Case File · AARO · Cold War Sightings (1953-1969) Declassified May 8, 2026 · PURSUE Release 01

1958 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D214P4 var 4)

UFO Visual Sighting

VZ-9AV Avrocar/Project Silver Bug was a Canadian project conducted in 1958. It involved the development of a flying saucer-shaped aircraft.

1958
Unknown location
Source document: PURSUE doc 214
Source document: PURSUE doc 214 · Source: declassified document

Background

A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 4 of dopsr hrrv1 march2024, 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 conducted in 1958. It involved the development of a flying saucer-shaped aircraft.

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.

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