Toronto has seen its fair share of bonkers contraptions over the decades. From Knapp's Roller Boat, a cigar-shaped Victorian ship its designer hoped would drive over the top of choppy water (it didn't ...

Everyone is familiar with the concept of the flying saucer, but the iconic shape still hasn’t spawned a real, working aircraft. That hasn’t stopped many aircraft designers from trying to get UFO-like ...

In 2012, a memo titled “Project 1794 Final Development Summary Report 2 April—30 May 1956” was finally declassified by the ...

The US Air Force's push to develop operational flying saucers 60 years ago laid the conceptual groundwork for one of the variants of Lockheed Martin's F-35, MIT Technology Review reports. The F-35 ...

Near the closing hours of world war two, the nazis started to experiment with more… unconventional aircraft designs. And ...

If you wanted to put a precise date on the origins of our obsession with saucers, the most-cited contender is June 24, 1947. That was the day that Kenneth Arnold, an amateur pilot from Idaho, was ...

Our Prototypes column introduces new vehicle concepts and presents visuals from designers who illustrate the ideas. Some of them will be extensions of existing concepts, others will be new, some will ...

Early circular-winged aircraft -- German wartime flying discs -- Canada's Cold War saucers -- Postwar discplane development -- Russian flying discs: myth and reality -- Lighter-than-air vehicles and ...

WATCH: Flying more than twice the speed of sound in the thin air 34 miles above Hawaii, a flying saucer-shaped test vehicle successfully inflated a doughnut-like airbrake, but a huge supersonic ...

A former NASA flight surgeon has spoken out for the first time about a classified sighting he claims to have witnessed more than 30 years ago. Dr. Gregory Rogers, who served as NASA's Chief Flight ...