Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency item, dated 5 July 1952 and approved for release in March 1978, relays a press item from Bonn about an article by Dr. Waldemar Beck in the German magazine Der Flieger. The article claims a crewless flying saucer 47 meters in diameter crashed on Spitsbergen and was studied by Norwegian and German rocket experts. It reports a plutonium-cored radio piloting transmitter, an unknown steel alloy, 46 jets and Russian inscriptions on the instruments.
APPROVED FOR RELEASE DATE 24 MAR 78
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.