Ancient Aliens

Flying disks

make impossible maneuvers.

Oh!

Gravitational forces

inside these objects

would crush any living individual.

Triangular craft

appear out of thin air.

He actually was a hundred feet away from that flying triangle

and could see through it and the stars above.

Enormous cylindrical objects

fill the sky.

It had the radar return equivalent

to ten aircraft carriers,

except this was up in the air.

UFO witnesses

have reported objects of all shapes and sizes.

Could they offer important clues

about other intelligent life in our galaxy?

Might there be links

between the shapes of UFOs

and the different types of entities

that are sometimes reported?

It's very conceivable they're coming

from different planetary systems

throughout the universe.

There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is the promise of truth.

It demands we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

At dawn on April 14, 1561,

the citizens of this Bavarian city

at the center of Europe awake to a commotion in the sky

unlike anything they have ever experienced before.

People went outside,

and they saw what they described as a celestial battle.

The witnesses observed seeing hundreds

of these strange‐shaped objects.

What were these strange shapes that they were describing?

The aerial scene,

illustrated in this contemporary woodcut,

is described in the accompanying text

as a very frightful spectacle.

Strange objects seemed to launch projectiles

as onlookers below watch in amazement.

This was actually witnessed

by thousands of people.

Had it been a meteor shower

or something like this, then the reports

would have been, "Okay, this happened before

because we've seen this before."

But that was new.

The witnesses

wouldn't have had a conception

of some kind of a mechanical spacecraft,

but that seems to be exactly what they were describing.

And this has to be

one of the greatest mass sightings

of a UFO phenomena in all of recorded history.

Incredibly,

a very similar incident was reported

in Basel, Switzerland five years later

and was illustrated in a woodcut

that still exists to this day.

Is it possible

that these two events witnessed by thousands

represent the first mass UFO sightings on record?

The UFO phenomenon is not modern.

It goes back as far as we can remember,

because we have accounts of lights and craft

not only in modern times

but also in ancient times.

Ancient astronaut theorists find it remarkable

that the depictions of these 16th century sightings

include every shape of craft that has been reported

by UFO witnesses in modern times.

But it also poses an important question.

If these are, in fact,

representations of alien vehicles,

what could explain all the different shapes?

So, it well might be that different types

of UFOs are tasked for different purposes.

There are scout ships.

There are ships that only orbit.

There are mother ships.

They're all tasked for different purposes.

If you look at our planet today,

almost every country has some kind of flying machine

that is different from what we have.

I think the same thing is the case with extraterrestrials.

Let's assume there's ten different E.T. races

within our Milky Way galaxy.

Each one could have a different shape to its craft

because that's just the way they created it.

And I think that's very conceivable when we see

cigar‐shaped UFOs, triangular‐shaped UFOs,

round UFOs.

They're coming from different planetary systems

throughout the universe.

Could the various shapes that have been witnessed in the sky

for hundreds of years

all represent extraterrestrial crafts,

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

And if so, with a more advanced technological

frame of reference, might modern humans be able to gain insight

about who, or what, is visiting Earth

by examining these shapes?

Are there conclusions that you can make about

the different shapes of UFOs that are reported?

Might there be links even between the shapes of UFOs

and the different types of entities

that are sometimes reported?

In modern times, the most commonly reported UFO shape

is the iconic "flying saucer."

The term was coined in 1947

after pilot Kenneth Arnold spotted a number

of flying objects near Mount Rainier in Washington,

traveling at incredible speeds.

He described them as skipping through the air

"like a saucer," he said.

And this is really where the term "a flying saucer" arrives

in English language, is from Kenneth Arnold's description.

With more saucer‐shaped objects reported around the globe,

the United States government began to investigate reports

of UFO activity.

It wasn't just the United States that was interested

in potential UFOs in the mid‐century.

Canada, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom

and Brazil all had various programs to determine

whether or not it was a threat for humans.

Could it be that reports of flying saucers

caught the attention of world governments because they have

a shape unlike any man‐made aircraft?

Ufologists suggest that these sightings triggered

a competition by world powers to manufacture their own craft

based on this exotic design.

A design that many presumed must have some unknown

but inherent advantage for flight.

There's no question that, historically,

governments have attempted to recreate the shape

of UFO craft that have been seen, spotted or crashed.

In the 1950s, the Pentagon funded a prototype

for a disc‐shaped craft.

This once‐classified project yielded

a nearly three‐ton flying saucer:

the VZ‐9 Avrocar.

The Avrocar was one attempt

to develop a flying saucer.

And it was a VTOL design. A vertical takeoff and landing.

It was designed by a Canadian company, Avro,

for the U.S. military.

The U.S. Air Force wanted it to be a supersonic interceptor

and fighter,

and the U.S. Army wanted it to be something stealthy

that could hover above the ground in silence

and detect radar.

Avro engineers thought that this big circular wing might be

the design that could meet both requirements.

In 1959,

after years of top secret development,

this flying saucer prototype was finally put to the test.

In preparation for the final contractual demonstration,

a representative course was selected

where the vehicle could demonstrate its capability

while remaining in view of the observers.

It turned out that the cushion of air under that wing

became extremely unstable just a few feet off the ground.

There was one model built, and some wind tunnel tests done,

but ultimately it was deemed completely

aerodynamically unstable.

While the Avrocar failed,

in 2019, Romanian engineer Razvan Sabie

and aerodynamicist Iosif Taposu unveiled their answer

to the flying saucer problem.

The "All Directional Flying Saucer," or ADIFO,

demonstrates precision maneuverability,

and outperforms all previously known flying saucers

constructed by humans.

The ADIFO design looks really interesting.

It looks like a highly maneuverable

flying saucer design.

But it's small, and it's a drone.

It would be interesting to see how the engineering works

with a full‐size design,

because engineering is very difficult,

and usually doesn't scale up very cleanly.

This saucer utilizes four ducted fans

like a quad copter drone,

and it is also equipped with jets for added thrust,

and lateral nozzles that provide side‐to‐side mobility

and rotation.

The saucer only currently exists as a miniature prototype,

but its creators plan to pursue a full‐sized, manned version

capable of hypersonic speed.

If successful, will we have finally achieved the same