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A vs ut the Navy Says ‘No’ Saucers’ New-T ype Aircraft, robably Navy, Magazine ays By Joha G. Norris | Post Reporter “Flying saucers” are in fact radically new type aircraft, c rie ore’ Son the side and front nozzles. forming poe noe ezeouynamic “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- With all nozzles pointed down- port said yesterday jars, the saucer could rise ‘This latest effort to explain the jSttaight off the ground, and with continuing reports of strange ‘fly-|!@s | 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 | Makes takeoffs and landings alm that it is now “conducting research completely safe.” or flying” any such plane or| he 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 take-shaped” Chance-Vought Made 100 successful flights, The XF5U-1, but that it never flew ‘and|Navy then took over development ing off the rear jets, turning was serapped more than a year|0d “much more advanced models ‘ago. A small, 3000-pound scale| "OW are being built.” r tnodel of the plane was flown and, NACA Engineer Charles H. Zim- pictures of it have been released, Merman designed the first model, Pit this model is now at Norfolk) Which had a speed of from 400 to bubiting shipment to the National |900 miles an hour and was pow. Air Museum here. ered by two piston propellers, said The weekly news magazine diq|te article. " | |not quote any authority for its) ‘Surface indications,” the mag-) [Bement that the “ying saucers) zine went on, “point to research| Jen‘american planes, but saif| centers of the United States Navy's ivast guided-missile project as the| scene of present flying-saucer de- velopment.” The project, it was] said, has the “scientists, the en- areyreal A tha} “engineers competant to a praike reports of reliable obseiw reach these conclusions: cphey ave ait ; ; i ; i.||and the background” for the tionary type # Sree te oe "|| “This likelihood will remain, d topter and fast jet plane. They |epite any future denials by the) coform to well-known principles of Navy front office, until secrecy is) cof mits.” ae lifted.” the magazine added. | aermney are “exactly, 105 feet in di-|) ‘The Navy declared it-was tie ter, circular ip shape and “arelthat its abandoned ‘flying pan-| ameter iFrefar alloy, with a dulljeake” was designed by Zimmer color. ‘There are no rud-/man, and was called the “Zimmer-| erons oF oiher pepe man Skimmer,” It added that a 2 Som the side, the caucers)st41 smaller scale _model—one-| CP be ‘bout 10 feet thick.” \t¥ird of actual, size—is still at| saucer appears to have a = variable-direction jet (NACA’s Langley, Va., laboratoy#| ms ++ - fUélifon wind-tunnel tests, but lite) wn. « . + Direction of Navy insisted it had no such PYO}-| ¢ and its verry in lect now active, tly, are Con venice The Air Force, after many) which hed et noting (montis of investigation of “fying! ne number operating, —..cer” reports, concluded that all lthe evidence pointed to “mis \terpretation of various conver- ional objects, a mild form of mass aaysteria, of hoaxes.” ie of the descend vertically ht ahead oF make) pight-angle turn. 4 ade by 4 40c¢n be made by ) 11 (950 rise per gy staid rp (WHE Sout sexample: ©) craft of a revolt|sineets, the dollars, the motive: | @ eek 2) i ff, ce VIG The Original ‘Flying Ss ‘Associated Press Pholp y Model of aiveraft developed in 1948 and Aown by the Navy und radio control—full-size craft never flew, the Navy has announces 10 e724 RWOGRAND WASHINGTON POST Dated 44-50