1952 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D6P204)
Ora Tygrett wrote to the War Department (via the FBI) regarding flying saucers. The content of her letter is considered self-explanatory by the FBI. The FBI acknowledged her letter and informed her of the referral to the Air Force.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 204 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 July 31, 1952 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
Ora Tygrett wrote to the War Department (via the FBI) regarding flying saucers. The content of her letter is considered self-explanatory by the FBI. The FBI acknowledged her letter and informed her of the referral to the Air Force.
Witnesses on file: Ora A. Tygrett.
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.