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	New Scientist Space Blog: US military funds flying saucers
		The saucer is about the size of a classic garbage-can lid that might have portrayed a flying saucer in a very low-budget science-fiction movie.
		In 1939, the old Vought Aircraft company designed and built for the Navy a propeller-powered flying saucer called the "flying flapjack" that has to be seen to be believed.
		"flying balls of fire" of course but they were not disklike.
	www.newscientist.com /blog/space/2007/04/us-military-funds-flying-saucers.html (505 words)

	ThothWeb - Secret Flying Saucers - The Gateway to the Stars
		By introducing the possibility of a logical explanation in the weather balloon response, investigators suddenly became torn between two possibilities, that it was a crashed alien flying saucer or that it was a perfectly normal weather balloon.
		Flying saucers are unlikely to offer the military an obvious strategic advantage that would justify such a long-term investment but there is a lot of evidence to suggest that this ambitious project is very real.
		The flying saucers that have been photographed across the world for the last 60 years, some of which we know have crashed and have been recovered by the military, may well be evidence of our attempts to visit other worlds as much as they are other worlds attempting to visit us.
	www.thothweb.com /article3297.html (0 words)

	Military flying saucers
		In the US, a number of experimental saucer shaped craft were apparently developed as fl projects by Lockheed Corporation for the USAF, and by Convair for the CIA.
		The saucer had the advantages of being a Vertical take-off and landing design (so avoiding the need for easily damaged runways), while the shape was well suited to diffusing radar and so making the craft stealthy.
		In an apparent attempt to quell speculation about the military nature of flying saucers, a press conference was held in July 1952, at which Major John A. Sandford denied any knowledge of the craft, and retired Major General Donald E. Keyhoe declared his belief that they were of alien origin.
	www.askfactmaster.com /Military_flying_saucers (523 words)

	Military flying saucers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		By the time the design was flying in the post-war era, jet engines had rendered the design obsolete and the US Navy lost interest.
		The saucer had the advantages of being a Vertical take-off and landing design (so avoiding the need for easily damaged runways), while the shape was well suited to diffusing radar and so making the craft stealthy.
		In an apparent attempt to quell speculation about the military nature of flying saucers, a press conference was held in July 1952, at which Major John A. Sandford denied any knowledge of the craft, and retired Major General Donald E. Keyhoe declared his belief that they were of alien origin.
	www.cooldictionary.com /words/Military-flying-saucers.wikipedia (984 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Unidentified flying object
		On January, 24, 1878, John Martin, a Texas farmer, saw a dark flying object in the shape of a disk "flying at wonderful speed", and used the word "saucer" to describe it.
		"Flying Saucer" was the preferred term for most unidentified aerial sightings through the late 1940s to 1960's, even for those that were not actually saucer shaped.
		Some feel that UFO study is still a worthwhile topic because of open questions, especially due to occasional reports of UFOs from professional or military astronomers or pilots - individuals whose careers, and often their very lives, rely on their ability to recognize and assess aircraft, weather conditions, distances, and other factors vital to flight.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Flying_saucers (3358 words)

	Unidentified flying object
		A UFO or Unidentified Flying Object is any object or optical phenomenon observed in the sky which cannot be identified, even after being thoroughly investigated by qualified people.
		Arnold said that they "flew like a saucer would if you skipped it across the water" and described their shape as "flat like a pie pan" although the shapes varied from object to object, one being almost crescent-shaped.
		Use of "UFO" instead of "flying saucer" was first suggested in 1952 by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, the first director of the U.S. Air Force's Project Blue Book, who felt that "flying saucer" did not reflect the diversity of the sightings.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/u/un/unidentified_flying_object.html (3900 words)

	UFO's flown by the military - no aliens to be seen
		After the war, Schauberger and other flying saucer designers such as Rudolf Schriever and Walter Miethe ended up working for the Americans, while their former comrade, Andreas Epp, is said to have worked for the Soviet Union.
		Military officials appeared on television, calming public fears, but also declaring that they were not testing or flying saucer-shaped rockets or aircraft.
		The US military used this fear as a smokescreen to hide its top secret projects in places such as Area 51 in Nevada, where tests of all kinds of exotic aircraft, rockets, balloons, high-altitude parachute drops and satellites were performed.
	greyfalcon.us /restored/UFO.htm (9935 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Military flying saucers
		In an apparent attempt to quell speculation about the military nature of flying saucers, a press conference was held in July 1952, at which Major John A. Sandford denied any knowledge of the craft, and retired Major Donald E. Keyhoe declared his belief that they were of alien origin.
		Meanwhile in Canada, the Avro Canada company was also attempting to develop saucer shaped craft, funded (initially) by the Canadian government.
		My Weekly Reader, October 12, 1950, "Military secret of the United States of America Air Forces", (flying saucers are US Air Force experimental aircaft).
	www.reference.com /search?q=Military+flying+saucers (1121 words)

