The bombshell documents, released Friday as part of the Trump administration’s UFO disclosure initiative, detailed interviews with a man identified as Paul L Peyrer, who stated he worked around a top-secret German weapons project involving disk-shaped flying craft.
According to the files, Peyerl told the FBI he observed a ‘saucer-shaped vehicle approximately 50 feet in diameter with a dome above’ while assigned to a classified project in the Black Forest region of Germany in 1943 – two years before the Second World War ended.
The newly released memo stated the object was ‘radio-controlled’ and equipped with multiple jet engines mounted around the exterior of the craft.
Peyerl allegedly claimed the aircraft could ‘rise vertically, maneuver sideways and hover motionless in the air’ before reaching reported speeds of 1,500mph and altitudes of 40,000 feet.
‘According to Peyerl, the object was designed and engineered by scientists working for Germany during World War II,’ the FBI report stated.
The files further claimed the saucer-like craft was part of a secret Nazi weapons program developed to attack Allied forces near the end of the conflict.
The startling allegations were among hundreds of newly released records, photographs and videos uploaded Friday to the Department of War’s website under President Donald Trump’s long-awaited UFO transparency order.
The documents were dated June 8, 1967, and originated from the FBI’s Miami field office, which forwarded Peyerl’s claims to FBI headquarters in Washington for review.
One internal memo described Peyerlas appearing ‘genuinely concerned about the existence of vehicles of allegedly Nazi origin operated since November 1944.’
The report noted that the FBI decided to forward the information to the US Air Force because of increasing public interest surrounding UFO sightings during the 1960s.
According to the files, Peyerl first approached the FBI in 1957 after attempting to contact the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) regarding his alleged knowledge of the mysterious aircraft.
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