| I don't see any written evidence that we in the U.S.
      were being 'attacked' by UFOs in the 40's, but I do see evidence that we
      were afraid of them.  Later evidence shows that Germany had knowledge
      of UFOs way before we did in the U.S.  Germany was way ahead of the
      U.S. in shooting down UFOs and using the technology to try to win
      WWII. 
       I have yet to see any evidence of the reason why so many UFOs were crashing.
      It seems rather iffy to think that UFOs flew to earth and then couldn't handle
      flying in the air for whatever reason.  Films/videos show too much evidence
      that they have excellent control over their vehicles, and their vehicles
      weren't of the caliber of our first meager efforts to fly in planes made
      of  bicycle parts and balsa wood..  Their vehicles were made of
      such technology that we couldn't even figure out what they were made of,
      nor how they were flown. The evidence shows that they were caught in lightening
      storms and were shot down by the military in Germany and the U.S.
       
       The Apollo program was instituted because of the fear that a military
      base was going to be established on the far side of the moon and whoever
      got there first, whether human (Russia) or the extraterrestrials, who we
      were in dire fear of, would be in control of earth.  No matter what
      the cost, either in dollars or lives, the U.S. had to win that race to the
      dark side of the moon.
       
       By then, Germany had lost WWII and we were now on even footing with Russia
      as far as brains go. At the end of WWII, Russia got half of the brains out
      of Germany, and the U.S. got the other half.  Perhaps knowing what we
      know now, we should have demanded all the brains, but we didn't. Through
      what we called Operation Paperclip, we got some characters (Nazi's if you
      will) who were responsible for killing millions of people. That was the level
      of our desperation. 
       
       The U.S. Military rounded up Nazi scientists and brought them to America.
      It had originally intended merely to debrief them and send them back to Germany.
      But when it realized the extent of the scientists knowledge and expertise,
      the War Department decided it would be a waste to send the scientists home.
      Following the discovery of flying discs (foo fighters), particle/laser beam
      weaponry in German military bases, the War Department decided that NASA and
      the CIA must control this technology, and the Nazi engineers that had worked
      on this technology.
 There was only one problem: it was illegal. U.S. law explicitly prohibited
      Nazi officials from immigrating to America--and as many as three-quarters
      of the scientists in question had been committed Nazis. Military Intelligence
      "cleansed" the files of Nazi references. By 1955, more than 760 German scientists
      had been granted citizenship in the U.S. and given prominent positions in
      the American scientific community. Many had been longtime members of the
      Nazi party and the Gestapo, had conducted experiments on humans at concentration
      camps, had used slave labor, and had comitted other war crimes.
 
 Here are some more notable ones:
 
       ARTHUR RUDOLPH;During the war, Rudolph was operations director of the Mittelwerk factory
      at the Dora-Nordhausen concentration camps, where 20,000 workers died from
      beatings, hangings, and starvation. Rudolph had been a member of the Nazi
      party since 1931; a 1945 military file on him said simply: "100% Nazi, dangerous
      type, security threat..!! Suggest internment."
 
 WERNHER VON BRAUN;
 From 1937 to 1945, von Braun was the technical director of the Peenemunde
      rocket research center, where the V-2 rocket --which devasted England--was
      developed. As noted previously, his dossier was rewritten so he didn't appear
      to have been an enthusiastic Nazi.
 
 Von Braun worked on guided missles for the U.S. Army and was later director
      of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. He became a celebrity in the 1950s
      and early 1960s, as one of Walt Disney's experts on the "World of Tomorrow."
      In 1970, he became NASA's associate administrator.
 
       KURT BLOME;A high-ranking Nazi scientist, Blome told U.S. military interrogators in
      1945 that he had been ordered 1943 to experiment with plague vaccines on
      concentration camp prisoners. He was tried at Nuremberg in 1947 on charges
      of practicing euthanasia (extermination of sick prisoners), and conducting
      experiments on humans. Although acquitted, his earlier admissions were well
      known, and it was generally accepted that he had indeed participated in the
      gruesome experiments.  Two months after his Nuremberg acquittal, Blome
      was interviewed at Camp David, Maryland, about biological warfare. In 1951,
      he was hired by the U.S. Army Chemical Corps to work on chemical warfare.
      His file neglected to mention Nuremberg.
 
