Krasuski's 1944 German Compound Sighting, FBI Interview 1957
65_HS1-101634279_100-DE-26505
A 1957 FBI interview report in which Wladyslaw Krasuski describes witnessing a large, circular, vertically-rising craft near a German military compound in 1944.
Brief
On November 7, 1957, FBI agents interviewed Wladyslaw Krasuski, who recounted observing an unidentified circular vehicle capable of vertical ascent near a German military installation during 1944. The sighting predates the modern UAP era by three years and occurred in an active wartime theater. No sensor data, photographs, or corroborating witnesses are referenced in the description. The document was released as part of the May 2026 U.S. Department of War UAP disclosure.
Metadata
- Agency
- FBI
- Release
- 5/8/26
- Incident
- 11/7/57
- Location
- Germany
- Type
- PDF • .pdf
- Length
- 15 pages
- Tags
- circular craft, vertical ascent, VTOL, 1944, Germany, WWII, German military compound, eyewitness interview, Cold War-era report
Key points
- Witness: Wladyslaw Krasuski, interviewed by FBI on or around November 7, 1957.
- Reported craft was large and circular in shape.
- Craft demonstrated vertical-ascent capability — consistent with what later literature would classify as VTOL behavior.
- Sighting occurred in 1944 Germany, near a German military compound.
- Report originates from FBI, suggesting the account reached U.S. federal intelligence channels roughly 13 years after the fact.
Most interesting
- The reported 1944 sighting predates both the Kenneth Arnold sighting and the Roswell incident by three years, placing it squarely inside World War II-era Germany.
- Proximity to a German military compound raises the question of whether the object was associated with German experimental aviation programs — though the document makes no such attribution.
- The Polish name Wladyslaw Krasuski is notable given the wartime context: ethnic Poles in 1944 Germany were often present as forced laborers or displaced persons, which would color the credibility assessment of the era.
- Vertical ascent as a distinguishing feature appears consistently across UAP reports spanning decades; its presence in a 1944 eyewitness account is among the earliest FBI-documented instances.
- A 13-year gap between the sighting (1944) and the FBI interview (1957) is significant for memory reliability, though the Bureau apparently considered the account worth recording.