"FLYING-SAUCERS BEING BUILT!"
*(London Special Service)*
STANDARD
5 JAN 1955
FLYING-SAUCERS are top-secret weapons of the United States and Russia, according to Georg Klein, former secret weapons expert in the German Ministry of War Production, and now an engineer in Switzerland.
Klein maintains that flying-saucers are a continuation of German wartime experiments carried on by German scientists who have either gone to the United States or been captured by the Russians.
"Prototype flying-saucers were built in Germany during the war. I saw one reach a height of 40,000 feet in three minutes near Prague, in 1945," says Klein.
Klein says the Russians captured a scale model and top technicians at Breslau, and Walter Miethe, inventor of the V2, fled to the United States. None of the men has returned to Germany.
Klein claims that there are two types of flying-saucer being built today—a five-jet model with a diameter of 48 feet and a 12-jet model that is 126 feet across. Raised wing flaps lift the aircraft like helicopters and the big one can hover by turning its jets directly downwards like the British "flying-bedstead" aircraft.
Flying-saucers developed in Canada by John Frost, former colleague of Sir Frank Whittle, have reached speeds up to 1500 miles an hour, and have been inspected by Field Marshal Lord Montgomery, says Klein.
SIR FRANK WHITTLE
[Image: A black-and-white photograph showing a flying saucer-like object in the sky, with a person standing on the ground below, observing it. The image is grainy and appears to be a historical photograph.]