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Real-Life UFOs Real-Life UFOs, From Modern-Day Flying Saucer the KGB used parapsychology and paranormal Flying Flapjacks to It may be the case that flying saucers groups to get to military people with classified information. He is concerned that any enemy Mystery Missiles basically failed over the years, be it the Avrocar group could easily use these forums to search or the Flying Pancake. That didn't discourage a out national security secrets.” Joel Brenner, the Continued from Page 38 British inventor named Geoff Hatton. United States national counterintelligence chief To get his small hovering drone into the recently said that the number of Russian agents It wasn't to be. While the Navy commissioned a sky, Hatton used a physical occurrence called operating in the country had reached “Cold a prototype in the late '30s, it decided to go with the Coanda Effect, in which air is attracted to a War levels,” according to the Russian News & jet aircraft during the Second World War, and curved surface and can be pushed down for a lift Information Agency. the same year Modern Mechanix put the effect. Smaller than a meter in diameter, Russo cites as further evidence: "In Flapjack on its cover, the Navy pulled the plug. Hatton's saucers are operated through remote 2004 the CIA released under a FOIA request the Still, it wasn't all a failure: The Vought-173 controls and buzz like an insect. He put together Stargate Archive files, which reveal that the ultimately climbed to 5,000 feet, despite its a company called GFS Projects -- Geoff's CIA was indeed concerned about monitoring funny-looking fuselage, and earned the respect Flying Saucers -- and won a research contract UFO authors who might be privy to classified of Charles Lindbergh, who even flew it once. with the U.S. Army. material." That didn't stop GFS from running into So, if I get this right: these spooks don’t financial trouble, and last year a different really believe in UFOs, but they’re worried that British aviation company, Aesir, acquired foreign intelligence agents have infiltrated UFO Hatton's work. Aesir seems to be continuing the groups that have military members with effort -- a shot in the arm for those who grew up classified info. And what sort of classified thinking flying saucers were cool and figuring information do these supposed foreign they'd model their own designs off (presumed) intelligence types think they’re gonna get from alien technology.[] the UFO group (other than UFO information)? Anyhow, too much to contemplate for Spooks Infiltrating UFO one day, but an enjoyable read, if you can Community? follow the cast of characters.[] By Sharon Weinberger MISTAKES www.wired.com If a barber makes a mistake, It's a new style... Inside-Out Helicopter Platform If a driver makes a mistake, Zimmerman didn't just dream up the It's an accident... Flying Flapjack. In the 1950s, he had an idea he thought would revolutionize aeronautics: Put a If a engineer makes a mistake, helicopter's rotors underneath the pilot. Easy It's a new venture... enough to generate lift, and the shifts of the pilot's weight could guide the unusual If parents makes a mistake, conveyance in the desired direction. The Office It's a new generation... of Naval Research and the Army figured: Why not? If a politician makes a mistake, By the middle of the decade, a New It's a new law... York helicopter company called de Lackner designed what became known as the HZ-1 If a scientist makes a mistake, Aerocycle or HZ-1 Flying Platform. Powered It's a new invention... by a 30-kilowatt motor, two 15-foot rotor blades spun in opposite directions beneath the Why does a small, but devoted group, of If a tailor makes a mistake, platform, with four pods (later skis) at the intelligence officials continue to follow the It's a new fashion... platform's extremities for balance. UFO community long after the government The Army, improbably, ordered 15 disavowed any secret evidence of little green If a teacher makes a mistake, Aerocycles from de Lackner, perhaps taken by men? I have no idea, I just presumed they’re It's a new theory... the thought of an inverted personal-use looking for UFOs. But a few weeks ago, a helicopter that could drop soldiers into a fight at writer named Gus Russo called me, telling me If our boss makes a mistake, speeds of 65 milers per hour. he was writing about this particular group of It's our mistake...... Ultimately, the Aerocycle couldn't even spooks. convince its test pilot. "It only took me one I told him I don’t do UFOs (no really, I If an employee makes a mistake, flight to realize that a non-flyer would have don’t), but suggested a few people who may It's a "MISTAKE"!!! considerable difficulty operating it," remarked know more. Anyhow, his final conclusion is Captain Selmer Sundby, though he went on to that, in fact, these crafty guys are monitoring the several accident-prone flights in it. UFO community in an attempt to keep tabs on foreign intelligence who may have already infiltrated this group: Tom’s motivation, it now appears certain, can be summed up in two words: national security. In a recent interview, a senior intelligence official who is familiar with spooks in cyberspace explained, “Tom is interested in the subject because, one, he is concerned that DIA officers parading as CIA officers — a felony — are leaking classified material to the UFO groups. He also knows that in years past