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  Acknowledgements

  Thanks to David Childress and Adventures Unlimited for giving me support and encouraging me on my books.

  Also, thanks to everyone who has worked on this important, and unusual subject. Your research matters!

  Hitler’s Flying Saucers

  Revised Edition

  by Henry Stevens

  Copyright © 2003, 2012

  ISBN: 978-1-935487-91-3

  All Rights Reserved

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  Kempton, Illinois 60946 USA

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  Books by Henry Stevens:

  Hitler’s Flying Saucers

  Hitler’s Suppressed & Still Secret Weapons

  Dark Star

  TABLE OF CONTENTS

  PREFACE

  CHAPTER 1:

  THE SITUATION IN NAZI GERMANY

  CHAPTER 2:

  RELIABLE SOURCES

  CHAPTER 3:

  AN OVERVIEW OF THE GERMAN CONVENTIONAL SAUCER PROJECTS

  CHAPTER 4:

  THE GERMAN FIELD PROPULSION PROJECTS

  CHAPTER 5:

  LORE AND LOOSE ENDS: A DISCUSSION OF GERMAN SAUCERS

  CHAPTER 6:

  “SONDERBUERO”

  CHAPTER 7:

  DISPOSITION OF GERMAN SAUCER TECHNOLOGY AFTER THE WAR

  CHAPTER 8:

  CONCLUDING THOUGHTS

  ADDENDUM TO THE SECOND EDITION: WERE GERMAN FLYING DISCS PUT INTO MASS PRODUCTION?

  Preface

  The Situation Within Nazi Germany

  This book is a guide into the world of German flying discs. You may have picked up this guide because you are unfamiliar with the German production of flying saucers during World War Two. The basics of this production will be revealed to you in the following pages. An adventure awaits you.

  On the other hand, you may be looking for nothing more than a rational explanation of the UFO phenomenon. The UFO phenomenon involves sightings of unidentified flying objects. This means that any unidentified flying object is a UFO, regardless of its alleged source. Because the object is unidentified, the object’s source is also undetermined. Only a leap of faith can connect UFOs to an extraterrestrial source without first introducing proof. A radical hypothesis such as an extraterrestrial origin of UFOs requires overwhelming proof in order to be generally accepted. No such overwhelming extraterrestrial proof has ever been offered which has stood up to scrutiny. No crashed alien craft have ever been produced by anyone, inside or outside government. Likewise, no alien bodies have ever been found. No extraterrestrial culture, or alien technology has ever been uncovered by anyone. There is simply no actual evidence at all linking UFOs with an extraterrestrial source. Therefore, no such leap of faith should be made. We need to start all over again. All rational earthly explanations need to be exhausted before any extraterrestrial theories are even put forth.

  Unfortunately, the simple truth is that, for the most part, UFO research has done a leap-frog to the extraterrestrial explanation without ever adequately exploring and exhausting a terrestrial origin. This statement is inclusive of everyone regardless of background or education. It applies to the charlatan UFO attention-getters as well as to former NASA scientists with Ph.D.s. This is simply the condition of our current state of affairs in the UFO world.

  Let me expound on this. For over fifty years, the UFO research paradigm has been fundamentally wrong. A proper attempt to explain the UFO phenomenon would involve a gathering of evidence and then explanation by proceeding from simple solutions involving known facts and conditions and totally exhausting these as possibilities before postulating explanations, conditions, or entities not represented by fact. Only after known facts fail us can we move on to pustulate explanations beyond our realm of experience. Even then, an idea which may fit the observed facts but for which is not in evidence itself can not be accepted as fact until it is tested. This is nothing new. This is simply the way logic and science tests new explanations of reality. This method is the foundation of our modern western technological culture.

  Unfortunately, research in the field of flying saucer phenomena has never been undertaken with this principle in mind. More and more frequently, UFOs are attributed to an extraterrestrial source by the media, or the “witnesses,” as a sort of a knee-jerk reaction. It seems if one sees something for which he has no prior reference, then it must be extraterrestrial as a matter of course. Over the years sightings have become “encounters,” then “abductions.” Such reports are increasing even as the use of regression hypnosis replaces the scientific method for finding the truth. The same individuals often have repeated “experiences” each of which becomes stranger than the last.

  If no real research has ever been done on the UFO phenomena, then how has this extraterrestrial theory crept into popular culture? One simple answer is the media. The media loves extraterrestrials. Why? It is because the extraterrestrial hypothesis is marketable. It sells copy. Just look at the number of books, magazines, movies and television programs devoted to this explanation. Look at your check-out counter in the supermarket.

  The government itself is another answer. The word “government” from here on will basically mean the government of the United States of America but will sometimes include other governments, as specified. The government has used “flying saucers” to cover its own testing of secret aircraft. It uses the UFO-extraterrestrial ploy superbly. When a UFO is seen by civilians, a controlled procedure is enacted. This procedure plants or encourages witnesses who expound an extraterrestrial origin in a given sighting. The government may even go so far as to fund television programming and magazines devoted to this explanation. After all, a huge part of the C.I.A.’s budget goes into such covert conditioning of the American people. However, Americans are not the first to be fooled, as we shall see.

