Ever really wonder why the US government and others won't fully disclose about UFOs and we all have seen footage or heard stories of encounters with them. While the Pentagon and other government agencies, around the world, know very well who is behind these UFO phenomena, there isn't really much they can do about them.
A famous of these interwar period saucer shaped aircraft designs, has to be credited to Lee Richard. In 1922 this English man invented a circular wing aircraft, known as an Annular Wing. The vehicle had a standard fuselage, but the wing was hoop shaped. It had a top speed of 130 kilometers per hour, and a top taxi speed of 35 kilometers per hour. There is even a scale model if it at a science museum in London.
One of these lesser-known figures, predating was Wright brothers initials flight was August Wilhelm, who was known for making his own concept of flight with saucer shaped vehicles. Zachariae was a mathematician and early aviation theorist, who wrote many scientific papers on using circular wings to provide lift. Unfortunately, none of his theories or hypothesis were ever pursued.
This has to be the most perplexing part of this whole UFO Phenomenon. Many people who are fans of UFO culture, especially the Germanic side, have heard of the name “Maria Orsic” and don’t really know much about her. While things that are known about Maria Orsic are mostly fabrications, written and planned by a guy named Rudolf von Sebottendorf.
Sebottendorf was a Turkish Free Mason and a founder of the Thule Society. Originally before his involvement in Thule Society he tried starting his own occult group in Germany, however this failed. He found his way into the Germanenorden movement, which was a German version of an occult. Interestingly enough, the Germanenorden movement originally didn’t know about his evil ways. The leader of Germanenorden, Theodor Fritsch, one of the leaders of Germanenorden at the time, offered Sebottendorf, a position in the Munich branch of the Germanenorden in during WW1. However, during the war Anton Drexler took it upon himself to organize the Thule society instead, so the organization would act more as an auxiliary support system, for other projects in Bavaria. These included programs to help veterans from the First World War, all the way to helping individuals start public speaking and political careers. Sebottendorf also was the owner of a newspaper called the Völkischer Beobachter, which was purchased from Sebottendorf by Hitler in 1921. Shortly after the sale of the newspaper, Sebootendorf left German for Turkey soon after it was found out he was a spy, which resulted in information from the Thule Society being leaked to the German government, which lead to seven of its members being arrested and executed, for a supposes attack against the Munich government. Sebottendorf later tried to return to Germany in 1933, when Hitler came to power. This was in a futile effort to regain control of the Thule society, which only resulted in him being turned away, from the newly changed country.
The reason all of this is important to know, is because this guys, who is a known fraud, is also the one who has released the most information about the Vril Society, which still gets shared regularly online.
The most blatant deception we see of Maria Orics is in images of herself. Most people share these pictures of a women with pretty sapphire eyes and golden blonde hair, who they think is Maria Orsic, however these pictures that are shared of “Maria,” are actually pictures of another women, named Veronica Lake. Most of the headshots we see are from an old shampoo advertisement. Another big discrepancy with the story of the Vril Society is the influence of a book tied to its creation, called “Vril- The Coming Race” by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It is a fantasy about an underground civilization, and it has no ties to anything UFO or Nazis. I’m not saying a book didn’t have an influence on Maria Orsic, but I doubt it was this extent or any at all. There are however books with similar names of authors and titles, that are more likely to of had some influence in this quasi organization. “The Passing of the Great Race” by Madison Grant or “The History of The Flying Discs: A Contribution to its Possible Explanation” written in 1915 by Dr. Eduard Ludwig, are just some examples. Both of these books are more relatable to UFO phenomenon rather than Edward Bulwer-Lytton works.
“The Passing of the Great Race” by Madison Grant covers many aspects which inspired multiple ideas pushed by the Nazi: mainly that the white race was superior, and we we’re slowly being killed off. It is believed Hitler was very fond of this book, to the point of pushing him to be more protective of blonde hair, blue eyed people, even though Hitler himself had brunette hair. This idea is what inspire Lebensraum which pushed the Nazis to attack their Slavic neighbors in Poland and Russia. UFOs have been seen before, but it was very rare. In Chile, on the opposite side of earth “The History of The Flying Discs: A Contribution to its Possible Explanation” was written. It doesn’t seem unlikely that this book made its way to Germany which inspired them to try building their own version of these same craft, which they eventually did.
