Declassified UAP case filesCIA-UAP-005DECLASSIFIED · R03

CIA-UAP-005, German Scientist's Article on 'Flying Discs'

Incident date
1950
Incident location
Agency
CIA
File type
Document
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Official description

This 1950 CIA Information Report from Chile discusses a German scientist's article theorizing that "Flying Discs" could be explained as a new type of aircraft based on aerodynamic principles developed in German research facilities during and after WWI, using rotating cylinders or gas-turbines to create lift through boundary layer manipulation, rather than conventional wings. A redacted version of this report has been available on CIA's public website.

Transcript(1 of 4 pages legible)

[PAGE 1] CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY. INFORMATION REPORT. Report No. SO DD-27U3. Country: Chile/Germany. Date Distr.: 31 July 1950. Subject: German Scientist's Article on 'Flying Discs.' No. of Pages: 1 [attached article]. Place Acquired: Chile, Santiago. No. of Enclosures: 1 (listed below). Date of Info: Prior to mid-1950. Grading of Source: [collector's preliminary grading indicating source is 'usually reliable']. Grading of Content: [marked 'possibly true'; cannot be judged by other sources]. [Standard classified-document warning: 'This document contains information affecting the national defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Act...' Marked: THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION.] SOURCE: [Description, partially legible] Attached for your information is a copy, in translation, of an article submitted to [publication] by Edgard [surname illegible] for publication in Condor, a German-language magazine published in Chile. The article is entitled 'The Mystery of the "Flying Discs," a contribution to its possible explanation.' [PAGES 2-4] [No extractable text -- these pages, which would contain the body of the translated article, appear to be image-only scans without an OCR text layer in the source PDF.]

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Source: U.S. Department of War / AARO — public domain · war.gov/ufo

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CIASantiago, Chiledisc

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