1955 UAP Sighting — FBI Files
A correspondent named Catherine Aughen Baugh sent a letter claiming the existence of flying saucers and requested assistance from FBI agents to watch for them. She stated she had previously written to the President without receiving a response. The FBI determined she was in a dis
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 112 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 July 24, 1955 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
A correspondent named Catherine Aughen Baugh sent a letter claiming the existence of flying saucers and requested assistance from FBI agents to watch for them. She stated she had previously written to the President without receiving a response. The FBI determined she was in a disturbed condition.
Witnesses on file: Catherine Aughen Baugh.
Verbatim from the file
““written letters to the President, but that they have been ignored.””
Status of the case
The page-level assessment recorded in the file is: discounted by investigators. 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.