Frost had given "considerable thought to the many reports, both old and new, of unidentified flying objects in the sky, (U.F.O.'s) more commonly called flying saucers... (Wilkinson, 1991) "The idea of building something that eventually got tagged a flying saucer grew out of a hobby of an Avro engineer named John Frost." (Williams, 1976) He was fascinated by reports of UFO sightings and made an effort to investigate ones that were reported. "What he was looking for was something that couldn't be explained by optical illusion, shadows on clouds, an over-active imagination, a con artist or whatever.

Frost had an instinctive feeling that perhaps someone somewhere had developed what came to be known as a flying saucer. Out of 200 or more sightings he investigated he found only two that could not be explained away by any of the above reasons. Both were in Europe - in the area of Germany. He concluded, rightly or wrongly, that there was a good chance the Germans with the advanced aeronautical technology they displayed during the war- rockets, buzz-bombs, etc.- which was far ahead of the British and the Americans; that perhaps the Germans had built and were experimenting with a saucer-like vehicle." (Williams, 1976)

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