Fortean Phenomena / UAPs / UFOs

Nazi flying saucers are a load of crap

L.T. Hanlon7 Comments

The other night, I came across this YouTube video, screen flickering in the dark, promising me “stunning” photographic of Nazi-engineered flying saucers.

The grainy footage, eerie music, and an air of “The truth is out there — and here it is!” reeled me in.

So, what’s the claim? In the expanded universe version of this urban legend, these Third Reich bozos not only built flying saucers using antigravity propulsion — one sportier model knwn as Die Glocke had a time-traveling option that caused it to bounce ahead to 1965 and crash outside Kecksburg, Pennsylvania. The story sounds like Steven Spielberg and George Lucas got hammered, whipped out a Ouija board, and channeled Ed Wood.

Let’s shatter this glass house right off the bat: Nazis were pipe-clogging turds who saw the world as their punchbowl. If they’d had technology as advanced as some of these UFO nuts insist, the Allies would’ve been screwed six ways to Sunday.

But let’s get real. The Nazis documented everything with Teutonic efficiency and an obsessive compulsion — from the horror shows at death camps to the pomp and circumstance of Nuremberg rallies.

Leni Riefenstahl filmed “Triumph of the Will” with a goddamn sense of aesthetic purpose. I mean, if you can make evil look that good on camera, why does your flying saucer footage look like Bigfoot took it while having a seizure?

Seriously, the evidence is shakier than Elvis in his final years. Blurred images, poorly exposed film — this is the stuff conspiracy theorists drool over.

I get it. The unknown excites people. But attaching this UFO myth to Nazi scientists is as absurd as claiming that John Williams is an alien because he composes damn good music.

Even if German scientists constructed a saucer-shaped conventionally powered aircraft, it’s a far cry from building a working UFO. We’re talking about engineering marvels beyond rocket science. Literally.

So why do people buy into this garbage? Wishful thinking? A desire to make the world crazier than it already is? If you ask me, folks latch onto these increasingly bizarre conspiracy theories the same way pornography addicts need to keep pumping up the kink to reach orgasm.

Let’s give a nod to the influence, though. These rumored German saucer designs left a mark on pop culture.

You’ve got George Adamski, who claimed contact with Venusians, sketching and photographing craft that eerily resemble this Nazi nonsense.

And then the TV show “The Invaders”? Their flying saucers could’ve been extras in that grainy Nazi film reel. Hollywood knows a good prop when it sees one.

Bottom line: Don’t buy into the hype. Nazis constructing flying saucers is as believable as me turning water into whiskey. And if I could, you bet I’d be a hell of a lot richer than I am now.

7 thoughts on “Nazi flying saucers are a load of crap”

  1. Let’s see now, the Nazis brought us Wernher von Braun, the Atlas V moon rocket and the early success of the U.S. space program; the Nazis brought us the first turbine engines for aircraft; the Nazis brought us the first cruise missiles; the Nazis brought us designs for the first flying wing aircraft … So, I can’t imagine why in the world I would think the Nazis might have brought us the first field-propulsion platforms.
    It is a fact that the United States did not hesitate to capitalize on Nazi-era engineers and scientists in a struggle to establish global dominance and keep pace with the Russians during the burgeoning Cold War that pitted both nuclear powers against each other.
    The German war effort had spawned advances in aviation and rocketry. There is precedent for Nazi scientists and engineers being seized by the United States and embedded in American research and development programs.
    It’s a horrible fact of life that history is messy, history is cruel.
    We can all choose to sanitize or revise history for the benefit of our own audiences.
    We can try to sanitize history because history is offensive, but who does that serve, really?

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    • You make good points.

      After the war, German scientists from Operation Paperclip helped boost America’s aerospace efforts. They brought valuable knowledge that shaped our space and aviation advancements.

      But there’s a lingering question. If the Nazis had advanced “flying saucer” tech in the 1940s, why haven’t we made more progress today? And why would innovators like Elon Musk, with all his money and intelligent teams, still focus on traditional rockets if something better existed?

      Looking back at that time in Germany, it’s hard for me to understand it all. The nation had bright minds and significant breakthroughs, but there were dark moments that didn’t fit a modern, logical society. It’s like something took over and pushed them away from the warmth of reason into the cold, seductive embrace of the demonic.

      In the end, while we can’t deny the benefits of Operation Paperclip, the idea of advanced flying saucer tech is still up in the air. Germany’s WWII era is complex, with moments that are hard to explain.

      You are absolutely right that history is messy and cruel.

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      • Agree with your comments about Nazi Germany … a terrible low mark in the history of Homo sapiens … and also so disturbing that such a gifted society could descend to such horrors … you have to wonder if we’re also vulnerable to the same kinds of demons here … re: Nazi field propulsion … it’s probably all just nonsense, but I can’t shake the feeling that the UFOs are solely machinations of the Pentagon … that’s it’s not E.T. … that it’s never been E.T. , going all the way back … and that the Pentagon, among the most secretive entities ever devised, truly has the answer …

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