Hermann was attached to the Peenemunde Research Station for Aerodynamics where Germany’s V-2 rockets were hatched and launched against England. A specialist in supersonics, he was in charge of the supersonic wind tunnel at Kochel in the Bavarian Alps. He was also a member of the group entrusted with Hitler’s futuristic plans to establish a space-station rocket-refuelling bases revolving as a satellite about the Earth at a distance of 4,000 miles – a scheme which he and certain high ranking AAF officers in 1947 still believed possible." One of these scientists Dr. Alexander Lippisch had designed another German craft that could be mistaken at the time for a flying disc, certainly at least when viewed from the side.
Lippisch joined Collins Radio Company as an expert on special aeronautical problems and in 1966 founded the ‘Lippisch Corporation’. He went on to develop the X-113A Aerofoil Boat before dying in 1976 at the age of 81. Another craft that looked suspiciously like a ‘flying disk’ was the AS-6. This craft was built by Arthur Sack following encouragement from Ernst Udet, Germany’s Air Minister in 1939.
A similar craft to the AS-6, the V-173, was built by ‘Chance-Vought’, and known as the ‘flying pancake’. The V-173 has the honour of being the one occasion that the US authorities actually ‘admitted’ that technologies developed in Germany during the war years could account for the wave of UFOs seen over America in the 1940s. The Navy released this picture of a V-173 in 1947 during the wave of UFO excitement generated by Kenneth Arnold’s sighting and the headline of the saucer crash at Roswell. The Navy stated that the V-173 was the only craft in operation at that time that could in any way come close to the flying disks being sighted everywhere.
Other aircraft, at the time, seemed equally unconventional. In the 1930s and 1940s in Germany, the Horten brothers, Walter and Reimar, built a range of planes that they called the ‘Ho’ series. The first of this series, the Ho I, was a simple flying-wing sail plane.
Another similar looking craft was this ‘airplane’ photographed in Germany at the end of the war.
Kenneth Arnold himself described what he saw as a flying disc, yet when Arnold actually drew a picture of what he had seen, it looked little like the popularly conceived silver-round disc that readily springs to mind. In fact, the diagram Kenneth Arnold actually drew of what he had seen that fateful day in 1947 looks remarkably like the German HO IX or other craft developed during the war.
Notice the bubble effects under the diagram of the Nazi craft and those captured in the alleged Adamski UFO. Indeed, it obviously is the Haunebu craft.
Its contours and design are too much like the Haunebu craft to be a coincidence, and on the bottom left hand side can be seen one of the ‘bubbles’. This following picture was drawn following an alleged UFO
touchdown near Kofu City, Yamanshi Prefecture in Japan on 23rd February 1975 –
thirty years after cessation of hostilities in Europe. A The idea of such flying disks should come as no surprise for
after the war there were a number of such designs in existence. This craft was developed by the Lockheed Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. An unmanned aerial reconnaissance vehicle, it had a saucer shaped body with long wings and could easily be mistaken for a flying disk when seen at certain angles.
