Flying Saucers of the Nazis (Part 1)

Area 51 The Revealing Truth of Ufos, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies

When it comes to the topic of UFOs, few issues create more emotion than that relative to so-called “Nazi flying saucers.” The story goes that in the latter stages of the Second World War, Hitler’s hordes began working on radical, circular-shaped aircraft designs but failed to capitalize on them to any meaningful degree as a result of the Allies fortunately gaining the upper hand and, ultimately, achieving victory.

The theory continues that in the postwar era, the secret saucer technology was clandestinely transferred from Germany to the United States, successfully developed, and duly deployed, with some of the technology seized by the Soviets, who embarked on their own plans to build and deploy flying saucers. In other words, Nazi saucer proponents say that what we are seeing today are not alien craft from faraway worlds but highly advanced flying machines of a definitively terrestrial nature, whose origins can be traced back to wartime Germany. It must be said that a lot of what has been written on this subject is over-the-top, exaggerated nonsense, but what is intriguing is the significant body of official documentation on the matter that has surfaced under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act.

Accounts of the Nazis having developed in the latter stages of the Second World War, which may have fallen into the hands of the Russians and the Americans, abound. In 1957—as documentation that has surfaced under the Freedom of Information Act shows—intelligence agents of the U.S. government interviewed a man who (and I quote from the official records) was “born February 19, 1926, in the State of Warsaw, Poland, and was brought from Poland as a Prisoner of War to Gut Alt Golssen approximately 30 miles east of Berlin, Germany, in May, 1942, where he remained until a few weeks after the end of World War II. “He spent the following years at Displaced Persons Camps at Kork, Strasburg, Offenburg, Milheim and Freiburg, Germany.

He attended a radio technician school at Freiburg and for about a year was employed in a textile mill at Laurachbaden, Germany. He arrived in the United States at New York, May 2, 1951, via the SS General Stewart as a Displaced Person.” The document continues that at some point in 1944, while still a POW, the man was en route to work in a field a short distance north of Gut Alt Golssen. A tractor—being driven to the field by a German—suddenly stalled on a stretch of road that ran through a dense, swampy area. No machinery or other vehicle was visible, although a noise was heard described as a high-pitched whine, similar to that produced by a large, electric generator.

A German SS guard quickly appeared and talked briefly with the German driver of the tractor, who waited five to ten minutes, after which the noise stopped, and the tractor engine started normally. Approximately three hours later in the same swampy area but away from the road where the POW crew was cutting hay, the source of the story surreptitiously observed a circular enclosure approximately 100–150 yards in diameter.

It was protected from full view by a tarpaulin-type wall around fifty feet high, behind which a very strange vehicle was seen to rise slowly and vertically to a height sufficient to clear the wall. It then moved horizontally a short distance out of the man’s view, which was partly obstructed by trees.

According to the U.S. intelligence files: “This vehicle, observed from approximately 500 feet, was described as circular in shape, 75 to 100 yards in diameter, and about 14 feet high, consisting of dark gray stationary top and bottom sections, five to six feet high. The approximate three foot middle section appeared to be a rapidly moving component producing a continuous blur similar to an aeroplane propeller, but extending the circumference of the vehicle so far as could be observed.

“The noise emanating from the vehicle was similar but of somewhat lower pitch than the noise previously heard. The engine of the tractor again stalled on this occasion and no effort was made by the German driver to start the engine until the noise stopped, after which the engine started normally.” Official records on this curious matter continue: “Uninsulated metal, possibly copper, cables one and one-half inch to two inches in diameter, on and under the surface of the ground, in some places covered by water, were observed on this and previous occasions, apparently running between the enclosure and a small concrete column-like structure between the road and enclosure.”

The documents add that the area in question was not visited by the man again until shortly after the end of the war, when it was observed that the cables had been removed and the previous locations of the concrete structure and the enclosure were now covered by water. The man stated to the interviewing intelligence agents that he had not been in communication since 1945 with any of the other work crew of sixteen or eighteen men, which consisted of Russian, French, and Polish POWs and who had, the files note, “discussed this incident among themselves many times.”