 MAJOR GENERAL WALTER SCHREIBER;
 The US military tribunal at Nuremberg heard evidence that "Schreiber had
      assigned doctors to experiment on concentration camp prisoners and had made
      funds available for such experimentation." The assistant prosecutor said
      the evidence would have convicted Schreiber if the Soviets, who held him
      from 1945 to 1948, had made him available for trial. Again, Schreiber's Paperclip
      file made no mention of this evidence; the project found work for him at
      the Air Force School of Medicine at Randolph Field in Texas. When columnist
      Drew Pearson publicized the Nuremberg evidence in 1952, the negative publicity
      led the JIOA, says Hunt, to arrange "a visa and a job for Schreiber in Argentina,
      where his daughter was living." On May 22, 1952, he was flown to Buenos
      Aires.
 
       HERMANN BECKER-FREYSING and SIEGFRIED RUFF;These two, along with Blome, were amoung the 23 defendants in the Nuremberg
      War Trials "Medical Case." Becker-Freysing was convicted and sentenced to
      20 years in prison for conducting experiments on Dachau inamtes, such as
      starving them, then force-feeding them seawater that had been chemically
      altered to make it drinkable. Ruff was acquitted (in a close decision) on
      charges that he had killed as many as 80 Dachau inmates in a low-pressure
      chamber designed to simulate altitudes in excess of 60,000 feet. Before their
      trial, Becker-Freysing and Ruff were paid by the Army Air Force to write
      reports about their grotesque experiments.
 
 GENERAL REINHARD GEHLEN;
 It was five years after the end of WW2 but one of Hitler's chief intelligence
      officers was still on the job. From a walled-in compound in Bavaria, General
      Reinhard Gehlen oversaw a vast network of intelligence agents spying on Russia.
      His top aides were Nazi zealots who had committed some of the most notorious
      crimes of the war. Gehlen and his SS united were hired, and swiftly became
      agents of the CIA when they revealed their massive records on the Soviet
      Union to the US.  Gehlen derived much of his information from his role
      in one of the most terrible atrocities of the war: the torture, interrogation
      and murder by starvation of some four million Soviet prisoners. Prisoners
      who refused to cooperate were often tortured or summarily executed. May were
      executed even after they had given information, while others were simply
      left to starve to death. As a result, Gehlend and members of his organization
      maneuvered to make sure they were captured by advancing American troops rather
      than Russians, who would have executed them immediately. With the encouragement
      of the CIA, Gehlen Org (Licio Gelli) set up "rat lines" to get Nazi war criminals
      out of Europe so they wouldn't be prosecuted. By setting up transit camps
      and issuing phony passports, the Gehlen Org helped more than 5,000 Nazis
      leave Europe and relocate around the world, especially in South and Central
      America.
 
 KLAUS BARBIE;
 Known as the Nazi butcher of Lyons, France during World War 2, Barbie was
      part of the SS which was responsible for the and death of thousands of French
      people under the Germany occupation.
 
 HEINRICH RUPP;
 Some of Rupp's best work was done for the CIA, after he was imported in Operation
      Paperclip. Rupp has been convicted of bank fraud. He was an operative for
      the CIA and is deeply involved in the Savings and Loan scandals. A federal
      jury has indicated they believe testimony that Rupp, the late CIA Director
      William Casey - then Reagan's campaign manager, and Donald Gregg, now U.S.
      Ambassador to South Korea, flew with George Bush to Paris in 1980, during
      the election in which Bush was on the ticket with Ronald Reagan. The testimony
      states that three meetings were held on October 19 and 20 at the Hotel Florida
      and Hotel Crillion. The subject? According to the court testimony, the meetings
      were to sabotage President Jimmy Carter's reelection campaign by delaying
      the release of American hostages in Iran. The hostages were released on January
      20, 1981, right after Reagan and Bush were sworn into office. Iran was promised
      return of its frozen assets in the United States and the foundation for the
      Iran- Contra deal was set into motion.
 
