Nazi
UFO (German: Rundflugzeug, Feuerball, Diskus, Haunebu,
Hauneburg-Geräte, VRIL, Kugelblitz, Andromeda-Geräte, Flugkreisel,
Kugelwaffen or ironically Reichsflugscheiben) refers to claims of
advanced aircraft or spacecraft Nazi Germany attempted to develop prior
to and during World War II. Some believe that ex-Nazi or possibly
American scientists continue to develop new flying saucers in secret
underground bunkers in the New Swabia region of Antarctica, South
America or the United States. The probably fictional craft appear in
science fiction, conspiracy theory, and underground comic books,
although there are more than a few documentaries on the subject
available through video sharing services.
These
accounts were likely inspired by historical German development of
specialized engines such as Viktor Schauberger's "Repulsine" around the
time of WWII. (right photo: Viktor Schauberger)
Context
Nazi UFO tales and myths very often conform largely to documented history on the following points:
* Nazi Germany claimed the territory of New Swabia in Antarctica, sent an expedition there in 1938, and planned others.
* Nazi Germany conducted research into advanced propulsion technology,
including rocketry, Viktor Schauberger's engine research[citation
needed], flying wing craft and the Arthur Sack A.S.6 experimental
"flying disc".
* Some UFO
sightings during World War II, particularly those known as foo fighters,
were discovered to be prototype enemy aircraft designed to harass
Allied aircraft through electromagnetic disruption; a technology similar
to today's electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapons.
Early claims
The
earliest non-fiction assertion of Nazi flying saucers appears to have
been an article which appeared in the Italian newspaper Il Giornale
d'Italia in early 1950. Written by Professor Giuseppe Belluzzo, an
Italian scientist and a former Italian Minister of National Economy
under the Mussolini regime, it claimed that "types of flying discs were
designed and studied in Germany and Italy as early as 1942". Belluzzo
also expressed the opinion that "some great power is launching discs to
study them".
The
same month, German engineer Rudolf Schriever gave an interview to
German news magazine Der Spiegel in which he claimed that he had
designed a craft powered by a circular plane of rotating turbine blades
49 ft (15 m) in diameter (left picture - click to enlarge). He
said that the project had been developed by him and his team at BMW's
Prague works until April 1945, when he fled Czechoslovakia. His designs
for the disk and a model were stolen from his workshop in
Bremerhaven-Lehe in 1948 and he was convinced that Czech agents had
built his craft for "a foreign power". In a separate interview with Der
Spiegel in October 1952 he said that the plans were stolen from a farm
he was hiding in near Regen on 14 May 1945. There are other
discrepancies between the two interviews that add to the confusion.
In 1953, when Avro Canada
announced that it was developing the VZ-9-AV Avrocar, a circular jet
aircraft with an estimated speed of 1,500 mph (2,400 km/h), German
engineer Georg Klein claimed that such designs had been developed during
the Third Reich. Klein identified two types of supposed German flying
disks:
* A non-rotating disk developed at Breslau by V-2 rocket engineer
Richard Miethe, which was captured by the Soviets, while Miethe fled to
the US via France, and ended up working for Avro.
* A disk developed by Rudolf Schriever and Klaus Habermohl at Prague,
which consisted of a ring of moving turbine blades around a fixed
cockpit. Klein claimed that he had witnessed this craft's first manned
flight on 14 February 1945, when it managed to climb to 12,400 m (41,000
ft) in 3 minutes and attained a speed of 2,200 km/h (1,400 mph) in
level flight.
Aeronautical engineer Roy Fedden
remarked that the only craft that could approach the capabilities
attributed to flying saucers were those being designed by the Germans
towards the end of the war. Fedden (who was also chief of the technical
mission to Germany for the Ministry of Aircraft Production) stated in
1945:
“I have seen enough of
their designs and production plans to realize that if they (the Germans)
had managed to prolong the war some months longer, we would have been
confronted with a set of entirely new and deadly developments in air
warfare.”
Fedden
also added that the Germans were working on a number of very unusual
aeronautical projects, though he did not elaborate upon his statement.
