Daily Mail: Nasa today launched an inflatable 'flying saucer' into the thin air above the Pacific Ocean - but the test ended in disappointment. Dubbed the Low Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD), the radical craft is hoped to someday be used as a supersonic brake to help humans land on Mars. That dream took a hit today after the parachute that was supposed to bring the saucer to a gentle splashdown shredded in the vacuum of space. Earlier today, a giant weather balloon carried the LDSD to an altitude of 120,000ft (36,600 metres) above Hawaii - or three times the height of a passenger plane. The flying saucer was released at 5.35pm EDT and a booster rocket took it to Mach 4 - which is four times the speed of sound - at a height of 180,000ft (54,860 metres)
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ALITD Opinion: For what it's worth, this appears to be a very thinly veiled smokescreen. NASA is fully aware of, and deeply involved in, deep space craft which have been back engineered from craft that have either crash landed on the Earth, or have been provided by extra terrestrial agencies. This has been going on for decades under the guise of our primitive space exploration attempts.
