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And can you demonstrate similar maneuvering
***Yes, but it’ll cost another $10M. Because it means that the flying saucers were using vectored thrust engines like the Harrier had only 20 years later. Right angle turns. Hovering. Yes, the allies did pick up such technical spoils at the end of the war according to the Combined Operations Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee reports from the time.

and the ability to hover and transition between water and air?
***Hover, yes. Transitions from water and air only started happening in the late 1950s. Add another $10-$20M, like those sub-launched missiles.

And with no propellers or jet engine intakes and exhausts?
***That’s the beauty of suction for boundary layer control, the intakes are much smaller. There were plenty of exhausts seen in the late 1940s flying saucers.

And to give you a sense of just how remarkable even some historic reports are, run an internet search and read the Cowgill letter to Scientific American in the late 19th century.
***Read the book “History of the UFO controversy in America” where it covers the late 19th century ufo flap.
https://www.amazon.com/Ufo-Controversy-America-David-Jacobs/dp/0253190061

Cowgill, an American consul in Venezuela, describes a UFO incident in Maracaibo in which lights hovered at night over an Indian village. Several Indians closest to the lights received radiation burns from what seems to be induced radiation on the side of their bodies nearest the ground they were sleeping on.
***Sounds entriguing.

At the time, the phenomena of induced secondary radiation was unknown and no humans had the ability to generate such an episode of a hovering radiation source. Indeed, even with $10 million in hand you could not duplicate the incident today.
***I would seek to replicate the speeds and capabilities of 1940s aircraft with 1940s technology. I wouldn’t be chasing down every UFO sighting unless there were hundreds of $Millions in my pocket, pretty doubtful.