Case File · AARO · First Saucer Wave (1947-1952) Declassified May 8, 2026 · PURSUE Release 01

United Kingdom UFO Sighting (1950–1951) — AARO Records (D214P26)

UFO Disc / Saucer Sighting

A first saucer wave case from United Kingdom. The United Kingdom’s Flying Saucer Working Party concluded that flying saucers did not exist.

1950–1951
United Kingdom
First page of dopsr hrrv1 march2024
First page of dopsr hrrv1 march2024 · Source: declassified document

Background

On 1950–1951, in United Kingdom, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) recorded the unidentified-phenomenon case described below. The case is preserved in AARO’s 2024-2025 publications and consolidated annual reports to Congress, declassified or released in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and Department of Defense reporting cycles.

One of the first wave of “flying saucer” reports that swept the united states after the kenneth arnold sighting of june 1947 and the roswell incident of july 1947.

The case appears in materials produced or curated by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.

What the document records

The United Kingdom’s Flying Saucer Working Party concluded that flying saucers did not exist.

Type of case

The witnesses described the object as disc- or saucer-shaped.

Status

AARO designates unresolved cases as those for which the agency has not concluded the events were anomalous, has not concluded that they were conventional, and has not ruled out either possibility. Conventional candidates for sightings of recent periods include commercial drones, classified test platforms, satellite re-entry, balloon traffic, atmospheric optical phenomena, and astronomical objects.

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