Prototype flying wing heavy bomber aircraft YB-49 (from Northrop) and a refueling truck parked on an airfield. Jet engines on wing of YB-49. Civilians work on YB-49. YB-49 taxis and hangars in background. YB-49 takes off.
View of heavy bomber "flying wing" aircraft YB-49. The Northrop YB-49 performs aerial maneuvers. YB-49 taxis down runway. XB-49 taxis up to hangar.
Doughnut shaped piece of cloth suspended by wire. United States Air Force Chief General John Samford discusses the 'flying saucer' UFO because he says it is an obligation of the USAF to investigate anything in the air that might prove a threat to the nation. He credits others as the result of aircraft or meteorological and astronomical phenomena. He reveals that there is not a pattern or measurement for analysis. His conclusions are that they represent no threat to us. He adds that flying saucers are not the result of a secret development by U.S. agency.
Film opens showing Major Donald E. Keyhoe (U.S. Marine Corps, Retired) author of the 1950 book,"The Flying Saucers Are Real." He is seated, quietly, at a desk with microphones. Unseen persons are talking, as they prepare for his interview, and can be heard in the background. An unseen interviewer asks Keyhoe his opinion about new sightings of unidentified flying objects. Kehhoe expresses belief that some will prove to be of interplanetary origin.
Special effects and vintage science fiction animation depict the launch of a space ship and its trip around the moon and return. From German film Weltraum Schiff I Startet Eine Technische Fantasie. A space ship is launched from earth. Telescope is seen in observatory. Space ship into outer space, reaches moon. Space ship in orbit and on moon surface. Space ship returns from moon. Newspapers being printed and removed from a printing press in Germany, and headlines telling of the spaceship and its success. Group of men seen talking. Space ship returns to earth.
Experimental flight tests of Horton Wingless Airplane. Aircraft take off on runway. Sketches of designs proposed for Horton aircraft designed by William Horton, including the HW-X-26-52. Wingless Aircraft taxi for take off and other aircraft parked on airfield. Sign of 'Entrance - Orange County airport publicly owned'.
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