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54 The Hunt for Zero Point
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If any of this actually happened, there is no trace of it.
Habermohl is said to have been captured by the Russians at the Letov
factory, a German-administered aircraft plant outside Prague, and, after
a period of detention, sent to work at a top secret Soviet aircraft design
bureau east of Moscow.
Again, no one could say for sure whether he had even existed at all.
My research showed the Italian, Bellonzo, was real enough, except
Lusar had misspelled his name. In 1950, Professor Giuseppe Belluzzo, a
former industry minister in Mussolini's cabinet, started talking about
disc-shaped "flying bombs" that he claimed to have worked on during
the war and passed on to the Germans, who had subsequently developed
them into working prototypes.
Belluzzo was also convinced that these weapons were the basis of the
flying-saucer sightings that had gripped much of America for the best
part of three years and that they were now under further development
inside the Soviet Union. Beyond the fact that Belluzzo, like Schriever,
was real, his claims also remain un verifiable. Interestingly, though, he
started talking to the media just a few days before Schriever, leading
some researchers to reason that Schriever, a man who like so many other
Germans in 1950 was struggling to make ends meet, had invented his
entire story.
In fact, the Legend lacked a single item of corroborating data. There
was nothing in any archive or museum, no photograph, no indisputable
piece of testimony, to say that any of it was true.
There were splits and schisms in the Legend, just as there are orthodox
and unorthodox branches within major religions. The other strand to the
myth that I had to pay attention to was Vesco's. I had managed to obtain
a copy of his book, Intercept—But Don't Shoot (published 1971), and
scrutinize it. What was beguiling about Vesco's account was the certainty
with which he presented his case. Vesco, who was 22 years old when the
war ended and said to have been well connected with technical experts
within the Italian Air Force at the time he wrote Intercept, claimed that
he pieced together his account of the top secret development effort
behind the foo-fighter program from sources inside the Italian military
and from Allied intelligence reports published after the war.
What also made Vesco's account worth more than a cursory glance was
the fact that it "detailed" a completely different development effort from
the Schriever/Lusar account. Vesco claimed that there were two kinds of
foo-fighters. One was unpiloted and remotely controlled; in effect, a