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This Central Intelligence Agency information report, No. 00-W-23602, distributed 16 August 1952, translates a 29 March 1952 article by Fritz Sitte from the Austrian newspaper Die Presse. It describes two fiery disks seen over uranium mines in the Elisabethville district of the southern Belgian Congo, and a 15-minute fighter pursuit by Commander Pierre, who estimated the disks at 12 to 15 meters across and about 1,500 km/h. A conjectural sketch of saucer construction is appended.
“Northeast Air Command”1 page
The sketch below shows the construction principle of the "flying saucers." The captions are, in part, purely conjecture, based on reports by pilots who pursued the disks; in part, they were learned from secret research institutions. The central core contains the explosive (SP) and the installations for radar steerage (R). It has catapult knobs (KZ) and antennae (AN) as well as counterpressure housing (GD). Around this core, a rim rotates which has jets (D) on its upper and lower side, plus fuel chambers (DB). The roller bearing is shown by the letter L. The launching occurs at a sharp angle in the manner of a discus throw; the revolutions per minute of the rim probably amount to 22,000. The jets on the bottom of the rim serve to propel the disk vertically upwards; lateral steerage results from switching on and off various jet groups. [Appended sketch follows:7]
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