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BANGALORE, Jan. 4
From the past few years, reports have come from all over the world of strange objects being sighted in the sky which are generally known as Flying Saucers. Opinions regarding these strange objects vary from complete disbelief to the firm conviction that these are the spaceships from another planet, said Dr. P. S. V. Setty of Vijnana Kendra of Bangalore to Hindusthan Samachar.
Dr. Setty, who himself is a physicist, is the President of the small group of scientists meeting in Vijnana Kendra. Dr. Setty said that Vijnana Kendra collects data as to the sightings of these strange objects til June 30, 1955, and afterwards wish to make a comprehensive study of these.
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PROJECT 1947 comments: There are a number of re-evaluations of Air Force cases in CUFOS files. Hynek also re-examined the Air Force unknowns. Many times Hynek agreed with the Air Force's evaluation.
The 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron (AISS) [Headquarters located at Ent Air Force Base, Colorado] investigated UFO cases during this time frame for Project Blue Book. After reviewing the 4602d case files available at the National Archives II, in College Park, Maryland it seems reasonable to say to have an aversion to any cases in which the UFO was close to the witness. If the UFOs were viewed through window glass, they was almost automatically assumed to be reflections.
Another ploy was to label them insufficient information. Any case reported 7 days after it happened could be put in this category. Finally, the witness(es) in such close encounter cases were frequently said to have overactive imaginations. Therefore, the case deserved no further investigation.
It is also interesting to note that even short long-distance telephone calls required the UFO officer at the 4602d to obtain special permission prior to placing the call.
Dr. Hynek used a slightly different form in his reevaluation of Air Force unknowns.
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PROJECT 1947 comments: Summary on PROJECT 10073 Record Card (ATIC Form 329) reads:
"Shaped [sic] changed from cigar to egg shaped. Appeared to be grey in color. Formation changed from elliptical to a wavy line to scattered and back to straight line. Objs were first in trail form. Speeds from almost hovering to 1,000 mph. Radar out of operation at time of sighting."
Under Comments:
"Sounds like birds, however, case evaluated as UNIDENTIFIED in 1955."
"The proposal is for the design of a supersonic research aircraft having a circular planform and VTO [Vertical Take Off] characteristics..."
"This proposal offers a possible solution to the USAF requirement for achieving dispersed base operations..."
"A possible solution to this problem has been proposed by A. V. Roe, Canada, Limited, in the form of their Project Y2 (Secret) operations. "
The demanding requirements for such a craft resulted in a SECRET design that was for all intents and purposes a "Flying Saucer."
When Bill Ralls and Glenn Joyner transferred their Project Silver Bug research to Project 1947, it came with several images of a strange-looking craft which purported to be Project Silver Bug. Many people had seen these images before, but they looked nothing like the Avrocar nor the designs from Project Silver Bug. Statistics show that these photographs are among the most popular items on the Project 1947 website.
When Tom Tulien and Jan Aldrich visited Joel Carpenter in 2001, Joel showed them a videotape from the Sherman Grinberg film library of newsreels. It was an old Pathe newsreel film from about 1953 containing a news items entitled "Canada Reveals 'Flying Saucer.'"
Commenting on the strange "craft" shown both on the Project 1947 website and the Pathe newsreel, Joel Carpenter added the following on the bogus Silver Bug mockups:
"My hunch is that when all the publicity came out about the 'Project Y' mockup, which really did exist, they couldn't show the actual mockup so someone took the time to build this contraption. If you look at it carefully, you can see that it's just probably made of plywood and canvas, and the wheels look like they're from a Piper Cub or something like that. The canopy is definitely from an F-86. It has bogus RCAF-like markings.
"In the newsreel, a bunch of VIPs are shown on a tour of the Avro plant. They walk into a room with a door marked 'Restricted' which closes in the camera's face. Then the next shot is a hangar door opening with this thing being pushed out by some guys. Then there's a top view of it. Some smoke, from a flare or something, comes out of the rear and it rolls slowly out of the frame. According to the notes on the Grinberg site, the footage originally ended with a sequence of shots showing it rolling into someone's car and denting the fender."It all looks like some kind of strange joke. It's definitely not a flying vehicle or prototype of any kind....
"Then there's a news article about General Putt's visit to the plant and his impressions of the mockup. His ARDC definitely did begin funding the project a few months later. There's a December '53 memo from Samford to ATIC about Putt's Avro trip where he checks in with ATIC about their knowledge of the project and asks them to look into the possibility of foreign counterparts. In June '54 CIA OSI sets up 'Intelligence Requirements for Unconventional Aircraft' which is intended to keep a lookout for Russian 'Avroskis.'"
T. Slater sent Project 1947 a picture of this mockup craft "flying" over a Canadian airbase. The picture was obviously a publicity plug for the Avrocar.
LINKS TO A. V. ROE, CANADA, THE AVRO ARROW AND THE AVROCAR
A. V. ROE CANADA
A. V. Roe Canada History
http://www.avroland.ca/al-avro-related-links.html
The Ottawa Citizen
February 2, 1998
Dief 'didn't destroy Arrow'
Eccentric A.V. Roe boss had planes scrapped, ex-minister says
Kathryn May
With files from Charles Enman.
AVRO Arrow books
Wings over the Pacific: The CF-105, AVRO Arrow
AVROCAR AND AVRO "FLYING SAUCERS"
Help Bring Canada's Saucer Back Home!
Canada's Flying Saucer
by Bill Zuk
Avro's Canadian Flying Saucers
by Joel Carpenter
http://www.ufx.org/avro/avro.htm
The Flying Disc
Article from the US Air Force "Air Intelligence Digest" December 1954, and a letter to U.S. Naval Attache in Moscow tasking the collection of intelligence items regarding possible Soviet developments of "circular aircraft" similar to the "Avro Flying Saucer". This item located and provided by Jan Aldrich of Project 1947.
The AVRO Flying Saucer
http://www.avroland.ca/al-vz9.html
http://www.aviation-history.com/garber/vg-bldg/avro_VZ9V-1_f.html
“That Avro Saucer - ALMOST AS MYTHICAL AS OTIS CARR'S”
Article from “Civilian Saucer Intelligence” (New York) - 7/15/59
PROJECT 1947 is grateful to researchers Bill Ralls and Glenn Joyner for permission to host their collection of Silver Bug documents, which Mr Ralls first requested through the FOIA in 1996.
Revised: December 17, 2003
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