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Narrator:
HAD THE NAZIS DEVELOPED
A BRAND-NEW FLYING CRAFT

AT A SECRET RESEARCH FACILITY
IN NORTHERN GERMANY?

DID THE AMERICANS AND RUSSIANS
STEAL THAT TECHNOLOGY

AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR?

AND WAS IT,
AS MANY HAVE CLAIMED,

A MAN-MADE FLYING SAUCER?

Fanthorpe:
THERE WERE SOME VERY STRANGE
EXPERIMENTAL NAZI AIRCRAFT

IN THE AIR BEFORE THE WAR ENDED.

Butler: THERE COULD WELL HAVE
BEEN PROTOTYPE GERMAN AIRCRAFT

THAT BORE SOME SORT OF
SIMILARITY TO A FLYING SAUCER.

Theakston:
THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN, MAYBE,

SOME KIND OF FLYING OBJECT
IN HERE...

Witkowski: INSIDE.

THAT COULD HAVE TAKEN OFF
VERTICALLY.

PERHAPS.

Verga:
U.S. MILITARY WERE WELL AWARE
ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY

OF THE GERMANS

BECAUSE
THEY CAPTURED A LOT OF STAFF.

Gough: THE REASON
THE NAZIS BUILT THESE CRAFT

WERE FOR MAINTAINING
THEIR MILITARY SUPREMACY.

THEY DIDN'T HESITATE
TO KILL THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE

IN ORDER TO KEEP THIS SECRET
BEING A SECRET.

WE WERE RIGHT ON THE BRINK
OF THAT DELIVERY BEING MADE.

IT COULD HAVE CHANGED HISTORY.

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Narrator:
IT'S ONE OF THE GREAT MYSTERIES
OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

HAD THE NAZIS
REALLY DEVELOPED A CRAFT

THAT WAS INVISIBLE TO RADAR,

ABLE TO OUTMANEUVER
ENEMY AIRCRAFT,

AND TRAVEL ACROSS THE GLOBE
AT HYPERSONIC SPEED?

IT SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING
FROM SCIENCE FICTION,

BUT THERE ARE MANY
WHO BELIEVE THEY DID.

JOURNALIST JAMIE THEAKSTON IS
HOPING TO UNRAVEL THE EVIDENCE

AND FIND OUT WHETHER
THERE REALLY WERE NAZI UFOs.

Fanthorpe:
THERE WAS A LOT OF SUPPOSITION

TOWARDS THE END
OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

THAT THE NAZI AIR FORCE...
THE LUFTWAFFE...

WERE EXPERIMENTING
WITH FIGHTER PLANES AND BOMBERS

THAT WERE FASTER
AND MORE DANGEROUS

THAN THE HURRICANE
OR THE SPITFIRE.

THEY FELT THAT THEY HAD GOT
THE WORST OF EVERY AERIAL BATTLE

IN WHICH THEY'D BEEN
ENGAGED WITH OUR MEN,

AND SO THEY WERE
LOOKING FOR SUPERIOR WEAPONRY.

Butler: WE HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT
AT THE START OF WORLD WAR II,

AIRCRAFT DESIGN WAS STILL,
RELATIVELY SPEAKING,

IN ITS INFANCY.

SO NEW IDEAS WERE BEING
TRIED OUT ALL THE TIME.

HITLER IN PARTICULAR
AND THE BIG GENERALS AROUND HIM

WERE VERY INTERESTED
IN WONDER WEAPONS,

AND THE MORE DESPERATE
THEY BECAME,

THE MORE INTERESTED THEY WERE
IN WONDER WEAPONS.

Narrator:
THE REALITY IS THAT EVEN IF
THE NAZIS HAD DEVELOPED A UFO,

THEN IT CAME TOO LATE FOR THEM

TO TURN AROUND THEIR FORTUNES
IN THE WAR.

BUT NEWLY-RELEASED DOCUMENTS

AND DEATHBED CONFESSIONS
FROM SCIENTISTS

INVOLVED
IN TOP-SECRET NAZI DEVELOPMENT

PAINTS A PICTURE OF A RACE
TO DEVELOP A SUPER-CRAFT

CODE-NAMED DIE GLOCKE,
OR "THE BELL,"

WHICH WOULD HAVE CHANGED
THE FACE OF HISTORY FOREVER.

