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Hitler's Flying Saucers: A Guide to German Flying Discs of the Second World War
Learn why the 'Schriever-Habermohl project' was actually two projects & read the written statement of a test pilot who flew one of these saucers. Learn about the Leduc engine, the key to Dr Miethes' saucer designs. Learn how the US government kept the truth about foo fighters hidden for almost 60 years & how it was forced to come clean about their origin. Learn of the Peenemunde saucer project & how it was slated to go atomic. Read an eyewitness who saw magnetic discs. Read the US government's reports on German field propulsion saucers. Read how the post-war German KM-2 field propulsion rocket worked. Learn details of the work of Karl Schappeller & Viktor Schauberger. Learn how their ideas figure in the quest to build field propulsion flying discs. Learn what happened to this technology after the war. Learn how the Canadians got saucer technology from the SS. Learn about the surviving 3rd Power of former Nazis. Learn the US government's methods of UFO deception & how they used the Sonderburoll as a model for Project Blue Book.
Henry Stevens has been researching WWII & the 3rd Reich for over 30 years & corresponds with WWII buffs in Poland, Germany, the USA, UK & other countries on the secret activities of Nazis during & after the war.
Henry Stevens has been researching WWII & the 3rd Reich for over 30 years & corresponds with WWII buffs in Poland, Germany, the USA, UK & other countries on the secret activities of Nazis during & after the war.
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286 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2003
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February 6, 2014
Having a close friend who used to be an editor of UFO Magazine and who has conducted hundreds of hours of interviews with prominent ufologists (sic), I have read scores of books on the subject. In the course of this study I've come across mention of the German-UFO hypothesis and seen several videos on the subject. This, however, was my first book on that aspect of the controversy.
I initially encountered this publication at one of the big-box bookstore chains, Borders or Barnes & Noble, paging through it as a friend looked for some specific title. The pictures and diagrams were fascinating, but the book was expensive and its thesis, I thought, crazy. I didn't buy the thing. Now, years later, I find it for sale, cheap, at one of those eBay consignment stores, this one in East Dundee, Illinois. I purchase the thing.
Again, the pictures were captivating. I start reading, finishing the book, basically, in one sitting, so captivating was the topic.
What the author proves, in my opinion, is that the Germans did work on various flying disk designs during the period of the Third Reich. A few, quite probably, were constructed as prototypes, but none, except perhaps the 'foo fighters' were ever operational. Naturally, at war's end, the Allies did everything they could to seize German technologies and the scientists behind them, keeping as much as they found profitable secret.
What the author does not prove are a host of greater claims as regards flying disk performance (above the speed of sound? beyond the atmosphere?)and mechanism (antigravity? nuclear?), claims which are much less well documented.
The strength of the book is the obvious expertise of its author. He is on top of literature and references all claims without committing himself to the less well substantiated ones. The weaknesses of the book include, on the one hand, poor editing--errors that spellcheckers miss abound, and, on the other hand, the author's apparent insufficient understanding of physics--or, at least, inability to clearly explain the relevant science.
Still, as author Stevens points out, there are clearly UFOs, flying disks, out there, seen by millions throughout the world since WWII. While the extraterrestial hypothesis seems most popular, it remains unsubstantiated. Meanwhile, we know about German flying disk work and should pay heed to more terrestrial explanations of the phenomena.
I initially encountered this publication at one of the big-box bookstore chains, Borders or Barnes & Noble, paging through it as a friend looked for some specific title. The pictures and diagrams were fascinating, but the book was expensive and its thesis, I thought, crazy. I didn't buy the thing. Now, years later, I find it for sale, cheap, at one of those eBay consignment stores, this one in East Dundee, Illinois. I purchase the thing.
Again, the pictures were captivating. I start reading, finishing the book, basically, in one sitting, so captivating was the topic.
What the author proves, in my opinion, is that the Germans did work on various flying disk designs during the period of the Third Reich. A few, quite probably, were constructed as prototypes, but none, except perhaps the 'foo fighters' were ever operational. Naturally, at war's end, the Allies did everything they could to seize German technologies and the scientists behind them, keeping as much as they found profitable secret.
