The Ring of Truth
A Man Who Flew a Real Saucer

In the late 1950s, a young technician named Ralph Ring worked side by side with Otis T. Carr, a protégé of Nikola Tesla. Together with a small team, they built a series of experimental flying disks under the banner of OTC Enterprises, incorporated in 1955. According to Ring, the group was closing in on genuine saucer technology — until government agents forcibly shut the project down.

In one especially striking test, Ring says he co-piloted a 45-foot disk over a distance of ten miles, and that the craft arrived at its destination almost instantaneously, then made a successful return trip.

Working With Carr

Before joining Carr's team, Ring had worked with French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, and later for a government-funded lab called Advanced Kinetics, where he came to believe the authorities were more interested in stalling breakthroughs than finding them. Eventually he settled in Arizona, building a disk-shaped, highly energy-efficient home decades ahead of conventional design — in the spirit of Buckminster Fuller.

Carr, for his part, believed the heart of his spacecraft would be a massive battery, spinning at the same velocity as the outer craft and recharging through its own motion — a power source he claimed could scale to run anything from a household to a full generating plant.

In 1959, a public "launch event" in Oklahoma City drew hundreds of spectators expecting to see a prototype disk rise 400–600 feet into the air. After hours of delay, organizers announced a postponement due to "badly engineered bearings." In reality, Carr had been hospitalized with a lung hemorrhage.

Carr's momentum stalled from there. A former Army officer's plan to pilot the craft to the Moon never happened. The SEC placed an injunction on Carr for selling unregistered stock, and negative press followed — True magazine went so far as to call him a "hoaxer." Ring, though, never wavered in what he says he witnessed.

The Interview

Yurchey conducted this exchange with Ring by email on July 7, 2007.

The pair also discussed whether ancient civilizations understood similar principles to move massive stones, whether a scaled-up Tesla tower might resemble a pyramid, and how magnetism-based propulsion might relate to the wider UFO phenomenon. On that last point, Ring suggested most sightings people report are man-made craft — technology built on principles similar to what Carr's team pursued, just kept hidden from the public.

Ring also touched on the Philadelphia Experiment, describing it as a crude, poorly understood attempt at teleportation carried out without full regard for the natural laws involved. Asked about his long friendship with Frank Stranges and claims of contact with off-world visitors, Ring said simply that he believes life exists "inside and outside of everything."

"I am in constant contact with the Creator, Great Spirit, One that is All, Mother Nature, Divine Essence... beings from other worlds, angels, aliens, my core group, even with you, my brother. Be still and know just who you are, who WE are, and enjoy the love of it ALL." — Ralph Ring

Closing Thoughts

Yurchey closes the piece by pointing to Carr's actual U.S. patent — #2,912,244, filed for a "toy apparatus" whose proportions closely mirror the anti-gravitic design Carr described for his full-size craft. He argues that had the project been allowed to continue unimpeded, the resulting technology could have reshaped transportation and energy entirely — no cars, no oil dependency, no NASA as we know it.

Adapted from the original 2015 interview published on Blue Star Enterprise. Doug Yurchey can be reached at dugko@surfside.net. For a further primary-source account of Ralph Ring's work with Otis T. Carr, see the Project Camelot interview.