IN FACT, THE IDEA OF THE NAZIS
DEVELOPING A FLYING SAUCER

WASN'T SUCH A CRAZY IDEA AT ALL.

THEY HAD, FOR YEARS, BEEN AT THE
CUTTING EDGE OF AIRCRAFT DESIGN

WITH EARLY PROTOTYPES
FOR VERTICAL-TAKEOFF JETS

AND EVEN FIXED-WING AND STEALTH
TECHNOLOGY.

Fanthorpe: GERMAN ENGINEERS WERE
AND STILL ARE

AMONG THE VERY BEST
IN THE WORLD.

IF THEY SET THEIR HEARTS
AND MINDS ON DEVELOPING,

WHETHER IT WAS AN AIRCRAFT
OR A SUBMARINE

OR ANYTHING NEW AND UNUSUAL
AND SUPERIOR TO

WHAT THEY CONSIDERED
TO BE THEIR OPPONENTS,

THEN I BELIEVE IT WAS
WITHIN THEIR CAPABILITIES,

THAT THERE WERE
SOME VERY STRANGE,

VERY UNUSUAL
EXPERIMENTAL NAZI AIRCRAFT

IN THE AIR BEFORE THE WAR ENDED.

Gough: ALL INDICATIONS ARE
THE NAZIS WERE AHEAD OF

ALL OF THE ALLIED NATIONS
IN TERMS OF TECHNOLOGY.

FIRSTHAND ACCOUNTS TELL US

THAT FROM AS EARLY AS THE '20s
AND '30s,

THEIR TECHNOLOGY FAR OUTSTRIPPED
ANYTHING ELSE ON THE PLANET.

Narrator:
FURTHER EVIDENCE FOR HIGHLY
ADVANCED NAZI FLYING CRAFT

CAME IN THE FORM OF THE
SO-CALLED FOO FIGHTERS.

THEY WERE UNEXPLAINED BALLS
OF EXTREMELY FAST-MOVING LIGHT

THAT STARTED BUZZING
ALLIED AIRCRAFT OVER GERMANY.

THEY WERE FIRST REPORTED
IN NOVEMBER 1944,

TOWARDS THE END OF THE WAR,

AND WERE SOMETIMES SEEN
AS SINGLE BALLS OF LIGHT

STREAKING ACROSS THE SKY
IN FRONT OF ALLIED AIRCRAFT.

AND SOMETIMES
THERE WERE MANY OF THEM

FLYING OFF, AROUND,
AND UNDER THE WINGS.

THERE WERE REPORTS
FROM OUR AIRMEN

AND, STRANGELY ENOUGH,
FROM THE LUFTWAFFE FLYERS

LATER ON

ABOUT THESE MYSTERIOUS
FOO FIGHTERS,

WHICH WERE FASTER
AND WHICH HAD BETTER ARMORY

AND WHICH CAUSED
A LOT OF DAMAGE.

THE WHOLE THING WAS HUSHED UP
FOR MANY YEARS,

BUT IT LOOKS AS THOUGH THE
GERMAN DESIGNERS AND DEVELOPERS

HAD PRODUCED SEVERAL
EXPERIMENTAL MACHINES

WHICH WERE GENERALLY
CALLED FOO FIGHTERS.

Narrator:
SOME PILOTS DESCRIBED THEM AS
RESEMBLING CHRISTMAS-TREE LIGHTS

AND REPORTED THAT THEY SEEMED
TO TOY WITH THE AIRCRAFT,

MAKING WILD TURNS
BEFORE SIMPLY VANISHING.

PILOTS AND AIRCREW REPORTED THAT

THE OBJECTS FLEW IN FORMATION
WITH THEIR AIRCRAFT

AND BEHAVED AS IF
UNDER INTELLIGENT CONTROL,

AS THEY COULD NEVER BE
OUTMANEUVERED OR SHOT DOWN.

THE PHENOMENON
WAS SO WIDESPREAD

THAT THE MILITARY
TOOK THE SIGHTINGS SERIOUSLY,

SUSPECTING THAT
THE MYSTERIOUS OBJECTS

MIGHT BE SECRET GERMAN WEAPONS.

