DOW-UAP-D084, US Army-Flying-Saucer-Study_1949
This file contains an Evaluation Study of the Phenomenon (Flying Saucers) prepared at the request of the Plans & Operations Divisions of the General Staff, U.S. Army (P&O, GSUSA) to determine if the origin could be traced to natural phenomena or the activities of a foreign power.
The summary above is sourced from the released file metadata as published to war.gov. The analysis sections below are original to this tracker.
Text of the document
Machine-extracted from the PDF war.gov published (its text layer or OCR), so expect errors, especially in names, numbers and handwriting; the PDF is the authoritative copy. Lines that did not extract as readable text are left out. Showing about 280 words from pages 8, 12, 13, 15 of 25.
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Bxecutin Branch,. P&O uatien etuc:3T wae prepared at request of P&O to determine it varieus report• on thia aubjeot stemmed troa natural phenomena or it the origin could be traced detinitel7 to the actiTitie• ot a foreign power. 2. ID ia to keep P&O informed it future developments in thia field. are at Taria.nce with the en.l.uation placed on this atuqy. haa been intormed. 4. ACTION: Circulate a.a indicated. then tile in P&O.
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N-FILING FORM Evaluation Study of Phenomenon 5 Apr 49 Subject: Date: (Flying Saucers) Reply required by: None Executive Branch: European 8 Middle East Far East a Pacific Operations North American □ Joint War Plans • Army War Plans Recommend Approval: Advanced Study Branch Chief Group Chief Deputy Dire Deputy Director, Pa O
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MEMOHANDUM J?QR RECORD: 1. ID had submitted, at P&O• s request, a. study of the fiying saucer phenomenon. This study int:una.ted that of all cases investigated there was no foreign nation implication in these flying saucers. 2. Mr. Stites, ID, said that they would be glad to ·take action on this, at the request of P&O. 3. ACTION: Comment #1 to D/ID requesting tJiey verify accuracy of Mr. Winchell'sstatement of .3 Apr li9 re flying saucers.
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1. As a result of a number of CM IN Radios in February 19h9 on "flying saucerstt, P&O requested ID on 24 Ii'eh 49 to evaluate these 2. As a result of Walter Winchell's 3 Apr h9 broadcast (summary in attached Daily Bullet,in), ·the D/F Cmt #1 was sent to ID requesting verification of the accuracy of the broadcast. D/F Cmt #2 from ID constitutes the ID answer. J. PID not informed. Circulate as indi.cated, then file in P~i:O.
Where this file fits in the PURSUE archive
This file is one of DoD's 257 files in the Trump PURSUE disclosure. Within the DoD agency block it ranks #144 of 257 by Anomalousness Index. Across the entire 450-file archive it ranks #268 of 450.
That places it in the lower-scoring band of the archive (268 of 450 by score), typical of investigative-record style files where the report is paper-based rather than instrumented.
Anomalousness Index: 56/100
Evidentiary weight that this encounter remains unexplained after conventional analysis. Not a probability of extraterrestrial origin - that number is not honestly computable from the released files and this tracker refuses to publish it.
🤖 AI-ASSISTED SCORING · methodology
The six rubric components break down for this file as follows. Each component has a weighted contribution to the final score; the per-component explanation below describes what this file's particular value on that component means in the rubric's framework.
No sensor, camera, or instrument backs this observation - it is testimony, relayed through the Department of War, and scored on the rubric's lowest sensor-quality tier for that reason. That doesn't bear on the witness's credibility (a separate axis); it reflects only that nothing beyond human perception recorded the event.
Reported by trained U.S. military personnel during an operational mission (2026-06-12) - a high witness-credibility tier, ranked in the rubric below astronaut, trained-aviator, and federal-agent testimony. This profile is shared across the AARO-submitted infrared-capture cluster that anchors the archive's densest scoring band, at 66.
On corroboration, this file from the Department of War - like every single-tier file in the PURSUE archive - is a single-witness or single-instrument capture per the released metadata. The rubric doesn't infer multi-witness confirmation the summaries don't actually establish; this score reflects the honest limit of what was released, not a judgment about the underlying event.
The released file contains no speed, acceleration, or vector data precise enough to score on the kinematic axis - and that's true archive-wide, not specific to this file. The rubric declines to infer kinematic anomaly from a witness's narrative estimate of how fast something moved; that itself says something about what PURSUE actually released: descriptive accounts, not flight-path telemetry.
Every file in the archive, including this one, scores this tier: a conventional explanation was considered in the released record but isn't treated as dispositive. That's a pattern in how war.gov's own summaries are written - they consistently hedge against strong conclusions either way - and the rubric takes that hedging at face value rather than resolving it for them.
This file was released as open by the Department of War after a formal review process concluded - not simply logged and left pending. That's a stronger disposition signal than 'unresolved, no review': a review actually happened, and remaining open is the Department of War's own published conclusion from it, not an absence of one.
Bottom line on the score: the Anomalousness Index of 56/100 reflects evidentiary weight that this specific file's encounter remains structurally unexplained by the rubric's six axes - it is not a claim that the underlying event involved anything non-conventional, and it is not comparable across rubrics that use different weights. For the full per-axis weights and the rubric JSON, see /methodology.
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DOW-UAP-PR108, Unresolved UAP Report, Western United States, 2020
DOW-UAP-PR109, Unresolved UAP Report, Eastern United States, 2015
DOW-UAP-PR110, Unresolved UAP Report, Eastern United States, 2020
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