photographs of flying discs on a television program. The source of these photographs is uncertain, but may be related to photographs obtained by the FBI from a subject in another case. The FBI recommended contacting the OST to determine if the photos were t
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 173 of 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_6, 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 June 8, 1952 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
Drew Pearson displayed photographs of flying discs on a television program. The source of these photographs is uncertain, but may be related to photographs obtained by the FBI from a subject in another case. The FBI recommended contacting the OST to determine if the photos were the same.
Witnesses on file: Drew Pearson.
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.