1955 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D34P179)
The Air Force investigated 55000 reported sightings of unidentified flying objects. Their report found no evidence of their existence, though this was not a definitive denial of the phenomenon. The Air Force had previously been hesitant to address the issue directly.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 179 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 1955 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
The Air Force investigated 55000 reported sightings of unidentified flying objects. Their report found no evidence of their existence, though this was not a definitive denial of the phenomenon. The Air Force had previously been hesitant to address the issue directly.
Witnesses on file: Air Force.
Verbatim from the file
“OUGHT TO, ONCE AND FOR ALL, WAIL IT DOWN AND Say IT IS PURE FICTION.”. “HAD INVESTIGATED 5 55000 EEE CRTED SIGHTINGS AND FOUND “NO EVIDENCE®“
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.