The Miethe-Belluzzo Project
This saucer project may have been an outgrowth of flying wing
research. It was begun in 1942, and was under the on-site
nuthority of Dr. Richard Miethe, sometimes called Dr. Heinrich
Richard Miethe. Not much is known about Dr. Miethe before the
war. After the war Dr. Miethe is rumored to have worked on the
Anglo-American saucer project at the firm of Avro Aircraft
Limited of Canada. Such is stated Klein (1)/ Epp (2), Barton
(3), Lusar (4), as well as a myriad of other sources. We will
return to the Avro projects later.
Working with Dr. Miethe was an Italian engineer, Professor
Guiseppe Belluzzo. Belluzzo was the Deputy, Senator and Minister
of National Economy under Mussolini. He had written several
books on technical matters including Steam Turbines in 1926 and
calculations and Installations of Modern Turbine Hydrolics in
1922 (names are English translations of Italian titles).
Belluzzo was considered to be an expert in steam turbines. Dr.
Belluzzo was not a junior scientist and he was not Dr. Miethe's
assistant. He was a senior scientist whose expertise was somehow
invaluable on the saucer devices or planned further developments
of them.
After the war Belluzzo seems to have led a quiet life in Italy
until his death on 5/22/52. Unlike Miethe, however, Belluzzo
went on record about German flying discs after the war. He is
quoted on the subject in The Mirror, a major Los Angeles
newspaper in 1950. This may be the first mention of the subject
in the American press. In his obituary in the New York Times his
work on the German saucer program is mentioned. (Please refer to
copies of these articles).
This team worked in facilities in, Dresden, Breslau and
Letow/Prag according to Epp (5). Both this project and the
Schriever and Habermohl projects were directed by the same
experts and advisors (6). From Epp's discussion, it is clear
that Dr. Walter Dornberger first evaluated and recommended his
saucer model for further development (7). Miethe is described by
Epp in translation as a "known V-weapons designer"(8). The
association of both projects to Peenemuende is clear. Both were
sanctioned and set up by officials there, probably by Dr. Walter
Dornberger himself. Miethe and Belluzzo worked primarily in
Dresden and Breslau but for a brief time they may have actually
joined forces with Schriever and Habermohl in Prag, as evidenced
by Klein's statement that three saucer models were destroyed on
the Prag tarmac (9). One saucer, which Klein he describes as
Miethe's was among these. Klein acknowledges that Peenemuende,
and its nearby test facility at Stettin, retained and developed
the Miethe design as an unmanned vehicle (10)(11).
Epp tells us that the Miethe-Belluzzo project was organized under
exactly the same authority as the Schriever-Habermohl project and
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