  In most cases, any extraterrestrial hypothesis is acceptable to government manipulators, especially if it is so ridiculous that the witnesses ends up discrediting themselves. The government is so successful at this that the entire topic of UFOs has become somewhat of a joke. This is done deliberately. Thus, serious people with “something to loose” are afraid to stake their reputations on a public announcement of their UFO experience, no matter how real it may have been. At this point the government has achieved its purpose which is to discredit and suppress all serious inquiry into the UFO question.

  Supposedly, UFO research has been left to large, well financed UFO “research organizations.” The largest of these is MUFON (Mutual UFO Network). This organization “trains” people to report sightings, then collects the data and allegedly organizes it using some sort of multi-variant analysis into something meaningful. Over the years MUFON has had the opportunity to collect and “organize” thousands of sightings into something meaningful.

  In reality, the information is organized into gibberish. After a body of knowledge has been studied and organized, usually, certain facts or at least generalizations, can be gleaned from this kind of work. In its fifty years of existence can anyone name one new fundamental fact that MUFON has provided to us? They have provided us with nothing. Someone once said that MUFON is really a black hole into which information is attracted and does not have the power to escape on its own. We will return to MUFON and explain this reasoning at a later point.

  If we are to seek any real explanation of the UFO phenomenon must make a clean break with this past. We must go back to the basics of simplicity and logic. One basic question is this: could we humans be capable of making the unidentified flying machines which have been seen in abundance in the sky since the Second World War? Until we answer th
at question in the negative, there is no reason to postulate an alien origin for UFOs.

  One purpose of this book is to give an individual new to this subject an overview into the study of German flying discs. Never fear, this is not a disjointed spook-hunt, chasing sightings and abductions. There are real facts in this field. There are real people with real names and histories and there are real saucer designs.

  Another purpose is to give the reader references, upon which statements in this book are based. Given these references, the reader may then research the topics of particular interest in more detail.

  The research methodology is straight-forward. We will listen to what is claimed about German saucers by Germans of those times or from other individuals who are in a position to know something about this topic. We then attempt to verify it using an independent historical source. Corroboration from other independent sources, especially from witnesses, is also acceptable and important. Photographs are important but nowadays pictures can be manufactured on a computer. Well documented pictures which appeared before the modern computer age are perhaps best. Also, pictures accompanied with negatives may be considered better documents than those without negatives.

  Government documents can be great sources of confirmation. Unfortunately, governments can not be trusted and have historically attempted to manipulate UFO research. Therefore, these sources are best not used to formulate ideas but to confirm ideas first developed through independent sources.

  Politically, time is on our side. Since the Berlin Wall fell more and more German researchers are going public with their findings. There is more freedom to research this subject now than at any time in the last sixty years. As each piece fits into the puzzle a consensus of public acceptance acknowledging the reality of German flying discs grows. All we really have to do is find the pieces, confirm them and keep putting them together. The truth will emerge by itself and in the end nobody, no special interest of any sort, will be able to deny this basic truth.

  What the American Government Really Thought About UFOs

  Left, U.S. Air Force document, Jan. 3, 1952

  Right, blowup of the second paragraph

  The writer of this book is not an authority to be believed upon face-value alone. New assertions made in this book about German saucers will be accompanied with documentation. Assertions made by others will be accompanied with their references. This book will briefly touch upon most of the facts, ideas, writers and researchers in this field. With the sources given, the reader will be able to confirm the veracity of the position put forth for himself.

  In an attempt to explain the field of German saucers to someone new to it some background is necessary. First, we will discuss the situation within wartime Germany. Then, there will follow a discussion concerning reliable sources in this field. An overview of German flying discs will follow. Finally, various trains of thought or schools of thought in this field will be presented in a discussion section along with some odds and ends which do not fit into any neat pattern. At that point, the post-war disposition of German saucer technology will be discussed before concluding with some thoughts on the topic.

  Above: Drawing of the Project Saucer craft designed in 1941 by Rudolf Schriever, a Luftwaffe aeronatutical engineer, and this three colleagues, Habermohl, Miethe and Bellonzo. The first prototype was flown in June 1942 and larger versions were apparently designed and manufactured at the BMW factory near Prague, Czech Republic.

