Just a few months ago, the United States of America declassified some documents that reveal some very interesting developments and their characteristics. This is a prototype flying saucers.
So, in September of this year, the American National Archives published an excerpt from a memorandum that appeared in June 1956. According to this document, the Americans were developing a prototype flying saucers, which were planned to be used in the interests of the American armed forces. The project was called "Project 1794", and the unit under development was supposed to have supersonic speed and cover a distance of 2 thousand kilometers without any problems.
Oddly enough, but foreigners were engaged in the development of this device, in particular, the Canadian aircraft manufacturer Avro Aircraft, headed by the lead engineer, British John Frost. It is worth noting that by the beginning of development, this company had already managed to establish itself on the positive side, having created the CF-100 fighter. Frost himself joined the company in 1947, before that he worked in Great Britain, at De Havilland, developing the Vampire and Hornet fighters, as well as the DH 108 experimental aircraft.
After joining the Canadian company, Frost set about modernizing the jet engine and improving compressor efficiency. The result of its work was the so-called "pancake-like engine", the essence of which was that the turbine set in motion the compressor through a gear transmission, and the jet stream evenly exited around the entire circumference of the engine.
It should also be noted that at that time the Cold War began in the world, therefore both the Americans and representatives of other states were extremely interested in such an aircraft that took off and landed vertically, so Frost's invention was just in place.
The first prototype of Frost's flying saucer was named Project Y and outwardly the device looked very much like a shovel bayonet. The project was supported by the Canadian military department, and 400 thousand Canadian dollars were allocated for its implementation. In 1953, the developers presented a wooden model of the device. Information about this in the blink of an eye scattered in the press. Sometimes there were also rumors that the Canadians intend to create a flying saucer. However, later the project was frozen due to lack of financial funding.
Meanwhile, the American armed forces began to show increasing interest in Frost's developments. Their attention was offered the second version of the aircraft - Project Y-2. It was made in the form of a disc and was equipped with a round rotor motor and compressors. In this case, the jet jets were distributed around the circumference of the hull, which, as was assumed, should provide a high altitude and flight speed.
According to information from open sources, Frost received his first contract for the creation of devices of this kind back in 1955. And a year later, more than $ 2.5 million were invested in the development of the flying saucer by Avro. But at the same time, there were also classified documents, according to which the US military department estimated the project at more than $ 3 million (which, according to modern estimates, is more than $ 26.5 million). A year was allotted for development. At the same time, the American side very much hoped that the device would be able to reach speeds of up to 3-4 thousand kilometers per hour, fly over distances of almost 2 thousand kilometers and climb 30 kilometers up.
The American military was offered several options for the apparatus. One of them was even filmed during test flights. The device was quite confidently detached from the surface, but when trying to carry out a horizontal flight, it began to swing from side to side. Despite the fact that certain adjustments were made to the "Project 1794" (and it was he who passed the tests), Frost was unable to convince the Americans of the need for further funding. The problem, according to his calculations, was quite solvable, it was just necessary to use a less radical design. This was also mentioned by Sukhanov, the author of the discolpan development. However, the flying saucer project was officially closed in 1961. Officially, the reason for the termination of research was the inability of the apparatus to rise above the height of a person. However, at present it is very difficult to guess what made the Americans take such a step, and after several years of highly successful tests, to close the project. After all, it was not about a new type of aircraft, but about a fundamentally new aircraft, the creation of which took much more time than the allotted several years.
Leaving a not entirely successful venture, the American military took up equally promising and interesting programs, in particular, OXCART, which resulted in the emergence of the A-12 aircraft, a secret model of military aviation, which was developed in the interests of the CIA.
Interestingly, in the mid-50s of the last century, the idea of creating a flying saucer was far from new. They worked on their creation back in the Third Reich in the 30s. So, in particular, in 1939, Heinrich Focke, aircraft designer Focke-Wulf, patented the design of the apparatus, which had the shape of a saucer and had a vertical takeoff. In addition to him, Arthur Zak was also involved in similar developments, who decided to create a "flying disc", which was named AS-6, but his device failed all tests. Besides them, there were other developers. So, for example, in the 1950s, information appeared in the media about the successful development of flying saucers carried out by the Nazis - "Zimmermann's Flying Pancake" and "Disk Belontse". German designer Zimmermann developed a disc-shaped aircraft in 1942-1943. It was equipped with a gas turbine engine and reached speeds of up to 700 kilometers per hour. Outwardly, the device was very reminiscent of flying saucers, the classic descriptions of which received from "eyewitnesses": can be found in the press, namely the shape of an inverted basin, a transparent cockpit, rubber chassis. As for the Belontse disc, there is no documentary evidence of its existence. However, some argue that all the documentation on this development was destroyed almost at the moment when Soviet soldiers seized the research site.
If we talk about the "Coanda effect", which was used by Jack Frost, it was later used by the Americans in the prototype Boeing YC-14 and QSRA aircraft, the MD-520 NOTAR multipurpose light helicopter, as well as on the An-74 and An-72 Soviet military transport aircraft. …
As for the present time, this "effect" is used in unmanned aerial vehicles with vertical take-off and landing. By and large, their principle of operation is very similar to what Frost proposed, with the exception of a jet engine.
At the moment, there is no information regarding the intentions of either the United States of America or any other state to engage in the development of flying saucers. But if we take into account the pace of development of technologies, it is quite possible to make an assumption that soon small flying saucers will occupy a certain niche in the weapons system of a number of states of the world.
One of the first swallows in this industry was the development of scientists at the University of Florida, who applied for a patent for a flying saucer, an apparatus that is officially called "wingless electromagnetic flying machine." The inventor is Subrata Roy, who is the director of the Plasma Dynamics Simulation Laboratory. If we talk about his invention, then this device is far from a real saucer, because its diameter is only fifteen decimeters. This device will move with the help of plasma, which may interest the aerospace industry, which has long been interested in the plasma layer, which, covering the surface of the device, improves its aerodynamic properties. In addition, the military sees this phenomenon as an opportunity to hide aircraft from radars. At the same time, this invention also has its drawbacks. If Dr. Roy's saucer ever goes up in the air, it is assumed that control will be done by radio. But it is known that plasma is a poor conductor of radio waves. It is not known how such problems will be solved. But this is not so important, because these are promising developments that will undoubtedly develop and improve.
Now, according to some experts, in particular, Pavel Poluyan, the author of the book “Hunting for UFOs. Whirlwinds in Time”, real large flying saucers have existed for more than half a century, and this is not at all a fantastic technology, but quite earthly developments that are being carried out in America, China and Iran. But their existence is kept under great secrecy, because "bringing them out" can have a detrimental effect on many aspects of modern life, from state security to the world economy.
