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Federal Bureau of Investigation · 1957-11-07 · 15 pages · text from the file's own layer

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From the source: Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: 11/7/57, Germany. Released with redactions. An FBI report from 1957 detailing the interview with Wladyslaw Krasuski, who recounted seeing a large, circular, vertically-rising vehicle in 1944 Germany near a German military compound.

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A:A "8·S• rd appear•• ancl talked brietl7 with the German
dr1nr the, tractor, who waited five to t•n al.nut•••
at'ter which the noi•• ateppe4 alld. the tractor• ne waa
.._.... noraally. Approxillate J hours later 1n the ....
••••• ar•• • bu,t away trGIII the road where th• work crew wae
cutt " • he aUJTeptitioualy • beeauae ot th• German,
1a charge ot th• crew and "SS• .u~1rc 1D. the otherwiae d.esert,ecl
area, observed a oircular eneloeure approximately 100 ~o
l YU"aa in diu.eter protected trom Yiewera bf a tar ul.in
type wall approxima•ely SO reat high! from which a Ye icl•
•••· •••n•d to a lowly r1e• Yert1oal y to a height au.fficient
\o olear the wall and then to move slowly horisontally a
abort d1atanee out of bi• view, which waa obstructed by
nearby tr••••
Thia Tebicle, observed from approx1aa\•l7
SOO feet, was <.iesor1bed as circular 1n ahape, 75 to 100
rartla in diameter, an4 about ll+ feet hi conaieting ot
dark gray stationar7 top and bottom aeotiona, fiYe to six
feet hi I The approxiaate three toot middle section a ea.red
to be a rapidly •oving component produo • a continuoua lur
similar to a.n aerop,1,1m,e propeller, but enending the cir•
cwn.terance ot the Yehiole ao far ae could be obaerTed. The
noise eaanating from the Yehiole waa similar but ot somewhat
lower pitch than the ao1•• previously beard. Th• en ine ot
the tractor acain atall•4 on this occasion a11d no e ort
waa rude by ttbe German dr1Ter to start the engine until the
no1•• stopped, after which the en ne atartecl nor11ally.
Uaiulalat.ed ••tal, possibly copper,
cable• one and one-half.inch to two inch•• in diameter, on
and under th• aurtace or the ground. in eome places coYered
by water, were obaerve4 on this and preTious occasion.a,
apparentl7 runn bet.ween the •nclosur• and a aaall
concrete colwan-1 e struoture between the road and enclosure.
Tb.1a area waa not visited lraaueki
again until shortly after the end ot World War ), when it
wa• observed the Ill-lea bad been removed and the previous
locations of the concrete structure and the enclosure were
covered by wa~•r• lraau•k1 stated he haa not been in .
c011111unication s1.nce 1945 with any of the work crew of 16
or 18 ••n• ecmaiet of iu•aian, i'rench and Polish POWa,
who had diacuseed th.ia 1ncide11t. uong theaselvea many ti••••
Howenr, o.f! th•••• lruu8ki waa able to recall by naae
only Franoiaaek Grabowakl 1 no addrees known, described a•
tben about SO r•ara of age and presumed by Krasuski to have
returned to Po and alter 194S.
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