1958 UAP Sighting — FBI Files (D8P213)
In 1958, the FBI began a yearly review of complaints regarding flying saucers to determine if additional field instructions were needed. This review process was discontinued in 1963, as it was deemed unnecessary given the existing policy of referring all UFO reports to the Air Fo
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 213 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 1958 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
In 1958, the FBI began a yearly review of complaints regarding flying saucers to determine if additional field instructions were needed. This review process was discontinued in 1963, as it was deemed unnecessary given the existing policy of referring all UFO reports to the Air Force.
Witnesses on file: FBI agents.
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.