Project Silver Bug / Avro VZ-9 Avrocar (1953-1961)
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America really did try to build a flying saucer. It got about three feet off the ground.
Who they are
Project Silver Bug and its prototype, the Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar, 1953 to 1961[1].
What they do
In the engine this is the real terrestrial disc programme, held in place of the invented one.
How it works
The US Air Force took over Avro Canada's Project Y in 1953 and paid for a supersonic vertical-takeoff saucer. The prototype was severely unstable, reached roughly three feet and thirty-five miles an hour against projections of ten thousand feet and three hundred miles an hour, and was cancelled in December 1961[1].
Why it matters
It matters because the timeline runs the other way from the legend: the German press claims of March 1950 come three years before the Air Force picked this up. Two related claims are deliberately not asserted here, because neither was traced to a primary document: that Georg Klein went public in 1953 to match Avro's announcement, and that Miethe later worked at Avro.
The engine's record — word for word
[Report #127] The real terrestrial flying-disc program behind the source's 'Silver Manta' code. The USAF assumed funding of Avro Canada's 'Project Y' in 1953 (designations WS-606A / Project 1794 / Project Silver Bug; ~$750k 1955 contract) for a supersonic Coanda-effect VTOL 'flying saucer.' The prototype, the Avro VZ-9 AVROCAR, was an engineering failure: severely unstable, reaching ~3 ft altitude and ~35 mph (vs 10,000 ft / 300 mph projected); cancelled Dec 1961. SUBSTRATE-VS-ANNOUNCEMENT (Div #79): the source's fabricated 'Silver Manta' (traces to consumer jewelry, not a 1952 program) is kept OUT; the real failed program is held. Documented state UFO-cover instances sit alongside it — the 1955 Look-magazine 'Soviet saucers' leak using Avro/Frost drawings, and the CIA Robertson Panel (Jan 1953) recommending mass-media 'debunking' — but whether the terrestrial exotic-propulsion lineage ever produced anything operational is UNRESOLVED; name no holder. Primary: Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar (Wikipedia); theblackvault.com Silver Bug docs; CIA Robertson Panel.
[Report #195] The engine's real terrestrial disc programme sits downstream of the 1950 legend layer now dated at nazi_ufo_origin_stack: the Spiegel claims of March 1950 precede the USAF's 1953 assumption of Avro Canada's Project Y by three years. NOT ESTABLISHED THIS PASS and therefore not asserted here: the claim that Georg Klein went public in 1953 timed to the Avro announcement, and the claim that Miethe was later employed at Avro. Both are recorded as open in the Report #195 scorecard row. Georg Klein does not appear in the 29 March 1950 Spiegel article; that was checked by direct string search of the retrieved text.
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