Gough: IT WOULD APPEAR AS THOUGH
THE NAZIS

BUILT ADVANCED TECHNOLOGICALLY-
SUPERIOR FLYING MACHINES

FOR PURPOSES
OF MILITARY SUPREMACY.

HOWEVER, THEIR RADICAL DESIGN
LED THEM TO BE INTERPRETED

AS BEING
OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL ORIGINS.

Prince:
THE FACT THAT THE FOO FIGHTERS

APPEARED AT THE TIME WHEN
THE NAZIS WERE EXPERIMENTING

WITH THIS KIND OF CRAFT

IS ENORMOUSLY SUGGESTIVE

THAT THE FOO FIGHTERS
WERE ACTUALLY A GERMAN CRAFT,

PERHAPS REMOTE-CONTROLLED.

I WOULDN'T SAY
IT'S PROOF POSITIVE,

'CAUSE IT DEPENDS WHAT YOU THINK
OF ALL THE OTHER UFO REPORTS

THAT, YOU KNOW,
HAVE COME OUT SINCE THEN.

YOU KNOW, IF THEY'RE
EXTRATERRESTRIAL CRAFT,

THEY COULD HAVE BEEN
BUZZING AROUND THEN.

BUT IT'S CERTAINLY SUGGESTIVE,

AND IT CERTAINLY TIES IN
WITH THE IDEA

THAT THESE WERE ACTUALLY
KIND OF NAZI SECRET AIRCRAFT.

Narrator: FROM 1944 ONWARDS,

THE ALLIES ALL BUT OBLITERATED
THE NAZI INDUSTRIAL HEARTLAND

IN NORTHERN GERMANY,

SO IT'S BELIEVED THAT HITLER
AND HIS HIGH COMMAND

MADE THE DECISION

TO MOVE THEIR MOST SENSITIVE
AND SECRET PROJECTS,

INCLUDING THE UFO DEVELOPMENT,

OUT OF THE FRONT LINE

AND DOWN TO WHAT IS NOW
THE AREA OF WROCLAW

IN SOUTHWEST POLAND

ON THE BORDER
OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC.

IT WAS REMOTE, MOUNTAINOUS,
AND OUT OF THE WAY.

THEY CONSTRUCTED
A HUGE UNDERGROUND FACILITY

CALLED DER RIESE,
OR "THE GIANT,"

IN WHAT TODAY IS KNOWN AS
THE OWL MOUNTAINS.

IT WAS A SERIES
OF INTERCONNECTED BASES

BUILT DEEP INTO THE MOUNTAINS,

SAFE FROM AERIAL DETECTION
OR BOMBS.

DIFFERENT FACILITIES DEVELOPED

DIFFERENT TOP-SECRET
FLYING CRAFT AND WEAPONS.

THIS INSURED
THAT IF ANY ONE BASE

WAS DISCOVERED OR COMPROMISED,

THEN THE OTHERS
COULD STILL CONTINUE.

THE CODE NAME FOR THE PROJECT
WAS LOTHAR,

AND ACCORDING TO
INTELLIGENCE DOCUMENTS

SEIZED BY THE ALLIES
AFTER THE WAR,

IT BECAME THE HIGHEST PRIORITY
FOR THE GERMAN COMMAND

FROM 1944 ONWARDS.

THEY WERE DEVELOPING SOMETHING

THAT THEY BELIEVED
COULD WIN THE WAR.

THE NAZIS HAD BEEN SO BRUTALLY
BOMBED BY THE ALLIED FORCES.

ALL OF THEIR INFRASTRUCTURE
WAS UNDER THREAT,

ALL OF THEIR DISCOVERIES,
SO THEY HAD NO CHOICE.

THEY MADE A CONSCIOUS DECISION.

"WE NEED TO MOVE THIS
THE HECK OUT OF HERE,"

AND SO THEY MOVED IT
TO SOUTHERN POLAND.

Fanthorpe: THEY WERE ACTUALLY
DELVING INTO MOUNTAINS.

