Second press source about Nazi UFOs
In May 1949 a few US newspapers published (The Washington Daily News May 14; The Akron Beacon Journal May 15) a short story the Air Force believing the flying saucers being real and the product of a new technology based on the “gyroscopic principle” developed by some Nazi scientists fled to Spain.
This looks like the second story about possible German-made saucers published by the press, after the curious story introduced by Lionel Shapiro in November 1947 on several US newspapers.
The Akron Beacon Journal May 15, 1949
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