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New report over Hitler's UFO
croatiantimes.com
A film called ‘Iron Sky’ which premieres next month has re-ignited debate in Germany about Hitler’s development of flying saucers to destroy London and New York.
The sci-fi film centres on real-life SS officer Hans Kammler who was said to have made a significant breakthrough in anti-gravity experiments towards the end of WW2.
The film relates how, from a secret base built in the Antarctic, the first Nazi spaceships were launched in late ‘45 to found the military base Schwarze Sonne - Black Sun - on the dark side of the Moon.
This base was to build a powerful invasion fleet and return to take over the Earth once the time was right, in this case 2018.
But a new report out this week in Germany in the magazine P.M. purports that there is "strong evidence" that the Nazi UFO programme was well advanced.
Hitler ordered Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering to develop the super weapon that would change the war.
The P.M. report quotes eyewitnesses who believe they saw a flying saucer marked with the Iron Cross of the German military flying low over the Thames in 1944.
"The Americans also treated the existence of the weapons seriously," it said,
They believed that the Germans could use it to drop nuclear weapons on New York.
At the time the New York Times had even written about a "mysterious flying disc" with photos of the device seen travelling at extremely high speeds over the high-rise buildings.
"Apparently that machine was capable on its very first maiden flight of travelling 2000 km," says P.M.
"The Germans had destroyed much of the paperwork of their activities but there are numerous hints that it did indeed exist - including an attempt in 1960 in Canada by UFO experts to recreate the device which, to their amazement, did actually fly."
The best known of the Nazi UFO projects was the Schriever-Habermohl scheme.
Rudolf Schriever was an engineer and test pilot, Otto Habermohl an engineer. This project was centred in Prague between 1941 and 1943.
Initially a Luftwaffe project, it eventually fell under the auspices of armaments minister Albert Speer before being taken over once again in 1944 by Hans Kammler.
Eyewitnesses captured by the Allies after WW2 claimed to have seen the saucer produced in Prague fly on several occasions in early 1945.
Joseph Andreas Epp, an engineer who served as a consultant to the Schriever-Habermohl project, stated 15 prototypes were built in all.
He described how a central cockpit surrounded by rotating adjustable wing-vanes formed a circle.
"The vanes were held together by a band at the outer edge of the wheel-like device. The pitch of the vanes could be adjusted so that during take off more lift was generated by increasing their angle from a more horizontal setting.
"In level flight the angle would be adjusted to a smaller angle, similar to the way helicopter rotors operate. The wing-vanes were to be set in rotation by small rockets placed around the rim like a pinwheel. Once rotational speed was sufficient, lift-off was achieved.
"After the craft had risen to some height the horizontal jets or rockets were ignited.
"After this the wing-blades would be allowed to rotate freely as the saucer moved forward as in an auto-gyrocopter. In all probability, the wing-blades speed, and so their lifting value, could also be increased by directing the adjustable horizontal jets slightly upwards to engage the blades, thus spinning them faster at the discretion of the pilot," Epp said.
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