In 1959, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, editor of the U.S.A.F.'s Project Blue Book wrote:
“When
WWII ended, the Germans had several radical types of aircraft and
guided missiles under development. The majority were in the most
preliminary stages, but they were the only known craft that could even
approach the performance of objects reported to UFO observers.”
Later claims
Morning of the Magicians
Main article: Le Matin des Magiciens
Terziski,
a Bulgarian engineer who bills himself as president of the American
Academy of Dissident Sciences, claims that the Germans collaborated in
their advanced craft research with Axis powers Italy and Japan, and
continued their space effort after the war from a base in New Swabia. He
alleges that Germans may have landed on the Moon as early as 1942 and
established an underground base there. Terziski relates that when
Russians and Americans secretly landed on the moon in the 1950s they
stayed at this still-operating base. According to Terziski, "there is
atmosphere, water and vegetation on the Moon," which NASA conceals to
exclude the third world from moon exploration. Terziski has been accused
of fabricating his video and photographic evidence.
Ernst Zündel's marketing ploy
Main article: Zündel: Nazi UFOs-Antarctica
When
German Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel started Samisdat Publishers in the
1970s, he initially catered to the UFOlogy community, which was then at
its peak of public acceptance. His books claimed that flying saucers
were Nazi secret weapons launched from an underground base in
Antarctica, from which the Nazis hoped to conquer the world and possibly
the planets. Zündel also sold (for $9999) seats on an exploration team
to locate the polar entrance to the hollow earth. Some who interviewed
Zündel claim that he privately admitted it was a deliberate hoax to
build publicity for Samisdat, although he still defended it as late as
2002.
Miguel Serrano's book
In
1978 Miguel Serrano, a Chilean diplomat and Nazi sympathizer, published
The Golden Band, in which he claimed that Adolf Hitler was an avatar of
Vishnu and was at that time communing with Hyperborean gods in an
underground Antarctic base in New Swabia. Serrano predicted that Hitler
would lead a fleet of UFOs from the base to establish the Fourth Reich.
In popular culture, this alleged UFO fleet is referred to as the Nazi
flying saucers from Antarctica.
Nazi Saucers & the UFO Conspiracy
Flying saucers and the Third reich
Hitler and the Third Reich led Europe
into a decade of terror in the first half of the 20th century that
culminated in World War II. Technology played a greater part in that war
than in past conflicts and the Germans developed an amazing array of
secret weapons in a short time. Were flying discs part of the Luftwaffe
arsenal? And if so, was this secret looted and used by the Allied
victors after the war?
More than any war before it, World War II was the war of secret weapons. A few of these advances, like the American atomic bomb and the British ability to crack the German communication ciphers may have actually tipped the outcome of the conflict. The Axis powers also had their secrets and many of the most clandestine German war-time technical advances are now well known.
More than any war before it, World War II was the war of secret weapons. A few of these advances, like the American atomic bomb and the British ability to crack the German communication ciphers may have actually tipped the outcome of the conflict. The Axis powers also had their secrets and many of the most clandestine German war-time technical advances are now well known.
German Secret Weapons
Hitler's forces flew the first
military jet, the German Heinkel 178, in 1939. In 1943 the Germans also
deployed the only jet fighter to go into regular service during the war:
The Messerschmitt 262. This ME-262 could easily overtake the fastest
Allied aircraft and only Hitler's misguided orders that the planes be
outfitted as bombers instead of defensive fighters saved Allied aircraft
from devastating casualties.
Cruise
missiles, a staple of current advanced arsenals, were also first used
by the Third Reich during the war. V-1 flying bombs were launched from
German-held territories across the channel into England. The "buzz
bombs," as they were sometimes called because of the sound of their
impulse jet engines, could outrun most Allied aircraft, making the V-1's
almost impossible to stop. The V-1's weakness was its guidance system
(a problem solved in modern cruise missiles by the use of
computer-controlled radar). Because it couldn't hit a pinpoint target,
the V-1 could only be used to cause random terror and not zero in on
truly important military assets.
