April 1950 - Notes are from an article labeled "Answers Still Lacking" found in an El Reno Oklahoma newspaper for this date.
U.S.Navy says "flying saucers" are real BUT they are revolutionary aircraft combining features of fast jet planes and helicopters.
[First jet helicopters emerge around 1951 - see https://todayincthistory.com/2018/12/11/__trashed-3/]
They are said to conform to known principles of flying. Some of the "flying saucers" reported one national magazine had been seen by "hundreds of competent observers", including Army and Air Force officers.
The unnamed magazine (which may have been a U.S. World) pointed out the NAVY is building advanced models of a flying saucer type craft "originally constructed and successfully test flown by U.S. engineers in 1942"
[No such test flight or craft has been identified to date. It does not seem to match later attempts such as the 1956 plans for a saucer, "USAF Project 1794" - an apparent outsourced project that just never got off the ground.
and the resultant Avro VZ-9 project built in Canada see video below.
[Note the wobble - this could account for some reports of UFO's that showed this unstable aspect and the mild whirring sound. This works ONLY if there was acknowledgement of working prototypes and subsequent testing - no records appear to show these further testing phases and no introduction of the saucer technology. There is a related development of helicopters and hovering aircraft... The video below dated 1959]
[Some have suggested ideas drawn from Operation Paperclip Nazi scientific studies but the time line is prior to that. Was this a case of the Navy blowing smoke to see what happened? They were actively engaged in research in New Mexico "Navy Air Force" and some sparring between Vandenberg and Pentagon Navy types creeps into some news accounts.]
According to "reliable sources" about saucers in flight, they are circular, diameter of 105 +/- feet, had apparent jet nozzles around outer rim, was 10 feet thick and built in layers, 200-600 mph, and could land at low speeds (such as 35 mph).
The 'magazine' pointed out White Sands had observed a saucer and tracked it for severa l minutes. The conclusion was the Navy was responsible.
[This may refer to the sighting in White Sands by a Navy Cmdr in 1949]
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