A Note on UFOs...Just for Fun

This one's kind of off the wall and out of left field, but here goes. In 1947, reports started coming about UFOs over the skies of the American west. Interestingly, the original reports didn't describe the flying saucers that we all imagine today; rather, they tell of boomerang-shaped or bat-wing craft, something more along the lines of this:

Artist's Rendering of 1947 Description of UFOs

Now, it turns out that just a few years earlier, at the end of WWII, the American military overran and captured the factory where the Nazis were building the Horten Ho229, a twin-engine, flying wing bomber, a truly revolutionary design that was years ahead of its time. Now this idea of a flying wing wasn't unheard of. Jack Nothrop had been working on a propeller-powered flying wing for years, but he could never quite get it to work right. The Germans, however, figured it out. Not only that, but they did it with jet engines instead of props. Now the US government readily admits to bringing several examples (really all they could carry away) of the Horten bombers – in various states of completion – back to the states; however, they deny ever rebuilding or reverse engineering any of them, let alone flying them. But I wonder...there is that shape....

Artist's rendering of the Horten Ho229

It doesn't seem like much of a stretch to me to suppose that the military actually did reassemble and test fly Hortens, but they were not really in the mood to trumpet that news abroad. After all, this was cutting edge technology in the mid-40s, and we had a vested interest in keeping it under wraps. And what's the best way to cover up the existence of a super-secret test aircraft program? Why, distract the public with a conspiracy theory about the government covering up the existence of UFOs. Think about it. Buy getting the public to look in the wrong direction, they could test out any number of experimental aircraft, and no one would be any the wiser, because everyone would be beating the bushes for flying saucers and demanding the release of non-existent files on the same.

Oh, and if that shape looks vaguely familiar to you, well...that's because we produced this a few decades later.

The Modern B2B, which looks suspiciously like the Horten

Wonder where they got the idea?