Der
Fledenteller (The Flying Plate), or
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long, and thanks for all the strudel!"
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Cloaked in mystery for over half a century, the Nazi Flying Saucer project
was a marvel of engineering, as well as subterfuge. With the discovery in 1938
of a mysterious crystalline substance which defied gravity, top Nazi officials
were determined to keep the material out of the feuding hands of the various
factions in the regime, such as the Luftwaffe and the SS. Burying the project
under electric railway research, they not only hid it from their fellow
countrymen, but allied investigators as well.
The mystery crystal, named Cavorium, would defy gravity if
hit with a sufficient jolt of electricity. The only device capable of delivering
such a jolt would be a very advanced nuclear reactor, so the efforts of atomic
scientists in Germany at the time went toward the reactor project instead of
bombs. With there being only enough of the crystal to construct a single
vehicle, the scientists went all out and devised a craft capable of leaving
Earth's atmosphere. The designing and construction of the Fledenteller took over
5 years, and the vehicle was readied for it's first flight on April 3, 1945.
While away on a test hop to Argentina, the secret underground base was
accidentally obliterated by B-24s bombing through cloud. Realising that the
Fledenteller's usefulness as a bomber was a moot point, with Germany about
to fall to the Allies, a frantic refitting took place. Allied intelligence was
to discover some form of exodus from Germany at the end of the war by top Nazis,
but were never able to discover what means were used to achieve their escape.
Two years later, they were to find out.
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On July 4, 1947, there was an attempted theft of uranium
from the Alamogordo N.M. atomic weapon test site by unknown individuals. Dressed
in some sort of anti-radiation clothing, silvery in nature, they managed to
steal an entire bomb from the test site and make off in a large, saucer shaped
vehicle. Unfortunately for their plans, they promptly slammed into a weather
balloon from the Roswell Air Force base, and crashed in the desert outside of
Roswell. All 22 people aboard the vessel were killed. Investigators went
through the now radioactive wreckage and found to their amazement that all
instrumentation and literature aboard were in German! Somehow, the
Fledenteller had been hiding somewhere for 2 years, and requiring uranium for
the reactor, the crew had tried to steal some. Realising the PR disaster
that would ensue if they revealed the Nazis had been flitting about in a flying
saucer for two years, the government ordered the Air Force to cover up the
incident. The remaining mystery: where had they been hiding?
In 1976, the US launched two probes to the planet Mars.
Viking 1 and 2 were the first successful landings on the Red Planet, and sent
back some very useful data. However, some of the soil data caused some concern,
as the chemical makeup of the soil matched exactly some of the residual dirt
found inside the wreckage of the Fledenteller. For all intents and purposes, the
Nazis had been to Mars sometime between 1945 and 1947! Whether they remain there
is unknown, but many spacecraft have mysteriously failed while
attempting the voyage to Mars. Accidents, equipment failures, or shoot-downs? We
may never know!
Alvis 3.1
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