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Nazi Technology might be the Origin of 20th Century Flying Saucer Phenomena
by S. Dougllas Woodward on August 5, 2016
The Unusual Usual Explanation for UFOs
Many authors suspect American intelligence operations lay behind early UFO claims and counter-claims. Likewise, these researchers remain convinced the Nazis should be the ‘cause célèbre’ for the 1950s ‘Flap’ and subsequent cover-up.
Joseph P. Farrell in one of his most recent books Saucers, Swastikas, and Psyops challenges the popular notion that extraterrestrials explain UFOs. Instead, he theorizes flying saucer appearances after World War II (1947 onward, at least through the 1960s) [i] are better explained by an unexpected evolution of Nazi technology post-World War II. The purveyors of this secret capability were scientists smuggled out of Germany escaping the grasp of both the Americans and the Soviets.
Farrell proposes that an ‘ET explanation’ for flying saucers was a carefully constructed campaign of disinformation by American scientists working with our intelligence services. Or perhaps in a more clandestine fashion, it was a tale concocted by former Nazis (once they began working for the Americans right after the war ended) to divert attention from covert plans for continued German development of advanced technologies (particularly those aeronautical in nature). Farrell cites a statement made in 1968 by the famous (former Nazi) scientist Dr. Hermann Oberth then working for the United States [ii] .
Today we cannot produce machines that fly as UFOs do. They are flying by means of artificial fields of gravity. This would explain the sudden changes of directions… This hypothesis would also explain the piling up of these disks into a cylindrical or cigar-shaped mothership upon leaving the Earth because in this fashion, only one field of gravity would be required for all disks.
They produce high-tension electric charges in order to push the air out of their path… and strong magnetic fields to influence the ionized air at higher altitudes… This would explain their luminosity… Secondly, it would explain the noiselessness of UFO flight. Finally, this assumption also explains the strong electrical and magnetic effects sometimes (but not always) observed in the vicinity of UFOs[iii] .
The epigraph at the beginning of the previous post refers to an even more mysterious (if not highly strange) public statement made by Werner von Braun in January 1961. To repeat it here for the convenience of readers:
We find ourselves faced by powers which are far stronger than we had hitherto assumed, and whose base is at present unknown to us. More I cannot say at present. We are now engaged in entering into closer contact with those powers. And in 6-or-9 months’ time, it may be possible to speak with more precision on the matter[iv] .
Returning to the information shared by Oberth in a reputed show of self-deprecation, he indicated (paraphrasing) “We can’t take credit for the many advances we have enjoyed in aeronautics… We have had help.”
One Fred Steckling upon his retirement at Bell Labs remembers Oberth clarifying his statement when asked“From whence did this ‘help’ emanate?”
“Those guys out there from the other planets.” [v]
This same Fred Steckling constitutes a most interesting character in his own right. He would later propose alien bases had been found on the Moon based on many anomalous features seen in photographs post-Moon landing (from 1969 forward). However, Steckling’s outlandish claim hardly stands alone.
In a later chapter of Power Quest, Book 2, I touch upon the evidence for Life elsewhere in our Solar System. A matter at the forefront of claims a ‘third’ or ‘hidden’ space program exists. Likewise, this notion involves both Nazis who work visibly within NASA as well as ‘invisible’ (theorized) Nazi scientists lurking outside public view.
Farrell -- a controversial figure, prolific author, and Oxford PhD to which this author has frequently turned -- points out that Dr. Oberth’s background (prior to his ‘coming to America’) involved the occult. The reader may recall the opening chapter to Power Quest, Book 1 dealt with the prevalent and undeniable occult connection to Nazism.
This evil esotericism was even presumed by the earliest mediums of The Vril Society, namely Maria Orsic (soon subsumed in the Thule Gellenschaft in 1923) who supposedly channeled contacts originating from the nearby star system Alderbaran (nearby of course is a relative term, being a mere 65 light-years away!). Thus the notion of neighborly aliens is hardly a recent development.
Farrell cites a recently published and extensive passage from accomplished polish researcher Igor Witkowski confirming the connection between Oberth and von Braun but dealing with the mysterious nature of Oberth’s exact job description during World War II. Oberth was considered by the Americans to be a leading authority in aeronautics.
But Witkowski suggests his area of research was a non-traditional area of flight research (namely ‘zero point gravity’), aka an ‘advanced’ propulsion system for flying saucers. In particular, the puzzlement arises when Oberth’s statements are combined with his interest in the occult. Did he believe in extraterrestrials or was this just a convenient cover story? It is a matter of record that Oberth made strongly-worded and explicitly clear statements to explain UFOs by resorting to extraterrestrials. Farrell concludes:
What this quite plainly means is that long before Oberth came to the USA and made his “Extraterrestrial diagnosis” of the UFO phenomenon, he was clearly involved in a very terrestrial project with explicit anti-gravity capability and potentials. In other words when Dr. Oberth was waxing lyrical about intelligences from beyond the Solar System, he was obfuscating at best or lying at worst. If this is so, then this implies in turn that he was under some sort of orders as part of a larger psychological operation.
