1947 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D214P13)
Project SAUCER was the first USG effort to investigate unidentified flying objects. Its exact founding date and official name are unclear, but it was established by General Nathan Twining in late December 1947 or early 1948. The project aimed to investigate reports of unidentifie
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 13 of dopsr hrrv1 march2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated 1946/1947–January 1948 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
Project SAUCER was the first USG effort to investigate unidentified flying objects. Its exact founding date and official name are unclear, but it was established by General Nathan Twining in late December 1947 or early 1948. The project aimed to investigate reports of unidentified aerial phenomena.
Witnesses on file: General Nathan Twining.
Status of the case
The page-level assessment recorded in the document is: no agency assessment. AARO designates unresolved cases as those for which the agency 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 recent periods include drones, classified test platforms, satellite re-entry, balloon traffic, atmospheric optical phenomena, and astronomical objects.