1958 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D196P4 var 3)
VZ-9AV Avrocar/Project Silver Bug was a Canadian project from 1958 that aimed to develop a flying saucer-shaped aircraft. The project was ultimately unsuccessful.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 4 of AARO Historical Record Report Vol 1 2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated 1958 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
VZ-9AV Avrocar/Project Silver Bug was a Canadian project from 1958 that aimed to develop a flying saucer-shaped aircraft. The project was ultimately unsuccessful.
Witnesses on file: not specified in the released document.
Status of the case
The page-level assessment recorded in the document is: identified as aircraft. 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.