  Introduction to the Second Edition

  As of August, 2012, Hitler’s Flying Saucers A Guide To Germany Flying Discs Of The Second World War was written over ten years ago. At that time UFOs were generally considered the products of alien technology on a research mission to earth. Alien abductions were all the rage at that time so it was in that context that the book was written. So pervasive was this abduction paradigm that the case for flying discs originating with the Third Reich had to be airtight. A fundamental point of this book should be made and emphasized. What is presented in this book is not all the evidence for the reality of German flying discs. This is not a preponderance of evidence presentation. Not even ten percent of the “sources” available have been discussed, but this small percentage of sources are the best ones. The thought here is to present an iron-clad case for the reality of German flying discs which would stand up to scrutiny in terms of those sources cited. It can be reported after ten years that this strategy has been successful. No serious challenges have ever been made regarding the underlying sources.

  Besides documenting the reality of German flying discs an attempt was made to set them in some sort of context, culturally, historically and technologically. In doing this a wide variety of explanations and ideas have been presented or at least mentioned. Unfortunately, because of problems of space and the reader’s time, this has been limited to a survey treatment. But because a wide rage of thought has been represented here, the reader, even the casual reader, is prepared to evaluate any further evidence which may come forth with an educated eye. This still holds true ten years later.

  For these reasons the text is just as relevant today as when it was originally written. This really is a guide and introduction to German flying discs and not a complete, exhaustive work on the subject assuming one could be written. Additional new information as well as amplification on the information presented here can be found in two additional books by this author, Hitler’s Secret And Still Suppressed Science, Weapons And Technology and Dark Star, both published by Adventures Unlimited Publishing.

  An addendum has been added to this edition with an additional bit of evidence which came to light after this book went into print but fits into it well. We have researcher Klaus-Peter Rothkugel thank for this.

  —Henry Stevens

  August 14, 2012

  Above: Rare photos allegedly of an early experimental saucer at the Peenemuende Space Center in northern Germany.

  1

  CHAPTER ONE

  The Situation Within Nazi Germany

  Thanks to the American media and what passes for history, most Americans have no idea of wartime conditions within Germany. The topics most germane to this discussion are the means of wartime industrial production and transportation within Germany.

  After the Battle of Britain, Germany’s air domination over Europe began to decline, sliding down a slippery slope which ultimately resulted in one major reason for its defeat. German means of industrial, arms, and energy production became increasing venerable to attack by Allied bombers. The munitions plants needed to produce the arms to maintain the war effort, such as tanks, airplanes and cannons were all targets of Allied air bombardment. Likewise, high priority targets included oil production and refining facilities which produced the fuel and lubricants needed to make the war effort possible.

  One way Germany responded to air attacks was by moving munitions facilities and high-value industrial plants underground (1). Some of these facilities were vast, encompassing miles of underground tunnels. They housed both the industrial means of war production and the workers themselves. The facilities at Nordhausen in Thuringia are well known as the site of production for the V-1 and V-2, but there were others. The newly discovered underground complexes of the Jonas Valley south of Nordhausen in Thuringia constitute another vast complex (2)(3). This facility was to serve as a center of government and most probably a research center for advanced weaponry. This is also true for the many underground complexes in what is now Poland. Notable among these is a facility called “Der Riese” (The Giant). Der Riese served as a uranium mine, uranium processing facility, and research and development facility for secret weapons (4). Underground facilities for weapons production were found throughout Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland. Underground production facilities were also set up to refine synthetic petroleum products from coal and to generate electricity.

  In addition to underground facilities, camouflage was used to hide numerous smaller facilities. These many camouflaged and underground plan
ts formed a web of sub-assembly producers. Each sub-assembly facility sent their product to a larger or a more centrally located facility for further work. From there it might be transported again for final assembly. As an example, type XXl U-boats were modular, being produced in pipe-like sections throughout Germany. They were transported by rail to sites near the North Sea and only finally assembled at water’s edge. Likewise, some types of aircraft were only finally assembled near the runway.

  Further confusing Allied air intelligence, the plants were constantly moving. Eventually everything of value was to be moved underground, to bomb-proof shelters. Facilities were kept on the move until space was available for this underground re-location. These tactics worked for the Germans. There were simply too many moving targets for the Allies to completely stop German war production.

  Of course the weak link in this scheme was transportation. The railroad system was the only practical and most energy efficient method of moving all these sub-assemblies. Trucking material was done but in a petroleum-starved Third Reich, it was not possible to sustain a truck-based transportation system necessary to meet all the requirements of wartime Germany. Recognizing this, the Allies bombed railroad centers using the heavy, four-engine B-17 bombers.

  By mid-1943 the American P-51 Mustang was introduced into the field of play. This aircraft could be thought of as a Spitfire which could fly for eight hours. Its range allowed it to escort Allied bombers to their targets throughout the Reich. After escorting the bombers to their targets the P-51s were released to attack “targets of opportunity.” A P-51 can fly close to the ground and attack individual trains, which they did. Perhaps you will recall the many wartime film clips showing these P-51s destroying German trains as they traveled. By mid-1944, it is a wonder that any trains within Germany could move at all. Some were forced to hide in mountain tunnels, as they did near the Jonas Valley, running at night or when there were no enemy aircraft reported.