evidence: During the summer of 1952, the United States was on high alert as UFO sightings over the nation’s capital were making frequent headlines. Buried amid the otherworldly clamor occupying the minds of Americans around that time, an obscure report conveyed that 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. [...] The report then attributes another claim to Edwards, this time involving fragments from a UFO that were loaned by the United States to the Canadian government. "It is not clear if this claim was linked to the alleged Washington, D.C. incident," the AARO report’s authors state, adding that "The Condon panel determined that these claims most likely were false." [...] The saga of the 1952 UFO shoot-down over Washington was addressed in a section of the Condon Committee’s final report titled "Parts of UFOs, or UFO Equipment," where the Colorado team’s investigators wrote that "Representatives of Air Force Project Blue Book claimed no knowledge of the disc fragment discussed by Edwards, who claimed the successful search for this fragment was confirmed by Lt. Cdr. Frank Thompson of the U.S. Navy."