TIMELINE

Unless you believe that UFO's piloted by space aliens exist, this timeline shows that there was a working nuclear airplane in the air by 1947. Because these UFO incidents clearly show that something radioactive was flying in the air. The simplest answer to the identity of these craft is that they were part of the NEPA and ANP programs. 

NEPA allowed the contractors who were already working on a nuclear propelled airplane under the Manhattan Project to talk with Congress to gain funding under peace time.

1943

Germany flies over the Eastern Seaboard from Boston to New York.

August 1944

Eugene Sanger and J. Bredt publish “A ROCKET DRIVE FOR LONG RANGE BOMBERS”

09 January 1946 
English Electric received a contract to produce four prototypes, which received the Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC) designation A.1; work commenced on the construction of these prototype aircraft in that same year, which were all built on production jigs.
1946
Richard S Leghorn MIT graduate advocates development of high resolution photo reconnaissance of a potential enemy using high altitude aircraft.

06 March 1946

Iron Curtain Speech

May 1946

NEPA begins

13 December 1946

The New York Times reveals that Germany had overflown the Eastern seaboard from Boston to New York.

23 February 1947

San Diego Union article declaring a remotely controlled atomic airplane was being built.

May 1947

UFO’s are seen over the Soviet Union in Uzbek S.S.R.

21 June 1947

Maury Island Incident.

An airplane powered by a molten salt reactor disintegrates hitting a boat, killing a dog and injuring a boy onboard.

24 June 1947

Kenneth Arnold UFO Mt. Rainer flying @ 1700 mph or 2.289060241 Mach. Arnold believes that the craft was remotely controlled.

05 July 1947

The first UFO reports for project SIGN at Edwards AFB.

July 1947

Pentagon officials were expressing alarm about the flying disk reports

01 October 1948

Project SIGN Case Number: 172

The third most publicly celebrated UFO case of the Project SIGN period would again involve one of the military’s own personnel. A drama would be played out in the North Central area of the United States. In a sparsely populated area of the country a modern cowboy would face a showdown with an unidentified flying object. This case would be listed in the Project SIGN files as Incident Number 172, and to be commonly known as, "The UFO Dogfight over Fargo." When the team from Project SIGN arrived they checked out Gorman’s aircraft with a Geiger counter. The aircraft showed signs of radiation. Unfortunately, the team would later discard this aspect of the incident.

February 1949

Project Grudge begins

25 November 1949

Mt. Palomar, California

Flying Discs Activate Geiger Counters

Fran Ridge:

Nov. 25, 1949; Mt. Palomar, California

Flying discs first observed near the observatory at Mt. Palomar. A recording Geiger counter was so activated at the times of these sightings that it went completely off scale. Written off as an equipment malfunction, a loose fuse clip. Not only would this turn the equipment off, instead of on, the Project

Record Card mentions a radar tracking. *

1955

The Soviet Ministry of Defence established a top-secret group (committee) for studying UFOs at Kapustin Yar. A special UFO archive was opened at Krasny Kut in Saratov Region (in an underground bunker in the special zone of Beryozovka 2). The archive was opened as a direct result of the appearance of several UFOs over Krasny Kut and Kapustin Yar in 1954 and the disappearance of the fighters sent to intercept them. http://www.rusartnet.com/russia/history/world/ufos-in-russia

26 December 1980

Rendlesham Forest incident the site was radioactive. 

29 December 1980

On the evening of December 29, 1980, Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum and Colby Landrum (Vickie's

seven-year-old grandson) were driving home to Dayton, Texas in Cash's Oldsmobile Cutlass after dining out. They all exhibited radiation poisoning symptoms.

16 September 1989

A battle between seven UFOs was fought in the sky over the port of Zaostrovka on the River Kama just west of Perm. Six silvery disks attacked and fired a beam of light into a seventh, darker coloured craft, which reportedly crashed into a military training ground located a hundred miles to the north of Perm.

The aerial combat was witnessed by dozens of people, who reported that all the electricity went off in the port during the event. http://www.rusartnet.com/russia/history/world/ufos-in-russia