During the summer of 1952, the United States was on high alert as UFO sightings over the nation's capital were making frequent headlines. One of the objects"a small, glowing disc"was pursued and shot at by a military aircraft, blasting off a fragment that fell into a field near Washington D.C., which a naval officer later retrieved. Last week, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) released a long-awaited historical report on its findings involving the United States government's involvement with UAP and related programs since the end of World War II. In the report, AARO investigators maintained the U.S. federal government's longstanding position that it has never found any convincing evidence of extraterrestrial technologies operating near Earth, nor of any secret programs involving the acquisition or reverse engineering of crashed exotic technologies that have remained hidden from Congress. Although the recent AARO historical report only provides a cursory summary of the alleged 1952 incident ... there is still more to this bizarre story of alleged UAP debris. Much of this involves the Canadian engineer and UFO researcher Wilbert Smith, who eventually received the alleged flying saucer fragment. "Smith assessed that UFOs were of extraterrestrial origin and that they flew by magnetism," the recent AARO historical report states. "Smith believed he was in personal contact with extraterrestrial beings through telepathy," AARO's investigators add.