Flying Saucer Theories Undone

An article by Fox News explains to us a possible reason as to why people have claimed to have seen flying saucers and alien space craft in the past. 

Fox News states that recently the National Declassification Center opened one of over 100 boxes of classified information.  They discovered a 114 page document from 1956 describing a project by the Air Force to create a flying saucer.  It was proposed that the saucer would have an ejector seat and would be powered by a "ram jet".  It was designed to reach a top speed of Mach 4 and be able to reach heights of over 100,000 feet.  The government entitled the project, "Project 1794".  The concept and blue prints looked as if the saucer would be a success, but thorough testing proved otherwise. The disk-shaped craft was basically an over exaggerated version of a hovercraft, and it didn't work out as the scientists had hoped.  As the craft gained in altitude, is started to wobble uncontrollably.  There was a followupplan to develope weapons for the saucer so as to make it capable of reconnaissance, intercepting enemy information, or to be used as a tacticle bomber.  The idea of scientists attempting to build a flying saucer during the cold war is very interesting.  The numbers in the name of the program, "Project 1794," can be rearranged to create the year of the Roswell incident, 1974, when a flying saucer was found crashed in Roswell, New Mexico.

Government testing of the saucer can be linked to many sightings and conspiracy theories about the Roswell incident and Area 51.  This article written by Fox News has given an explanation for the alien space craft theory by providing proof that it was caused by government testing a new program.