"george" <gblack@hnpl.net> wrote in news:1154812397.335200.41480
@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com:

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...

And if we limited the imagination of scientists, inventors, designers, 
etc etc we'll still be limited to flying balloons, instead of aircraft.

One of the greatest hoaxes of all time, is that of 'experts' knowing
everything in their own field, being so authoritive, such that they
know everything, when they clearly don't.

eg. Present day astronomers not being able to verify, that yes they have    
    not seen any UFOs or flying saucers, etc...

One can rationalise why they report so very few UFO sightings...

1. They don't want to lose their credibility.
2. They don't want to lose their job, and injure their future
   career prospects.

But if you go back 100 years and more, you will find, yes --- they have
reported many UFO sightings (see the 1956 book "The Case for the UFO"
by M K Jessup) - and they weren't flying balloons.

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...

Note: I don't think these three sentences are connected, as implied.
Hot air balloons cannot be reported as going thousands of miles per 
hour, they must have been something else, to be sighted that way...
ie. travelling at that speed.

Harvey