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eveal that such technology was gradually "seeded" into American
industry once its principles of operation were known. Finally, the
most exact description of an advanced technology in apparent
advance of 1947 American capabilities is found at the very end of
Part II, with its description of thin plastic sheets coating by a film of
silver on which was inscribed a fine grid like pattern of lines, circles
and intersecting patterns. What is described here sounds very much
like a 1947 description of an integrated circuit.
But what is remarkable is the conclusion drawn from all this
technical detail: "Interplanetary space travel is possible...." 30 This is
the conclusion reached by analysis of all the preceding extensive
technological summary. Yet, the document's own stated "observed
characteristic" - speeds of a mere 1,200 MPH - do not support this
conclusion at all, as was previously noted. One is in the presence, in
other words, of two very different data-sets, even where the
technology is concerned.
However, it is equally crucial to observe that all other
technological data points can be explained by reference to specific
achievements of the Nazi secret weapons research. We will now
consider these in detail. The metal of the craft, we are initially told,
is some white-colored iron-basedmetal having the characteristics of
high grade steel that was "cold-formed and heat treated." 31 The
process of forming and molding high tensile steel was in fact called
"cold extrusion" and it was a technology that the Germans had
perfected during the war. Moreover, the document also notes that
the "lack of wings, flaps, stabilizers, and surface control features
suggests that the craft is a lifting body," 32 a design principle well in
keeping with the most advanced German wartime research into
discoid aerodynes.
A further connection to known Nazi research interests is found
in paragraph two: "The low profile ratio of 6-to-l gives the
aerodyne a great advantage in overcoming the restrictions of the
boundary layer effect..." 33 The boundary layer, as we have already
30
Ibid., p. 75,par. 2.
31
Ibid., p. 69.,par. 1.
32
Ibid., p. 69,par. 4.
33
Ibid., par. 2.
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