Many people who are interested in Nazis UFO, will be surprised, that the first “Nazi” flying saucer program, started as early as 1919. During this time there was much Chaos in Germany after World War Two, with the German revolution raging shortly after the World War. Munich and Bavaria were no exception. Especially in the early Thule Society, where members were regularly hunted down. This led the Thule Society having to leave the city of Munich and move their operation to more secure locations. With civil battles happening as a regular occurrence in Munich, it was decided to move the Thule Society away from the populated area where these fights were happening, in December of 1919.
When they regrouped in a quieter region of the country, their first goal was to find new ways of saving their people through the use of new technologies, like Germany did with rocketry. It doesn’t seem unlikely that German women would be helpful in creating these new technologies, especially since earlier on in 1888 a German woman named Bertha Benz helped inspire her husband Carl Benz with another groundbreaking technology of the time, the internal combustion engine. After seeing how this invention of an internal combustion engine helped revolutionize warfare by the invention of the Tank, it would make sense for other women to attempt follow in Bertha Benzes steps, to invented new technologies to help save the German people.
When they first started out the tech side of the Thule Society only had a small forest cabin, near a very well-known place: Berchtesgaden. In this small wooden cabin, they spent much time collecting and reviewing data, along with other stories of these unknown flying objects, in an effort to make their own. Through studying other UFO phenomenon and by studying other theorical piece such as “The History of The Flying Discs: A Contribution to its Possible Explanation”, they came up with their own idea and design for one of these disk-shaped flying machines, utilizing a process called “Torque-induced Precession.”
Over the course of a few years, their design was developed, however due to the financial crisis of Weimar, getting financial support was more than difficult, luckily a group known as Die Herren von Schwarzen Stein (The Lords of the black stone) was able to secure fund three years later, for the Thule Society to build their own flying saucer, in 1922.
Their first step was to get a bigger place to work out of. In search for a new secret location to build this mysterious craft, a farm with an old barn was chosen. It gave the Thule Society more room to build a flying vehicle, without them drawing too much attention to what they were doing. The next step was to get multiple industries and businesses employed to make parts for this machine. This way no one truly knows what they were doing since all outsourced work was broken up by parts. Many other modern governments around the world use this same process when working on other classified projects. With parts arriving in 1922, work began on the new flying vehicle, which was called “Jenseits Flug Maschine” (Other World Flight Machine) It was given the name JFM for short. With limited funds, and having to work in secrecy, the Thule Society built their machine built over the course of two years, with their project finishing in 1922.
The machine had three disks, which were all parrel to each other. They varied in size with the top disk being seven meters wide. The central disk was the largest, being eight meters wide, which was meant to be spun counter to the other two. The bottom disk was the smallest with a diameter of six and a half meters. All three of them were powered by an electrical motor, which was most likely similar to the same electrical motor used in automobiles of that era. At the base of the machine, a pendulum was mounted, to act as a counterweight, and to help stabilize it.
It is unknown how well this craft actually performed, but for nearly two years, the Thule Society used this craft to perform many scientific experiments, which would ultimately lead to them building better versions of these bizarre flying devices. However, in late 1923, another event happened in Munich, which lead to the Thule Society having to cancel their research and go into hiding once again.
Seven years after the first flight of a heavier than air aircraft, Henri Coanda built the first jet aircraft, in 1910, known as the Turbine Airplane, which was a modified propeller driven biplane. However, his design featured a vehicle powered by a turbine engine, instead of a piston, called an “Air-Reaction Engine”. This aircraft craft was even displayed at an exposition in Paris, after the plane was created, even though the first publicly stated build jet was the Heinkel He 178, built Twenty-nine years later in 1939.
This primitive design was flawed compared to conventional jet turbine engines by the fact because the shaft of this jet engine was connected to a gear box, leading to an early 50 horsepower water cooled engine. This small motor was only capable of rating at four thousand rotation per minute and was meant to act as a motor to compressor turbine. The front of the aircraft had something called an “obstructor” which was built to control the amount of airflow into the entrance of the compressor. This compressor would send air into something called a “burning room” where engine fuel was added and ignited by the unmuffle exhaust from the engine. This intern created a hot high-pressure exhaust which was blead thrust through a set of tubes and down the fuselage of the craft which was steel-plated, in this section, to protect the biplane from the hot exhaust.
