Did they really think that this was going to fly?
Ah the Avro Car! Phil Klass and Donald Menzel probably looked at this and thought "Eureka! The answer to all of the sightings that we can't explain!" That explanation is about as good as the CIA recently claiming that a high percentage of UFO sightings were actually of secret U2 tests.
The U2, the main reason people were seeing
discs, triangles, spheres and footballs in the air!
My main question is would this small time Canadian project to develop a stable, hovering platform, have been purchased lock stock and barrel, have millions of 1950's dollars pumped into it only to be mothballed? This was a time where helicopters, specifically the Sikorsky designs, offered exceptional stability, speed and range. Why pump money into an unstable and under powered device were it not for one reason, its shape. My question is would the Air Force have shown any interest in a hovering square? Did the fact that it was a disc become the main driver of it's inception into the US government fold? Having a project that is undeniably a "flying" disc would be a great way to establish plausible deniability when there are so many reports of these things flying around. I will say that the money was not wasted in documenting the program. There are a ton of videos on the National Archives YouTube site documenting it's progress. It was kind of funny watching this lumbering thing barely go down a tarmac while the narrator is exclaiming the performance of this pitiful disc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opD86VZSWpo
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