The question now becomeswhy was he lying and under whoseorders was he doing so? Or to put it differently, when, where, how, and for what reasons did the idea of coupling antigravity technology to psychological operations first begin?
A German Flying Saucer Myth?
However, Farrell is quick to point out that while anti-gravity propulsion remains the usual supposition of those who believe in flying saucers explaining their great speed and maneuverability (and which allows for the possibility of interplanetary space travel), the technology behind the first flying saucers was most likely much more terrestrial. Namely, they were powered by jet turbines. The speed consistently estimated by witnesses was ‘about 1,000 MPH’. This was certainly fast for the 1950s but hardly Star Trek speed.
While there were various unconfirmed stories about Nazi engineering flying disks during the War, the first credible statement appeared in a French publication in the June 7, 1952 issue approximately one month before ‘the Flap’ in the District of Columbia. A Dr. Richard Miethe claimed in France-Soir that he built a turbine-based flying saucer craft for the Germans in 1944. It was known as the V7 whose engines the Russians found in Breslau at War’s end [vi] .
But there is further intrigue. We learn from Farrell that Miethe was part of a joint West German-CIA sponsored coup against Egyptian King Farouk on July 23, 1952. Ironically at the very same time ‘the Flap’ was transpiring in the western hemisphere. Perhaps it is purely coincidental the flying saucer ‘attack’ on Washington DC happened while the CIA eliminated the Egyptian monarch and paved the way with the services of former Nazis, to develop missiles for launch against the young State of Israel (only 4 years old at the time of the Egyptian coup).
Then again, maybe there was cause and effect. As some evangelical authors have pointed out (namely, Gary Stearman who authored the Foreword to Book One of Power Quest), the timing of many UFO outbursts often coincides with key crisis events in the Middle East. Go figure [vii] .
The CIA failed to recognize another significant fact. Gamal Abdel Nasser (then a lieutenant colonel) was the real force to be reckoned with in Egypt. He would soon seize power in 1956, throw out the British, and take control of the Suez Canal.
As I have written elsewhere, John Loftus (mentioned earlier, a key member of the Nazi hunting unit in 1979 within the Department of Justice) confirms America was especially duplicitous in regards to Israel. While publicly supporting Israel along with Great Britain, America was taking steps behind the scenes to see the young Israeli government brought to an end in the first half of the 1950s, mostly to protect Anglo-American petroleum relationships (already decades in the making) with key oil-producing Arab states.
Israel may be the Holy Land. But the Arabs possessed petroleum vital to our economy. America has been a friend to Israel through most of Israel’s history. But it hasn’t always been that way. Nor is it a totally reliable friend today.
However, Miethe’s account stands as only one piece of evidence which links Nazi technology to the UFO ‘Flap’ of the 1950s. Farrell mentions a Georg Klein whose testimony is contained in a CIA report dating back to May 27, 1954.
Klein stated that he was present when in 1945, the first piloted ‘flying saucer’ took off and reached a speed of 1,300 miles per hour within 3 minutes. The experiments resulted in 3 designs. One designed by Miethe was a disc-shaped aircraft 135 feet in diameter which did not rotate. Another designed by Habermohl and Schriever consisted of a large rotating ring in the center of which was a round stationary cabin for the crew. When the Soviets occupied Prague, the Germans destroyed every trace of the ‘flying saucer’ project and nothing more was heard of Habermohl and his assistants [viii] .
Additionally, the German ‘myth’ of flying saucers seems to be strengthened by the publication of Luftwaffe Major Rudolf Lusar and his book German Secret Weapons of the Second World War (published in 1959 in the United Kingdom). Farrell extensively quotes a Kevin McClure, a researcher on the UFO-Nazi connection who cited the material from Lusar. For clarity and succinctness, I will recap the discussion hereparaphrasing Farrell’s analysis and citations.
Lusar indicates that flying saucers have been “whirling round the world since 1947, suddenly turning up here-and-there, soaring in-and-darting off again at unprecedented speed with flames encircling the rim of the saucer’s disc”[ix] . Even though they are usually detected by radar, they have never been officially confirmed.
We learn these flying disks were first undertaken in 1941 and were designed by Miethe, Habermohl and Schriever (along with an Italian identified as Bellonzo). Some were circular in shape and others were adjustable wing aircraft (think of the Grumman F-14 ‘Tomcat’). They could take off vertically and could reach diameters of over 120 feet. At Prague, the first was test flown on February 14, 1945.
As stated before, it took only 3 minutes to reach a speed of 1,300 MPH with an attitude of almost 40,000 feet. The design specification called for a top speed of 4,000 km/h (over 2,500 MPH or Mach III). The high speeds demanded special heat reducing materials. While well-developed, the project never benefited the Nazis as the Russians reached Breslau confiscating the materials at the end of the War [x] .
