1958 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D196P41)
In 1958, President Eisenhower approved a CIA-led program to develop a successor to the U-2 spy plane, which became the A-12 OXCART. The A-12 could reach Mach 3.2 at 90,000 feet and was later replaced by the SR-71.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 41 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
In 1958, President Eisenhower approved a CIA-led program to develop a successor to the U-2 spy plane, which became the A-12 OXCART. The A-12 could reach Mach 3.2 at 90,000 feet and was later replaced by the SR-71.
Witnesses on file: President Eisenhower.
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.