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The truth isn’t out there … it’s been stored in a warehouse for 56 years. The National Declassification Center in College Park, Md., opened one
of more than 100 cardboard boxes from the Air Force recently and came
across a 114-page document from 1956 sure to interest the tin-foil-hat
crowd: a document describing a secret program by the Air Force to build a
flying saucer. "These records have been classified probably since their creation
during the '50s," Neil Carmichael, director of the declassification
review division at NDC, told Popular Mechanics,
which first posted news of the complete document. "It’s like somebody
went into somebody’s office, emptied out a filing cabinet, stuck it in a
box, sealed it, and sent it off to the federal records center. It was
deemed permanently valuable at some point in its life and that’s why we
have it today." The newly released documents, not yet posted on the website of the National Declassification Center,
offer details on a Cold War-era plan to build a round, vertical takeoff
and landing aircraft that can only be described as a flying saucer. The disk-shaped craft -- which comes complete with an ejector seat
and was powered by a “ram jet” -- was designed to reach a top speed of
Mach 4 and reach a ceiling of more than 100,000 feet, according to the
lengthy document, which is titled “Project 1794, Final Development
Summary Report” and dated 1956. It reveals that the Air Force had contracted the construction of the
craft to a Canadian company, Avro Aircraft Limited in Ontario...more
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Soooo....Dennis Kusinich was right after all. The Mother Ship is up there!
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