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Declassified UFO / UAP Document

ANALYSIS OF THE UNIDENTIFIED LENTICULAR AERODINE TECHNOLOGY

📅 July 1947 📍 New Mexico 🏛 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 📄 Information Report
ULATTCIANew Mexicolenticular aerodyneHannes Alfvenfusion reactormagnetohydrodynamics

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TL;DR

A 1950 CIA report details the analysis of a crashed lenticular craft recovered in New Mexico in 1947. It describes the craft's propulsion as utilizing a fusion reactor and magnetic field lines, and notes a 1949 presidential proposal to share this technology with allies.

This document, dated 30 October 1950, is an intelligence report from the Central Intelligence Agency's Office of Scientific Intelligence regarding the analysis of recovered unidentified lenticular aerodyne technology. The report focuses on wreckage recovered from a crash site near Corona and Oscura Peak, New Mexico, in July 1947. The analysis covers flight dynamics, power plant and propulsion, construction, and avionics. The report references the Unidentified Lenticular Aerodyne Technology Transfer (ULATT) Exploitation Program and notes that a meeting was held at Blair House on 14 July 1949, where President Harry S. Truman proposed sharing the technology's 'know how' with Canada and the United Kingdom. Technical findings suggest that the craft utilizes a fusion reactor and travels by interacting with the planet's magnetic lines of force via an ionizing plasma. Structural analysis by the Air Material Command indicates the craft was not piloted by radio transmission, appears to be manually controlled, and features a 'seamless' construction. Dr. Hannes Alfven was consulted regarding his work on magnetohydrodynamics to explain the craft's propulsion mechanism.

It is believed that the craft travels through space by utilizing an ionizing plasma and the planet's magnetic lines of force flowing into the atmosphere.

Official Assessment

The document concludes that the recovered craft utilizes a fusion reactor and ionizing plasma to travel along magnetic field lines. It notes that the craft appears to be manually controlled with no radio transmission capabilities and features a seamless construction.

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