Project Silverbug (described below) was initiated AFTER Project Winterhaven (1952), using conventional jet technology, rather than the far more
advanced and capable Magneto Hydro-Dynamic technology developed by Thomas Townsend Brown for Project Winterhaven.
Was it an attempted coverup of the technology that later evolved into what is today operationally deployed as our X Craft fleet? Or was it a throwback
to the thinking of the 1950s, and fear of releasing known and proven jet technology?
What Project Silver Bug was set to begin work on in 1955 was the research and development project to field jet propelled flying saucers which could be
dispersed underground in an attempt to get away from the air bases of the day which featured long runways. The jet-propelled disks were to be capable
of vertical takeoffs and landings, and would be capable of Mach 3.48--faster than the SR-71 Blackbird.
What Batts and his buddy Joe saw at a range of approximately 200 yards in 1977 was a 200-foot diameter flying disk rising out of the ground of the
desert with a bright light on its belly and flashing sequential lights at its center. It was silver in color and Batts says there is no way it could
have been a case of mistaken identity through swamp gas or a multitude of other common UFO debunking postulations put forward by debunkers.
The Report on Project Silver Bug, dated Feb. 15, 1955, and declassified on March 29, 1995, proposed the development of such a disk-shaped interceptor
aircraft.
The proposed craft would be capable of vertical takeoff and landing; a maximum level speed of 2,300 mph with reheat (afterburners); a ceiling of
80,600 feet; and a climb rate of 1.76 minutes to 36,090 feet.
Those performance figures were very advanced for 1955, and are not too shabby today. Top speeds of American fighter- interceptor aircraft of 1955 were
around 1,000 mph, and they had a lower ceiling than what the disk would have.
But the big thing as far as the Air Force was concerned was the potential such flying disks had for being dispersed in underground facilities.
The Report on Project Silver Bug was issued by the Air Technical Intelligence Center along with the Wright Air Development Center at Wright-Patterson
AFB in Dayton, Ohio.
While the Silver Bug project has been officially claimed to have resulted in the ill-fated Avro Car, which turned into perhaps the world's first air
cushion vehicle instead of a supersonic interceptor disk, UFO researchers have long questioned whether the project actually came to a sudden stop with
development of the Avro Car, which was a flop at flight.
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