THEY WERE MAKING BUNKERS
OF A KIND

THAT NO BOMBS OF THAT PERIOD

WOULD BE ABLE TO DO MORE
THAN SCRATCH THE SURFACE.

AND FROM HITLER'S POINT OF VIEW,

IT WAS THE CLEVEREST THING
HE COULD HAVE DONE

WITH HIS PRODUCTION MACHINERY

AND WITH HIS, YOU KNOW,
DAWNING ROCKETRY.

HE WANTED IT SAFE
FROM THE R.A.F.,

AND HE GOT IT
AS SAFE AS HE COULD.

Narrator: THE NAZIS ABANDONED
THE UNDERGROUND FACILITIES

IN THE LAST WEEKS OF THE WAR,

BUT THE REMAINS OF DER RIESE
ARE STILL THERE,

DEEP INSIDE
THE OWL MOUNTAINS,

ALTHOUGH MUCH OF THE COMPLEX
HAS EITHER COLLAPSED OVER TIME

OR BECOME FLOODED.

A WARSAW-BASED MILITARY
HISTORIAN AND JOURNALIST,

IGOR WITKOWSKI,

WHO HAS BEEN RESEARCHING
THE TOP-SECRET PROJECTS,

AGREED TO TAKE JAMIE INTO
TWO OF THE REMAINING FACILITIES

WHICH ARE STILL ACCESSIBLE.

THE FIRST ONE
IS KNOWN AS THE OSOWKA BASE,

AND IT'S BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN
THE HOME OF DIE GLOCKE,

OR THE BELL, UFO.

Witkowski:
WE ARE GOING TO ONE OF
THE UNDERGROUND FACILITIES

IN THE SOUTHWESTERN POLAND
WHICH IS CALLED RIESE.

IT IS PART
OF A VERY LARGE COMPLEX

THAT THE GERMANS WERE BUILDING
HERE DURING THE WAR.

AND IT WAS
ONE OF THE MOST SECRET,

IF NOT THE MOST SECRET,
UNDERTAKING OF THE S.S.,

BECAUSE I HAVE WRITTEN IT,
LITERALLY, IN A DOCUMENT.

IT WAS SOMETHING OF
VERY HIGH PRIORITY.

DO YOU THINK THEY WERE BUILDING
SOME KIND OF FLYING CRAFT THERE?

THERE IS A CONSTRUCTION
WHICH RESEMBLES A TEST RIG

FOR VERTICALLY TAKING OFF
AND LANDING CRAFTS.

AND THERE ARE ALSO
TESTIMONIES

OF SOME WITNESSES
FROM THE TIME OF THE WAR...

FORMER PRISONERS
WHICH WORKED HERE.

AND THEY HAVE DESCRIBED
SOME OBJECTS

HOVERING NOISELESSLY
IN THE AIR.

WHAT LIES INSIDE THIS ABANDONED
NAZI UNDERGROUND BASE?

WAS IT HOME
TO A TOP-SECRET UFO PROJECT?

WAS IT USED TO ASSEMBLE
A SAUCER-SHAPED CRAFT?

OR WAS ITS USE
FAR MORE TERRESTRIAL?

MORE REVELATIONS
IN THIS FASCINATING STORY

WHEN "FORBIDDEN HISTORY"
RETURNS.

Narrator:
JOURNALIST JAMIE THEAKSTON
IS INVESTIGATING THE CLAIMS

THAT THE NAZIS SECRETLY
DEVELOPED ADVANCED FLYING CRAFT

TOWARDS THE END OF WORLD WAR II,

WHICH THEY TEST-FLEW
ACROSS EUROPE

AND WHICH WERE MISTAKEN FOR UFOs
BY ALLIED AIRCRAFT.

IT SOUNDS A FANTASTICAL IDEA,
BUT RECENTLY RELEASED

DECLASSIFIED INTELLIGENCE
DOCUMENTS AND FOOTAGE

SEEMS TO BACK THIS IDEA UP.

THEY REVEAL A NUMBER OF
TOP-SECRET ENGINEERING PROJECTS

TAKING PLACE IN SPECIALLY-BUILT
UNDERGROUND BASES

IN SOUTHWEST POLAND,

WHERE VERTICAL-TAKEOFF
AND HYPERSONIC FLYING CRAFT

WERE BEING DESIGNED AND TESTED.

