Showing posts with label WWI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WWI. Show all posts
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Strange Case of The World War One UFOS
WORLD War One, London: a German airship is pounding the capital with bombs.
Several aircraft are scrambled to attack the enemy raider.
But as well as the giant Zeppelin a mysterious object is seen in the sky by the British pilots.
“One of them described it as looking like a railway carriage with the blinds down,” says Nigel Watson, who has investigated the century-old sighting.
“One pilot took some shots with his revolver but the object flew away out of range.” . . .
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Red Baron Shot Down UFO Over the Trenches
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By Warren Manger
The Mirror
2-25-15
Stranger and scarier things than fighter pilots were patrolling the skies above the battlefields of France, according to a new book.
During the First World War soldiers and civilians reported a string of paranormal phenomena that historians and UFO experts have struggled to explain.
So much so that it raises the question, were aliens watching us 30 years before the fabled crash landing at Roswell, New Mexico?Some of these spectacular sightings feature in a new book, UFOs of the First World War, by Nigel Watson.
The most famous flyer of the First World War was the German pilot Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron.
No human pilot could match his skills in the air - and apparently neither could aliens.
He supposedly spotted an UFO that looked like an upside down silver saucer with orange lights during an early morning mission in the clear blue skies above Belgium in the spring of 1917.
Fellow German Air Force ace Peter Waitzrick, who reportedly witnessed the dogfight, said: “We were terrified because we’d never seen anything like it before. The Baron immediately opened fire and the thing went down like a rock, shearing off tree limbs as it crashed into the woods.”
Two occupants allegedly survived the crash and clambered from the wreck before running into the trees. . . .
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
CIA Releases Six of The Oldest Secret Documents in the U.S. Government Archives
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By Peter Finn
The Washington Post
Here’s the secret, according to one of the six oldest classified documents in possession of the Central Intelligence Agency:
“Mix 5 drams copper acetol arsenate. 3 ounces acetone and add 1 pint amyl alcohol (fusil-oil). Heat in water bath — steam rising will dissolve the sealing material of its mucilage, wax or oil.”
But there’s a warning for the intrepid spy: “Do not inhale fumes.”
Nearly a century after it was written, the recipe was released Tuesday by the CIA as part of a cache of six World War I-era documents. . . .
