this within a working association with the SS atomic research
team mentioned above (37). This SS connection runs back to Prag,
the Skoda Works and the Kammler Group who held knowledge and
control of every truly innovative weapons system being developed
by the Third Reich including those at Peenemuende. As we know,
this included the development of flying discs. The association
of the facilities in and around Prag, the Kammler Group, atomic
energy and German flying discs has been made by other researchers
using other evidence (38). This connection seems very strong.
The Germans were planning an nuclear powered flying saucer just
as they were planning a nuclear powered submarine. The proof for
both of these claims is the fact that the Americans discovered
such plans, further developed them with captured German
scientists, and built them in America after the war. We already
know about the nuclear submarine and proof of American plans to
build a nuclear flying saucer based upon German ideas has just
been reveled.
Jim Wilson, writing in the November, 2000 edition of Popular
Mechanics discloses something of major importance. Wilson tells
of the days following the collapse of the 3rd Reich and a rumor
which had begun circulating in Allied military intelligence
circles. Interrogations of captured German aircraft engineers
pointed to the development of a super-fast German rocket fighter
at a secret base in Bavaria (the reader will recall the research
aircraft 8-346 and P-073 mentioned earlier). This aircraft,
according to Wilson's article, featured odd looking curved wings
which blended into the fuselage.
Documents obtained by Wilson point to an American secret saucer
project, separate and parallel to Project Silver Bug, of German
inspiration and involving captured German personnel. This
project, called the Lenticular Reentry Vehicle (LRV), was a
flying saucer designed to carry four nuclear tipped missiles into
earth orbit for a mission duration of six weeks at a time. The
saucer had a four man crew, was forty feet in diameter and was
powered by a combination of chemical rocket engines and nuclear
power (39).
The chemical engines were the hypergolic rocket engines of the
same type as employed by the Germans during the war in the Me-162
rocket interceptor and referred to earlier.
Besides the chemical rocket engine, two atomic engines were
employed as atomic rockets. In this type of engine a liquid gas
(perhaps liquid air as described above) which is very cold, is
passed through the atomic reactor or passed through a radiator of
molten metal heated by the reactor. The liquid gas turns to
vapor instantly and is accelerated out the rear of the rocket at
a greater velocity than can be obtained by burning two liquid
gases, for instance, hydrogen and oxygen. Although a shielded
nuclear reactor is certainly heavier than an air-cooled aeroengine, there might an overall weight savings as compared to a
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