PURSUE Record — 65_HS1-101634279_100-DE-26505: FBI · Germany · 11/7/57

Record 65_HS1-101634279_100-DE-26505 is a declassified FBI document released on May 8, 2026 as part of PURSUE Release 01, the U.S. Department of War's first coordinated UAP records disclosure. It is a single-part PDF originating from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, filed against an incident date of November 7, 1957, with the stated location of Germany. The document is an interview record, not a sensor report or imagery file — its evidentiary value is testimonial in nature.

What this record contains

According to the official release description, this FBI report from 1957 documents an interview with a man named Wladyslaw Krasuski. In that interview, Krasuski recounted witnessing what he described as a large, circular vehicle that rose vertically from the ground in 1944 Germany, in the vicinity of a German military compound. The incident date logged in the release metadata — November 7, 1957 — appears to correspond to when the interview was conducted, not when the described sighting occurred. The sighting itself, as relayed by Krasuski, took place during the Second World War, more than a decade before the report was written.

The record is classified as a single-part PDF. No additional supplemental files, corroborating witness statements, or follow-up investigation documents are listed in the public release metadata for this entry. The releasing agency is the FBI, and the document has been assigned the standard PURSUE Release 01 catalog identifier format.

Historical & documentary context

The FBI's involvement in aerial anomaly reporting dates to the post-war period. Following the 1947 wave of domestic sightings — including Kenneth Arnold's widely reported observation and the Roswell incident — the Bureau briefly opened a channel of communication with Army Air Forces intelligence, though Director J. Edgar Hoover's requests for direct access to physical evidence were rebuffed. By the mid-1950s, the Air Force's Project Blue Book had become the primary institutional home for UAP case intake; the FBI's role was largely limited to receiving reports forwarded by citizens and conducting occasional witness interviews at the request of other agencies. The 1957 timestamp on this record places it squarely in that secondary-role era, and in a remarkably active year for UAP reports — November 1957 produced one of the most documented domestic sighting clusters of the Cold War period.

The underlying event Krasuski described, however, belongs to a different historical layer entirely: wartime Germany, 1944. That period produced a documented class of aerial anomaly reports from both Allied and Axis military personnel — typically described in period records as luminous, fast-moving, or unconventionally maneuvering objects observed near active military operations. Krasuski's account, as summarized in the release blurb, fits within this broader category of retrospective wartime testimony that investigators were still collecting well into the 1950s. A thirteen-year gap between sighting and formal interview is not unusual for this genre of case.

What this does and does not prove

What the record establishes as documented fact is narrow: the FBI conducted an interview with a person named Wladyslaw Krasuski in 1957, and that interview produced a written report in which Krasuski described seeing a large, circular, vertically-rising object near a German military compound in 1944. That is the extent of what the declassified metadata confirms. The record does not establish that the described object was anomalous, extraterrestrial, or of non-human manufacture. It does not include physical evidence, corroborating witnesses, or independent sensor data. A retrospective testimonial account, filtered through a thirteen-year gap, carries inherent limitations regardless of the witness's credibility. PURSUE Release 01 makes clear across its documentation that inclusion in the release reflects investigative relevance, not a determination that any case is resolved or that any phenomenon has been confirmed.

How it fits PURSUE Release 01

This record is part of the FBI archive series within PURSUE Release 01, which spans historic interview files and investigative correspondence going back to 1947. Alongside the Department of War's contemporary mission sensor reports and NASA archive materials also present in the 162-document release, these FBI files provide the deepest historical reach in the set — in some cases, as here, preserving firsthand accounts of wartime-era observations that were never formally resolved. For a fuller view of where this document sits among the complete release, the SkyLens UAP files page catalogs every record with its agency, date, and type alongside links to primary source material and related PURSUE coverage.

Editorial note: This analysis is independent commentary on a publicly released document. The original record, source links, and full release metadata are catalogued on the SkyLens UAP files page alongside every other case in the PURSUE Release 01 set.