THE PROJECT
WAS CODE-NAMED LOTHAR,

AND LOCAL MILITARY HISTORIAN
IGOR WITKOWSKI

AGREED TO TAKE JAMIE
INTO ONE OF THE FACILITIES

HIDDEN INSIDE A MOUNTAIN.

Theakston: AND SO,
WAS THIS A MINE BEFORE, IGOR?

NO, IT WAS BUILT
AS AN ARMAMENT FACILITY

OR A COMMON POST, ANYWAY,
A TYPICALLY WARTIME FACILITY.

RIGHT, OKAY.

WHEN DID THEY
START BUILDING IT?

THEY STARTED TO BUILD IT
IN 1943.

IT WAS BUILT,
ESSENTIALLY,

BY THE PRISONERS
OF A CONCENTRATION CAMP

WHICH WAS LOCATED
CLOSE HERE.

OKAY.

AND SO, WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED
HERE IN THIS FACILITY?

ACCORDING TO ONE OF
THE PRISONERS

WHICH HAD ACCESS
TO GERMAN DOCUMENTS,

IT WOULD BE
A FINAL ASSEMBLY LINE.

RIGHT.

AND WHAT WOULD HAVE
BEEN IN HERE,

THESE SORT OF WINDOWS
HERE?

OH,
IS THAT A MACHINE GUN?

Fanthorpe:
THESE UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES
WERE QUITE PHENOMENAL.

THERE WERE HUNDREDS, THOUSANDS
OF SLAVE LABORERS

DIGGING AWAY
INTO THE HEART OF THE MOUNTAIN

TO CREATE THIS IMPREGNABLE
UNDERGROUND CITY.

AND THE DEFENSES OUTSIDE,

THE WAY THE GUN EMPLACEMENTS
WERE READY TO MOW DOWN

ANY INFANTRY
WHO WERE APPROACHING

THIS UNDERGROUND CITY'S
ENTRANCE...

AND IT WAS INSIDE
THOSE IMPREGNABLE LABYRINTHS

IN THE MOUNTAIN

THAT THE GERMANS WERE CONTINUING
TO DEVELOP

THEIR ADVANCED AIRCRAFT
AND ALL OF THE OTHER NEW WEAPONS

THAT HITLER HAD ORDERED.

OKAY, YOU CAN KIND OF
IMAGINE THIS PLACE

BEING FULL
OF GERMAN SOLDIERS.

WHAT'S THIS HERE?

THESE ARE REMNANTS
OF VARIOUS KINDS OF ARMAMENT

THAT WAS USED BY THE S.S.
AND WAS FOUND AFTER THE WAR.

RIFLES, BARRELS,
EVERYTHING YOU SEE.

Theakston:
WHAT ARE THESE?

PANZERFAUST ANTITANK
GRENADE LAUNCHERS, FOR EXAMPLE.

THIS IS A MAGAZINE.

YEAH, YEAH,
THAT'S A SHELL THERE.

A SHELL, YEAH.

Narrator: LIKE ANY ABANDONED
MILITARY FACILITY,

THIS BASE WAS AN EERIE PLACE

WITH A NETWORK OF TUNNELS
LEADING TO GUARD ROOMS,

WEAPON STORES,
AND EVEN A TELEPHONE EXCHANGE,

ALL SLOWLY RUSTING
AND ROTTING AWAY UNDERGROUND.

I THINK THEY WERE EXPERIMENTING
WITH NEW DESIGNS

TO SEE WHAT THEY COULD DO,
TO SEE HOW FAST IT COULD BE,

HOW HIGH THEY COULD GO,

WHETHER THEY COULD EVADE RADAR
OR NOT SHOW UP ON RADAR.

I DON'T KNOW
THEY NECESSARILY KNEW

THAT ANY OF THOSE THINGS
WERE GOING TO...

THEY WERE GONNA ACHIEVE
ANY OF THOSE THINGS,

BUT THEY WERE GONNA TRY
AND FIND OUT.

AND TELL ME MORE
ABOUT THE BELL.

THE BELL WAS A DEVICE
WHICH WAS...

