1942 UAP Sighting — FBI Files
A full-size saucer aircraft was built by Chance-Vought and tested by Navy engineers. The project was later stated to have been dropped, marking an early focus on saucers within the Navy.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 101 of 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_5, 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 1942 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
A full-size saucer aircraft was built by Chance-Vought and tested by Navy engineers. The project was later stated to have been dropped, marking an early focus on saucers within the Navy.
Witnesses on file: Navy engineers.
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.