Frank Herman Schofield

Frank Herman Schofield (1869–1942) was a U.S. Navy four-star admiral, a graduate of the United States Naval Academy in 1890, with 46 years of service, who served in particular in the Spanish-American War as executive officer of USS Hawk, contributed to anti-submarine efforts in London during World War I and, from 1930 to 1932, served as Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Fleet. As early as 1904 he had, aboard USS Supply together with two other officers, observed three bright objects performing unusual manoeuvres — one of the earliest credible military UAP reports in American naval history.

• U.S. Navy four-star admiral (1869–1942), born in Jerusalem, New York
• Graduate of the United States Naval Academy in 1890
• 46 years of service in the U.S. Navy
• Spanish-American War as executive officer of USS Hawk; blockades and capture of four enemy ships
• World War I on the staff of the Commander, U.S. Naval Forces in London; contributed to anti-submarine strategies; Naval Advisory Staff to the Peace Commission in Paris
• Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Fleet 1930–1932; retired in 1932; Navy Cross
• In 1904 aboard USS Supply with two other officers observed three bright objects with unusual manoeuvres — one of the earliest credible military UAP reports; buried at Arlington, USS Schofield named after him (1963)

For the UAP timeline, Schofield is the earliest and highest-ranking U.S. Navy witness: a future four-star admiral who, together with fellow officers as early as 1904, filed a UAP sighting report, pushes the beginnings of credible U.S. military UFO documentation far behind the 20th-century Kenneth Arnold myth.