The time of the sighting was in 1944, the place was Gut Alt
Golssen, approximately 30 miles east of Berlin. The informant,
whose name has been deleted, states that while he was a prisoner
of war working for the Germans, a flying object arose nearby from
behind an enclosure hidden from view by a 50 foot high tarpaulintype wall. It rose about 500 feet then moved away horizontally.
The only noise the object made was a high-pitched whine. The
object was described as being 75 to 100 feet in diameter and 14
feet high. It was composed of a dark grey stationary top and
bottom sections five to six feet high with a rapidly moving
center section producing only a blur and extending the
circumference of the vehicle. Notably, the engine of their farm
tractor stalled during this event and the SS guards told the
driver not to attempt a restart until the whine could no longer
be heard.
Because of what I believe is their importance, these files have
been reproduced here in their entirety. One of the most
compelling reasons for taking this report so seriously is that
the government of the United States of America took this report
so seriously. It is hard to believe that an agency such as the
F.B.I. would take and retain reports of flying saucers which had
no special meaning for them. Add to this the fact that this
report was over ten years old at the time it was taken and that
it concerns a report originating in another country.
The F.B.I. operates within the USA and usually does not concern
itself with foreign matters unless they have meaning for the
internal security of the United States. Could the reason that
this report was taken and retained for so many years be that it
did, in fact, have meaning for the internal security of the
United States? Did it have something to do with the flying
saucers seen over Texas at the time which also stopped motor
vehicles?
As an alternative to the security issues, could there have been
another reason that the F.B.I. was so interested in flying
saucers? Did the F.B.I. desperately want information on UFOs
which was held by the military and other branches of the
intelligence community which was not shared with the F.B.I.? It
has been rumored that J. Edgar Hoover, head of the F.B.I. at the
time, was very interested in learning these secrets but was held
"out of the loop". It could be that the F.B.I. was already aware
of German saucers through security clearances done on German
scientists coming to the USA under Operation Paperclip? The ego
of J. Edgar Hoover may have been a factor in the Bureau's guest
to learn more on this subject. Hoover may have wanted to be on
an equal footing with other intelligence chiefs.
For whatever reason, something in these reports resonated with
the F.B.I. The report was taken seriously, investigated and
kept. This fact alone speaks volumes for the existence of UFOs
in general and German saucers in particular.
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