Kugelblitz - an interesting read

[Story]

Golden Age and WWII accounts of 'ball lightning' phenomenon, which were often sighted by WWII pilots.

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/3/eyewitnessaccountsofkugelblitz.php

 

[Twitch]

I don't know it in that regard but my research indicates something else. Here's a small segment on the Kugelblitz from a book I wrote:

LIGHTNING BULLET
It is well-known that learned Germans realized the war was lost very early on. The assassination attempt on Hitler and the underground movement was fact. Allegedly the fireballs or foo-fighters seen in the European skies culminated in a manned vehicle that flew from the underground facilities in Thuringia in mid-February 1945. The craft, called the Kugelblitz (lightning bullet), reportedly had a top speed of over 1,200 MPH! Given what we know that seems impossible. The technology of heat friction dissipation materials was not seen in common use until the Soviet and American space programs evolved in the late 1950’s. But where did these space programs come from? They were built on the research and persons of German scientists that pioneered the work on rockets in the 1930’s!

In 1976 when a Soviet pilot defected to Japan with a Mach 3 MiG 25 the American aero-techs soon saw that the plane had expensive titanium only integrated to critically located surfaces as needed so the airframe would not be affected by frictionally generated heat. That was the way any German design would have proceeded in place of using exotic metal for the entire craft.

A German scientist named Manfred Schauberger stated in correspondence of the 1950’s that he worked at the Matthausen concentration camp directing technically oriented prisoners and German scientists in the successful construction of a saucer-shaped aircraft.

“The “flying saucer” which was flight-tested on the 19th February 1945 near Prague and which attained a height of 15,000 meters in 3 minutes (that’s 48,825 feet or 16,000 FPM!) and a horizontal speed of 2,200 km/hours (1,366 MPH!), was constructed according to a Model 1 built at Matthausen concentration camp in collaboration with the first-class stress-analyst and propulsion engineers assigned to me there.

“It was only after the end of the war that I came to hear, through one of the workers under my direction, a Czech, that further, intensive development was in progress:
From what I understand, just before the end of the war, the machine was supposed to have been destroyed on Keitel’s orders. That’s the last I heard of it.”

“In this affair, several armament specialists were also involved who appeared at the works in Prague, shortly before my return to Vienna, and asked that I demonstrate the fundamental basis of it:

“The creation of an atomic low-pressure zone, which develops in seconds when either air or water is caused to move radially and axially under conditions of a falling temperature gradient.” (Any physicists out there please fill the author in on this sentence segment. Sounds like spinning air or water that is quickly refrigerated creates the atomic low-pressure zone!?)

Curiously, Schauberger and his son lived in the United States for a short time after the war, where he was reported to be working on a top-secret project in Texas for the US Government.

On February 23, the newest “anti-gravitational” engines of the Kugelblitz were tested and then extracted from the craft. The airframe of the Kugelblitz, minus the engines, was blown up by SS personnel and the scientists. Plans and engines were shipped out of Germany to the South Polar regions, where the Germans had maintained a rumored underground facility active since 1941. German expeditions to the Polar Regions are well-documented including photographic evidence. Two days later, on February 25, the underground plant at Khala was closed and all the workers sent to Buchenwald and gassed.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

"The creation of an atomic low-pressure zone, which develops in seconds when either air or water is caused to move radially and axially under conditions of a falling temperature gradient.” (Any physicists out there please fill the author in on this sentence segment. Sounds like spinning air or water that is quickly refrigerated creates the atomic low-pressure zone!?)

Sounds much like the same principle that is used where I work. (We apply coatings to lenses in vacuum chamber machines.)
Cryogenically chilled atmosphere creates a suction effect and is utilized to pull normal room temperature atmosphere out of the coating chamber at a rapid rate.

Something I read once about the propulsion system of flying discs mentioned that the air around the outside of this type of power source is chilled. I'm not a physicist, so can't exactly explain it all,....sorry.

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

Nazi Flying Saucers!

I'm unsure about the physics, as it's been years since my last class, but wouldn't it make for a great pulp adventure novel or serial?

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

It sure would Tony!

I'm unsure about the physics, as it's been years since my last class, but wouldn't it make for a great pulp adventure novel or serial?

Write it! Would be far better fare for a movie than most of the junk they've been making these days.

 

[Hondo]

Write it! Would be far better fare for a movie than most of the junk they've been making these days.

Sounds like an episode from the “Twilight Zone” story line: a lone WWII era B-17 lands, in small town airport, crew members say they were abducted by Nazi’s working with aliens and then….?

Would make a great if not interesting movie, and NOT a made for TV thing.