IN THE SHAPE OF THE BELL,

BUT IT WAS A KIND OF
ACCELERATOR.

THERE WERE DRUMS OF CYLINDERS
INSIDE

WHICH WERE SPINNING
DURING AN EXPERIMENT

AT A POSITIVE DIRECTION
WITH VERY HIGH SPEEDS.

AND IT WAS SOMETHING
THAT WAS EMITTING

VERY HARMFUL RADIATIONS
OF VARIOUS KINDS.

AND THE BARREL WAS TESTED
UNDERGROUND

IN SPECIAL
UNDERGROUND CHAMBERS,

PROBABLY AS THE ONE
THAT WE CAN SEE HERE.

IT WAS DEVISED
4 OR 5 METERS TALL,

SO IT WOULD TAKE A SIGNIFICANT
PORTION OF SUCH A HOME.

Theakston: AND SO,
THESE ARE TOP-SECRET EXPERIMENTS

THE NAZIS ARE CARRYING OUT
IN THESE TUNNELS?

YES, THESE EXPERIMENTS
WERE SO TOP SECRET

THAT THE ENTIRE FACILITY,
WHERE IT HAS BEEN TESTED,

HAS BEEN BLOCKED.

Fanthorpe:
FUNDAMENTALLY, THE DIE GLOCKE,
OR THE BELL,

WAS FULL OF CERTAIN
DEADLY RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS

IN ORDER TO MAKE IT DO WHAT
THEY WERE HOPING IT WOULD DO.

AND A NUMBER OF THE TOP
SCIENTISTS AND TECHNOLOGISTS

WHO WERE WORKING ON IT
IN THE EXPERIMENTAL STAGE

DIED OF RADIATION POISONING.

IT WAS, IN A DOUBLE SENSE,
A POTENTIALLY DEADLY WEAPON.

Narrator:
ACCORDING TO PLANS DISCOVERED
AT THE END OF THE WAR,

THE BELL WAS ACTUALLY
THE PROPULSION DEVICE

FOR A POWERFUL
VERTICAL-TAKEOFF CRAFT

WHICH HAD TWO LARGE DISCS

ROTATING INSIDE
A CYLINDRICAL OUTER SHELL.

IT WAS THESE DISCS,

POWERED BY A HUGE ENERGY FORCE,
POSSIBLY RADIOACTIVE,

THAT GAVE THE CRAFT
ITS VERTICAL LIFT.

WHETHER IT WAS A FLYING CRAFT
OR JUST A FLYING BOMB,

NO ONE KNOWS.

SO, ESSENTIALLY, THESE ARE LIKE
GIANT, UNDERGROUND SCIENCE LABS.

YES, THE ENTIRE UNDERTAKING
WAS TO BE A CONGLOMERATE

OF INDUSTRIAL
RESEARCH FACILITIES,

COMMON POSTS, SOMETHING LIKE
RESEARCH LABORATORIES

COMBINED WITH AN ARSENAL
OF THE LAST RESORT

THAT THEY COULD USE
TO WIN THE WAR,

EVEN IN 1945
OR LATE 1944.

SO, IT WAS TO BE...

EVERYTHING WAS SUPPOSED TO BE
CONNECTED WITH EACH OTHER,

ALL THE PARTS.

AND, IN ALL,
IT WOULD BE THE SIZE

OF A SMALL,
OR MEDIUM-SIZED, CITY.

Fanthorpe: ONE OF THE THINGS
THAT WE NEED TO REMEMBER

ABOUT THAT STAGE OF THE WAR

WAS THE TREMENDOUS
TECHNOLOGICAL DIFFERENCE

BETWEEN
THESE EXPERIMENTAL PLANES,

THESE NEW, MYSTERIOUS MACHINES,

SOME DISC-SHAPED,
SOME FLYING WINGS,

AND ALL KINDS OF EXPERIMENTS.

THIS, I THINK,
IS WHERE THEY GOT AHEAD OF US.

THEY WERE PREPARED
UNDER THAT CENTRAL LEADERSHIP

WHERE HITLER SAID
HE WANTED SOMETHING

AND BY THUNDER THEY DID IT.

WAS THERE SOME KIND OF UFO
THEY WERE TRYING TO BUILD?

