"no record" response was uniformly generated by all facets of
government.
A German researcher, Friedrich Georg, recognized a valuable entry
in a microfilm roll, titled a 1944 U.S. Strategic Air Forces In
Europe summary titled An Evaluation Of German Capabilities In
194 5 , which, somehow, had eluded the censors (5). In that
summary report German devices called by American Intelligence
"Phoo Bombs" are discussed. Sources for this summary were
reports of pilots and testimony of prisoners of war. Phoo bombs
were described as "radio-controlled, jet-propelled, still-nosed,
short-range, high performance ramming weapons for use against
bombing formations". Speed was estimated at 525 miles per hour.
Further demands were made using FOIA as to the raw data used to
compile the summary evaluation. Of course, denials followed, but
finally, after an Appeal, the government indicated that more
information did exist concerning Phoo Bombs. Most of this was a
repeat or re-statement of the summary document. One document was
hand-written and may have served as the basic text of the report.
It seems the U.S. Air Force was never aware of a threat to
aircraft engines coming from over ionization of the air around
these devices. Likewise, the claim by Vesco that they possessed
klyston tubes which pulsed at the same freguency of Allied radar
and so jammed radar on board was not recognized. Vesco cites
the aircraft radio research institute at Oberpfaffenhofen
(F.F.O.) as having invented such devices (6).
The Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee report on this
facility. Report 156, states that work there involved several
types of klystron tubes and that one of this facilities principal
functions was inventing technology to jam Allied radar,
unfortunately all the secret material held at this facility was
burned in the face of the advancing Allies. Individual
scientists later produces some copies of documents which
represent what the Allied intelligence strike teams took away.
Exactly how complete this sample was we will never know (7).
Other very exotic research did go on at the F.F.O. installation
which might be mentioned. They not only did work on klystron
tubes but on magnetrons also. They did work on generation of
millimeter range radio wave through the use of crystal
vibrations. They also experimented with silicon and germanium
"crystals" (8). These two substances figure prominently in the
making of what we call today semiconductors which form the basis
of the transistor. Invention of the transistor is credited to
William Shockley, for which he won the Nobel Prize, about two
years after the Second World War.
This bit of research explodes an argument made by the late Col.
Philip j. Corso in his book The Day After Roswell that
transistors were, at least in part, based upon alien technology
(9). The only guestions which remain are: exactly how far the
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