In 1967 Jack D. Pickett, who was the publisher of an Air Force news letter for MacDill AFB in Tampa, Florida, was asked to do a story documenting vintage experimental aircraft. While looking around the base salvage yard he spotted three circular-wing, saucer-shaped, aircraft which he took an extreme interest in. He was told that these craft had been operational and had even nearly achieved spaceflight. When he asked why they had been relegated to the scrap heap, he was told that the aircraft had certain maneuverability issues, and that the Air Force had since made better versions. Pickett was stunned by how much these aircraft resembled reports of flying saucers through the decades. The U.S. Air Force originally gave him permission to publish the story of the airplanes and even provided photographs, but later changed their tune and said that it was in the best interest of the Air Force if the article on the disks was delayed. Pickett’s story was potentially confirmed when in 1978, while attending a military reunion at Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, Warren Botz, who had flown with the Flying Tigers during WWII, reportedly saw in an open hanger the same type of aircraft which had been described by Pickett nearly ten years earlier; a large disk-shaped, circular-wing plane with a vertical tail fin. Interestingly, the craft they both witnessed were very similar in design to objects described in certain UFO reports and even some captured on film. https://theprometheanflame.substack.com/p/ufos-demystified-paint-it-black submitted by /u/knowstradamus7 [link] [comments]