1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,000 Recently, Sightings brought you an extended report on government experiments with saucer-shaped 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:09,260 aircraft. 3 00:00:09,260 --> 00:00:14,600 We showed you the Avrocar, a crude experimental craft first tested in the 1950s. 4 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:19,900 Well now, newly declassified documents revealed that the military was testing and flying much 5 00:00:19,900 --> 00:00:22,240 more sophisticated saucer designs. 6 00:00:22,240 --> 00:00:27,200 The secret project was codenamed Silverbug. 7 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:32,260 At the end of World War II, the Allied forces had gained complete air superiority over Hitler's 8 00:00:32,260 --> 00:00:33,640 Luftwaffe. 9 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:35,140 The Germans were desperate. 10 00:00:35,140 --> 00:00:39,440 They ordered the immediate development of an aircraft capable of vertical takeoffs and 11 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:43,160 landings, because nearly all of their runways had been destroyed. 12 00:00:43,160 --> 00:00:48,720 The project was spearheaded by Dr. Richard Mieter, known today as the father of saucerology. 13 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:55,240 Dr. Mieter was hired by the Luftwaffe, the German Air Force, to build a saucer-shaped 14 00:00:55,240 --> 00:01:01,080 aircraft that could vertically ascend and, with rockets, shoot down large numbers of 15 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:02,680 Allied planes. 16 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:04,640 But the Germans were too late. 17 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:08,560 The war ended before Mieter's saucer got off the drawing boards. 18 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:13,840 But his designs and technological breakthroughs did not go unnoticed by the American military. 19 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:21,520 We had large numbers of technical people searching through Germany as they were moving right 20 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:22,680 behind the troops. 21 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:31,600 They began in April of 1945, and they would send back everything they found. 22 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:36,120 And according to Alexander Flex, former assistant secretary of the Air Force, German technology 23 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:38,680 wasn't the only thing being shipped to North America. 24 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:43,600 After World War II, Dr. Mieter himself began work on a secret aircraft project at AV Rowe 25 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:45,400 Aeronautics in Canada. 26 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:51,320 Dr. Mieter at AV Rowe was working on some of the concepts that were derived from the German 27 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:52,320 experience. 28 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:57,200 There were certainly saucer-like flying machines. 29 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:03,880 Anybody looking at them could have decided that these were indeed flying saucers. 30 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:08,320 And there is evidence that soon after the war, the United States had also launched a 31 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:11,320 super-secret project to develop vertical flight vehicles. 32 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:16,040 The vertical takeoff and landing programs had a long, long history. 33 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:18,160 We had many, many programs. 34 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:22,960 Among the three services, I counted at least 35. 35 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:30,440 Of those 35 saucer projects, the most highly classified was known by the code name Silverbug. 36 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:37,080 Silverbug saucers were designed to fly 2,300 miles per hour at an altitude of 80,000 feet. 37 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:43,280 These designs dating from 1955 were not declassified until March of 1995. 38 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:49,240 For over 40 years, America's number one flying saucer project was top secret. 39 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:52,360 But this flying saucer project was not. 40 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:58,120 In the 1950s, while Project Silverbug was under tight wraps, AV Rowe unveiled the Avro 41 00:02:58,120 --> 00:02:59,920 car to the public. 42 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:05,280 Was this Jerry Rig Flop really the best the brilliant Dr. Mieter could create? 43 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:07,280 The Avro car is just a cover. 44 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:08,360 It's a cover store. 45 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:11,840 What was actually built by AV Rowe is anybody's guess. 46 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:16,440 The phylogists believe that the US military had everything to gain and nothing to lose 47 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:20,840 by insinuating that this was the state of the art for flying saucers. 48 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:25,160 It would deflect attention away from real saucers being tested and spotted by amateur 49 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:27,600 sky watchers in the American Southwest. 50 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:34,040 There is virtually no doubt in my mind that the United States government built German-inspired 51 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:35,560 designs in this country. 52 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:40,000 They were probably seen by many people and probably some crashed. 53 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:45,000 The release of Silverbug's plans and protocol offers an interesting twist in the great debate 54 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,760 over what crashed near Roswell, New Mexico. 55 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:53,440 It could very well have been a flying saucer, but one of ours, not one of theirs, and not 56 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:54,920 the first. 57 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:59,880 In Germany, at about the turn of the century, many, many secret societies developed. 58 00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:02,480 The real machine was built by the real society. 59 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:07,840 And the real saucer was, in turn, based on the instructions left behind by a mysterious 60 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:09,040 ancient cult. 61 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:14,520 These texts were instructions on how to build this interdimensional machine. 62 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:20,040 They've channeled this information from what they thought were extraterrestrials. 63 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:25,760 Built this craft that levitated, the first piloted flight was in 1934, and they knew 64 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:28,840 they had something at that point. 65 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:33,680 It appears that the saucer silhouette will soon be seen in the skies again. 66 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:36,720 This is the Tier 3 minus UAV. 67 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:40,520 This is state-of-the-art surveillance drone built at the world-famous Lockheed Martin 68 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:43,600 Skunkworks in Palmdale, California. 69 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:48,960 Looking at this aircraft head-on, one can't help but observe that saucers are real.