diff --git a/infer/man/man1/infer-analyze.txt b/infer/man/man1/infer-analyze.txt
index a13b06471..9ec8fa6fd 100644
--- a/infer/man/man1/infer-analyze.txt
+++ b/infer/man/man1/infer-analyze.txt
@@ -430,10 +430,10 @@ RACERD CHECKER OPTIONS
            Activates: Check @GuardedBy annotations with RacerD (Conversely:
            --no-racerd-guardedby)
 
-       --racerd-unknown-returns-owned
-           Activates: Assume that all methods without a CFG (including
+       --no-racerd-unknown-returns-owned
+           Deactivates: Assume that all methods without a CFG (including
            abstract methods) return owned objects (Conversely:
-           --no-racerd-unknown-returns-owned)
+           --racerd-unknown-returns-owned)
 
        --threadsafe-aliases json
            Specify custom annotations that should be considered aliases of
diff --git a/infer/man/man1/infer-full.txt b/infer/man/man1/infer-full.txt
index 61d6f833b..231202a34 100644
--- a/infer/man/man1/infer-full.txt
+++ b/infer/man/man1/infer-full.txt
@@ -910,10 +910,10 @@ OPTIONS
            Activates: Enable --racerd and disable all other checkers
            (Conversely: --no-racerd-only)           See also infer-analyze(1).
 
-       --racerd-unknown-returns-owned
-           Activates: Assume that all methods without a CFG (including
+       --no-racerd-unknown-returns-owned
+           Deactivates: Assume that all methods without a CFG (including
            abstract methods) return owned objects (Conversely:
-           --no-racerd-unknown-returns-owned)           See also infer-analyze(1).
+           --racerd-unknown-returns-owned)           See also infer-analyze(1).
 
        --reactive,-r
            Activates: Reactive mode: the analysis starts from the files
diff --git a/infer/man/man1/infer.txt b/infer/man/man1/infer.txt
index 9aeb0dbea..94545a5d1 100644
--- a/infer/man/man1/infer.txt
+++ b/infer/man/man1/infer.txt
@@ -910,10 +910,10 @@ OPTIONS
            Activates: Enable --racerd and disable all other checkers
            (Conversely: --no-racerd-only)           See also infer-analyze(1).
 
-       --racerd-unknown-returns-owned
-           Activates: Assume that all methods without a CFG (including
+       --no-racerd-unknown-returns-owned
+           Deactivates: Assume that all methods without a CFG (including
            abstract methods) return owned objects (Conversely:
-           --no-racerd-unknown-returns-owned)           See also infer-analyze(1).
+           --racerd-unknown-returns-owned)           See also infer-analyze(1).
 
        --reactive,-r
            Activates: Reactive mode: the analysis starts from the files
diff --git a/infer/src/base/Config.ml b/infer/src/base/Config.ml
index f7165fee5..8c63925e5 100644
--- a/infer/src/base/Config.ml
+++ b/infer/src/base/Config.ml
@@ -1830,7 +1830,7 @@ and racerd_guardedby =
 
 
 and racerd_unknown_returns_owned =
-  CLOpt.mk_bool ~long:"racerd-unknown-returns-owned" ~default:false
+  CLOpt.mk_bool ~long:"racerd-unknown-returns-owned" ~default:true
     ~in_help:InferCommand.[(Analyze, manual_racerd)]
     "Assume that all methods without a CFG (including abstract methods) return owned objects"