 LICIO GELLI;
 Head of a 2400 member secret Masonic Lodge, P2, a neo-fascist organization,
      in Italy that catered to only the elite, Gelli had high connections in the
      Vatican, even though he was not a Catholic. P2's membership is totally secret
      and not even available to its Mother Lodge in England. Gelli was responsible
      for providing Argentina with the Exocet missile. He was a double agent for
      the CIA and the KGB. He assisted many former Nazi high officials in their
      escape from Europe to Central America. He had close ties with the Italian
      Mafia. Gelli was a close associate of Benito Mussolini. He was also closely
      affiliated with Roberto Calvi, head of the scandal-ridden Vatican Bank. Calvi
      was murdered. Gelli's secret lodge consisted of extremely important people,
      including armed forces commanders, secret service chiefs, head of Italy's
      financial police, 30 generals, eight admirals, newspaper editors, television
      and top business executives and key bankers - including Calvi. Licio Gelli
      and others in P2 were behind the assassination of Pope John Paul 1. While
      on one hand, the U.S. participated in the war crime tribunals of key Nazi
      officials and maintained an alliance with the Communist Soviet Union, secretly,
      the U.S. was preparing for the cold war and needed the help of Nazis in the
      eventual struggle the U.S. would have with the Soviet Union. Gelli's agreement
      with U.S. intelligence to spy on the Communists after the war was instrumental
      in saving his life. He was responsible for the murder and torture of hundreds
      of Yugoslavian partisans.
 
 Project Paperclip was stopped in 1957, when West Germany protested to the
      U.S. that these efforts had stripped it of "scientific skills." There was
      no comment about supporting Nazis. Paperclip may have ended in 1957, but
      as you can see from Licio Gelli and his international dealings with the CIA
      in Italy/P2, and Heinrich Rupp with his involvement in October Surprise,
      the ramifications of Paperclip are world-wide. The Nazis became employed
      CIA agents, engaging in clandestine work with the likes of George Bush, the
      CIA, Henry Kissenger, and the Masonic P2 lodge. This is but one of the results
      of Operation Paperclip. Another umbrella project that was spawned from Paperclip
      was MK-ULTRA.
 
 So, there are a few choice personnel who helped the U.S. to go to the moon
      in the Apollo project. If you think by now that we were just kidding around,
      you need to re-read the above until you realize that we meant business. 
      We were going to win the cold war, get control of the world whether against
      the Russians and/or the extraterrestrials or both.  To be honest ...
      it was more against the extraterrestrials than the Russians, but the Russians
      provided the excuse the U.S. needed so that we didn't have to admit that
      Roswell was about a real crashed UFO.  That kind of knowledge was kept
      from the Americans who were deemed to be too emotional and panicky, and would
      get out of control to know that the whole history they  believed in
      was a lie. And that includes their religious history.
 
       Wernher Von Braun was one of the world's first and foremost rocket engineers
      and a leading authority on space travel. His will to expand man's knowledge
      through the exploration of space led to the development of the Explorer
      satellites, the Jupiter and Jupiter-C rockets, Pershing, the Redstone rocket,
      Saturn rockets, and Skylab, the world's first space station. Additionally,
      his determination to "go where no man has gone before" led to mankind setting
      foot on the moon.
       
       Living in Huntsville, Alabama from 1950 to 1970, Dr. von Braun first
      directed the technical development of the U.S. Army's ballistic missile program
      at Redstone Arsenal, and later served as Director of NASA's Marshall Space
      Flight Center. When he transferred to Washington, D.C., he left Huntsville
      with a rich legacy: the research institutions at the University of Alabama
      in Huntsville, the Alabama Space and Rocket Center, and the Von Braun Civic
      Center.
       
       He enrolled at the Berlin Institute of Technology in 1930. In 1932, at
      the age of 20, he received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering,
      and was offered a grant to conduct and develop scientific investigations
      on liquid-fueled rocket engines. Two years later, Wernher received his PhD
      in physics from the University of Berlin.
       
       During the 30's the German military was searching for a weapon which
      would not violate the Versailles Treaty of World War I, and at the same time
      defend Germany. By 1934 von Braun and Walter Dornberger had a team of 80
      engineers building rockets in Kummersdorf, about 60 miles south of Berlin.
      Von Braun's natural talents as a leader shone, as well as his ability to
      assimilate great quantities of data while keeping in mind the big picture.
      With the successful launch of two rockets, Max and Moritz, in 1934, von Braun's
      proposal to work on a jet-assisted take-off device for heavy bombers and
      all-rocket fighters was granted. However, Kummersdorf was too small for the
      task, so a new facility had to be built.
       
