and an American "Liberator" (17). Both saucers are surprisingly
identical in description. In the F.B.I. report this secret
project was set in the "Black Forest of Austria". The
Schwarzwald, the Black Forest, is in Southern Germany. Vesco
says that toward the end of the war the Germans dispersed their
remaining aircraft to improved air field hidden in thick pine
forests (18).
Vesco specifically mentions the Schwaebischerwald
BubesheimerwaId (19). Vesco goes on to say:
and
the
"It was from one of these improved fields that the first
Kugelblitz fighter took off on its fantastic flight" (20).
The general description of the airfield hidden in a forest does
seem to correspond with what Vesco described. Finally, the fuel
used on this saucer was unlike that of the Me-163 or any other
fuel known. Is this a variant of the exotic fuels Vesco says
were considered for German saucers? (21).
Is this report confirmation of Vesco? Is the informant in the
F.B.I. report describing a Kugelblitz? Is this fuzzy "xerox"
copy really a picture of the Kugelblitz? It is not proof
positive, but it is intriguing.
A request was made to the F.B.I. for a clear picture. The Bureau
responded on March 22, 2001 saying that the Miami Field Office
may have had a clearer picture but that the file was destroyed.
Here we have a real X-File, yet nobody saved the picture? Fox
Mulder, where are you when we need you most? The F.B.I. did
provide a somewhat clearer picture which is reproduced here.
Sometimes blind luck in needed when dealing with the government.
This has proven to be the case regarding a very special compass
developed by the Germans to use in their flying disc program.
Actually, there may have been more than one type of compass for
this purpose. The first inkling of this compass comes to us from
the writings of Wilhelm Landig wherein he describes a
"Himmelskompass" or heavenly compass (22). This device was
mounted upon a flying disc and could orient itself using the
position of the sun even in twilight or if the sun was below the
horizon. The method given for its operation is that sunlight
striking the earth is polarized and that this direction has a
stronger electromagnetic field which can be detected with
instruments (ibid). The magnetic fields emanating from the north
and south poles are a similar situation.
William Lyne discloses, pictures and describes a German compass
which he states was used on a German flying disc in his book
Pentagon Aliens, the first edition which circa 1990. He bought
the device as junk from a New Mexican junk dealer who got it on
an Air Force base after it had apparently slipped though a
security check.
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