Auroral whistler mode radio emissions called saucers are of fundamental interest because they require an unusually stationary emission process in the dynamic auroral environment, and it is a mystery how that can happen in this or similar conditions elsewhere in geospace. The Cusp Alfven and Plasma Electrodynamics Rocket (CAPER-2), launched into the polar cusp and obtained the first rocket measurements of a large-scale, multiple-armed dayside saucers, similar to those recently observed by the the DEMETER satellite, with the addition of in situ particle measurements and simultaneous conjugate ground-based measurements. For 300 s prior to cusp entry, CAPER-2 detected ~15 truncated saucer arms lasting 5–50 s. Directional analysis using waveforms, combined with ground-based data, suggests that these originate within the cusp. Ray-tracing analysis indicates source altitudes ~2500 km. On-board particle instruments show dispersed electron bursts in the cusp, presumed Alfvenically accelerated, corresponding to approximately the same source heights as the saucers.