Real UFOs: Flying Saucers History

History of the Flying Saucer - Real UFOs                                     Back to:  UFO Pictures How German Flying Saucers eventually became U.S. military aircraft UFOs. The idea of the flying saucer can be traced back to first being conceived by Nazi Germany.  During World War II, Hitler employed scientists to work full-time in developing weaponry of all sorts.  The goal was to win the war through superior weapons technology. These German war machines included a flying saucer program, as these real UFOs were envisioned flying at super-sonic speeds.  To develop and build them, three of Germany's top scientists created three different credible designs for the flying saucer, with each of them developing three working prototypes.  Amazingly, three different research facilities were reported to have three different flying saucer models, capable of flying. Above: Photograph of a real German UFO Near the end of World War II, Germany had turned out incredible rocket, jet-engine, and flying saucer technologies.  They ran out of time, before their super-weapons could be full developed and implemented to win the war for Hitler. But the flying saucer technology was not lost, for both Russia and the United States were able to capture some of the German scientists responsible for the Nazi killing machines.  This eventually led to the Cold War, as fears of what the other country might be scheming and building took hold. The U.S. captured three of the flying saucer scientists, and interestingly, the first flying saucer sightings occurred soon after the war, in 1947.  Pilot Kenneth reported seeing nine flying discs speeding above Mt. Rainier in Washington State.  Being an experienced pilot, he was able to calculate their air speed based upon the landscape.  He estimated them flying at 1200 mph, and was the first to describe the new aircraft as "saucers."  Of course, the U.S. Military was quick to deny having any disc-shaped aircraft.  [Also watch: Real Flying Saucer Videos] Soon after this sighting of flying saucers, the news media also picked up the story of aliens and UFO wreckage being discovered in Roswell, New Mexico, the same year.  Again, the U.S. Military denied having discovered such a thing, but explained the find was really just a weather balloon.  But, these two events began the flying saucer craze that swept across the globe.  Soon, many people would come forward to claim they, too, had seen a flying saucer.  Some people would begin faking UFO photographs by throwing a trash can lid, or similarly shaped object, into the air while snapping pictures.  Hollywood quickly jumped on-board and created numerous alien and flying saucer movies to feed the growing public interest.  But, did the United States have flying saucer technology?  Yes, they did. By the 1950s, a British aeronautical engineer who had developed the swept-wing, tail-less fighter, became intrigued with the Nazi flying saucers.  He eventually interviewed one of the German scientists, Dr. Miethe, who showed Frost photos of the German flying saucers, and told him they worked ten years on their development, hacing succeeded in building a flyable prototype.  Frost was soon convinced he could build a flying saucer, and soon began working on it at the Avro aircraft factory in Canada, 1952.  By 1953, his first flying saucer model dubbed "Project Y" was initially tested, but its tail-wing design was scrapped. So, Frost and his team worked on a fully-circular flying saucer design called Y-2.  Around this time, Frost had caught the eye of the United States government who quickly invested 10 million dollars into the Y-2 Project.   The design of the Y-2 prototype was scaled down for test purposes and safety reasons, and named the Avrocar.  By 1957, the Avrocar vehicles were rolled out of the test facility and tested.  The prototypes had various problems, but did fly, though they lacked stability and power.  They were proof that vertical take-off was indeed possible, and that gyroscopic properties would be needed for stability.  By 1962, the funding of the entire project with Frost was dropped by the United States, due to the U.S. Government wanting to develop a swept-tail design.  This would eventually lead to the development of the F1-17 Stealth Fighter. Did the United States continue the development of the flying saucer?  Some believe so, and two witnesses who saw the craft would surface years later.  Jack Pickett claims he saw four flying saucers of different sizes at McDill Air Force Base, 40 years ago.  Having security clearance at the time, he was also shown photographs of the U.S. UFOs in flight, and told they could fly at 15,500 mph.  The saucers he saw had a tail and aircraft fuselage built onto the flying-disc shape.  The other witness to these aircraft was now-deceased, Warren Botts, an ex-Air Force pilot who wandered into a U.S. aircraft hangar and saw the identical flying saucer as Pickett described. It is likely that many of the UFO sightings reported are experimental U.S. aircraft, and not unlikely that the United States possesses flying saucer aircraft, capable of high-speeds, non-detection by radar and sonar, and achieving space flight.  Can all UFO sightings be attributed as being classified U.S. flying disc technology? You decide... (Left & Below: Drawings of flying saucer prototypes that were developed) (Left & Below: Photographs of flying saucer prototypes) (Left: The AvroCar flying saucer prototype that could hover and fly.  The U.S. - backed Avro UFO project struggled with stability, power, and debris coming up from the ground, and going into the air intake system.) Flying Saucers History Copyright 2009 UFO Picture .org