may have been. At this point the government has achieved its
purpose which is to discredit and suppress all serious inquiry into
the UFO question.
Supposedly, UFO research has been left to large, well-financed
UFO 'research organizations". The largest of these is MUFON
(Mutual UFO Network). This organization "trains" people to report
sightings, then collects the data and organizes it using some sort of
multi-variant analysis into something meaningful. Over the years
MUFON has had the opportunity to collect and "organize"
thousands of sightings into something meaningful.
In reality, the information is organized into gibberish. After a
body of knowledge has been studied and organized, usually, certain
facts or at least generalizations can be gleaned form this kind of
work. In its fifty years of existence can anyone name one new
fundamental fact that MUFON has provided us? They have
provided us with nothing. Someone once said that MUFON is really
a black hole into which information is attracted and does not have
the power to escape on its own. We will return to MUFON and
explain this reasoning at a later point.
If we are to seek any real explanation of the UFO phenomenon,
we must make a clean break with the past. We must go back to the
basics of simplicity and logic. One basic question is this: could we
humans be capable of making the unidentified flying machines which
have been seen in abundance in the sky since the Second World
War? Until we answer that question in the negative, there is no
reason to postulate an alien origin for UFOs.
One purpose of this book is to give an individual new to this
subject an overview into the study of German flying discs. Never
fear, this is not a disjointed spook-hunt, chasing sightings and
abductions. There are real facts in this field. There are real people
with real names and histories and there are real saucer designs.
Another purpose is to give the reader references, upon which
statements in this book are based. Given these references, the
reader may then research the topics of particular interest in more
detail.
The research methodology is straightforward. We will listen to
what is claimed about German saucers by Germans of those times or
from other individuals who are in a position to know something
about this topic. We then attempt to verify it using an independent
historical source. Corroboration from other independent sources,
especially from witnesses, is also acceptable and important.
Photographs are important but nowadays pictures can be
manufactured on a computer. Well-documented pictures which