Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency item, dated 5 July 1952 and approved for release in March 1978, relays a press item from Bonn about an article by Dr. Waldemar Beck in the German magazine Der Flieger. The article claims a crewless flying saucer 47 meters in diameter crashed on Spitsbergen and was studied by Norwegian and German rocket experts. It reports a plutonium-cored radio piloting transmitter, an unknown steel alloy, 46 jets and Russian inscriptions on the instruments.
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carried the following items: Bonn. Writing in the German magazine "Der Flieger", Dr. Waldermar Beck says that a flying saucer which recently fell at Spitsbergen has been studied by eminent Norwegian and German rocket experts. He writes that Dr. Norsel, a Norwegian expert in rocket construction went to the place where the flying saucer had fallen a few hours after it had been discovered in the mountains of Spitsbergen by Norwegian jet planes. In the wreck of the apparatus the expert is said to have discovered a radio piloting transmitter with a nucleus of plutonium transmitting on all wave lengths with 934 hertz, a measure that has been unknown so far. The investigation has also shown that the flying saucer crashed because of a defect in its radio piloting system. The saucer which carried no crew has a diameter of 47 meters. The steel used in the construction is an unknown alloy. It consists of an exterior disc provided at its peripheral with 46 automatic jets. This disc pivots around the central sphere which contains the measurement and remote control equipment. The measurement instructions have an inscription in Russian. 8 Aug . 7 B.I.S. items not used for Director's log.
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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. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.