SS Brotherhood of the Bell: The Nazis’ Incredible Secret Technology (53 page)

1. Document 1: Air Materials Command Secret Memo to Brig.
Gen. George Schulgen, Sept 1947:

The text of the document is as follows, all emphasis has been added:

HEADQUARTERS

AIR MATERIAL COMMAND

1. As requested by AC/AS-2 there is presented below the considered opinion of this Command concerning the so-called “Flying Discs.” This opinion is based on interrogation report data furnished by AC/AS-2 and preliminary studies by personnel of T-2 and Aircraft Laboratory, Engineering Division T-3. This opinion was arrived at in a conference between personnel form the Air Institute of Technology, Intelligence T-2, Office, Chief of Engineering Division, and the Aircraft, Power Plant and Propeller Laboratories of Engineering Division T-3.

2. It is the opinion that:

a. The phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious.

b. There are objects probably approximating the shape of a disc,
of such appreciable size as to appear to be as large as manmade aircraft.

c. There is a possibility that some of the incidents may be caused by natural phenomena, such as meteors.

d.
The reported operating characteristics such as
extreme rates of climb, maneuverability (particularly in roll), and action which must be considered evasive when sighted or contacted by friendly
aircraft and radar, lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled either manually, automatically or remotely.

e. The apparent common description of the objects is as follows: -

(1) Metallic or light reflecting surface.

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Basic Ltr for CG, AMC, WF to CO, AAF, Wash. D. C. subj “AMC Opinion Concerning “Flying Discs”.

(2) Absence of trail, except in a few instances when the object apparently was operating under high performance conditions.

(3) Circular or elliptical in shape, flat on bottom and domed on top.

(4) Several reports of well kept formation flights varying from three to nine objects.

(5) Normally no associated sound, except in three instances a substantial rumbling roar was noted.

(6) Level flight speeds normally above 300 knots are estimated.

f. It is possible within the present U. S. knowledge – provided extensive detailed development is undertaken – to construct a piloted aircraft which has the general description of the object in sub-paragraph (a) above which would be capable of an approximate range of 7000 miles at subsonic speeds.

g. Any developments in this country along the lines indicated would be extremely expensive, time consuming and at the considerable expense of current projects and therefore, if directed, should be set up independently of existing projects.

h. Due consideration must be given the following:-

(1) The possibility that these objects are of domestic origin – the product of some high security project not known to AC/AS-2 or this Command.

(2) The lack of physical evidence in the shape of crash recovered vehicles which would undeniably prove the existence of these objects.

(3) The possibility that some foreign nation has a form of propulsion possibly nuclear, which is outside of our domestic knowledge.

3. It is recommended that:-

a. Headquarters, Army Air Forces issue a directive assigning a priority, security classification and Code Name for a Detailed study of this matter to include the preparation of complete sets of all available and pertinent data which will then be made available to the Army, Navy, Atomic Energy Commission, JRDS, the Air Force Scientific Advisory Group, NACA, and the RAND and NEPA projects for comments and recommendations, with a preliminary report to be forwarded within 15 days of receipt of the data and a detailed report thereafter every 30 days as the investi-

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ANALYSIS:

1. Note that no mention is made of the ET Hypothesis for the origin of recovered vehicular technology. This is extremely odd, for this fact places the memo in the same class as General Twining’s “Air Accident Report” as reviewed in my
Reich of the Black Sun.
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Odder still is the fact that this date is also in the same approximate time frame as the “White Hot Intelligence Estimate”, which, according to the analysis in
Reich of the Black Sun
,
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contains two contradictory data-sets – the technological arguing for terrestrial origins and the biological arguing for ET origins – that are obfuscated in favor of the ET Hypothesis of its origin. The curious omission of the mention of any ET Hypothesis as an explanation of the craft’s origins can be explained in one of two ways:

a. As the document itself avers, the origins of the craft are terrestrial, even though its technology is exotic; or,

b. The absence of mention of the ET Hypothesis may be a reflection of a lower level of involvement, i.e., it is not mentioned except in the upper echelons of the organization that is beginning to emerge as “MJ-12”. A lower level of involvement, however, is itself odd, since by some accounts the recovered craft was shipped to Wright Field directly from Texas, where it had been flown from Roswell AAFB. Thus, in terms of the internal contents of the document, the stronger of the two interpretations is that no “ET Hypothesis” deep cover story is needed. The recovered craft and its technology are therefore terrestrial, though exotic, in origin and nature.

