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\@ she @ een th ut the Navy Says ‘No’ Saucers’ New-T ype Atrcraft, robably Navy, Magazine oe | Tie Original °F lying Sait By Jobn G. Norris Post Reporter “Plying saucers” are in fact/ ne aes ‘fee radically new type atonal con the Bend seen ugclod forming to known areodynamic, «Great speed can be obtained laws and probably developed by by focusing to the rear all nozzles the' United States Navy, the maga-|in the after half of the aircraft. zine United States and World Re- pie Ta nozzles ponies font “t said yesterday. ward, e saucer cou rise po tat ane to explain the straight off the ground, and with continuing reports of strange ‘fly- ess power, could descend the ing disks at various points over same way .. » \ the country brought a prompt} Jet helicopter action - - - denial from the Navy Department pmekes takeoffs and landings almost, that it is now “conducting research Completely safe. or flying’ any such plane or| The magazine said that an early missile. model of the saucer was built by A spokesman pointed out that National Advisory Committee for the Navy did‘develop the “pan- Aeronautics experts in 1942 and eake-shaped” Chance-V ou ght)Made 100 successful flights, The XF5U-1, but that it never flew and|Navy then took over development — was scrapped more than a year! 2nd “much more advanced models ago. A small, 3000-pound scale now are being built.” 15s model of the plane was flown and) NACA Engineer Charles H. Zim- | pictures of it have been released, |/erman designed the first model, | but this model is now at Norfolk | Which had a ‘speed of from 400 to awaiting shipment to the National |59° miles an hour and was pow- Air Museum here. ered by two piston propellers, said The weekly news magazine did the article. fs | ‘not quote any authority for its “Surface indications, the mag-| |statement that the “flying saucers’; azine went on, “point to research | jaregreal American planes, but sai centers of the United States Navy s| } “engineers competant to a _|wast guided-missile project as the thay “ens y scene of present flying-saucer de-| praipe reports of reliable observ velopment.” The project, it was| : po reach these conclusions: said, has the “scientists, the en- iene Re ee aisadlcied’ Brea BBO “They are aircraft of a revolu-} gineers, the dollars, the note Model of aircraft developed in 1948 and flown by the Navy unddr | | ” 1 inati a gets epie papers sae ea seete i : Navy has announced | tionary t¥Pe> @ combination of heli-| “This likelihood will remain, de. radio control—full-size craft never flew, the Navy copter an d fast jet plane. They) pite any future denials by the| ~m to well-known principles of) Navy front office, until secrecy is) coform ter: llifted,” the magazine added. } ; L¢ GY ji aerodyna “exactly 105 feet in di-|) The Navy declared it-was true) Pe 2ST. They @. cular in shape” and “arelthat its abandoned “flying pan-| mRoDT RP GRAD ameter, cil netal alloy. with a dullleake” was designed by Zimmer-} cad of a .. There are no rud-jman, and was called the “Zimmer-| rons or other protruding|man Skimmer,” It added that a) rom the side, the caucers)st41 smaller scale model—one-} be about 10 feet thick.” |t¥ird of actual size—is still at| saucer appears to have a a n saul yriable-direction jet JNACA’s Langley, Va. laboratoy’) eround its rims + - - ae for wind-tunnel tests, but Zhe) Ss 8 known: ++ Direction of Navy insisted it had no such proj-| dis Ur and its velocity, IN) act now active. are controles The Air Force, after many! 1 the jet nozzles! months of investigation of “flying! ber operating, — cer” reports, concluded that. all the evidence pointed to “misin- see terpretation of various conven- off and the angle Of|(; 231 objects, a mild form of mass could make the! teria, of hoaxes.” or descend vertically, |** etraight ahead oF make — er, 1 ait pight-angle turn. | ‘{urns. 4 Yat post erp turns: ~ he made by! & mny14t torn WASHINGTON shaeD Umble. could be ee D A, ak iWOb Dated. 4«4=50 : ently | vid whicl the num lied. jae which nozzles fo\ i