Dept. of DefenseUnresolvedAmbiguous
Flat oval soundless object moving slowly — APO 906 area (Pacific theater?), November 8, 1948
Nov 8, 1948APO 906 area (Pacific theater, exact location not recoverable)
Analysis — our summary
A report filed at an APO 906 address on November 8, 1948, described a flat oval object observed at a distance of 5-10 miles. The object moved slowly and soundlessly. Most details were not recoverable from the OCR-degraded form fields.
As reported — verbatim from the document
“Flat oval at 5-10 miles, moved slowly, soundlessly.”
Analyst notes — caveats & confidence
Incident ~203. APO 906 does not allow precise geolocating; coordinates set to null. OCR quality is extremely poor; most fields are not legible. Confidence is very low. This compilation (173-233) is among the most heavily OCR-degraded documents in this batch.
Provenance
Source document38_143685_box7_Incident_Summaries_173-233.pdf
Document typeincident summary compilation
Reporting agencyDept. of Defense
Source pages144
DeclassifiedFirst public at this release (2026)
Held classified~78 years (≥, to this release)
Extraction confidence Very lowHow cleanly this record could be parsed from the source — driven by legibility & redaction. It is not a measure of how credible or anomalous the sighting is.