Corso’s background itself is formidable. He was Chief of the US Army’s Foreign Technology Division, and was a member of President Eisenhower’s National Security Council. He later went on to work for Senator Strom Thurmond after retiring from the army in 1963. Corso was interviewed by Michael Lindemann of CNI News on 5th July 1997 and asked; ML: There have been rumours and speculations that Roswell, and what came from Roswell – the way we exploited Roswell technology – might not have been the very first time such a thing happened. There have been indications or speculations that the Nazis had done such a thing, that some of their extraordinary technological developments may have come from a similar source. What do you think of that? PC: Yes. True. I had German scientists on my team. I discussed this with them. I discussed this with Oberth, von Braun. I was part of ‘Project Paperclip’ with General Trudeau… There were crashes elsewhere, and they [the Germans] gathered material too. The Germans were working on it. They didn’t solve the propulsion system. They did a lot of experiments on flying saucers. They had one that went up to 12,000 feet. But where all, we and they, missed out was on the guidance system. In R&D we began to realise that this being [a captured alien] was part of the guidance system, part of the apparatus himself, or itself, as it had no sexual organs." In his book Corso also describes the UFO that crashed at Roswell and noted General Twinning’s observations regarding the design; "The crescent-shaped craft looked so uncomfortably like the German Horten wings our flyers had seen at the end of the war that he had to suspect the Germans had bumped into something we didn’t know about. And his conversations with Wernher von Braun and Willy Ley at Alamogordo in the days after the crash confirmed this. They didn’t want to be thought of as verruckt but intimated that there was a deeper story about what the Germans had engineered." (25) Certainly this ‘deeper story’ was confirmed by the father of the modern rocket, Hermann Oberth. He independently confirmed that during the war years there was a Nazi-Extra-terrestrial connection when he stated, "we cannot take credit for our record advancement in certain scientific fields alone. We have been helped." When asked by whom, he replied, "the peoples of other worlds." (26) Wernher von Braun was equally frank about the issue and did not doubt that extraterrestrials were visiting the Earth nor that many of the advancements he was involved in were a result of back engineering alien technology. Indeed, he talked openly about the issue following an incident on 3rd June 1959 when the ‘Discoverer III’ failed to achieve orbit, having been deflected whilst travelling. Von Braun commented, "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 six or nine months it may be possible to speak with some precision on the matter." (27) If these reports from Oberth and Von Braun are to be believed, then clearly the Germans held a knowledge not previously available to the Western allies. And it appears that the scientists entering the US after the war under the auspices of Operation Paperclip shared this knowledge with the US military who within weeks set in place one of the fastest but little known invasions of the Twentieth Century. TAGS: German Flying Saucers, Development of German Flying Saucers, German Flying Disks, Nazi War Secrets, German Scientists, Operation Paperclip
(C) VIOLATIONS 1999 - 2010 References: (1) New York Times 14th December 1944. (2) Lore, Gordon I. R. Jnr., and Deneault, Harold H., Jnr., ‘Mysteries of the Skies; UFOs in Perspective’ p. 116 Prentice-Hall, New Jersey 1968. (3) ‘Der Spiegel’ magazine 30th March 1950 (4) Third Reich Video (5) Jungk, Robert, ‘Brighter Than a Thousand Suns’ p. 87 (6) Ibid (7) Memorandum to Members of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments 5th April 1995, from Advisory Committee Staff ‘Post World War II Recruitment of German Scientists – Operation Paperclip’ (8) Stuhlinger, Ernest and Ordway, Frederick III, ‘Wernher von Braun: Crusader for Space’ p. 67 Kreiger Publishing Company, Florida 1994. (9) Memorandum to Members of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments 5th April 1995, from Advisory Committee Staff ‘Post World War II Recruitment of German Scientists – Operation Paperclip’ (10) Ibid. (11) Ibid. (12) Zapezauer, Mark ‘The CIA’s Greatest Hits’ (13) Memorandum to Members of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments 5th April 1995, from Advisory Committee Staff ‘Post World War II Recruitment of German Scientists – Operation Paperclip’ (14) Ibid. (15) Buckbee, Edward O., ‘Biographical Data: Wernher von Braun’ Alabama Space and Rocket Centre, 1983. (16) Stuhlinger, Ernest and Ordway, Frederick III, ‘Wernher von Braun: Crusader for Space’ p.15, Kreiger Publishing Company, Florida 1994. (17) Bergaust, Erik, ‘Wernher von Braun’ pp51-52, National Space Institute, Washington DC, 1978. (18) Dooling, David, ‘Academic American Encyclopaedia’ p. 134 Grolier Inc 1993. (19) Donefer, Charles, ‘Wernher von Braun: National Hero or Enemy to the World?’ 1996 (20) Ibid p. 134 (21) Buckbee, Edward O., ‘Biographical Data: Wernher von Braun’ p. 2 Alabama Space and Rocket Centre, 1983. (22) Ibid p. 3 (23) DeVorkin, David H., ‘Science With A Vengeance: How the Military Created the US Space Sciences After World War II’ p. 26, Springer-Verlag, New York 1992. (24) Lancaster New Era newspaper, 12th July 1997. (25) Corso, Philip, ‘The Day After Roswell’ p. 79 Pocket Books, New York 1997 (26) Collyns, Robin, ‘Did Spacemen Colonise the Earth?’ p. 236, Pelham Books, London 1974. (27) ‘News Europa’ Jan 1959
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In 1959 Jack Judges, a freelance cameraman was flying over this
company’s plant in Canada when he saw and photographed this picture (left) of a
disk shaped craft sitting on the ground. After the photograph was published in the papers, speculation
grew that the disk was a secret weapon, and one that may have accounted for many
of the UFO sightings during previous years. 
