Why the Unresolved Label Defines This File
The file's own That sentence is not boilerplate tacked onto an otherwise confident finding. It is the finding. The Office of the Under Secretary of War, on whose letterhead the transcript appears, is telling the reader in advance that nothing the officer says about altitude, motion, or appearance can be treated as established fact about an object.
Read that way, "unresolved" is a declared position rather than an admission of incomplete work. The title itself — Transcript of an Unresolved UAP Report — pairs the label with the genre: what is being released is a report, and a report is testimony. The disclaimer then draws the boundary between testimony and measurement, and places the entire transcript on the testimony side of it.
A reader who treats the officer's estimate of 300 feet as a measurement has crossed a line the document explicitly drew. This framing matters because it changes what…
