DoW · DOW-UAP-D084
US Army P&O Evaluation Study of the Flying Saucer Phenomenon (1949)
This document is a 25 page US Army file built around a 1949 evaluation study of the "flying saucer phenomenon," prepared by the Army Intelligence Division (ID) at the request of the Plans and Operations Division (P&O) of the General Staff. The legible portions are routing slips and Memoranda for Record dated March and April 1949 that record the study's purpose and its central finding. The text extraction was sparse for the page count, so this is a partial reading of what survived OCR.
Key excerpts
“1. ID had submitted, at P&O[']s request, a study of the flying saucer phenomenon. This study int[im]ated that of all cases investigated there was no foreign nation implication in these flying saucers. (p. 3)”
“[study] was prepared at request of P&O to determine if [the] various reports on this subject stemmed from natural phenomena or if the origin could be traced definitely to the activities of a foreign power. (p. 1)”