The Peenemuende Saucer Project
A report comes to us from Russian immigrant Paul Stonehill
concerning the experience of a Russian POW in Northern Germany.
The report was first published some time ago in UFO Magazine,
volume 10, number 2 in 1995, but this witness describes a story
so different from other German saucer reports that it is worth
emphasis at this point. The witness is unnamed but the source of
the original report is known to Paul Stonehill and he vouches for
its authenticity. The unnamed witness is called mister "X".
Mister X was taken prisoner by the Germans in the Ukraine in
1941, early in the German offensive. From there he was housed in
a concentration camp where he contracted typhus. X improved and
even managed to escape but was re-captured and taken to Auschwitz
concentration camp. There, he worked as a medical orderly before
a typhus relapse made this work impossible. X was scheduled for
a one-way trip to the crematorium but was saved from this fate by
a woman German medical doctor who cured him of the typhus. Not
only did she do this but, for some reason not made clear in the
article, she supplied him with false identity papers stating that
X was a mechanical engineer.
In August of 1943 X was moved to KZ (concentration camp) A4 at
Trassenhedel in the vicinity of Peenemuende to work on project
Hochdruckpumpe's removal from that area. Hochdruckpumpe, or high
pressure pump in English, was a long distance cannon with fired
in sequential states as the projectile moved by each charge and
along an very long barrel. From here X was reassigned to work at
Peenemuende itself.
In September of 1943, X and some other prisoners were engaged in
demolition of a reinforced cement wall. At lunch time the other
prisoners were driven away from this site but for some reason,
possibly a dislocated foot, X was left behind.
After the others had gone, four workers appeared from a hangar
and rolled out a strange looking craft onto the concrete landing
strip nearby. It was round, had a teardrop-shaped cockpit in the
center and was rolled out on small inflatable wheels, like an
"upside down wash basin". After a signal was given, this silvery
metal craft began making a hissing sound and took off, hovering
at an altitude of about five meters directly over the landing
strip. As it hovered, the device rocked ba