1960 UAP Sighting — FBI Files
The witness observed an object and sent details to the Harvard College Observatory. The observatory determined the object was not man-made, but the witness concluded it was a camouflaged missile designed to appear as a meteor or flying saucer. The witness believes they determined
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 129 of 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_10, 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 18, 196 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
The witness observed an object and sent details to the Harvard College Observatory. The observatory determined the object was not man-made, but the witness concluded it was a camouflaged missile designed to appear as a meteor or flying saucer. The witness believes they determined how the object achieved speed, its wobbling effect, and lack of noise through experimentation.
Witnesses on file: I.
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.