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ut the Navy Says 'No'
e Orig·inal 'Flying Saucer'?
Sazicers' Neiv0 Type Air.craft, :_
/ .:,:~:"~~:.~:~{~~~~gazine S-~~, ,
radically new type aircraft, cOl'. ltµrnw~ ?ff the rear Jets, turnmg
forming to known areodynamic, on_,the side and front nozzles.
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Great speed can be obtained
laws and probably developed byIby focusing to the rear all
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tile• United States Navy, the maga-' in the after half of the afr~~~ft
zine United States and World Re- ' With all nozzles pointed down­
port said yesterday.
jward, the saucer co u Id rise
This latest effo1·t to explain the straight off the ground, and with
continuing reports of strange 'fly- less power, could descend the
ing disks at various points over same way • , •
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the counh'y brought a prompt
"Jet helicopter action • • •
denial from the Navy Department makes takeoffs and landings almost
that it is now "conducting research completely safe."
or flying" any such plane or I
The magazine said that an early
missile.
!, model of the saucer was built by
A spokesman pointed out that, National Advisory Committee for
the Navy did , develop the "pan- Aeronautics experts in 1942 and
cake-shaped"
Chance-Vought made 100 successful flights, The
XF5U-l. but that it never flew and Navy then took over development
was scrapped more than a year and "much more advanced models
ago.
A small, 3000-pound scale now are being built."
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model oL the plane was flown and., NACA Engineer Charles :a". Zim­
pictures of it have been released.' me~man designed the first model,
but this model is now at Norfolk which had a speed of from 400 to
awaiting shipment to the National 500 miles an hour and was pow- I
Air Museum here.
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i ered l'>y two piston propellers, said, ,
'fhe weekly news magazine did the a1ticle.
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not quote any authority for its
:•surface indications," the mag.
statement that the "flying saucers" azme went on, "point to research
arelreal American planes, but sai ' centers _of the ~n_ited St'.'tes Navy's
tha •·engineers competant to a . vast gwded-miss1le proJect as the
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scene of present flying-saucer de•
pra· e reports of rel_iable obs:rv
velopment."
The project, it was
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A>SOC!ated PreS3 Pho
reac these conclus10ns:
s~id, has the ''scientists, the en­
''Tl1 e
are aircraft of a revolu- glneers, the dollars, the motive
Model ol o.ircraFt derJaloped in 1948 and Rou>n by the Navy uncl
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radio cantrol-full-aire cralt neuer Rew, the Navy ho.• announced
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e a combination of heli- and the background'' for the • •
uonary YP •
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"This likelihood will remain de•
copter and fa5t Jct pl~ne: They, spite any future denials by' the
, fo ·m to well-known pr1nciples of1 Navy front office, until secrecy is
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e magazine a
ed.
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Y ai·e "exact.I~• L05 feet in di-
The Navy declared it w~s true
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,.-u,J<\Q
.,_1tr circular in shape·• and "are that its abandoned "flying pan­
an1e e ·f a metal alloy. with a dull cake" was designed by Zlmmer­
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ma~l~ ~ color. There are no r~d- man, and was called t he " Zimmer­
wl11t15 uerons or other proh'udmg man Skimmer." It added that a
ders, a From the side, the caucersf'l smaller scale model---one­
surfacesto be about 10 feet thick." t ~rd of actual size-is still at
appear
aucer appears to have a ,
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of
vari~ble•. irec ion Je
ACA's Langley, Va., laborato
serles
around its riu,s . • • : iuel for wind-tunnel tests, but
he
nozzle_ 5 unknown. •,- · Direc~wn ?f NavY insisted it had no such pr.oj­
used 1~ . ft and ils velocity, m ect now active.
the a1rc~a tlY are controlled by
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t,urn, evlden ,,·hich the jet nozzles
The
Air. For~e, . after many
angle at
mber operating. month~, of mvest1gation of "flying
t1,e tilted, the . 11J
~aucer reports, concluded that all
f ;~: power appJ1e ,~·hich nozzles toIthe evid_encc pointe? to "misin­
"lW choo~1ng and the angle ol t.~rpretah_on of ~ar1ous convan­
01· off
lei nrnk
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t10111tl obJects, a mild form of mass
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the, pilO~ cl~~~cnd v~i-t ca y,
terlo, or hoaxes.''
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1!~a
er l'lb~c;t~~idh\ ahead or make
110 er. flY •
~ 1,1ght-anllle turn.
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sllarP turns,
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for example,
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