Give me some "holy sh... did that just happen" ideas

[AndyJWest]

do I believe they built a turbine-based engined and put it in a saucer shaped experimental craft that barely flew and most test pilots barely escaped with their lives as most accounts describe? Very Likely

Um, where are these 'accounts'? Have any of them been shown to be authentic?

Frankly, the idea that German jet turbine technology of the time could have provided the power-to-weight ratios necessary for a VTOL saucer seems highly doubtful, and I know of no other technology that would have got the 'saucers' airborne, if they were anything like the supposed descriptions. Of course, they were working on helicopters (very sucessfully), and maybe the 'turbines' were just rotors, described by someone without the technical knowledge to distinguish between the two.