Even if you're not a conspiracy theorist, and you don't believe that aliens have visited us or the U.S. government has developed alien-grade technology, recently declassified images from the National Archives are like a giant WTF.



They reveal Air Force plans to build a flying saucer. Also, it was going to outsource the work. And not to aliens, to Canadians.

A 1956 document entitled "Project 1794, Final Development Summary Report" from the Records of United States Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations includes several remarkable schematics.

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Declassified: Air Force plans for a flying saucer | Crave - CNET

I just saw film testing this thing on H2 History channel. It was pretty hilarious. It could hover and move around pretty well elevated a foot and a half over a paved parking lot. But when they moved out over a grassy area, all the dirt, dust and grass was thrown into the air. The vacuum of the intake sucked all that crap into the engines.

Maybe they just wanted to patent it. If somebody comes up with one that works they can whip out the schematics and sue them.