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This Central Intelligence Agency information report, distributed 31 July 1950 and marked unevaluated, forwards a translated article by Dr. Eduard Ludwig of Santiago, Chile, written for the German-language magazine Condor. Ludwig worked at the Junkers research plant in Dessau. He argues that the flying discs could be aircraft built on German research into boundary-layer aerodynamics, driven by gas turbines and fitted with Flettner rotors. He suggests that this technology may have fallen into Russian hands.
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COUNTRY Chile/Germany DATE DISTR. 31 July 1950 SUBJECT German Scientist's Article on "Flying Discs" NO. OF PAGES 1 PLACE ACQUIRED Return to CIN Library NO. OF ENCLS. 1 (LISTED BELOW) DATE OF INFO. Frior to nid=1950 SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT NO. * Documentary THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION Attached for your information is a copy, in translation, of an article submitted by Dr. Eduard Ludvig for publication in Condor, a German language magazine published in Chile. The article is entitled "The Mystery of the 'Flying Discs,' a contribution to its possible explanation". The significant conclusion drawn by the scientist in this report is that the old handicap of " boundary layer " is a morning object or
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 8 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.