FBI file 62-HQ-83894, section 10

•UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
In Reply , Please Refer to
FileNo. 62-0-11328 Miami, Florida
June 8, 1967
RE: PAUL .~RL
INFOR~i~i CONCERNING
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On April 26, 1967, PAUL L. PEYERL, _1430 Sautbwest
76th Street, Miami , Florida, appeared at the Miami Office and
furnished the following information relating to an object,
presently referred to as an unidentified flying object, he
allegedly photographed during November , 1944:
Sometime during 1943, he graduated from the
German Air Academy and was assigned as a member of the
Luftwaffe on the Russian Front . Near the end of 1944, he
was released from this duty and was assigned as a test
pilot to a top secret project in the Black Forest of Austria .
During this period he observed the aircraft described above .
It was saucer shaped, about twenty-one feet in diameter,
radio controlled, and mounted several jet engines around the
exterior portion of the craft . He further described the
exterior portion as revolving around the dome in the center
which remained stationary. It was PEYERL ' s r esponsibility
to photograph the object while in flight . He asserted he
was able to retain a negative of a photograph he made at 7,000
meters (20,000 feet). A Xerox copy of the negative, as furnished
by PEYERL, appears on the last page of this communication.
Also , a still photograph he allegedly made "at the risk of my
life", illustrating the object parked in a hanger, appears on
the last page .
According to PEYERL, the ab~e aircraft was designed
and engineered by (First Name Unknown) KUEHR, a German engineer
whose present whereabouts is unknown him . He assumed KUEHR
was taken into custody by Allied Fores upon the termination
of hostilities . PEYERL stated KUEHR unsuccessfully attempted
to avoid the German draft, but was apprehended by the Gestapo