described by Vesco. The second gas is designed to cause engine
seizure through the breakdown of the viscosity of the engine's
lubricating oil. This is another vindication of Vesco.
Therefore, when Vesco states that this very weapon was
successfully used against Allied aircraft in a second-generation
saucer, the Kugelblitz, perhaps he should be taken seriously
(11).
Finally, this document describes something the Americans call the
"Magnetic Wave" but which the Germans always described as
"Motorstoppmittel", meaning literally, "means to stop motors".
Motorstoppmittel and other German death rays were also the
subject of repeated FOIA requests which were all denied. It was
only with the code-word "Magnetic Wave" that the dam of
information was finally broken concerning this device and other
German ray-weapons. Not only did the Germans use ionization of
the atmosphere to halt ignition based engines but they also
experimented with x-ray weapons and an even more exotic method,
possibly involving use of the laser (12).
Vesco places construction of the foo fighter at the Austrian site
of Wiener-Neustadt (13). Indeed, the testimony supplied by
Kadmon does indicate an Austrian home for the foo fighter. The
most likely site for foo fighter development was the Rax Works.
The Rax Works were an outgrowth of the combinations and growth of
several firms, the Wiener-Neustaedter Flugzeugwerke GmbH, the
Flugzeugbau
der
Hitenberger
Patronenfabrik,
the
Flughafenbetriebsgesellschaft Wiener-Neustadt
and the Wiener Neustaedter Lokomotiv-Fabrik which was acquired by
Henschel after the unification of Austria and Germany (14).
All the sources cited place foo fighter production in Austria.
It is often repeated that this was a purely SS project, built at
Wiener-Neustadt, with the help of the F.F.O. It is possible that
these craft had an independent origin, outside the scope and
sphere of Peenemuende. At about this same time, early 1943,
Professor Alexander Lippisch broke away from Messerschmitt to
head the Vienna based Luftfahrtforschungsanstalt-Wien (LFW).
This was a first-class facility and Professor Lippisch is a
figure central to the understanding of German flying discs.
Vesco links the foo fighter, his "Feuerball" with a furtherdeveloped manned saucer, the "Kugelblitz". It is possible that
both these craft had an independent origin, that is outside the
purview of officials at Peenemuende under the direction of Dr.
Lippisch at the LFW. In this case their link to Peenemuende
would have become stronger as the war progressed and on a higher
order, that of the SS through Dr. Hans Kammler and the Kammler
Group based near Prag. It is also possible that the research
and controlling authority of the German disc program moved from
Peenemuende to Wiener-Neustadt as researcher Klaus-Peter
Rothkugel suggests.
Questions arise with the acknowledgement of "Phoo Bombs" by the
government. The first is what is the agenda of those seeking to
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