Articles from the archive of About Facts, my former website. The Rush To Develop A Craft With Saucer Performance.
If the public would have ever known the truth at the time, they would have been astounded. The facts seem to indicate that the plane was being constructed in Canada by a British engineer named John Frost along with other engineers such as Ray Gibson of AVRO. The project was supposed to build a saucer aircraft with the best performance possible but it changed during experimentation into a sleek plane. AVRO was a British company that had a subsidiary in Canada. One of the things that was to make this plane revolutionary were small jet nozzles which were designed to give the aircraft increased thrust making the plane fly faster. The goal was Mach 5 or five times the speed of sound. This seemed impossible in the early fifties. The plane would take off by standing on its tail. It is hard to see in the picture but notice the flat area on the tail. The Carr Spacecraft. In the 1950s a man named Otis T. Carr claimed to invent a flying machine that used an antigravity motor. He even took out a U.S. patent on his device. The patent was 2,912,244. It was patented as an amusement device. Carr claimed he had invented an antigravity engine called the Utron or U-tron, this is not clear. Carr offered to build and deliver the engine to the U.S. government without one penny of investment by the U.S. public. He claimed the engine could power a spacecraft to the moon in about 7 hours. "Any vehicle accelerated to an axis rotation relative to its attractive inertial mass, immediately becomes activated by free-space-energy and acts as an independent force…,” said Carr. Carr's engine had only two moving parts. The best way to visualize it is to think of two spinning tops one on top of the other and both spinning in different directions. Carr stated that when counter rotation matches forward rotation a body loses its polarity ....and acts as an independent force and that this causes the counter rotating mass to become weightless and enables it to escape the gravitational forces. In 1952 an independent lab verified that a model of four inches in diameter, produced 1,000 tons of energy. The U.S. government didn't become interested, however, until the late 1950s. It is said that Otis Carr had become friends with Nikola Tesla, the greatest electrical genius who ever lived and conversed with him at his hotel on a regular basis. His vehicle was actually finished in 1947 but he couldn't interest anyone in it, although he tried repeatedly. Carr said the core of his space ship would be a huge battery which would spin at the velocity of the external craft and which would be recharged, he said, by its motion. Carr declared such a battery, built to any size, could be designed to power the largest electric generating plant, operate an automobile, heat a house or power any conceivable machine or device. In 1957 Otis T. Carr, President and Norman Evans Colton, Director of Sales, were interviewed by radio host Long John Nebel. Nebel told the audience that O.T.C. Enterprises Inc. of Baltimore was selling the spacecraft for $20,000,000 each and that the craft was a saucer shaped object. Nebel had a working model. Yes, a working model. Carr told Nebel that after the first few craft were built, that the price would drop to $4,000,000 each. Carr claimed he had seen UFOs and that they were electrified and he recognized that fact since he had been working on the same principle for years. Carr told Nebel his design utilizes gravity, electromagnetism, and electromotive force and a relative field to get its functional operation. He said in plain English it's a central power core. Now this is what we call an 'accumulator.' In a vernacular sense, it is a factory. It is a storage cell, an accumulation of storage cells which provide an electromotive force in the same manner that any known battery produces an electromotive force. Carr also told Nebel that he had sent a brochure of his system to the president who was Eisenhower at the time but never received an answer. Carr went on to explain that the craft would have its own internal gravity at all times and it could become almost weightless when landing and it didn't need a heat shield because there would be an electrified field around it to protect it. (Sounds like the air spike) On April 15, 1959 a launch event was held in Oklahoma City with hundreds of people invited. They were told that a model saucer would rise 400 to 600 feet off the ground from a gravel pit. An announcement was made that the launching was being postponed due to a bad bearing. But Carr seems to have been admitted into the hospital for eight days with lung hemorrhage and it seems during preliminary preflight testing the accumulator developed a leak which sprayed mercury all over the inside mechanism.
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