landed normally and rolled toward a group of bushes which would
hide the aircraft from view.
Then things took a decided turn to the abnormal. Harsh orders
were received that the pilot, co-pilot and mechanic were not to
exit the airplane. Suddenly, the radio man had vanished. The
others waited an hour in vain for his return. Finally, the pilot
decided to get out of the airplane and find his missing crewman,
without orders, and on his own.
On the airfield itself nobody was to be seen. There was only one
building visible which was a lonely hanger. The pilot, ever
concerned with maintaining cover, headed straight for this
hanger. Upon arrival he opened an narrow, high sliding door and
entered, hoping to receive some information. No person was to be
seen but what the pilot did see bewildered him so that the image
was deeply ingrained in his mind.
There in the hanger stood three or four very large, round, dark
dish shaped metal constructions on telescope-like leg stands.
The objects were about 6 meters off the ground and the objects
themselves were 12 to 15 meters in diameter. The pilot compared
the shape of the objects to a giant soup dish or soup plate.
Suddenly, out of the half darkness a military guard emerged.
guard let the pilot know that he was in an area which
strictly off limits. In fact, the pilot was told, on
uncertain terms, to disappear immediately or this would be
last day on earth.
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This day had started as a routine flight connecting two outlying
airfields. This pilot had no expectations of seeing something so
unusual that he barley had context in which to place it.
Further, even as his mind was transfixed and in a process of
trying to give understanding to what he was seeing, he was
suddenly. jolted out of this tableau by a guard threatening his
very life and ordering him to leave.
Of course the question of what those objects in the hanger really
were comes back to this pilot even after almost 55 years. The
pilot personally attributes it to the so called "Magnetscheibe",
literally, "magnet-disk". According to the pilot rumors of these
objects circulated in pilot circles since the summer of 1944 (4).
Two things can definitely be said of this sighting. First, it
can be said is that this sighting seems to be of the smaller type
of German field propulsion saucer as opposed to a larger version.
Second, these saucers can definitely be ascribed to belonging to
and in the possession of German military forces during the Second
World War. At no time in this report has the word "alien" or
"extraterrestrial" ever been mentioned or even considered.
Beyond that it can be said that the pilot personally believed
these to be of the "Magnetscheibe" type, that is to say not
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