1958 UAP Sighting — FBI Files
A sighting was reported in 1958 by Ande Lorenzen, though details are minimal. The document indicates this is related to the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization. No specific details of the observation are provided.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 3 of 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_SUB_A, 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 1958 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
A sighting was reported in 1958 by Ande Lorenzen, though details are minimal. The document indicates this is related to the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization. No specific details of the observation are provided.
Witnesses on file: Ande LORENZEN.
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.