TR-3B: Does America have a reverse-engineered UFO?

The TR-3A may have been a fairly grounded story about a stealthy reconnaissance platform designed to operate alongside the F-117… but this story gets a whole lot stranger when discussing longstanding claims of the TR-3B. Unlike the turbojet-powered TR-3A, the TR-3B is supposedly powered by a reverse-engineered anti-gravity drive that was recovered from a crashed alien spacecraft. The TR-3B is where reports of UAP, performing seemingly impossible aerial maneuvers, intersect with stories about very real aircraft.

There are lots of claims all over the internet about the TR-3B’s anti-gravity drive, most of which include using nuclear power to rotate highly pressurized mercury to produce plasma, and in turn, a gravitational field.

Most stories about the TR-3B’s development revolve around Operation Paperclip – the program that saw the United States absorb more than 1,500 German scientists and engineers at the end of World War II to continue work on various defense technologies. We’ve discussed in the past how myths about advanced Nazi technologies were born in the years after World War II, and as the folklore surrounding this anti-gravity platform matured over the years, it was not exempt from the reach of “Wunderwaffe” claims.

Despite how silly these claims sound, there is actually some evidence to substantiate elements of them. For example, an anti-gravity drive of the sort believers claim powers the TR-3B would require massive amounts of power production – more than we could possibly produce with current aviation engines. But, then, Lockheed Martin does have a patent for containerized fusion reactors they say could be small enough to fit inside the fuselage of an F-16