PREFACE
This book is a guide into the world of German flying discs. You
may have picked up this guide because you are unfamiliar with the
German production of flying saucers during World War Two. The
basics of this production will be revealed to you in the following
pages. An adventure awaits you.
On the other hand, you may be looking for nothing more than a
rational explanation of the UFO phenomenon. The UFO
phenomenon involves sightings of unidentified flying objects. This
means that any unidentified flying object is a UFO, regardless of its
alleged source. Because the object is unidentified, the object's source
is also undetermined. Only a leap of faith can connect UFOs to an
extraterrestrial course without first introducing proof. A radical
hypothesis such as an extraterrestrial origin of UFOs requires
overwhelming proof in order to be generally accepted. No such
overwhelming extraterrestrial proof has ever been offered which
has stood up to scrutiny. No crashed alien craft have ever been
produced by anyone, inside or outside government. Likewise, no
alien bodies have ever been found. No extraterrestrial culture, or
alien technology has ever been uncovered by anyone. There is
simply no actual evidence at all linking UFOs with an extraterrestrial
source. Therefore, no such leap of faith should be made. We need to
start all over again. All rational earthly explanations need to be
exhausted before any extraterrestrial theories are even put forth.
Unfortunately, the simple truth is that, for the most part, UFO
research has done a leap-frog to the extraterrestrial explanation
without ever adequately exploring and exhausting a terrestrial
origin. This statement is inclusive of everyone regardless of
background or education. It applies to the charlatan UFO attentiongetters as well as to former NASA scientists with Ph.D.s. This is the
condition of our current state of affairs in the UFO world.
Let me expound on this. For over fifty years, the UFO research
paradigm has been fundamentally wrong. A proper attempt to
explain the UFO phenomenon would involve a gathering or the
evidence and then explanation by proceeding from simple solutions
involving known facts and conditions and totally exhausting these
as possibilities before postulating explanations, conditions, or entities
not represented by fact. Only after known facts fail us can we move
on to postulate explanations beyond our realm of experience.