Army And Navy Research And Development Board

The Army and Navy Research and Development Board was a US Department of Defense coordinating body responsible for overseeing research and development programs across the Army and Navy. In the context of UAP history, the board is notable as one of three mandatory recipients of all Project Sign reports — the others being the USAF Scientific Advisory Group and the Atomic Energy Commission. This distribution requirement indicates that UFO investigation in the late 1940s was treated as a matter of multi-agency concern at the highest levels of military and nuclear oversight.