From: jan@cyberzone.net (Jan Aldrich) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 14:22:23 -0700 Fwd Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 08:07:27 -0400 Subject: Re: Foo-fighters over Greenland? > Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 09:42:25 > From: "usa.net" <phryman@usa.net> > To: updates@globalserve.net > Subject: RE: Foo-fighters over Greenland? > >Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:52:18 -0700 > >From: jan@cyberzone.net (Jan Aldrich) > >To: updates@globalserve.net > >Subject: Foo-fighters over Greenland? > >THE SAGA UFO REPORT for October 1977, carried an article > >entitled "UFO Crisis over Greenland" by Rufus Drake. A > >sighting report in the article tells of an encounter near > >Thule. A B-17 bomber being ferried to England in 1942 > >encountered "incandescent flying objects" thought to be > >from a German aircraft carrier....of course, there were no > >German aircraft carriers. > ><Snip> > >The Germans did indeed have an aircraft carrier which the > >Soviets towed off after World War II ended. In 1950 a > >newspaper in Berlin claimed that the Soviets were using the > >refloated and refitted aircraft carrier to launch missiles > >over Sweden. Does anyone know the whereabouts of the old > >Graf Zeppelin aircraft carrier in 1950? Was it indeed in > >the Soviet fleet? > >A report to US or Allied intelligence about aircraft operating > >from a possible German aircraft carrier in 1942 would have > >probably caused a sensation. Has anyone seen anything like > >this in naval or aviation histories? I would like to track > >down this very interest report. > >Jan Aldrich > >Project 1947 > Jan, > Here is what I could track down right off the bat about the fate of > the Graf Zepplin. I will do a little more digging when I get a few spare > minutes to see if I can find out anything else. > Graf Zepplin > Built by Duetsche Were, Kiel. Laid down 28 Dec 1936, launched > 8 Dec 1938, suspended at 85-90% complete 5/1940. Work resumed > 3 May 1942, but stopped again 30 Jan 1943. Scuttled 1/1945. > Raised and siezed by the Soviets 1946, departed in tow for > Leningrad 27 Sept 1947 but never arrived; she was probably mined > in route. Other reports indicate she capsized due to an overload > of war booty, or that she reached Leningrad and was later > scrapped, possibly because of mine damage. > Hope This Helps, > Mike Modrow Thanks, Mike, That does help. It makes it very doubtful that the Graf Zeppelin was the source of the "ghost rockets" or any other aerial phenomena over Scandinavia....I had always discounted that report. I will past this on to Anders Liljegern who is currently working on a ghost rocket report in English. Somewhere, years ago I read an account about a German base in western Greenland during the early part of WW II. My memory of this is not too good here: seems that Americans at a weather base made a raid on the Germans and destroyed their supplies forcing the Germans to leave. I think they traded insults over the radio. Anyway, I doubt if a foo-fighter report near Thule could be explained by German aircraft. Jan Aldrich Project 1947
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