WHAT I CAN SAY
AND WHAT CAN BE VERIFIED,

WHAT IS SUBSTANTIATED

BY THE DOCUMENTS
THAT THEY HAVE FOUND

IS THAT THEY DID WORK ON
AN EXOTIC PROPULSION SYSTEM,

LINKING GRAVITY WITH
QUANTUM PHYSICS, FOR EXAMPLE.

AND FOR THIS...
THIS CAN BE PROVEN.

SO, THE NAZIS WERE TRYING TO
DEVELOP ANTIGRAVITY PROPULSION.

IS THAT WHAT WE'RE SAYING?

YES.

TO THIS DAY, IT IS
THE MOST LIKELY HYPOTHESIS.

Narrator:
WHAT DID THE NAZIS LEAVE BEHIND
IN THIS UNDERGROUND BASE

IN THE DYING DAYS
OF WORLD WAR II?

WHO WAS HITLER'S
SECRET UFO SCIENTIST?

AND WHAT TOP-SECRET TECHNOLOGY
DID THE AMERICANS SEIZE

AFTER THE WAR?

SHOCKING SECRETS ARE REVEALED

WHEN "FORBIDDEN HISTORY"
RETURNS.

Narrator:
JOURNALIST JAMIE THEAKSTON
IS ON THE HUNT

FOR THE TRUTH
ABOUT THE SO-CALLED NAZI UFOs.

DID HITLER SECRETLY COMMISSION
A FLYING-SAUCER PROJECT

IN THE DYING DAYS
OF WORLD WAR II

AS A LAST CHANCE
TO SAVE THE DAY?

IT SOUNDS FANTASTICAL,
BUT RECENTLY,

DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS
AND FOOTAGE

DO LEND SOME CREDIBILITY
TO THE THEORY.

ACCORDING TO LOCAL MILITARY
HISTORIAN IGOR WITKOWSKI,

THE TOP-SECRET PROJECT
WAS CODE-NAMED LOTHAR

AND WAS BASED IN A SERIES
OF HUGE, UNDERGROUND FACILITIES

IN THE OWL MOUNTAINS
OF SOUTHWEST POLAND.

ABANDONED BY THE NAZIS IN A RUSH
AT THE END OF THE WAR,

THEY ARE STILL ACCESSIBLE TODAY.

Witkowski:
OVER HERE, I WILL SHOW YOU
SOME OF THE GERMAN EQUIPMENT

LEFT BY THE GERMANS HERE.

OH, OKAY.

YOU CAN SEE HELMETS, GAS MASKS,
ANTITANK GRENADE LAUNCHER.

YES, IT'S ALL RUSTY STUFF,
BUT...

SO, THIS WAS ALL EQUIPMENT
THAT WAS ABANDONED

WHEN THEY LEFT THE FACILITY?

THEY HAVE LEFT HERE
QUITE A LOT OF IT.

IT'S AMAZING.

THIS IS A BARREL
FROM A MACHINE GUN.

YEAH.
MG-34.

IT'S QUITE CLEAR
THAT THE GERMANS WERE TERRIFIED

THAT THE ALLIES WOULD DISCOVER
WHAT THEY WERE DOING DOWN HERE.

YES, THEY WERE GUARDING THIS
SECRET VERY, VERY CAREFULLY.

AND ONE OF THE EVIDENCE
FOR THIS

IS THAT THE NUMBER OF THE
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE OFFICERS

HERE WAS RECORD-BREAKING...

AROUND 100 OF THEM...

WHICH WAS UNUSUAL

BECAUSE, NORMALLY, IT WOULD BE
ONE OR TWO OR THREE OFFICERS.

AND THE OTHER EVIDENCE
FOR THIS IS THAT...

FOR THE SECRECY...

IS THAT
NONE OF THE PRISONERS

THAT WERE WORKING IN THE
FINISHED PARTS OF THE COMPLEX

HAVE SURVIVED,

WHICH MEANS THAT
THEY DIDN'T HESITATE

TO KILL THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE

IN ORDER TO KEEP THIS SECRET
BEING A SECRET.

