2019 UAP Sighting — AARO Records
An article in Naval History Magazine discusses an aircraft nicknamed 'The Pancake' which did not fly. The article details the history and development of the Vought V-173 flying pancake aircraft.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 57 of AARO Historical Record Report Vol 1 2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated June 2019 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
An article in Naval History Magazine discusses an aircraft nicknamed ‘The Pancake’ which did not fly. The article details the history and development of the Vought V-173 flying pancake aircraft.
Witnesses on file: Norman Polmar.
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.