WASHINGTON − Reports from the FBI and the War Department in 1947 about unidentified "saucers" and "flying discs" were exchanged among the highest levels of the federal government. Witnesses often had ...

The U.S. Air Force, which has batted down many a flying-saucer report, has long wished (in private) that it could build one. By last week, the Air Force was prepared to invest heavily to make ...

NASA has just sent a spacecraft into orbit that looks less like a traditional satellite and more like something from a 1950s movie set, a sleek disk that immediately invites the phrase “flying saucer.