CHAPTER SEVEN
Disposition of German Saucer Technology After the War
The question arises as to what ever became of the saucer designs
and saucer designers referred to in this discussion? For some
there are easy answers. For others, there whereabouts after the
war is more clouded.
Dr. Richard Miethe, for instance, has been rumored to have gone
to work in Canada on the joint Canadian-U.S. Air Force saucer
project. Dr. Miethe is not the only German scientist very
willing to start construction on a post-war flying disc. All the
scientists involved, with the exception of Rudolf Schriever, seem
to have been eager to begin at once.
Heinreich Fleissner, who claimed to have been a technical advisor
on a German flying disc project at Peenemuende, filed an American
patent for a flying disc on March 28, 1955. This was patent
number 2,939,648 which can be obtained from the United States
Department of Commerce, U.S. Patent Office for a small fee. The
patent was not granted until June 7, 1960, a delay of over five
years. One can not help but wonder if the delay Fleissner
experienced had anything to do with the work going on at the same
time at the A.V. Roe, Limited organization or the black project
to develop the Lenticular Reentry Vehicle or even on some black
project which is still undisclosed.
Another German saucer designer eager to get things rolling after
the war was Georg Klein. When asked about future plans in the
Tages-Anzeiger fuer Stadt und Kanton Zuerich on September 18,
1954, Klein replied that he had already demonstrated a flying
saucer model utilizing electric propulsion.
But probably the most anxious to begin work, no matter the
obstacles, was Joseph Andreas Epp. This is said because
according to government files, which were first located by
researcher Mark Kneipp, Epp went so far as to enlist in the
Soviet flying saucer project which began immediately after the
war in East Germany using former German scientists (1).
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