2. Certain statements in the memo, considered individually and collectively, point to a terrestrial origin for the craft, and given the exotic nature of the recovered technology, these can only come from Nazi Germany:

a. The craft is “
of such appreciable size as to appear to be as large as manmade aircraft;”
that is, nothing about the craft suggests to Air Materials Command (AMC) an extraterrestrial origin; its size is consistent with the size and scale of human physiology;

b. “The reported operating characteristics such as
extreme rates of climb, maneuverability (particularly in roll), and action which must be considered evasive when sighted or contacted by friendly aircraft and radar, lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled either manually, automatically or remotely.”
This statement can be explained by references to known, though exotic, technologies of Nazi secret weapons and their alleged performance characteristics (extreme rates of climb), as well as German progress in remote control of aircraft;
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c. The “
Absence of trail, except in a few instances when the object apparently was operating under
high performance conditions”
finds an analogue in the assertions of Vesco and Childress in
Operation Intercept
and
ManMade UFOs
that the so-called Mark I saucers were but exotic but standard suction (jet) aircraft, which left the telltail contrails.
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The statement “
Normally no associated sound, except in three instances a substantial rumbling roar was noted,”
may also point to German development under Prof. Dr. Lippisch and others of high performance, high altitude ramjet engines; and finally,

d. The statement “
Level flight speeds normally above
300 knots are estimated”
once again indicates much too low a performance for any interplanetary craft, but point much more directly to something terrestrial. It should be noted that this speed is far below the 1200mph reported in the White Hot Intelligence Estimate of the same time period.
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We are therefore dealing with two different craft, or the same craft has been observed under different circumstances. This very low performance figure may likewise indicate the nature of the document itself as being deliberately concocted disinformation, since such a speed would hardly call forth a secret memorandum. In my opinion, however, it may simply be due to a observation under low performance conditions.

3. The document concludes with three breathtaking statements that shatter the ET Hypothesis:

“Due consideration must be given the following:-

(1) The possibility that these objects are of domestic origin – the product of some high security project not known to AC/AS-2 or this Command.

(2) The lack of physical evidence in the shape of crash recovered vehicles which would undeniably prove the existence of these objects.

(3) The possibility that some foreign nation has a form of propulsion possibly nuclear, which is outside of our domestic knowledge.”

Note that Air Materials Command, by statements (1) and (3), is not even thinking in terms of a recovered ET vehicle, i.e., nothing about the observed technology is so exotic as to compel the ET explanation. Note also, however, the extraordinarily curious statement in item (2), which suggests either that
nothing
was recovered at Roswell – a conclusion this author rejects – or that AMC has not actually
seen
what was recovered, or that what was recovered was not actually a UFO. Statement (3) would tend to mitigate against the interpretation that AMC has not actually seen what was recovered in the formulation of this memo, since any number of propulsion mechanisms could have suggested themselves to AMC
in the absence of any actual craft to examine
. That is AMC could just as easily have proposed magnetic, electromagnetic, or other forms of field propulsion if its conclusions were only based on the
reports
of the flight performance characteristics of UFOs. Therefore, it is most plausible that AMC had actually seen the craft and based its summary on an actual analysis of its propulsion unit. In this context, statement (3) becomes much more significant, since the
only
other country with a known interest in nuclear means of aircraft propulsion at that time period was Nazi Germany.
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It is to be recalled that one specific area of research of the
Kammlerstab
was precisely in nuclear aircraft propulsion.