An Air Force major approached Dr. Rogers in a hallway and offered to show him something that would “knock his socks off,” he ...

[Courtesy: U.S. Air Force] The resulting VZ-9 first flew in 1959. Resembling a small flying saucer, the Avrocar was only 18 feet in diameter, only half the wingspan of a Cessna 172. Despite its ...

The saucer was touted as capable of watching the enemy or darting off to intercept his aircraft and shoot it down. But what the vehicle actually did could in no way be called “flying,” says ...

NASA tested its flying saucer-like low-density supersonic decelerator (LDSD) today. This vessel could possibly be the spacecraft for future Mars landings. Unfortunately, the craft's parachute didn ...