Other German scientists similarly brought their expertise
– and designs – into the US after the war. ‘America’s Aircraft Year Book’
notes how many of them worked at Ft. Bliss (von Braun et al above) and Wright
Field:- the first and second homes of the Roswell wreckage. Among those in the
German group at Wright Field were Rudolph Hermann, Alexander Lippisch, Heinz
Schmitt, Helmut Heinrich, Fritz Doblhoff and Ernst Zundel. 
Lippisch had developed a number of projects leading up to
the war, having been inspired by witnessing a flight by Orville Wright in
September 1909 when a boy of 14. By November 1944, Lippisch, along with his
students, had constructed the DM-1 (left), a delta with 60° swept leading edges.
This craft was later to be flown at a speed of 497mph under the power of a
rocket motor, and was shipped back to the US at the end of the war along with
its creator. The DM-1 was to inspire the design of many US delta-wing aircraft
such as the F-102 and F-104.
Constructed at the Mitteldeutsche Motorwerke Company, and
completed at the Flugplatz-Werkstatt at the Brandis Air Base in early 1944, the
plane was not a success, and not further developed. 
Certainly the V-173, or another development at Chance-Vought
was mistaken for a UFO by a local resident Thomas C. Smith whilst working for
the company a year before the famous Roswell incident. 
‘They'd get it off the ground and it would disappear’ into
the darkness, he says. He says there were reports in the area of unidentified
flying objects. About the time he left Chance-Vought in 1947, it moved
operations to Texas, where it would have better conditions for test flights,
Smith says." (24) Thus, Chance-Vought moved to a state next to New Mexico the
year of the Roswell crash. 
By the end of that decade the brothers had developed the Ho
III, a metal framed glider that was fitted with a folding blade propeller for
flight. Then in 1944 they finished the prototype HO IX, their first combat
intended design, powered by the Junkers Jumo 004B turbojets, the craft had a
metal frame and plywood exterior (Appendix I) It made its maiden flight on 2nd
February 1945 and satisfied with its performance, the Air Ministry ordered forty
of the craft to be built by the Goetha Waggonfabrik under the designation
Ho-229.
When the US Third US Army Corps reached the Goetha plant on 14th
April 1945 they took over the factory, and shipped back to the US the near
completed HO IX V3.
In fact, many of these German designs seemingly account for many of
the reports of Unidentified Flying Objects seen over the US after the war.
George Adamski’s UFOs also have a similar Nazi connection.
This light enhanced frame from a 8mm cine film taken by George Adamski in the
presence of Madeleine Rodeffer (Picture credit: Madeleine Rodeffer) and other
witnesses at Silver Spring, Maryland in February 1965, looks remarkably like the
drawings for the Nazi Haunebu II during the second world war. 
Again, this object photographed in February 1954 by Stephen
Darbishire and his cousin Adrian Myers in the Lake District of England looks
suspiciously like the German craft. 
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to the artist, an occupant came out of the craft and touched a child on the
shoulder, temporarily paralysing him. (Well, wouldn’t you be startled if an
alien touched you?)
It seems likely, therefore, that many of the UFO sighting
reports made after the war can be accounted for by misidentified or unrecognised
German/US designs that were being developed in a secrecy necessitated by firstly
the Cold War and secondly by the fact that most of the technologies were the
result of works undertaken by former Nazi scientists secretly and often
illegally brought into the US. 
Corso published a book entitled ‘The Day After Roswell:
A Former Official Reveals the US Government’s Shocking UFO Cover-up’ in
which he makes a number of revelations.
