It was no secret that the Canadians had retrieved some of the research from the German rocket base at Peenemuende that had been directed by Walter Dornberger and Wernher von Braun in the production of the vergeltungswaffe, the V-2 rocket that had ravaged London, and this announcement seemed clear evidence that they had been successful in assembling one of the Nazi's secret craft.

As if not to be outdone by the Canadians, on February 15, 1955, the Air Technical Intelligence Center, together with the Wright Air Development Center at Wright-Patterson U.S. Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, revealed that the Air Force proposed building jet-propelled "flying saucers" under the code name of Project Silverbug.

Circular, saucer-shaped, like the classic UFOs that civilians had been sighting since at least 1947, the largest of the proposed saucers would weigh 26,000 pounds and would be powered by radically advanced jet engines that would be able to lift the craft to an altitude of 36,090 feet in about one minute and 45 seconds. The cruise speed of these remarkable vehicles would be Mach 3.48 and the operating ceiling would be able to soar to 80,600 feet. By way of comparison, today's F-15 fighter jet has a similar performance range, but it was developed more than 20 years after the proposed saucers of Project Silverbug.

For some UFO researchers, this rare disclosure from the Air Force seemed proof that the German occult Vril Society really had made contact with extraterrestrials who had given the Nazis their technological advantage at the onset of World War II. Others spoke of the Nazi discovery of a downed UFO and the intense work of the German scientists and engineers to reverse-engineer the alien spacecraft.

While the source for the technological know-how that allowed the U.S. Air Force to announce plans for such an astounding aerial vehicle will remain controversial, a June 1955 issue of Look magazine carried an article disclosing the information that Avro-Canada, Ltd, had been developing a saucer-shaped craft since 1953 but that all the research efforts had come to naught. According to the article, the "Avro" project had been abandoned because of the estimated $75-million development costs.

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