Then additional significant information relevant to our study comes to the forefront. According to Lusar, the Soviets took all the materials and shipped them off to Siberia “where work on these ‘flying saucers’ is being successfully continued’ ”[xi] . Lusar claimed that Habermohl was probably in the Soviet Union while Miethe was definitely in the United States. The evidence mounted that all parties continued to develop the technology since. In 1952 saucers were observed in Asia (Korea) and plainly seen during the 1954 NATO maneuvers over Europe (Alsace). However, Lusar surmised the U.S. continued to deny the existence of these circular flying machines “because U.S. development has not kept pace with the work of the Soviets.”
If even half of these testimonies are true, we can easily see why military intelligence grew frantic over the Washington Flap. The fear of Soviet aircraft advancement was plausible. And it remained an obscure possibility that somewhere (unbeknownst to the American government) Nazi scientists continued to build advanced aircraft. Namely flying saucers which we couldn’t shoot down. In a word, we were defenseless.
Given the many other technologies we knew the Nazis had already advanced, the U.S. had reason to be afraid. At the very least, our awareness may well have included what has now become the position of some researchers -- Germany had ‘the bomb’ -- but they hadn’t developed an effective method to ‘deliver it’. Farrell concludes:
All these considerations suggest that the U.S. Military came to the realization that it was dealing with some terrestrial entity that was pursuing its own research into exotic propulsion systems and aerodynes [an aircraft heavier than air]. By all documentary indicators explored [in his book]…that entity appears to be some independent Nazi organization… Those documents suggest the politically and technologically explosive reasons for an ongoing cover-up. That Nazi entity had at least a decade’s head start (if not more) on the United States in the development of such technologies [xii] .
The Mastermind of Arcane German Technology
The worries about rogue Nazi scientists escaping the Allies weren’t without precedent. In fact, the most notorious of all German scientists seemed to disappear into thin air at the end of World War II. His name was Hans Kammler.
Kammler was regarded as the greatest evil genius in all the Reich. Researcher Henry Stevens documents that Kammler operated “in the Skoda Works at Pilsen in what is now the Czech Republic. During World War Two, this region had been annexed by Germany and was part of the Greater German Reich… Skoda did many things and must be thought of like one of the major technical industrial manufacturing firms in the USA today” [xiii] .
Since Kammler spoke Czech, the location was perfect for him.
The mystery of Hans Kammler stems in part from the silence of the Nuremberg trials regarding his whereabouts and role. He was barely mentioned. This is rather odd since he was the highest ranking official outside of Hitler’s ‘cabinet’ and eventually took over responsibility for all top secret weapons research.
Even more provocative, Kammler had as many as 14 million people working for him, many of them Jews and slave laborers. This is according to Tom Agoston in his bookBlunder! How the U.S. Gave Away Nazi Super Secrets to Russia (Mead & Co.)[xiv] . Kammler took over the V2 project from Walter Dornberger who later worked for 15 years at Bell Helicopter. (We will meet him again in a later chapter).
[Nick Cook’s bookThe Hunt for Zero-Point provides considerable detail into Tom Agoston’s uncovering of an enormous failure of the United States to exploit the technology that was within its grasp… Literally boxes of scientific information trucked off from under the noses of our troops after capturing the work done by the Germans at the Skodawerke (Skoda Works) in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia.]
Additionally, in January 194, only months before the War’s end, Kammler took over all of Germany’s aerospace programs. On the surface, it would certainly seem that finding Kammler would have been one of the most important of all post-war efforts for which the Allies should have pulled out all the stops. Nevertheless, Kammler simply vanished. Furthermore, the Allies didn’t seem bothered by his missing in action. This can only mean one thing. The threat that Kammler posed had been neutralized. But how?
In April 1945, Kammler disappeared. Some reports suggest that he was assassinated by a member of his staff acting on orders from Himmler not to allow personnel with detailed knowledge of the rocket program to fall into Allied hands. Others indicate that he may have been killed in action or committed suicide somewhere around Prague. The fact that his exact fate is unknown. That his body was never recovered led to some speculation that he continued his work in the United States after the War where it is alleged he worked on anti-gravity and other advanced devices [xv] .
Then again, could it be that Kammler was one of those ‘rogue’ Nazi scientists clandestinely operating a laboratory in a faraway land? Much has been made of Kammler’s Bell Project by Joseph Farrell in several of his books with one devoted to the topic (The SS Brotherhood of the Bell, 2006). It is conjectured today that the Nazi Bell may have been a time machine. Or even more likely, an experiment to create a wunderwaffe (wonder weapon) drawing massive energies directly from the ‘aether’. This theorized ‘atmosphere’ exists throughout the cosmos by many physicists including American Nikola Tesla (a person upon which Book One elaborates).