       By now Hitler had taken over Germany and Herman Goering ruled the Luftwaffe.
      Dornberger held a public test of the A-2 which was greatly successful. Funding
      continued to flow to von Braun's team, developing the A-3 and finally the
      A-4. 
       
       1934 - First treaty with Greys aboard U.S. naval ship off Balboa. Hitler
      evokes "Law for Removing the Distress of People and Nation"; which overnight,
      eliminates power of Political Parties, State Institutions and Trade Unions
      while alsoextinguishing the personal liberty of every citizen of the Reich.
 
 1938 - Evidence of German recovery of downed Alien craft. Construction of
      advanced Luftwaffe aircraft begins at underground research facilities:
      Reineckendorf, Kummeradorf and Thuringia.
 
 U.S. government backs "War Of The Worlds" broadcast in order to gauge public
      reaction to Alien invasion scenario.
 
       Hitler invades Austria and claims Spear of Longinus. Adolph Hitler views
      Spear of Longinus; believed to be the same spearthat pierced the crucified Christ's side, which he had viewed for first time
      at Hofburg treasure house in 1909.
 
 1939 - World War 2 begins.  Nazi Alien technology compromised by necessity
      for jet propulsion,
 which keeps gravitational R&D effort in labs for duration of
      war.
 
 1941 - German underground excavation begins in Antarctica.
 
       In 1943 Hitler decided to use the A-4 as a "vengeance weapon," and the
      group found themselves developing the A-4 to rain explosives on London. Fourteen
      months after Hitler ordered it into production, the first combat A-4, now
      called the V-2, was launched toward western Europe on September 7, 1944.
      When the first V-2 hit London von Braun remarked to his colleagues, "The
      rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet."
       
       The SS and the Gestapo arrested von Braun for crimes against the state
      because he persisted in talking about building rockets which would go into
      orbit around the Earth and perhaps go to the Moon. His crime was indulging
      in frivolous dreams when he should have been concentrating on building bigger
      rocket bombs for the Nazi war machine. Dornberger convinced the SS and the
      Gestapo to release von Braun because without him there would be no V-2 and
      Hitler would have them all shot. 
       
       On arriving back at Peenemunde, von Braun immediately assembled his planning
      staff and asked them to decide how and to whom they should surrender. Most
      of the scientists were frightened of the Russians, they felt the French would
      treat them like slaves, and the British did not have enough money to afford
      a rocket program. That left the Americans. After stealing a train with forged
      papers, von Braun led 500 people through war-torn Germany to surrender to
      the Americans. The SS were issued orders to kill the German engineers, who
      hid their notes in a mine shaft and evaded their own army while searching
      for the Americans. Finally, the team found an American private and surrendered
      to him. Realizing the importance of these engineers, the Americans immediately
      went to Peenemunde and Nordhausen and captured all of the remaining V-2's
      and V-2 parts, then destroyed both places with explosives. The Americans
      brought over 300 train car loads of spare V-2 parts to the United States.
      Much of von Braun's production team was captured by the Russians.
       
       On June 20, 1945, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull approved the transfer
      of von Braun's German rocket specialists. This transfer was known as Operation
      Paperclip because, of the large number of Germans stationed at Army Ordnance,
      the paperwork of those selected to come to the United States were indicated
      by paperclips.
       
       They arrived in the United States at New Castle Army Air Base, just south
      of Wilmington, DE. Afterwards, they were flown to Boston, and then taken
      by boat to an Army Intelligence Service post at Fort Strong in Boston Harbor.
      Later, with the exception of von Braun, the men were transferred to Aberdeen
      Proving Grounds in Maryland to sort out the Peenemunde documents. Those documents
      would enable the scientists to continue their rocketry experiments where
      they had left off.
       