	Flying Saucers As Signs From Heaven
		In the first "flying saucer" stories from the early Cold War period, the beings from other planets were usually benevolent.
		The belief in the threatening "flying saucers" is more common and stronger now than the belief in the benevolent aliens of the early Cold War period.
		Along with the theme of "flying saucers" as menace goes a closely related theme - government leaders have met with the aliens and made some kind of deal with them behind our backs and now are covering up the very existence of "flying saucers".
	www.motherbird.com /saucers.htm (2556 words)

	Military flying saucers - meaning of word (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The saucer had the advantages of being a Vertical take-off and landing design (so avoiding the need for easily damaged runways), while the shape was well suited to diffusing radar and so making the craft Stealth technology.
		In 1957 Keyhoe became head of the civilian Unidentified flying object group NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena), which is believed to have also been infiltrated by several covert members of the CIA.
		flying sourcers which were designed to be manned were actually being manufactured in a skoda factory in prague.
	www.wordsonline.org /Military_flying_saucers (1155 words)

	Reports of UFO sightings in Chile. Flying Saucers.
		But speculation was already rampant that a flying saucer had crash landed and higher ups, following orders from military chiefs in Santiago, the capital of the skinny South American nation, had tip-toed off with the evidence during the night.
		Whatever the case, I was off on my own sporadic quest that would take me to supposed flying saucer hot spots, homes of UFO witnesses, offices of local authorities in various communities and, more metaphorically, the depths of my own fascination with the possibility of life outside our planet.
		Ufologists and most everybody else say flying saucers are also frequent visitors, and, drawn by tales of the supposed Oct. 7, 1998, crash ofsomething, I head to Paihuano.
	www.chipsites.com /travel-essays/flying-saucers.html (0 words)

	Unidentified flying object . Enpsychlopedia
		Arnold would later say they “flew like a saucer would if you skipped it across the water” and also said they were “flat like a pie pan”, “shaped like saucers,” and “half-moon shaped, oval in front and convex in the rear.
		For the next few days most American newspapers were filled with front-page stories of the new “flying saucers” or “flying discs.” Starting with official debunkery that began the night of July 8 with the Roswell UFO incident, reports rapidly tapered off, ending the first big U.S. UFO wave.
		Use of “UFO” instead of “flying saucer” was first suggested in 1952 by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, the first director of Project Blue Book, who felt that “flying saucer” did not reflect the diversity of the sightings.
	www.enpsychlopedia.com /psypsych/Flying_saucers (7622 words)

	Flying Saucers May Be Secret Craft
		Flying saucers are back in the news a little more frequently these days, keeping alive the interest of the public in this strange phenomena.
		The latest is a rather preposterous tale of a small saucer landing near a country stroller, and then a little green man (honest, this was a straight-faced report) jumping out to take the earthling's photograph with a tiny camera before zipping off into space.
		Two movie films of saucers in flight, though unspectacular to the layman, are sufficiently impressive to keep an official investigation active.
	www.lindseywilliams.org /LAL_Archives/Flying_Saucers_May_Be_Secret_Craft.htm (913 words)

	Real Flying Saucers - Stranger than Fiction
		He had invented a disc shaped flying gunnery target and sent the prototype to the Luftwaffe high command suggesting it could be adapted for manned flight.
		He described them as saucers being skipped on water, which is were the name flying saucers originated.
		John Frost's supersonic flying saucer was about to disappear into the flest recesses of the American military machine.
	www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk /stranger-than-fiction/flying-saucers.html (830 words)

	ThothWeb - The Extraterrestrial Timeline and Crashed Flying Saucers
		It seems unlikely that so many different types of flying saucers would travel across the solar system only to crash land on Earth in such a way that the craft remained sufficiently intact so as to be able to be rebuilt.
		This story was quickly denied as military intelligence quickly moved to limit the damage caused by the public attention the crash was attracting.
		According to unconfirmed reports, a joint scientific and military taskforce inspected the spherical craft which is made of an unknown metal and emits low levels of radiation.
	www.thothweb.com /article4714.html (0 words)

