CIA-UAP-005-GERMAN_SCIENTISTS_ ARTICLE_ON_FLYING_DISCS.pdf

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# CLASSIFICATION CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
## INFORMATION REPORT

REPORT NO. SO DD-271/3
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COUNTRY Chile/Germany
DATE DISTR. 31 July 1950
SUBJECT German Scientist's Article on "Flying Discs"
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Chile, Santiago
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Prior to mid-1950

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# THE MYSTERY OF THE "FLYING DISCS"

A contribution to its possible explanation.

By Dr. Eduard Ludwig, Santiago, Chile.
Av. Cristobal Colon 1916

Though the continuously reappearing reports on the appearance of new, mysterious aircraft of unknown construction should be considered with severe skepticism as the result of a sort of mass-hypnosis, nevertheless some of the detailed and coinciding accounts of technically trained observers deserve attention and permit one to draw conclusions as to the probable classification of th…

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procedure was later applied to a great extent to the fighter plane Muster Ju. 88 under the name of "dive-brake". This patent had to be handed to the English factory Handley-Page after World War I, which explains that the name of "Handley-Page Splicing" is more widely known.

However, developments proceeded. It was principally the Aerodynamic Experimental Institute of the Gottingen University, directed by the renowned Professors Prandtl and Betz, and Constructor Flettner, which drew its conclusions from the theory of the airpl…

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with a positive starting angle in connection with the enormously high starting speed. The attaching of speedily rotating tops assures side stability. There is also the possibility of attaching horizontal auxiliary propellers of the helicopter type. And what about the question of the starting force? The safety of such an aircraft stands and falls on the starting force of the cylinders, and only too well do I remember the casualties inflicted by the lack of it. As I mentioned before, only the development of a gas-turbine can br…