FLYING SAUCERS' THEORIES AND EXPERIMENTS

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: UFO SPECIAL COLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005516188
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2011
• Case Number: F-2010-00651
• Publication Date: May 27, 1954

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY rcEPORT NO. 00 -W-32357
INFORMATION 'ROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO. _-
COUNTRY Ron-Orbit
SUBJECT Military - Air
Scientific - Aeronautics
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PUBLISHED Newspapers
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PUBLISHED As Indicated
DATE
PUBLISHED ' 12 Dec 1953-12 Jan 1954
LANGUAGE Various
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INFORMATION
DATE DIST. A 7 may 195
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
In a recent issue of ,Forces Aeriennes Francaises, a monthly periodical
published by the Comite d'Etudes Aeronautiques Militaires (Study Cc=' e ma
Military Aeronautics), which is headed by General P. Pay, Chief of Staff of the
Air Force, an article develops the idea thet.supersonic interstellar ships
powered by cosmic energy are possible. The article was written by Lieutenant
Plantier of-the Ecole de 1'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 tje B'irut daily newspaper L' Orient. I
DESCRIBES SAUCES 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 be was present when, in 1945, the first piloted "fly-
ing saucer" took off and reached a speed of 1,300 miles per ho! xtl;in 3 min-
utes. The experiments resulted in three designs: one, designs-a by Xte the, was
a disk-shaped aircraft, 135 feet in diameter, which did not rota C; 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, o. .`a "flying saucer" pr^,-
ect [there] and nothing more was heard of Babermohl and his assistants. Sch-
reiver recently died in Bremen, where he bad been living. In Breslau, the Soviets
managed to capture one of the saucers built by Miethe, who escaped to France.
He W-Pportedly in the AS at present.
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FLYING DISK PATE?IED -- 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 Genos. The inven-
tion is patented as No 165 of Patent Register 125. The disk would cost in ex-
cess o!'566 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 Fee daily newspaper le Courrier du Maroc, in its 12 January 1954 issue,
stated that the disk will veigh 5 tons and-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 het engineflt The Stockholm daily newspaper Stock-
holms-Tidningen, on 12 January 195h, reported that Mattolin is in contact with
US authorities..]
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