What the author does not prove are a host of greater claims as regards flying disk performance (above the speed of sound? beyond the atmosphere?)and mechanism (antigravity? nuclear?), claims which are much less well documented.
The strength of the book is the obvious expertise of its author. He is on top of literature and references all claims without committing himself to the less well substantiated ones. The weaknesses of the book include, on the one hand, poor editing--errors that spellcheckers miss abound, and, on the other hand, the author's apparent insufficient understanding of physics--or, at least, inability to clearly explain the relevant science.
Still, as author Stevens points out, there are clearly UFOs, flying disks, out there, seen by millions throughout the world since WWII. While the extraterrestial hypothesis seems most popular, it remains unsubstantiated. Meanwhile, we know about German flying disk work and should pay heed to more terrestrial explanations of the phenomena.
April 12, 2014
Perhaps it's not fair to expect much from a book claiming Germany built flying saucers during WWII, but still... this guy still believes in the aether theory of gravity! If you're not familiar with that, it was proposed by Isaac Newton to explain gravity, and after a few thought experiments he realized it didn't work. Apparently a certain subset the "free energy" crowd have latched on to it as explanation for how perpetual motion machines work, even though the exact reasons they like it are the reasons why Newton abandoned it.
Beyond his terrible understanding of physics, the author doesn't understand how credible sources work. He constantly claims that some crackpot story is confirmation of another crackpot story, and he never credits primary sources. And when he does find an official document that would seem to support his case, he never even considers that official documents are written by people, and those people can be mistaken. So yes, some people in the U.S. Army may have had wacky ideas about what "phoo fighters" were, it doesn't mean they were right. The whole book is built on a foundation of sand.
Beyond his terrible understanding of physics, the author doesn't understand how credible sources work. He constantly claims that some crackpot story is confirmation of another crackpot story, and he never credits primary sources. And when he does find an official document that would seem to support his case, he never even considers that official documents are written by people, and those people can be mistaken. So yes, some people in the U.S. Army may have had wacky ideas about what "phoo fighters" were, it doesn't mean they were right. The whole book is built on a foundation of sand.
November 14, 2017
I did it! I actually made it through this book! It is to history what an Ed Wood movie is to film in that its terribleness is part of the fun (almost). And I should make clear that while I did not like the book, I love that it was given to me as a gift.
The basic premise is that the explanation for UFO sightings is not extraterrestrial in origin but springs rather from wartime Nazi experiments with exotic aircraft. Okay, I’m still with you. The Germans did indeed have a secret weapons program and there is good evidence that this included flying discs. And it is also true that the US and its allies had post-war programs that continued this work. Then the author gets into esoteric power sources and goes down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theory and conjecture and he loses me. When a part of your argument rests on the need to dismiss accepted findings of modern physics to remain plausible (aether theory y'all!), you’ve lost your argument so far as I am concerned.
The publisher is one of those fringe houses big in conspiracy circles (their catalog online is worth a browse). Their editing (lack thereof) was jarring and the photograph quality less than illustrative.
The basic premise is that the explanation for UFO sightings is not extraterrestrial in origin but springs rather from wartime Nazi experiments with exotic aircraft. Okay, I’m still with you. The Germans did indeed have a secret weapons program and there is good evidence that this included flying discs. And it is also true that the US and its allies had post-war programs that continued this work. Then the author gets into esoteric power sources and goes down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theory and conjecture and he loses me. When a part of your argument rests on the need to dismiss accepted findings of modern physics to remain plausible (aether theory y'all!), you’ve lost your argument so far as I am concerned.
The publisher is one of those fringe houses big in conspiracy circles (their catalog online is worth a browse). Their editing (lack thereof) was jarring and the photograph quality less than illustrative.
May 10, 2013
The best introductory book to this topic. I can't recommend it enough!!!
March 28, 2014
Not what I really expected. Has some interesting points.
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