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[Debs.]

whats the big huge crane in the video of the flying disk for  debs ? and if the cranes not lifting it of the gorund, what means of power is ?

The boom crane was there keeping a 'slack' steel-sling (tether) for insurance purposes......lest the prototype guidance/thrust systems; "let go".

The lift/thrust was provided by eight ducted/vectored-fan, twin-trochoid rotary engines; running on methanol (which were VERY noisy!)........the 200 X was a proof of technology development: since then, the thrust/guidance/stability technology has been simplified/shrunk and they`ve gone into single duct VTOL-UAV production.
The aerobot: http://www.moller.com/index.php?view=video&id=78&option=com_jomtube&Itemid=79

Paul Moller (Moller Int. CEO) still dreams of a VTOL personal transport and continues his experiments with vectored thrust nacelles; with his "Skycar" model....(which I originally built the airframe for in 1988/89) but it is his UAV division and the Rotapower wankel-engine corporation that are the commercial success`

[tidla]

several years ago (around '01/'02) me and the current mrs were coming back from Dundee when we saw 3 lights in a triangular pattern in the night sky hovering 100ft or so above the road (the A90 Dundee to Perth) we pulled in at a layby where a van driver and trucker had both pulled in to look - none of us could figure out what it was - they were silent and stationary, then they moved off and we followed them across the Tay to Fife, ended up over Leuchars (the RAF base) we parked and within seconds were approached by an armed guard and dog handler who politely asked us to leave, I asked what it was we'd followed and was told there was nothing there, now it may well have been nothing, but we both saw it - as did others, and we followed those lights to the airbase, but the business end of an smg tends to make you less and less curious 

got back in the car and headed home, followed for several miles by a black minivan (leyland daf i think) with several personnel aboard)) so yes it was flying, yes it was an object and as far as i know it remains unidentified - maybe not aliens, but certainly odd - does anyone know if theres any craft that can hover silently? 

A tethered balloon?.......

how could aliens travel across the vastness of intergalactic space, light years from their home planet to visit earth, in a balloon.............dummy 

milhelium falcon..

[Martin_1962]

Right as you all should know Aliens are scared of us. We are very dangerous, no Alien species seems to survive against us.

They have seen the documentries, they are scared in case the Enterprise appears.