11. Did the Nazis build a UFO?
The existence of the foo fighters and the belief in a Nazi base in Antarctica (which never existed) led to another alleged secret of the Nazis. The existence of a Nazi flying disc – a manned flying saucer – has been alleged by some of being developed by German scientists, with others claiming it was actually built and in the testing phase when the collapse of Germany led to its being abandoned. While the Germans experimented with a number of new aeronautical designs, including a flying wing and at least two disk shaped aircraft, none reached the stage of a prototype, and there were no plans to operate flying disks from an underground base excavated from beneath the ice in Antarctica. The two disc shaped aircraft were of different types and propulsion systems.
A German engineer working on the V-2 program in Breslau drew up plans for a flying disc which could be powered by either rocket or jet propulsion, but the idea never grew beyond the design stage. At Prague’s BMW plant, another German engineer led a team which designed a flying disc propelled by vertically aligned rotating turbines with a non-rotating cockpit mounted in the center. The engineer, who escaped to the Americans after the war, gave conflicting accounts of the design and what had happened to his plans, and he never indicated the vessel had flown or ever had been built. Another German engineer claimed to have personally witnessed its test flight in 1944. Despite the extravagant claims of German creation of flying saucers in the latter days of the Nazi regime, there is no evidence that they did other than the anecdotes of ufologists.