A few years ago stills of this craft popped up on the net with people claiming that this was the real film of the Holloman landing story. Another suggestion was that this was an excerpted clip from the legendary Air Force training film supposedly called "What If They Land?" that dealt with ufos. I wish now that I could go back and see who first suggested these two ideas on the net.
I'm going to guess that this is either an experimental craft or a prop from a film but I have looked around quite extensively and have never actually been able to find an accurate description of what this actually is or where the footage came from. I eventually ran across some actual footage which I put up on youtube.
This clip was taken from the documentary tv series Unexplained Mysteries, episode 14, "Undercover UFOs" that aired in January 2004.
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The show has 4 seconds of footage of the craft, all that you see here. No information is given about it. The clip is shown in between AVRO-esque prototypes and little single seater one-off VTOL jobs.
We've all seen footage of the AVROCAR skimming along a foot off the ground and a great deal has been documented about that program but this piece of footage seems to be completely anonymous. I would think that aviation buffs would immediately be able to ID this as some specific prototype but I have yet to find anything like that.
It's interesting to note that this craft seems to be operating a good deal higher off the ground than AVRO footage I've seen. It appears to me to be out in front of a hanger somewhere. There is also this weird shadow thing that I find confusing. The black triangular thing on the left of the craft disappears but the shadow cast on the wall behind persists. Someone noted that the silver ball on the upper right of the craft is likely the side of the pilot's helmet. If that is the case then it gives you some sense of scale here and also leads one to wonder if those are in fact some fake portholes they painted onto the side or if they are some functional apparatus that is part of the design.
I may just be overlooking the right info but at the moment it appears to me as if this clip just suddenly popped into the public domain 5 years ago with no attribution in a sketchy ufo documentary, presented in a film editing context of experimental prototype.
So, can anyone positively ID this craft and where the footage of it originates?
I'm going to guess that this is either an experimental craft or a prop from a film but I have looked around quite extensively and have never actually been able to find an accurate description of what this actually is or where the footage came from. I eventually ran across some actual footage which I put up on youtube.
This clip was taken from the documentary tv series Unexplained Mysteries, episode 14, "Undercover UFOs" that aired in January 2004.
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The show has 4 seconds of footage of the craft, all that you see here. No information is given about it. The clip is shown in between AVRO-esque prototypes and little single seater one-off VTOL jobs.
We've all seen footage of the AVROCAR skimming along a foot off the ground and a great deal has been documented about that program but this piece of footage seems to be completely anonymous. I would think that aviation buffs would immediately be able to ID this as some specific prototype but I have yet to find anything like that.
It's interesting to note that this craft seems to be operating a good deal higher off the ground than AVRO footage I've seen. It appears to me to be out in front of a hanger somewhere. There is also this weird shadow thing that I find confusing. The black triangular thing on the left of the craft disappears but the shadow cast on the wall behind persists. Someone noted that the silver ball on the upper right of the craft is likely the side of the pilot's helmet. If that is the case then it gives you some sense of scale here and also leads one to wonder if those are in fact some fake portholes they painted onto the side or if they are some functional apparatus that is part of the design.
I may just be overlooking the right info but at the moment it appears to me as if this clip just suddenly popped into the public domain 5 years ago with no attribution in a sketchy ufo documentary, presented in a film editing context of experimental prototype.
So, can anyone positively ID this craft and where the footage of it originates?