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WADC/ATIC joint Technical Report on Avro Project Y2 (due 15 February 1955)

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Project or program extracted from archive source text: WADC/ATIC joint Technical Report on Avro Project Y2 (due 15 February 1955).

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1954-01-01 / Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio

A Department of War file dated 1954-1955 contains reports, memoranda, and correspondence on Avro Project Y2, a near-circular VTOL aircraft developed by A. V. Roe Canada Ltd. that a 1954 memorandum noted could be mistaken for a flying saucer. The file includes an AFOIN special project investigating Soviet capabilities to develop a vertical take-off aircraft similar in appearance to a flying saucer, and a USAF committee finding that simultaneous ground radar returns and aircrew visual sightings of a UFO near Newfoundland in July 1955 could not be explained.