It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Originally posted by OzWeatherman
Plus, if they had that kind of vehicle, dont you think the second world war would have come to an end right there, rather than 3 years later, for the other side
THE ROCKET RACKET - Wernher von Braun, Willy Ley, Dr. Robert Goddard, And The Kreisel Teller-p2, In New Mexico and Peenemunde The facts in this section bring forth some very interesting questions which were missed by Charles Higham, in his Trading with the Enemy. Beginning around March 26, 1926, when Dr. Robert Goddard (1882-1945), professor of physics at Clarke University in Massachusetts, launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn. In Germany, Willy Ley had read Hermann Oberth’s book on space travel that year, then wrote his own first book, Trip into Space. He communicated with Oberth, then formed the Verein fur Raumschiffahrt (“Union for Space Travel”). In 1927, Ley introduced Wernher von Braun to the Union, and was von Braun’s first tutor in rocket research.
Also working in rocketry in 1930s New Mexico, was the late Peter Van Dresser, who was the originator of “Van Dresser’s Constant”, a mathematical constant which von Braun and others used to calculate the trajectory of rockets fired into England and Antwerp. Van Dresser was bitter and disgruntled about the fact that Dr. Robert Goddard not only got all the credit for pioneer rocket research, but also had “collaborated with the Nazis”, via his pre-war work with von Braun, while he, Van Dresser, had done more important research, had no truck with the Nazis, and had gotten very little, if any, of the credit.
Originally posted by Phage
No one had any clear idea or view of anything that night. There were no planes in the air, no blimps, no giant butterflies, nothing but possibly a weather balloon and a lot of smoke.
[edit on 2/15/2010 by Phage]
Originally posted by franspeakfree
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
First, there's no clear evidence of any UFO. All I see in that picture are clouds of smoke. Like I said the picture is a Rorschach test, you see what you want to see.
Second, I did provide evidence, that the balloons were launched, were tracked by the people that launched them, that they identified and reported that it was the balloon being shot at.
I am not sure where your going with this but (tongue in cheek) that was my attempt of humour, a UFO is an acronym for Unidentified Flying Object, the army aren't going to fire shell after shell at a cloud of smoke, that would be foolish. I believe this even was witnessed by many people and everyone thought that it was advanced NAZI technology including the army, am I wrong?
Originally posted by seagull
Since there is no real evidence other than this very old, and not very good, picture;
At 3 a.m. on the morning of the raid, the 203rd launched two balloons, one from its headquarters on the Sawtelle Veterans Hospital grounds in Westwood and the other from Battery D, located on the Douglas Aircraft plant site in Santa Monica.
Lieutenant Melvin Timm, officer in charge of Battery D’s meteorological operations, ordered his balloon launched and had notified the filter room–also known as the Flower Street Control Center, where all planes, identified or otherwise, were tracked on a giant, flat table map–of its departure, when ‘all hell broke loose.’
By the time Timm released his balloon, the city had been under red-alert conditions for more than half an hour; searchlights were on and probing the sky; and anti-aircraft gunners, fingers on their triggers, were nervously following the searchlight beams in hopes of spotting the anticipated enemy planes. It was at this time that Sergeant George Holmes, who had launched Battery D's balloon, called Timm, saying he was no longer able to track it, that someone was shooting at it.
At regimental headquarters they were having the same problem. The officer in charge of the meteorological operations at Sawtelle, Lieutenant John E. Moore, recalled: 'As soon as [their] balloon attained altitude and was carried up the coast by the wind, searchlights came on, picked up the balloon and shortly thereafter, 3-inch anti-aircraft guns began firing. Corporal John O'Connell, in charge of tracking the balloon, ran to me and reported, `Lieutenant, they're firing at my balloon!' I went to the theodolite to verify his report and, sure enough, bursts of AA fire were exploding all around it causing it to bounce and dance all over the sky. I immediately reported to our regimental commanding officer, Colonel Ray Watson, that the guns were firing at our balloon and that there were no aircraft in sight.'
"'When Captain Harris gave him my story,' said Timm, 'I was summoned. I was told to keep my mouth shut, and that there had been seven Japanese planes up there. I was also told that if I repeated my story about shooting at a balloon and not enemy planes, I would be put behind bars.'"
At least one unit, the 211th Coast Artillery Regiment, admitted that although its members did not see any planes, they shot anyway.
You mean the one that's on the OP first post?
Originally posted by GhostR1der
Does anyone remember seeing a photo of the battle of LA where a large metallic cylinder is over the city and being fired at? I for the life of me cannot find it yet have seen it multiple times! It was lit up by search lights and appeared to be huge. More timeline fudging?
Originally posted by GhostR1der
Does anyone remember seeing a photo of the battle of LA where a large metallic cylinder is over the city and being fired at? I for the life of me cannot find it yet have seen it multiple times! It was lit up by search lights and appeared to be huge. More timeline fudging?
[edit on 15/2/10 by GhostR1der]
Originally posted by OzWeatherman
I agree with the first part of that post, but judging by the image, it is certainly not a weather balloon.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
But I don't think anybody sees a balloon there.
Originally posted by TimothyMartin
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/37e9c7db7ad0.jpg[/atsimg]
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/2c4d76940b8c.jpg[/atsimg]
Originally posted by ressiv
the germans had very advanced technology !!! per example..the first type of magnatron aboard the U-boats....for heating there food....
Originally posted by loner007
hmm i was under the impression they was shooting at paper balloons releaed by Japan to drop bombs on America using the jet stream....They did release thousands of them....
Originally posted by dalek
Originally posted by TimothyMartin
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/37e9c7db7ad0.jpg[/atsimg]
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/2c4d76940b8c.jpg[/atsimg]
Its OK folks
mystery solved
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/0b26656bbb49.jpg[/atsimg]
Originally posted by Jocko Flocko
Like I said, you can paint turds with gold leaf all day long, but they are still a bunch of turds who lost the war due to horrible leadership. You would think a group of turds who harnessed the powers of "anti-gravity" could shoot down a few Spitfire's huh?