Unfortunately, this milestone in aviation had a crash, and never had its well-deserved fame after. While the engine was being tuned one day, the aircraft started to roll forward. Without hesitation Coanda response was to jump in the vehicles and try flying it for himself, even though he wasn’t an experienced pilot. Coanda managed to crash his craft instead of properly landing it. Luckily, he survived his crash, and was able to further develop his scientific theories and inventions. However, immediately after this crash, the young scientist noticed something strange. The flames from the engine were around the curvature on the fuselage. Coanda’s next task was to devote his time to studying this new phenomenon, which would later be called the Coanda effect. This was the phenomenon that occurs when liquids moving near a curve at a high-speed follow follows the surface of the curve solid. He found out that if air is moved quickly enough it will do the same thing, when accelerated by a thrust system, much like this new type of turbine engine he previously invented. Not only did he coin the “Coanda Effect” he also started working on designs for aircraft, that would use these similar concepts to form lift. These experiments and designs lead to three patents in France for a new type of propulsion system in 1938.
Nothing came of any of Coanda’s idea, until 1940, when Paris became occupied by the Nazis, and his technological research became available to the Third Reich. Right away the Germans had Coanda, and his family taken away a sent to work on building this new type of craft, which would be power by the latest jet engines supplied by Germany.
Coanda new flying machine, that was requested by the Nazis, was something that was much more reminiscent of a flying saucer, rather than a typical airplane like his original invention. With a diameter of 20 meter, it was supposed to utilizes a dozen Jumo 004Bs jet engines, organized in a radial pattern, around the air frame. Each one of these jet engines sent trust into three nozzles per engine, which would then bleed trust evenly at the base of the craft, providing lift. Engine nozzles pointed would produce the same amount of thrust to lift the vehicle, while engines nozzles pointed out the sides of the vehicle would be controlled and used to maneuver the craft once it achieved lift.
Coanda’s flying disk was a masterpiece of jet technology which would later be copied by Avrocar. However, the Germans did not pursue Coanda’s design of flying saucer as much as other disk vehicles they worked on, with only smaller scaled vehicle being built for wind tunnel test. The design was viewed as unsatisfactory by the Nazi high command since it was uneconomical during a three-front war. The type of jet engines needed to build and fly these vehicles was in short supply during the war, with the main competition for the much-needed jet engines being the famed Me-262 and the Ar-234. Coanda’s machine would also require an extensive amount of jet fuel, which was in short supply during the war.
As the war went progressed on in the allies’ favor, and with the Nazis having to retreat from Europe, Coanda kept of researching and studying aerodynamics on smaller models. However, it was not in vain, in 1949 America, after discovering his work, and then soon after deemed his design of flying saucer as a plausible design. Three years after that, in 1952, the Cornell Aeronautics Lab was able to produce a workable model of Coanda’s flying saucer. Furthermore, the prototype of this exotic propulsion system had multiple positive test results, which further proved Coanda design a success. The Avro VZ-9V, later built in 1958 by Canada, was based on a similar system, although this design, proved futile to the Canadians.
It’s interesting to note that Coanda kept up with his research, even filing patents, up until the 60’s. However there has been no public updates on any of these designs and protypes being pursued.
Germany was not the only country with scientists studying theoretical space travel. In the Soviet Union a man by the name of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky also study similar concepts. His first published work dating back to 1879, was a drawing depicting the Solar System, with estimated distances noted, between objects. In 1883 Tsiolkovsky publish his first essay with a drawing on how humans could possibly live in space.
Tsiolkovsky would then focus on studying potential methods for space travel, with the use of something he called a Reactive Device, which was another name for a liquid fueled rocket. Tsiolkovsky even wrote mathematics for space travel, which is still used today, known as Tsiolkovsky Equation. Even though this was Russian, it was still twenty years before the Germans started any of their own space travel research. At its time in 1903, it was the first theorical proof that space travel could exist. This was the same year that the wright brother took their first flight in an aircraft.
