1964 UAP Sighting — FBI Files
In November 1964, FBI Special Agent Reynolds discussed 'flying discs' with Colonel Garrett of Air Force Intelligence. Garrett believed the sightings could be a highly classified US Army or Navy experiment, noting the lack of concern from high-ranking officials contrasted with the
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 129 of 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_2, 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 November 18, 1964 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
In November 1964, FBI Special Agent Reynolds discussed ‘flying discs’ with Colonel Garrett of Air Force Intelligence. Garrett believed the sightings could be a highly classified US Army or Navy experiment, noting the lack of concern from high-ranking officials contrasted with the intense investigation of Swedish sightings. Reynolds questioned the need for FBI investigation if it was a US government experiment, and Garrett agreed it would be embarrassing if proven true.
Witnesses on file: FBI agents, Air Force Intelligence officers, War Department officials.
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.