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V-173/XF5U-1 'Flying Pancake' (1942)

1942-11-23Resolved prosaic

Strangeness (S)

0.0

Credibility (P)

1.0

Evidence (EVID)

1.0

Date conf

9.0

Loc conf

0.0

Narrative

The V-173 'Flying Pancake' (first flight Nov 23, 1942) and its XF5U-1 successor were USN experimental aircraft with a 23.3-foot circular 'pancake' fuselage that could nearly hover; cancelled 1948 in favor of turbojets. AARO cites it as a saucer-shaped experimental program likely misidentified as UFO.

extracted via: narrative_subagent

Source documents (1)

Click filename to view on Internet Archive (where these are mirrored as public-domain US-government records).

AARO_Historical_Record_Report_Volume_1_2024.pdfAAROvalue 6.8[direct]

Score evidence (6)

Why this event scored the way it did. Every contribution is traceable.

s

identified as (-3.0)
outcome=resolved_prosaic (cap S<=3)
post-blend cap S<=3 (resolved_prosaic)

p

docs=1 (+0.5)
single agency (+0.5)

evid

narrative only (base 1)