Top aerospace firms Lockheed and Ryan Aeronautical both had designs for their own flying saucers. In 1953 engineer Nathan C. Price filed two patents on behalf of Lockheed for supersonic, VTOL capable, circular-wing aircraft. The Ryan Aeronautical saucer concept was particularly intriguing as it was intended to be a craft capable of leaving the Earth’s atmosphere utilizing a combination chemical and electric propulsion system. During the 1950s there was talk in the aerospace industry about the...

Im not sure if this is the right place but i found some interesting connections when i was looking over this document. Fair warning I experienced mania and psychosis last year when i was researching all of this so ill admit some of it may have just been my over fueled pattern recognition but i have no one else i can really springboard this off of without sounding crazy lol. The Australian document is this one: https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/061226/release_03/documents/CIA-UAP-019-Australia...

8/ The Navy began checking whether or not any known aircraft could account for the sighting. The surviving file says that there were no Royal Australian Navy or Royal Australian Air Force aircraft operating in the area at the time. There was, however, a Trans Australia Airlines Convair flying north at 14,000 feet. That airliner has disappeared from some popular versions of the case, but it was there and belongs in any fair account. The Convair establishes that another known aircraft was somew...

Just ran across this, had never heard of it before. In 1957 the Convair division of General Dynamics Corporation was developing this air-to-air lenticular missile. It was supposed to be a defensive missile for the B-70 Valkyrie bomber. The specifications for the proposed system called for an air-launched defensive missile, capable of engaging incoming missiles at relative speeds of up to Mach 7, surviving a rate of acceleration between 60 g to 250 g, and being able to undertake rapid terminal...