1953 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D8P82)
In 1953, Albert Bender allegedly stated he knew what flying saucers were. Shortly after, he was allegedly silenced by three men in black suits and has refused to discuss the matter since. Claude Marck believes the FBI is involved in this "Bender Affair."
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 82 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 1953 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
In 1953, Albert Bender allegedly stated he knew what flying saucers were. Shortly after, he was allegedly silenced by three men in black suits and has refused to discuss the matter since. Claude Marck believes the FBI is involved in this “Bender Affair.”
Witnesses on file: Albert Bender.
Verbatim from the file
“In 1953 Bender allegedly stated he knew what the saucers are”. “Three men in black suits silenced Bender to the extent that even today Bender will not discuss the matter of his “hush-up” with anyone”
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.