The Avrocar: A Secret Cold War VTOL Project That Shaped Hover Technology

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During the Cold War, Jack Frost led a secret project to build a saucer-like vertical-takeoff aircraft called the Avrocar, which failed in testing and was canceled as too costly, but it helped shape later hover technology and fed public intrigue sparked by sightings such as Orfeo Angelucci’s.

Declassified: That Time the US Military made Flying Saucers
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Declassified: That Time the US Military made Flying Saucers

Every once in a while, we unearth a story so out-of-this-world it deserves its own tacky sci-fi movie. Todays story turns the clock back to 1959, when the Cold War was hot and a scientist named Jack Frost was breaking a sweat over a top-secret military project: the flying saucer. As in, an All-Amer