       Finally, von Braun and the 126 Peenemunders were transferred to their
      new home at Fort Bliss, Texas,  a large Army installation just north
      of El Paso, under the command of Major James P. Hamill. They found themselves
      in a strange situation as they began their new lives in America. Because
      they could not leave Fort Bliss without a military escort, they sometimes
      referred to themselves as "PoPs", Prisoners of Peace.
       
       While at Fort Bliss, they were tasked to train military, industrial,
      and university personnel in the intricacies of rockets and guided missiles
      and to help refurbish, assemble, and launch a number of V-2's that had been
      shipped from Germany to the White Sands Proving Grounds in New Mexico. Further,
      they were to study the future potential of rockets for military and research
      applications.
       
        
      A 1947 photo of the German team at Fort Bliss, Texas. Dr. von Braun, inset,
      is in the front row, seventh from right. Operation Paperclip came to a fitting
      conclusion with the naturalization of the first group of more than 50 German
      scientists and technicians on November 11, 1954, in Birmingham, Alabama.
       
       Renato Vesco 
 This Italian aeronautical technician claimed modern "flying saucers" are
      the Anglo-Canadian development of very advanced German projects, namely the
      circular unmanned crafts "Feuerball" and "Kugelblitz". Both of them were
      in the prototype stage and maybe they were even flown-tested just at the
      end of the war. Vesco and his impressive documentation have been often used
      by many later authors in order to try to substantiate their empty claims.
 
 The first book of Renato Vesco was published in 1968, but the original manuscript
      was ready since 1956. Because of job engagements he stopped its publication
      and went on collecting more material. So he had enough material to write
      three large books.
 
 The first one had a Spanish edition and two in US (1971, Grove and 1974,
      Zebra), soon becoming a reference work for most but all the authors and
      researchers writing about the highly controversial subject of German "flying
      saucers". In 1994, the book was nearly fully reprinted within a book edited
      by D.Childress "Man-Made UFOs 1944-1994".
 
 
  Here is the
      second Vesco book. 
 The author was born in Arona in 1924. He died in November 1999 in Genoa,
      the town where he had been living for many years. Since some years he was
      writing a new manuscript to publish a fourth "ultimate" book. The huge archive
      of Vesco has been retrieved safely and now preserved from destruction. The
      inventory should allow to find and evaluate some of the original sources
      used by the author.
 
 
  The third book
      by Renato Vesco is a thick 553-page volume loaded with a real wealth of info.
      On the ground of some late war German projects (including the Norvegian-based
      development of the original Belluzzo's blueprints and the German atom bomb
      project) and post-war British breakthroughs in aeronautics and astronautics,
      he pointed out a fascinating but hard-to-believe scenario. 
 British spaceships had been built after blueprints and technology captured
      in Germany and flown since 1947. In 1951 they landed on the Moon and in 1954
      they reached Mars. Though these claims look quite unlikely and unsubstantiated,
      most of the evidence and sources offered by Vesco lead to some interesting
      considerations about German secret technology and some late '40s and '50s
      UFO sightings.
 
 
  Following the
      Canadian AVRO CAR project rumours, many magazines of the early '50s published
      news about soon-to-come man-made "flying saucers".  Vesco found in these
      rumours more background for his theory. 
 
    
      Other sketches of wanna-be man-made flying saucers. Besides the official
      AVRO project, there were tens of inventors with plans of fantastic flying
      machines, often related to revolutionary discoveries with
      anti-gravity.
 
  The concept
      of the "man-made flying saucer" was really exciting and even welcome in an
      era of fast technological advancements. The wonders of science and technology
      of the atomic age could well explain even a dream-machine like the flying
      saucer. 
 
  The well-known
      aviation magazine "Flying" devoted some space to the idea of a circular aircraft
      as the ultimate air weapon. 
       1945 - World War 2 ends with geographic defeat of Axis powers and panic
      exodus of high proportion of remaining Jews from continent.  A crew-carrying
      the "Kugelblitz" flies from Thuringia. Kugelblitz engines were extracted
      and ship destroyed by SS. Scientists, plans and engines were shipped to
      Antarctica, where
      
      Fourth Reich White Wolves regroup. 
 There is some evidence to show that the 'flying saucers' seen by Kenneth
      Arnold over Mt. Rainier in Washington State were of
      'German'
      origin, and not flown by aliens.
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