During World War 2, Germany produced a number of disks which actually flew. The German flying saucers were produced by Victor Schauberger, who was an Austrian inventor. These flying saucers were based on liquid vortex propulsion which propelled it to fly. One flying saucer, which was destroyed at Leonstein, had a diameter of 1.5 meters and weighed 135 kilos. The disk was started by an electric motor of one twentieth horsepower. Its lift-off energy was supplied by a turbine. Schauberger believed that if water or air is rotated into a twisting form of oscillation known as 'colloidal', a build up of energy results, which, with immense power, can cause levitation. In one experiment, the apparatus rose upwards trailing a blue-green and then a silver glow. After the war, the Russians blew up Schauberger's apartment in Leonstein. Schauberger is said to have worked on a top secret project for the U.S Government after the war. But he died shortly afterward because of ill health in 1958. These flying saucers never saw any action in combat but what is remarkable is that they actually flew and levitated in air in Nazi Germany during World War 2. Bibliography Vesco, Renato and Childress, David: Man-Made UFO'S 1944-1994: 50 Years of Suppression: Adventures Unlimited Press, Stelle, Illinois, 1994. Back to Table of Contents -- World War Two Newsletter September 2002 Back to World War Two Newsletter List of Issues Back to MagWeb Magazine List © Copyright 2002 by Shahram Khan. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com