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SS Burgeo marine saucer sightings — July 1947 (two incidents)
~Jul 1947Newfoundland coastal waters, Canada (approx.)
⟳ Deeper read pending. This record is from the FBI 62-HQ-83894 flying-disc file, whose cursive, clippings and faint scans are under-read by automated OCR. It is flagged for a vision-transcription pass and likely undercounts what the source contains — see the documents collection note.
Analysis — our summary
Marine saucer sightings from the SS Burgeo operating in Newfoundland coastal waters were reported on approximately July 15 and July 20, 1947. Objects were described as silvery and reddish flashes making abrupt course changes at high speed. The incidents were documented in Air Defense Command intelligence reports forwarded to Army Air Forces headquarters.
As reported — verbatim from the document
“Silvery/reddish flashes with abrupt course changes at high speed, observed from ship on two occasions approximately July 15 and July 20, 1947.”
Analyst notes — caveats & confidence
Marine observers on two separate dates. OCR quality is poor for this section of the document; details are fragmentary. Object descriptions are sparse.
Provenance
Source document65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_130.pdf
Document typeintelligence report collection
Reporting agencyFBI
Source pages126
DeclassifiedFirst public at this release (2026)
Held classified~79 years (≥, to this release)
Extraction confidence 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.