Lis­ten: One Seg­ment

This pro­gram presents infor­ma­tion sup­ple­men­tal to past dis­cus­sion of the real­ity of UFOs in the earth’s atmos­phere (built by human beings, not by sup­posed aliens “from outer space.”) After dis­cussing a deci­sion by sci­en­tists in late June of 1998 to take the UFO phe­nom­e­non seri­ously, the broad­cast touches on the death within a four-day period of three Nazi rocket sci­en­tists who worked on the U.S. rocket and space pro­gram after World War II. Much of the pro­gram cen­ters on more infor­ma­tion about the pio­neer­ing devel­op­ment of so-called fly­ing saucers by the Third Reich dur­ing the later stages of World War II. New infor­ma­tion from a book pub­lished in 1998 high­lights the work of Reimar and Wal­ter Horten, Nazi avi­a­tion pio­neers who devel­oped a super­sonic fighter air­craft that looked like “a fly­ing din­ner plate.” This pro­to­type was oper­a­tional by 1944. There are sub­stan­tive indi­ca­tions that the work of the Horten broth­ers and other Nazi aero­nau­ti­cal engi­neers was con­tin­ued and improved upon by the United States, Britain, Argentina and other coun­tries in the post-war period. (See also sev­eral other 30-minute seg­ments on this topic, par­tic­u­larly those from July of 1997, as well as a lec­ture enti­tled The Polit­i­cal Impli­ca­tions of The UFO Phe­nom­e­non and the ET Myth. They are all avail­able from Spit­fire.) The broad­cast con­cludes with a look at the type of spin con­trol that has per­pet­u­ated the illu­sion that UFOs are either imag­i­nary or extrater­res­trial in nature.