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Roswell’s Dirty Secret: that the filmmakers allege crashed two years it became a fiery meteor landing in
later in New Mexico. Pennsylvania?
The Time Nazis Crash- Under Hitler’s command, the Nazis If there was ever a good reason for a
experimented with peculiar and radical government conspiracy covering up a crashed
Landed in the New
aerospace technology, most notably “Die unidentified flying object in New Mexico
Mexican Desert Glocke“, a bell-shaped metal chamber outside of Roswell, it being a top-secret Nazi
measuring 15 feet tall and nine feet in diameter aircraft is most certainly a good one. Or is there
intended to fly without wings. It is believed that an even bigger conspiracy at work here? Last
By Ken Summers work was carried out to create 15 prototypes in year, Greg Newkirk revealed the surprising fact
Poland’s Owl Mountains in secret subterranean that Rachel, Nevada (UFO mecca and next door
What exactly crashed in the open terrain of the labs hidden inside the Wenceslas Mines which neighbor to the infamous Area 51) is slowly
US Southwest back in 1947? Was it a weather were later dynamited when the tide of the war being consumed by Neo-Nazis and white
balloon? Aliens from a far-off galaxy? Or even turned against the Nazis. According to historian supremacists. Is this new revelation about
worse… could it have been the Nazis? and former Polish journalist Igor Witkowski in Roswell really just propaganda trying to justify
A German documentary, UFOs and the his book The Truth about The Wunderwaffe, test a land claim by Neo-Nazis in New Mexico? Or
Third Reich, aired on Channel N24 and made flights of Die Glocke were conducted over is their settlement of these towns some deep-
some bold claims about flying saucers. The main Germany and Czechoslovakia… like Charlie rooted attempt at a Nazi comeback in the 21st
claim is that the real secret behind the Roswell and Willy Wonka in the Great Glass Elevator, no Century? Either way, I’d prefer the aliens.
crash was that it was a high-tech stealth aircraft doubt. Were was Augustus Gloop when you
made by Nazis. Well, in fairness, they weren’t needed him?
still Nazis when they built it. Thanks to A German engineer named George Klein About Ken Summers
Operation Paperclip, many German scientists supports Witkowski’s claims that such an Ken Summers is a historical researcher
were secretly relocated to the US at the end of aircraft existed. He told the Daily Express, “I and purveyor of strange tales and forgotten
World War II. Instead of facing war crimes, they don’t consider myself a crackpot or eccentric or hauntings. An explorer of haunted sites since
were put to work by the US government to help someone given to fantasies… This is what I saw, 1995 and the apologetic creator of the "orb color
beat the Soviets in the ‘space race’. with my own eyes: a Nazi UFO.” Klein wasn’t chart," he has always endeavored to balance
Undoubtedly, allowing people like Hans alone; many American and British airmen also eager curiosity with logical questioning in the
Kammler (who organized the forced labor witnessed strange craft, including the Schriever- pursuit of truth. Ken is reluctant to call himself
factories at Auschwitz) to escape any form of Habermohl Model and possibly Die Glocke, either a skeptic or a believer, yet throughout his
punishment to gain a scientific edge casts its over Nazi-occupied territory. life, he has had strange experiences that fall
own black shadow over the already dark, And if Roswell was a Nazi craft, what under the category of "unexplained". His last
elusive, and controversial study of UFOs. can be said about the famous Kecksburg UFO of book, Queer Hauntings, was published in 2009.
Between 1941 and 1943, fifteen 1965? Resembling an upside-down acorn, Die []
prototypes of what’s known as the Schriever- Glocke was thought by many to have been an
Habermohl Model were said to have been built idea never brought to life. Looking at diagrams
in Prague. Named for its designers, engineers for Die Glocke and the object which crashed
Rudolf Schriever and Otto Habermohl, this craft into the woods outside Kecksburg, it’s hard to
bears an uncanny resemblance to what we now deny the similarities. The US allegedly obtained
think of when we hear the term “flying saucer”. plans for these craft around 1943, and some
Flight was achieved through a combination of believe they experimented in building their own
rotary wings like a helicopter and let engines version.
mounted beneath the disc-shaped craft. The Could Die Glocke (or an American
blueprints for these craft are believed to have counterpart) have been launched, reached too
been taken to the US in 1945 where work high of an altitude and orbited the Earth as a
continued. It’s one of these American versions satellite before reentering the atmosphere where