As stated earlier, both projects were under the same authority.
Experts and advisors included, according to Epp, among others,
head-designer Kalkert of the Gotha Waggonfabrik, head-designer
Guenther of Heinkel, engineer Wulf of Arado, engineer Otto Lange
of the RLM, and engineer Alexander Lippish of Messerschmitt.
Pilots were Holm, Irmler, Kaiser and Lange. The test pilot was
Rudolf Schriever.
There does exist two alleged still pictures of the Miethe craft
in flight. One is reproduced here. It may be the first design.
A picture claiming to be of what is called here the third design
can be found in W. Mattern's book, UFO's Unbekanntes Flugobiekt?
Letzte Geheimwaffe Des Dritten Reiches? (23). Efforts have been
made to acquire the picture for this book but the inquiry went
unanswered by the book's publisher.
Politically, in 1944, Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, replaced
Albert Speer's appointee, Georg Klein, with Dr. Hans Kammler as
overseer of this combined saucer project (24). This is a little
confusing, however, since Kammler retained Klein as his employee,
Perhaps a more practical way to look at this is that Kammler,
Himmler's employee, replaced Speer while Klein did what he always
did. The result was that the SS took direct and absolute control
over these projects from this point until the end of the war.
Prior to this happening, news of these designs or application
itself was made to the German Patent Office. All German wartime
patents were carried off as booty by the Allies. This amounted
to truckloads of information. Fortunately, Rudolf Lusar, an
engineer who worked in the German Patent Office during this time
period, wrote a book in the 1950s listing and describing some of
the more interesting patents and processes based upon his memory
of them (25). They are surprisingly detailed. Included is the
Schriever saucer design with detail. Also discussed is the
Miethe project.
The significance of these two teams can not be minimized in the
hi story of flying saucers or UFOs. Already in this brief
discussion, the evidence, taken as a whole, is overwhelming.
Please compare this to any and all extraterrestrial explanations
of flying saucers. Here we have Germans who claim to have
invented the idea of the flying saucer. We have Germans who
claim to have designed flying saucers. We have Germans who claim
to have built flying saucers. We have Germans who claim to have
flown flying saucers. We have Germans who claim to be witnesses
to flying saucers known beforehand to be of German construction.
We have German construction details. And finally, we have a man
who took pictures of a known German flying saucer in flight. The
facts speak for themselves. During the Second World War the
Germans built devices we would all call today "flying saucers".
No other UFO explanation can even approach this in terms of level
of proof.
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