1952 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D8P213)
Similar to 1949, SAC Letters were also issued in 1952 reiterating the FBI's policy of not conducting investigations into unidentified flying objects. Field offices were again directed to forward all relevant information directly to the Air Force. This policy was still current in
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 213 of 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_9, 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 1952 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
Similar to 1949, SAC Letters were also issued in 1952 reiterating the FBI’s policy of not conducting investigations into unidentified flying objects. Field offices were again directed to forward all relevant information directly to the Air Force. This policy was still current in 1963.
Witnesses on file: FBI agents.
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.