The
German V-2 rocket was the predecessor of the intercontinental ballistic
missiles (ICBMs) that filled the nuclear arsenals of the Soviet Union
and the United States during the Cold War. It traveled up to 225 miles
at five times the speed of sound and a single hit could demolish a city
block. During the war, the V-2 killed 2724 civilians and injured another
6467. Like the V-1, though, it lacked a guidance system that would have
allowed it to effectively strike at important targets.
Hitler's
engineers even developed a rocket-powered fighter, the ME 163. Though
it never was put into regular service, it was the first aircraft to fly
faster than 600 miles an hour.
After
the war, rumors surfaced that the Nazis had one more secret weapon that
was still hidden: flying disc-shaped aircraft. According to these
stories, some of the victorious Allied nations had plundered the German
laboratories where these aircraft were being developed and secret
testing of these devices explained many of the reports of flying saucers
that appeared in the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950's.
German Flying Discs
Many of the reports of Nazi flying
saucers can be traced back to a book entitled German Secret Weapons of
World War II written by Rudolf Lusar in the late 1950's. Lusar had been a
major in a German army technical unit during the war. His book covered
many of the acknowledged advances like the V1 and V2, but also included a
chapter on "Wonder Weapons."
According
to Lusar, a German aircraft designer named Rudolf Schriever, along with
other engineers Habermohl, Mierth and Bellanzo (who was Italian), were
working on several disc-shaped aircraft toward the end of the war. At a
facility near Breslau, Poland, a group headed by Miethe constructed a
prototype of a circular air vehicle 137 feet in diameter with an
elongated hump on top for the cockpit. The aircraft was to be powered
with "adjustable jet engines." In Lusar's account, the device was
destroyed when the plant where it was being constructed was blown up by
retreating German troops before it could be overrun by the Soviets in
1945.
At a second location just
outside Prague, Czechoslovakia, according to Lusar, another group headed
by Schriever and Habermohl were working on an additional disc aircraft.
Diagrams included in the book show a central egg-shaped control pod
surrounded by a nearly flat disc. The flat disc appears to be composed
of fan blades that rotate to create lift. Ports on the lower part of the
pod appear to be connected to jet engines that provide the forward
propulsion.
Lusar states that the
Schriever machine was tested in 1945 and supposedly reached an altitude
of 12 kilometers (39,000 feet) in a little over three minutes. He
continues by saying it had a top speed of 2000 kilometer an hour
(1,200mph) - substantially faster than the speed of sound.
These
claims seem somewhat incredible. According to conventional history, the
first aircraft to break the sound barrier the X-1, an American
rocket-powered plane in 1947. It seems unlikely that Schriever's group
would have been able to make such a drastic leap in performance so early
and so quickly. In addition, comments from Schriever himself, who
relocated to the United States after the war, indicate that any
prototypes of the craft were destroyed before flight test as the Germans
abandoned their facilities in the face of advancing Allied troops.
Foo Fighters
According
to Lusar, the Germans' had also developed small automated,
unconventional aircraft. One version was called the Feuerball while
another, capable of vertical takeoff, was referred to as the Kugelblitz.
According to stories, these craft were only armed with devices designed
to guide them to allied aircraft and interfere with their electronics
and engines.
The Feuerball and
Kugelblitz stories seem to parallel tales of "foo-fighters" told by
Allied pilots during the war. Despite this, it seems unlikely that
Feuerballs and Kugelblitzs were ever actually built or flown. The
"foo-fighters" observed were probably some purely natural phenomena (right photo).
No Allied plane ever reported being attacked or disabled by a
foo-fighter and it is likely that if the Germans had invented a device
capable of tracking planes as well as the foo-fighters apparently did,
they would have soon armed it with more effective weapons.
The "Legend"
Nick Cook, a respected aviation
journalist for Jane's Defense Weekly Nick looked into the claims for
German flying discs in his 2001 book The Hunt for Zero Point. Cook
became interested in unconventional aircraft after seeing some articles
written in the 1950's that quoted respected experts of the era, like
Lawrence D. Bell (whose company designed the supersonic X-1) predicting
that the next major breakthrough in aviation could be anti-gravity
devices. His research led him to Lusar's book and the stories of German
flying saucers.
