Case File · FBI · Cold War / Blue Book Era (1953-1969) Declassified May 8, 2026 · PURSUE Release 01

1967 UAP Sighting — FBI Files

UFO Visual Sighting

The text expresses sympathy for Vladimir Komarov, a Soviet cosmonaut who died during a space venture on April 24th, 1967. The incident is mentioned within a larger article discussing space exploration and UFOs.

April 24th 1967
Unknown location
Source document: PURSUE doc 1
Source document: PURSUE doc 1 · Source: declassified document

Background

A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 90 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 April 24th 1967 and located in Unknown location.

What the file records

The text expresses sympathy for Vladimir Komarov, a Soviet cosmonaut who died during a space venture on April 24th, 1967. The incident is mentioned within a larger article discussing space exploration and UFOs.

Witnesses on file: UFO Contact magazine.

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.

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