Documents / FOIA release
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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FLYING DISK PATENTED -- Naples, 11 Giornale, 12 Jan 54 According to a Genoa newspaper [not further identified], the patent office of the Genoa Chamber of Commerce has issued a patent for a flying disk to Scipione Mattolin, 38, a Venetian naval fitter residing in Genoa. The invention is patented as No 165 of Patent Register 125. The disk would cost in excess of 500 million lire; it could attain a speed of 3,000 kilometers per hour. Mattolin has offered his invention to Italy, but it has been turned down; he intends to emigrate and offer it elsewhere. The Fes daily newspaper Le Courrier du Maroc, in its 12 January 1954 issue, stated that the disk will weigh 5 tons and will take off from a tower 18 meters high. It will consist of a disk-shaped plastic wing, an aluminum central sphere, and a cockpit containing two jet engines. The Stockholm daily newspaper Stockholms-Tidningen, on 12 January 1954, reported that Mattolin is in contact with US authorities.] LIBRARY SUBJECT AREA CODES END
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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.