It took some time for Tsiolkovsky to develop his plans for space exploration, but it seems the invention of the airplane played an important role in how he thought space exploration would develop. He believed that with the invention of the airplane, that his Reactive Device would be used on an airplane to increase its speed and performance. This would be something similar to a Me 163 Komet or a BA-349 Natter. He believed that this field of rocketed winged flight would keep being studied, with vehicles ever increasing in performance. This would lead to the development of wingless rockets, with the ability to land on the ocean like we see today. After a safe process was put into place to land rockets on the ocean, Tsiolkovsky thought man’s next task would be to make rockets designed to reach the escape velocity of earth’s gravity and break free into space. After this many would gradually increase their length of time in space during flight. However, he believed we would be using plants to make breathable air on board spacecrafts as compared to the use of a machine to perform a synthetic chemical process. He still believed we would use space suits to do space walks, but also believed we would be colonizing earth’s orbits, with a series of floating green houses, acting as space stations. These green house space stations would be built in such a way that the plants inside would provide livable ecosystems for humans. Tsiolkovsky believed that these space habitats would become ever bigger, increasing inside in functions, with some being large enough to fulfill agricultural role. Other smaller space habitats would be able to use solar radiation to sail through space, much like how a sailboat crosses water, with the help of the wind. With sustainability achieved in both space living and travel methods, he believed mankind would go on to colonize the depth of space, starting with the asteroid belt first, and then expanding outwards. As the sun begins to die and turn into a red giant, we humans would be planets away, when earth is swallowed by the same star, that gave it life. This is what Tsiolkovsky believed. Later in his life Tsiolkovsky would come up with theories for a “Rocket Space Train,” which was an idea for a multi staged rocket. In 1932 he publishes his last piece, on a radio broadcast, where he stated that that he believed the first space flight would happen in twenty to thirty years. As he was separated from the rest of the world in the old Soviet Union, the Germans, were well on their way to developing many of the same theories and inventions that Tsiolkovsky imagined, with the first space flight happening twelve years later in Nazi Germany.
It was during the period of the early 1700's that Emanuel Swedenborg developed many ideas which were as far ranging, from idea on a method to calculate longitude based on the position of the moon, to plans for a submarine and a practical design for an airplane. In September of 1714, Swedenborg wrote to his brother-in-law Erik Berzelius, about an idea for a flying contraption, mind you no one really thought about this idea. But as an inventor and pioneer himself, Emanuel Swedenborg had his own and was very advanced for theoretical design. This design had many characteristics similar to a modern aircraft, with features such as curved lifting surfaces, wheeled landing gear, cockpit, and even a bladed propulsion system. This was some of the most groundbreaking work of its kind, especially when considering the fact that the only other form of man flight, was in the form of balloon travel.
It didn't take long for a version of this same flying machine to end up in the 4th edition of "Daedulus Hyperboreus" which was Sweden's first scientific journal, started by Swedenborg himself. This early scientific journal would also provide the first look at how a modern wing would work with concave surfaces to provide lift. This would be done by having two different surfaces of the aircraft move the air, at different speeds using one flat surface and the other concave, in order to create two different pockets of air, with the top pocket of air being that of lower pressure, to pretty much, suck the aircraft up. The crafts had a variation of shape with some being oval shaped, as well as circle designs drawn as well. The design called for much more primitive materials to be used compared to the materials we see today in modern aircraft, such as birch, cork, leather, and cotton sail material as well. However, these flexible materials allowed for a process known as wing warping, which would be the same idea the Wright Brothers would go on to use in their aircraft. The wood was used to make a frame lateral and horizontal beam, which could be manipulated, much like in "Wing Warping." The cockpit of Swedenborg's flying vehicle was to be constructed out of a basket material, much like on a hot air balloon. Attached to this basket was a weighted pendulum, to aid in giving the vehicle a more stable center of gravity. There was also a set of wheels that could have been attached to the base of this machine to act as landing gear yet were said to not be needed.
As previously mentioned, Da Vinci had made his own drawings of flight machines, but his designs required laborious work, to either flap wings or turn a propeller. Swedenborg's method was different from Da Vinci, in a sense it relied on "the power of the wind" for lift, as well as some required work from the pilot. Because of this, is was sighted that the best place to test this type of aircraft would be a place of higher elevation, much like where hang gliders are launched from. To put into perspective how potent and versatile Emanuel Swedenborg's works were, the king of Sweden at the time, Charles XII, appointed Swedenborg, to be the head of the "Assessor Extraordinary at the Royal College of Mines," where Swedenborg, oversaw the mining of metals for thirty years in Sweden.