Cook was perhaps
one of the few aviation writers that was willing to take the "Legend" of
German flying saucers seriously. While researching his book he visited
many of the locations mentioned in German Secret Weapons of World War
II. He also connected the stories of the German saucer designers to the
work of a man named Victor Schauberger.
Victor Schauberger
Schauberger was born in Austria in
1885 and was considered by many to be a crackpot. Schauberger himself is
quoted as saying, "They call me deranged. The hope is they are
right..." While his professional training was as a "forester," Cook,
after visiting the Schauberger's grandson and examining his papers and
the machinery he had constructed, concluded that Schauberger was
actually more of an engineer. Schauberger believed that machines could
be designed better so that they would be "going with the flow of nature"
rather than against it.
One of
Schauberger's projects was to produce a flying machine, saucer shaped,
that used a "vortex propulsion" system. His theory was that "if water or
air is rotated into a twisting form of oscillation, known as a
'colloidal,' a build-up of energy results, which, with immense power,
can cause levitation."
According
to some accounts, Schauberger built several models, one of which was
almost five feet in diameter and was powered by a 1/20 hp electric
engine. Some reports indicated that one of the models actually flew. In
an echo of the story of the Schriever disc, Schauberger wrote to a
friend that a full-sized prototype of one of his designs was constructed
using prison labor at the Mauhausen concentration camp. This craft flew
on February 19th of 1945 near Prague and obtained an altitude of 45,000
feet in only 3 minutes. The letter goes on to say the prototype was
destroyed by the Nazis before it could be captured by the Allies.
After
the war Schauberger moved to the United States, where some contend he
worked on secret projects for the U.S. government. He died in 1958,
apparently claiming his ideas had been stolen.
Cook
concluded that if the stories about Schauberger's work were true, his
devices must have created an anti-gravity effect. Cook even visited a
location in the remote Sudeten Mountains in Poland where antigravity
experiments were supposed to have taken place using a bell-shaped device
that glowed a pale blue when operating.
Advantages of Disc Aircraft
The
"Legend" of German flying saucers is fascinating, but is any of it
true? It certainly seems likely that there was some experimentation with
the concept within the Reich, as there was in the United States.
Disc-shaped aircraft have several advantages, including low stall speed
and low drag, even at high speeds. The rounded shape can also lower the
craft's radar profile making it "stealthy."
The
low stall/drag of the shape would have been particularly interesting to
the Germans at the end of the war. Months of bombing had reduced German
runways to rubble. A saucer-shaped craft might have been able to lift
off the ground with a short runway or even do a vertical-takeoff-and
-landing with no runway at all.
In
his book Cook concludes that Nazis flying saucer technology was
appropriated by the United States and the Soviet Union at the end of the
war. This suggestion is not wholly without merit, since it is now clear
that US and USSR rocketry development in the 50's and 60's owed a lot
to German scientists. These engineers, quietly brought into the United
States via operation "Paperclip," assisted the United States in its
space program and its Cold War struggle against the Soviet Union.
Similarly, according to author Jim Wilson in an article in Popular
Mechanics in July 1997, there are records that suggest at least two
people, brothers named Walter and Reimar Horten, were sought by the
United States after the war because of their participation in German
military saucer programs.
UFOs and Antigravity Myths
It
is clear that at least some of the Nazi saucer lore developed after the
war, rather than during it. In his book, UFOs: Nazi Secret Weapons?
author Ernst Zundel claims that Hitler escaped at the end of the war to
establish a flying saucer base in Antarctica. Zundel's tale is connected
with the discredited idea that the earth is hollow and the interior can
be accessed from the polar regions. As colorful as such stories are,
they are so far afield from reality that they can't be taken seriously.
In
contrast, Cook's assertion in The Hunt for Zero Point that antigravity
technology was spirited out of Germany at the end of the war doesn't
seem all that far-fetched. It is difficult to believe, however, that
such advanced knowledge, if it really worked, would not have shown up in
the intervening 60 years in U.S. military equipment or through the NASA
space program. The ability to shield an object from gravity, if it
could be done, would greatly decrease the cost and difficulty of putting
objects into space.
Haunebu Nazi UFO Pictures
Nazi UFO: The Bell Documentry
The Haunebu Nazi UFO history
Nazi UFO Antarctic base
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