The saucer looks suspiciously like "Project Silver Bug" http://www.foia.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-090218-169.pdf http://www.foia.af.mil/shared/media/doc

The saucer looks suspiciously like "Project Silver Bug" http://www.foia.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-090218-169.pdf http://www.foia.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-090218-169.... It appeared in many of the popular magazines of the time http://blog.modernmechanix.com/issue/?magname=MechanixIllustrated&magdate=3-1956 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/issue/?magname=MechanixIllust... IIRC it was cancelled because it was incredibly unstable. Had a tendency to spin like a top.