Harvey@NZ wrote:

There is an aspect about the Avro project, not generally known about.
In that, in the Nick Cook book "The Hunt for Zero Point"
which deals with Nazi Super secret weapons and technology,
Anti-gravity, the US Aerospace industry and history, and
Zero Point Energy --- it mentions that the Avro Air Car seems to have
just been a cover, and was not the real project, that Avro had in
mind to build. It had a much higher specced vehicle in mind, much
more ambitious than the Air Car - but of course it got canned, or
stopped in development, and somehow the Air Car was made to be some
fall guy for the entire project. Details are in the book.
Believe it or not.

We had a number of 'sightings' here in New Zealand.
5 university students reported (from different parts of the country)
that they had seen 'lights in the sky'
Such was the gullibility at the time that astronomers were busy working
out how big these things were, how fast they went and other such.
Newspapers fell over themselves for several weeks.
However it was just a preplanned hoax.
Wellington was inundated with mysterious lights some years later. Some
reports had them doing thousands of miles an hour.
They were actually candles under plastic bags that flew as hot air
balloons...