	The Modern UFO Era Begins
		After numerous sightings of unidentified flying objects had been reported by commercial and military pilots and an alleged flying saucer had crashed outside of Roswell, New Mexico, in early July 1947, army air force pilots were reminded of the weird "foo fighters" that several Allied personnel had seen in World War II (1939–45).
		On March 28, 1966, after a saucer "flap" in Michigan, Keyhoe was once again repeating his charges that the Pentagon had a top-level policy of discounting all UFO reports and over the past several years had used ridicule to discredit sightings.
		However, after the flying saucer fragments were shipped to Brigadier General Roger Ramey at the 8th Air Force at Fort Worth, Texas, the story of the discovery of the bits and pieces of an extraterrestrial craft was officially transformed into the scraps of a collapsed high-altitude weather balloon.
	www.unexplainedstuff.com /Invaders-from-Outer-Space/The-Modern-UFO-Era-Begins.html (5981 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Before the terms 'flying saucer' and 'UFO' were coined, there were a number of reports of strange, unidentified aerial phenomena.
		Use of 'UFO' instead of 'flying saucer' was first suggested in 1952 by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, the first director of Project Blue Book, who felt that 'flying saucer' did not reflect the diversity of the sightings.
		Famous psychologist Carl Jung compared the UFO's "saucer" shape with mandala symbolism and speculated with the idea of UFO sightings being linked to his theory of Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious, suggesting UFOs are projection carriers of the archetype of "psychic wholeness" (also known in Jungian terms as The Self).
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=flying_saucers (7663 words)

	DVD Savant Review: Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
		At first the intentions of the saucer men are in doubt, but soon it becomes apparent that their aim is to conquer the world.
		The key compliment to Harryhausen's visualization is that it is his saucers, not The Day the Earth Stood Still's glowing pie plate or The Mysterians' nifty flying eyes that have persisted as the iconic Unidentified Flying Objects of the 1950s.
		A component of the film's flying saucer sound effect was found when producer Schneer heard the sound of effluent (polite word) being pumped through the giant pipes in the sewage treatment plant that serves as the Rocket Base set in the movie.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s609saucers.html (1713 words)

	Earth vs. The Flying Saucers
		The Doc makes an appointment to see the aliens against the military's orders so his wife tattles on him and the military tries to stop him, but they all end up on the beach for a meet and great with the aliens.
		This guy never had me convinced he was a scientist anymore than a flying saucer could be mistaken for a buzzard.
		The saucers look just like you imagine a 1950s flying saucer would look and the scenes where the actors are in the same shot as the flying saucers seem adequately done.
	monsterhunter.coldfusionvideo.com /EarthSaucers.html (1741 words)

	Flying Saucers - Then And Now
		American and British intelligence reports indicate that at least one model of saucer was destroyed with its blueprints to prevent it from falling into the hands of the advancing Allied troops.
		I am convinced that cascade engines exist and are being used to drive aerial cars surrounded by anti-mass fields (a fairly new innovation for the saucers?) and that they have been developed primarily as instruments of war and population control.
		I am also convinced that humans are being abducted for military medical experiments and that animals are being mutilated to develop new and even more deadly toxins and viruses than those already released onto the populations of the world.
	www.howtoadvice.com /FlyingSaucers (1825 words)

	News & Issues - WebTripleT.com
		Before "flying saucers" and "UFO"s were coined as a term, there were a number of reports of strange, unidentified aerial phenomena from the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth centuries.
		Photo of an alleged UFO taken in New Hampshire in 1870On November 17, 1882, astronomer E. Maunder of the Greenwich Royal Observatory described in the Observatory Reports "a strange celestial visitor" that was "disc-shaped," "torpedo-shaped," or "spindle-shaped." It was said to be very different in characteristics from a meteor fireball.
		The circular aura suggests it is a light in the foreground.Use of "UFO" instead of "flying saucer" was first suggested in 1952 by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, the first director of Project Blue Book, who felt that "flying saucer" did not reflect the diversity of the sightings.
	www.webtriplet.com /News_Issues.html (9003 words)

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	New age / unidentified flying object / military flying saucers
		The development of disk shaped aircraft — or military "flying saucers" — apparently dates back to World War II.
		claimed credit for initiating the idea of a saucer shaped aircraft during the war, a development of his work on a small circular target drone.
		John Frost had initiated the design while experimenting with different ways to build more efficient jet engines, eventually settling on a large disk-shaped device with the exhaust towards the outside.
	www.new-age-guide.com /new_age/military_flying_saucers.htm (950 words)

	The Flying Saucers
		the US military fighting back with missiles, fighter planes and anything they could use, the war against these aliens went on for days but it was interference units that toppled the invaders and won the war against The Flying Saucers.
		The other miniature is the saucers itself, its 6" wide and comes with the landing ladder used by the aliens for $44.99 as a kit and $245.00 custom built and painted.
		The sound that you hear from the Saucers came from the pipes down in the Hermosa Beach sewage plant as the waste traveled through the pipes it made a strange sound this and other sounds were mixed together to create the very memorable sound of the Flying Saucers.
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