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his death in November 1999. According to them, Vesco didn't care
whether people believed him or not.
"He was very correct," one of them told me over the phone, "so it's
very hard to believe that he made it all up."
But where was the proof?
Vesco claimed that the evidence for Feuerball and Kugelblitz was to be
found within obscure tracts of the British Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee
(BIOS) reporting system and its successor, the U.S.-U.K.-
administered Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee (CIOS),
published in the immediate aftermath of the war (a number of reports
from which, however, are still withheld). BIOS and CIOS were the
systems employed by the British and the Americans for assessing
German high technology. But researchers had been through all the
available CIOS and BIOS files with a fine-tooth comb and had found
nothing that pointed to anything that described the Fireball or its "older
brother" the Ball Lightning Fighter.
Vesco had stuck to his guns, never wavering from the conclusions he
had espoused in his book: that the Germans had developed a truly
revolutionary new form of air vehicle; that it was the British who had
happened upon the technology at the end of the war and that they,
together with Canadian scientists, had refined it in the frozen wastelands
of British Columbia and Alberta.
Vehicles resulting from this endeavor, Vesco maintained, were responsible
for the rash of U.S. flying-saucer sightings in 1947.
A familiar pattern was emerging and it wasn't helping my case. The
more I looked, the more "evidence" I found that the Germans had been
tinkering with technology that explained the foo-fighters sightings ofthat
winter of 1944^5.
From Schriever in the 1950s to Vesco's testimony in the 60s—and
others before, during and since—maybe a dozen Germans had come
forward to say that they had worked on flying-saucer technology under
the Nazis. And some, like Viktor Schauberger, were so very nearly
believable.
Schauberger, whose story was contained in notes on the Legend sent to
me by Lawrence Cross, was an Austrian who had supposedly invented a
totally new form of propulsion based upon a principle called "implosion."
No one I spoke to seemed entirely sure what implosion meant, but
according to the stories that had grown up around this man, the
implosion process was at the heart of a radical turbine that Schauberger
had installed in a sub-scale flying disc sometime during the war. A test of