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The Timeline of the German saucers
This is the first comprehensive timeline of all major events related to the birth and development of the legend of the German saucers (1945-1954).
The timeline has been prepared by Maurizio Verga and presented at the third meeting of UFO Historiography (Turin March 5, 2016).
See a full-screen version of the Timeline of the Legend of the German Saucers.
Last update: march 2016
The timeline and its contents are protected by copyright. It can be used only by quoting the site source and its link, as well as “Maurizio Verga” as the author.
Giuseppe Belluzzo, the Italian engineer
An Italian turbine engineer claims that “flying saucers” were Italian blueprints, later passed to Germans.
The Schriever Story
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The first would-be inventor of a Nazi “flying saucer”. More than Belluzzo, he launched the concept of man-made UFOs by the Nazis. Like Beluzzo he died a few years after his claims and the mistery begins.
The German magazine “Heim und Welt” of April 2, 1950 (just very few days after the original Schriever interview) portraied the “flying saucer” take off, flight and landing by these three artworks. |
This is close-up of one of the “Heim und Welt” artworks, later reprinted also by the French magazine “Tout Savoir” (November 1954). |
In 1982, David Master’s “German Jet Genesis” published by the prestigious Jane’s military publisher introduced this sketch to illustrate the alleged Schriever’s flying saucer. It is very likely Masters based his information on Lusar’s book about German secret weapons of WWII, who also had a short yet provoking chapter about German “flying saucers”. Lusar’s source was likely to be early ’50s newsclippings. Master’s book illustrator got a quite free interpretation of the original Schriever description: this is a nearly classic “flying saucers”, much more next to the descriptions of UFO witnesses than to the details published in 1950. |
Another sketch of the Schriever disc, from “Das Ufer” #18 of September 1952, introducing “flying saucers” as a possible secret German weapon developed during World War II. |
The Schriever story (as well as the othesr coming from later would-be inventors) and the concept behind it were really fascinating and well fitting the regular publications of news about more and more dreadful German secret weapons featured by the press since the end of WWII. Throughout the years the designers of many magazines tried to portrait the mythical Schriever “flukreisel”, most of them taking the original “Der Spiegel” artwork as a reference. Here there are two additional views of such fantastic yet unlikely aircraft. |