DOW-UAP-D086: U.S. Navy Report of Flying Discs (1948)
Date
1948
Document Type
Gov. Report
Authentication
Official - DeclassifiedRedaction Status
▐ Partially RedactedIssuing Authority
United States Navy — Office of Naval Intelligence
Summary
U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence formal report on flying disc phenomena from 1948 — the earliest period of U.S. government flying disc investigation following Kenneth Arnold's June 1947 sighting. The Navy maintained an independent flying disc investigation capability alongside the Air Force's Project Sign (1948), and this report represents the Navy's institutional assessment from the inaugural year of formal government inquiry into the phenomenon.
Significance
One of the earliest formal multi-branch military assessments of flying disc phenomena, produced in the same year as the USAF's Project Sign and the famous Estimate of the Situation (1948). The Navy's independent 1948 assessment confirms the breadth of institutional concern across the entire U.S. military in the immediate post-Arnold era.