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This Central Intelligence Agency report, distributed 27 May 1954, collects unevaluated foreign press items published between December 1953 and January 1954 about "flying saucer" theories and experiments. It summarizes a French Air Force periodical article arguing that interstellar ships powered by cosmic energy are possible. It also relays engineer George Klein's account of German saucer construction from 1941 to 1945, including designs by Miethe, Habermohl and Schreiver. Finally, it reports that a Genoa patent office granted Scipione Mattolin a patent for a flying disk.
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# CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPO INFORMATION FROM FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO COUNTRY Non-Orbit DATE OF INFORMATION 1953-1954 SUBJECT Military - Air Scientific - Aeronautics HCW PUBLISHED Newspapers DATE DIST. 27 May 1954 WHERE PUBLISHED As indicated NO. OF PAGES 2 DATE PUBLISHED 12 Dec 1953-12 Jan 1954 LANGUAGE Various SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT NO. THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION SOURCE As indicated # "FLYING SAUCER" THEORIES AND EXPERIMENTS DISCUSSES "FLYING SAUCERS" -- Daker, Paris-Dakar, 12 Dec 53 In a recent issue of Forces Aeriennes Francaises, a monthly periodical published by the Comite d'Etudes Aeronautiques Militaires (Study Committee on Military Aeronautics), which is headed by General P. Fay, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, an article develops the idea that supersonic interstellar ships powered by cosmic energy are possible. The article was written by Lieutenant Plantier of the Ecole de l'Air de Salon (Salon Aeronautical School). [Paris-Dakar describes the article in some detail and suggests that its acceptance by the periodical indicates that the French Air Force admits the existence of "flying saucers." The same article received coverage in the 26 November 1953 issue of the Beirut daily newspaper L'Orient.] ## DESCRIBES SAUCER EXPERIMENTS -- Capetown, Die Landstem, 9 Jan 54 A German newspaper [not further identified] recently published an interview with George Klein, famous German engineer and aircraft expert, describing the experimental construction of "flying saucers" carried out by him from 1941 to 1945. Klein stated that he was present when, in 1945, the first piloted "flying saucer" took off and reached a speed of 1,300 miles per hour within 3 minutes. The experiments resulted in three designs: one, designed by Miethe, was a disk-shaped aircraft, 135 feet in diameter, which did not rotate; another, designed by Habermohl and Schreiver, consisted of a large rotating ring, in the center of which was a round, stationary cabin for the crew. When the Soviets occupied Prague, the Germans destroyed every trace of the "flying saucer" project [there] and nothing more was heard of Habermohl and his assistants. Schreiver recently died in Bremen, where he had been living. In Breslau, the Soviets managed to capture one of the saucers built by Miethe, who escaped to France.
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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. 4 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.