An Aerial Merry-Go-Round

The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: Alien Base

During the German occupation of France, Daniel Leger, 19 years old at the time, lived in a little village in the department of Sarthe, 15 kilometres to the south of Le Mans, working at a butcher’s shop. On a hot afternoon in the summer of 1941, the exact date not recalled, Leger was in the street when he noticed a kind of ‘merry-go-round’ in the sky, beneath cirrus clouds and above the airfield occupied by the Germans at Raineries.

About a dozen German aircraft were circling around a large, aluminium-coloured ‘cloud’, shaped like the handle of a frying pan and surrounded by puffs of cloud. It was moving slowly and horizontally, though somewhat tilted. Above all this hovered another, larger and luminous ‘cloud’, moving at the same speed.

Deciding to take a closer look at this spectacle, Leger jumped on his bike and raced towards the scene. A mile further on, together with many other curious people, he was stopped by a wall of soldiers. The German aircraft continued circling the ‘cloud’ and manoeuvred as if they were attacking, but without opening fire. When the aircraft came close to the cloud they appeared to fall down like leaves, only to rise again seconds later, as if their engines had been stopped momentarily.

The witness observed this merry-go-round for an hour as it moved from west to east, then he returned home After the war, Leger visited the municipal library in Le Mans to search for press commentary on this extraordinary event: he found none. Perhaps Luftwaffe records pertaining to this incident, censored at the time, may one day be located, as well as testimony from other witnesses. Leger had insisted on anonymity, so in his book, Ultra Top-Secret, researcher and author Jean Sider used the pseudonym ‘S. Théau’.

Following the death of the witness in 1993 or 1994, Sider kindly provided me with the source’s real name, which appears here for the first time. Important though this case is, it pales into relative insignificance when compared to an extraordinary encounter which befell Leger in 1943, to be described further on.

Regarding the aircraft losing altitude when they approached the ‘cloud’, it is interesting to note that, according to information disclosed to the well-known author, Jacques Vallee, by a former engineer with US intelligence in Germany, Americans were already aware by 1943 that UFOs (or ‘foo-fighters’, as they were then dubbed by USAAF air crews) could interfere at a distance with internal combustion engines. Investigators at the time suspected that electrostatic effects were the cause. A secret investigation into the phenomenon, including an investigation into German research on jet aircraft, was conducted in 1943 by the then US National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology), under the direction of Professor Dryden.

A distinguished aerodynamicist, Dr Hugh L. Dryden developed America’s first successful radar-guided missile. He was chief of the aerodynamics section of the National Bureau of Standards, later chief of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, then the first deputy administrator of NASA.

In 1944, American planes returning to England from bombing missions over the Continent were plagued repeatedly by engine cut-outs. ‘The engines would suddenly become rough, cutting in and out,’ a former US intelligence officer explained to author Ralph Blum. ‘There was considerable discussion among intelligence people as to what should be done. The general feeling — that some new German device was causing the electrical problems — presented one major difficulty: the amount of electricity required to short out a B-29 engine was calculated as greater than all the known electrical energy output of Europe!