Meerscheidt-Huellessem wanted a large sum of money as down
payment, a monthly salary and Canadian citizenship and police
protection in exchange. Support for this claim comes in the form
of copies of Canadian government documents describing this offer.
Mr. Campagna states in the article that the Canadian government
ultimately declined the offer but that the American government
may have taken over negotiations and accepted.
Contact was made by this researcher with a daughter of Count
Rudolf von Meerscheidt-Huellessem's who verified that her father
was a technical liaison officer. She had little contact with her
father since she was two years old since he had remarried and
moved to Canada. She was able, however, to provide the address
of another relative, Countess von Huellessem, who was Count
Rudolf von Meerscheidt-Huellessem's widow.
Contact was made with Countess von Huellessem.
Count von
Meerscheidt-Huellessem died in 1988. But the Countess did know a
little something about the story in question. Her late husband
did discuss the flying saucer with her but only once. He told
her that the "drawings" had been given to a representative of the
Canadian government in 1952. After review of the drawings, the
on l y comment from the representative was that they were
"outdated". The drawings were never returned. The Canadians had
succeeded in obtaining hard information concerning a real flying
saucer and in paying for it with an insult.
Count von
Meerscheidt-Huellessem was somewhat despondent over the
rejection. He never mentioned the subject to his wife again. At
the time they were both making new lives for themselves in Canada
and the subject never resurfaced.
In discussing these events with the Countess over the telephone,
she told me that she herself had seen these drawings. She was
asked if these were drawings or technical plans. She said they
were technical drawings on rolls of paper. I said the word
"blueprint" and she said "yes". She stated again that these
drawings were given only to the Canadians and not to the
Americans.
Countess von Huellessem was sent a copy of the aforementioned
article. Her only comment was that her husband would not have
asked for a large sum of money in exchange for this information.
They already had means. He might have asked for a position, she
said, since her husband would have enjoyed working on this
project.
Returning to the Avro Aircraft, Limited - U. S. Air Force saucer
project, we have to ask ourselves some questions. First, was
this information, these plans, the real basis of the Avro saucer
project? This would certainly explain the reason for the
partnership between the two governments involved since the
Americans would have needed the Canadians at that point and the
Canadians would have insisted upon control of the project on
their home soil.
Second, did the technology brought to the
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