Originally Posted by Matt J
The only thimg that bothers me is if they are experimentl planes, then they dont fit the MO of previous efforts from the US;
Tactic Blue
Senior Trend
A-12
Have Blue
Aurora
All the above have been top secret and eventually filtered into the service and then become public knowledge, and all during the last 50 years, yet all of them are still fundementally planes, with the standard layout of wings and jet propulsion, you'd think after 50 years they'd of cracked this flying saucer bollocks and they'd be using them
It's pretty well documented that the American Military did experiment with saucer shaped designs but the projects seemed to just stop. Other than that there was the rather lacklustre Avro developments.
Something worth considering is that while UFO's are often called flying saucers it's said that stereotype was coined in reference to a light aircraft pilots comment that the UFO's he saw skipped along in the air like saucers being thrown, not that they looked like saucers.
Obviously bright lights can be misleading and depending on they angle you look at a plane it can look very different. Imagine for instance someone caught a glimpse of a Sealth Bomber and tried to draw what they saw, it would probably look very different to how we know it looks.
High altitude weather balloons seem another large culprit of 'saucer' sightings, especially as they are often made of a silver reflective material.