Foreword
In May, 1978, at Stand 111 in a scientific exhibition in
the Hannover Messe Hall, some gentlemen were giving away what
at first sight appeared to be an orthodox scientific newspaper
called Brisant. The paper contained two seemingly
unrelated articles: one on the scientific and ecological value
of the Antarctic, the other about a German World War II flying
saucer construction project, named 'Projekt Saucer'.
The first article, written from a neo-Nazi standpoint, included
an assertion that West Germany should claim back their right
to Queen Maud Land in the Antarctic, which the Nazis stole
from the Norwegians during World War II and renamed 'Neu Schwabenland'.
The second article, which asserted that the German scientists
were the first, but not the only ones, to construct highly
advanced saucer-shaped aircraft, was accompanied by reproductions
of technical drawings of a World War II flying saucer.
The unnamed author failed to name the designer of the flying
saucer and claimed that the drawings had been altered by the
West German government to render them 'safe' for publication.
Adding weight to his claim, he also pointed out that during
the Second World War, all such inventions, whether civilian
or military, would have been submitted to the nearest patent
office where, under paragraphs 30a and 99 of the Patent-und
Strafgezetsbuch, they would have been routinely classified
as 'secret', confiscated, and passed on to one of Himmler's
many SS research establishments... and at the end of the war
some of those patents disappeared into secret Soviet files,
others disappeared into equally secret British and American
files, and the remainder disappeared with 'missing' German
scientists and SS troops.
The rest of the article was just as intriguing. What it was
claiming is that throughout the course of the Second World
War the Germans sent ships and planes to Queen Maud Land,
or Neu Schwabenland, in the Antarctic with equipment for massive
underground complexes, similar to those they had constructed
in Thuringia and the Harz Mountains, in Germany; that at the
end of the war, some of the scientists and engineers who had
worked on Projekt Saucer escaped from Germany by submarine
and ended up in an underground base in the Antarctic, where
they continued to construct even more advanced flying saucers;
and that the Americans and Soviets, upon learning about this,
then used their captured German scientists and technical papers
for the secret construction of their own flying saucers. Which
according to Brisant explains why, even before glasnost,
all the nations of the world, even the Soviets and the Americans,
had cooperated with one-another only in the Antarctic. In
short, the flying saucers seen by so many people since World
War II, are not extraterrestrial spacecraft, but are, in fact,
extraordinarily advanced, top-secret, man-made machines. They
come from right here on Earth.
An unlikely scenario or a frightening truth? Intrigued by
this material, but uncertain of its veracity, I decided to
turn it into a work of fiction. During my two years of intensive
research, I uncovered written and photographic material which
proved beyond doubt that Nazi Germany had in fact initiated
a research programme for the development of saucer-shaped
aircraft; that at the close of the war seasoned Allied pilots
were submitting official reports about harassment by 'balls
of fire' that tailed them and made their aircraft and radar
malfunction; that one of the leading members of Germany's
Projekt Saucer development team disappeared into the Soviet
Union and another went to work with German rocket expert,
Werner von Braun, for NASA, in the United States; that most
of the known post-war 'tailless' aircraft and 'flying wings'
were constructed in the wilds of Canada; that the Canadian
AVRO flying saucer, the existence of which was officially
denied until it was photographed illicitly by an American
journalist, was later handed over to the U.S., all too publicly
proclaimed to have been a failure, then placed on display
in the U.S. Air Force Museum in Fort Eustis, Virginia; and,
finally, that articles about man-made flying saucers, including
the German Kugelblitz and the Canadian AVRO-Car prototype,
had been published not only by the 'lunatic' fringe but by
highly respected aeronautical magazines such as Luftfahrt
International, the Royal Air Force Flying Review,
and the U.S. News & World Report. So flying saucers,
whether primitive or highly advanced, were certainly constructed
in Nazi Germany and post-war Canada, in the latter case with
the aid of the United States.
In 1980, my 615-page novel, Genesis, based on a mass
of research material, including that mentioned above, was
published. It became a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic,
eventually dropped off the bestseller lists, but then became
a 'cult' book, and now, ten years after its publication, it
remains in print. Reviewing the novel on its publication in
the United States, Publishers Weekly said: 'Harbinson
has drawn so heavily on factual material and integrated it
so well into the text that the book begins to read like non-fiction.'
This conclusion was drawn by other reviewers and over the
years I received many letters from readers who obviously thought
the same and asked me to tell them which parts of the book
were fact and which were fiction. Since responding individually
to those many requests would have been an exhausting endeavour,
I naturally avoided doing so. However, a continuing fascination
with the subject, encouraged by the new, often startling data
that continued to come my way via readers, UFO organisations
and my own researches, eventually encouraged me to expand
the original novel into a four-book series, Projekt Saucer,
which would include much of this new material. It also convinced
me that there was enough material for a non-fiction book on
this unique, intriguing and often frightening subject.
The following pages are an attempt to separate fact from fiction
regarding whether or not UFO or, more accurately, flying saucers,
originate right here on Earth and have been designed and constructed,
possibly in secret cooperation, by European, Soviet, Canadian
and American scientists. If the facts contained herein point
to man-made flying saucers, then what we are faced with is
an unprecedented, international cover-up... and the most nightmarish
official secret of our times.
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