1952 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D196P2)
Project BLUE BOOK began in March 1952 and continued through December 1969. The document does not provide details about specific observations or findings of this project, only its timeframe.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 2 of AARO Historical Record Report Vol 1 2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated March 1952 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
Project BLUE BOOK began in March 1952 and continued through December 1969. The document does not provide details about specific observations or findings of this project, only its timeframe.
Witnesses on file: not specified in the released document.
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.