1954 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D34P40)
During a private conversation, Lt. Col. John O'Mara, Deputy Commander of Intelligence, confirmed the existence of "flying saucers." He categorized sightings into three breakdowns: extraterrestrial devices, secret American technology, and unexplained natural phenomena. O'Mara indi
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 40 of 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_8, 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 September 21, 1954 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
During a private conversation, Lt. Col. John O’Mara, Deputy Commander of Intelligence, confirmed the existence of “flying saucers.” He categorized sightings into three breakdowns: extraterrestrial devices, secret American technology, and unexplained natural phenomena. O’Mara indicated the Air Force intends to cooperate with the public and release information regarding past contradictions and sightings.
Witnesses on file: Lt. Col. John O’Mara.
Verbatim from the file
“Flying saucers ”do exist””. “Something does exist”. “we want to cooperate and dispense with the misconception that ”flying saucers” do not exist”
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.