While Swedenborg idea for a flying contraption never got off the ground, it did, however, provide, some of the ground for the field of aviation, which was still to come, due to his scientific theories and ideas, that were also stated with his technical drawings. It provided the foundation in theory, for the science of aerodynamic lift. Swedenborg device was never built for testing, only for replica purposes postmortem. However, his work was hidden away and forgotten about by most aerospace historians. It wouldn't be until 1799 when the first fixed wing craft would be design again by Sir Geroge Cayley. Later in the field of experimental aviation, there would also be other aerospace companies, even before World War one, that would go on to chase the idea of making oval, circular, and other disk shape.
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were already people who were working on much simpler concepts of dish shaped vehicles. However, most of these early flying saucers of the post Wright brothers era were based on conventional aviation, with most of these vehicle’s innovation simply being airframe designs.
Some of these flying saucer drawings from the early nineteen hundreds became very famous, even though they were fake, such as the one from early science fiction series by Albert Robida known as La Guerre Infernale. Robida’s work features many conceptual drawings of the potential for technology in the future, including the concept for a dome flying machine in 1908 in La Guerre Infernale.
In his own day, Leonardo Da Vinci had already sketched the outlines of circular vehicles: war wagons, movable fortresses, and other artifacts which had been endowed with the power of flight. Before the Twentieth century there were very few UFO encounters, with a minor number of UFO sightings go back to the ancient Egyptians and romans. The oldest being the documented description of a UFO encounter is said to be in the form cave paintings. Though they were uncommon throughout the earlier part of human history, they were still noted as being seen, usually accompanied by a religious explanation. Sightings of UFOs were seen by people throughout different parts of the ancient world, yet now it's some sort of secret, that gets hidden from society, at the highest levels of government.
The most obscured and hidden histories to man is the history of aviation. Just a quick view of all the secret aircraft, that have been declassified, will show just how hidden and obscure the history of aviation really is, with different designs of aircraft, space craft, and other flying machine being regularly prototyped and flown, only to be remain hidden from the general public and therefore history, due to the secrecy of the aerospace industry. With the first heavier aircraft taking flight in 1903, even the Wright brothers with their earlier primitive design of aircraft, were keen to keep their new invention a secret, out of fear of competition. It wasn't until word got out that Glen Curtis started prototyping his own version of the airplane with his own produced, more powerful engine, which started the Wright brother competition.
In the era before man flight, many designs for heavier than air vehicles were drawn. Historical people going back as far as Leonardo da Vinci have been known to make sketches of their primitive ideas for manually powered helicopters and winged flying contraptions, back in fourteen eighty-eight. Later on, some would even go so far as to prototype other risky flying contraptions, which were based off these same principles. Even though they were only drawings, they showed the initial theory for a technology still to come. Emanuel Swedenborg made his own drawings of flying craft as well in the early eighteenth century, however his designs were much different. His drawing for a flying machine, showed a device with an oblong oval shape, something similar to descriptions of a flying saucer.
Flying saucers would be drawn by others as well afterwards, including in early science fiction cartoons, such as the ones by Albert Robida in La Guerre Infernale, who was a French illustrator who was pretty much a member back in the 1890’s. Albert Robida wrote many well-respected early science fiction pieces. While his career started off just by making caricatures, with small story lines, in 1908 La Guerre Infernale ("The Infernal War"), was released, which was an action-adventure series. La Guerre Infernale was originally started as a weekly for kids, with pictures of a science fiction base story line, and then later turned into a novel.
The following prototypical aircraft to come after that fateful day in 1903, would lead to some to some of the strangest designs of vehicles, with many of these airframes looking quite exotic compared to the aircraft that we are familiar with these days. Many of these experimental aircraft did have saucer like appearance, whether it was a flying wing viewed from a lateral angel to vehicles with airframes similar to what the Avrocar company producing with arial vehicles that were actually disc shaped. Even the US patent office has sub-class of patent dedicated to disk shape craft (Class 244, Aeronautics; Subclass 21.2 Airplane, circular.) Even multiple light-than-aircraft that have been built would resemble something similar looking to something that most would call a UFO.
It wasn't until World War two and after that UFO sightings had become a growing occurrence. That's not to say that they aren't seen before World War Two, just at a much more finite rate than we encounter them today. These pre-World War sightings still baffle me, and others in our field. However, the majority of UFO sightings happened post World War Two, so much so, it needs to be considered that the majority of these recently seen UFOs are from a much more recent source. Because of this, as well as recent government involvement, we can be almost positive that not only are these UFOs are from multiple sources, with a large amount being tied to a recent historical event.