IGOR HAS OFTEN BEEN ASKED TO
DESCRIBE THE FEELING HE GETS

WHEN HE WALKS AROUND
THIS UNDERGROUND BASE.

AND A GENERAL SENSE OF DREAD,
HE SAYS,

WOULD PROBABLY COME CLOSEST.

NOT SURPRISING, REALLY,
WHEN YOU REALIZE

THAT OVER 40,000 PEOPLE DIED
DOWN HERE.

THE OSOWKA UNDERGROUND FACILITY

IS CERTAINLY AN EERIE,
DISTURBING PLACE.

IF THE NAZIS DID ACTUALLY
BUILD FLYING SAUCERS,

THEN AN AUSTRIAN SCIENTIST
CALLED VIKTOR SCHAUBERGER

WAS PROBABLY ONE OF
THE LEADING LIGHTS BEHIND IT.

IN 1934, IT'S REPORTED THAT
SCHAUBERGER AND OTHER SCIENTISTS

WERE SUMMONED TO BERLIN
TO MEET HITLER

AND START WORK
ON AN EXOTIC FLYING CRAFT.

THEIR WORK HAD UNLIMITED FUNDING

AND WOULD BE CARRIED OUT
IN TOTAL SECRECY.

AFTER THE WAR,

DOCUMENTS DISCOVERED
BY ALLIED INTELLIGENCE

SHOW THAT THE SCIENTISTS DID,
IN FACT, HAVE SOME SUCCESS.

Gough: VIKTOR SCHAUBERGER
IS A NAZI TECHNOLOGIST

WHO HAD THIS MOTTO
OF OBSERVE AND COPY NATURE.

HE CAME UP WITH THE FIRST...

WELL,
IT WAS THE "REPULSION CRAFT"...

THE FIRST CRAFT
THAT HAD THE ABILITY

TO HAVE COMPLETELY VERTICAL
LIFTOFF.

SO, HE SUCCEEDED
IN THIS BASIC TABLETOP DESIGN

OF VERTICAL LIFTOFF,

AND, YOU KNOW, INSTANTLY,
THE NAZIS GOT RIGHT BEHIND HIM.

Fanthorpe: ONCE HITLER KNEW
THAT ON A SMALL SCALE

SUCH A MACHINE
HAD BEEN ABLE TO DEFY GRAVITY

AS HE WAS THINKING OF IT,

THEN ALL THE RESOURCES WENT IN

SO THAT SCHAUBERGER
COULD MAKE ONE

THAT WAS BIG ENOUGH TO TAKE MEN,
TO TAKE BOMBS, TO TAKE ANYTHING

THAT THE FUHRER WANTED.

Butler:
IT SEEMS VERY LIKELY TO ME

THAT THE GERMANS
WERE TRYING TO EVOLVE A CRAFT

THAT WAS CAPABLE
OF VERTICAL TAKEOFF.

I MEAN, THAT WAS KIND OF LIKE
THE HOLY GRAIL OF AVIATION

DURING THE WAR.

AS THE WAR WENT ON, THIS WOULD
BECOME EVEN MORE IMPORTANT,

OF COURSE, BECAUSE,
MORE AND MORE,

RUNWAYS ON AIR DRUMS
WERE BEING BOMBED,

AND IT WOULD BE MUCH BETTER
TO SUPPORT GROUND TROOPS

IF YOU COULD HAVE
VERTICAL-TAKEOFF AIRCRAFT.

Narrator: IT'S FAIR TO SAY THAT
THE ALLIES STRONGLY SUSPECTED

AND MAYBE EVEN HAD HARD EVIDENCE

OF A TOP-SECRET
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

THAT EXPLAINED
THE MULTIPLE SIGHTINGS

OF UNIDENTIFIED CRAFT
IN THE SKIES.

SO, WHEN THE NAZI REGIME
FINALLY FELL IN 1945,

THE RUSSIANS AND THE AMERICANS

WERE VERY KEEN
TO GET THEIR HANDS ON THE DATA,

DOCUMENTS,
AND THE SCIENTISTS BEHIND IT.

THE AMERICANS SET UP
A TOP-SECRET OPERATION

TO BRING AS MANY NAZI SCIENTISTS
TO THE U.S. AS POSSIBLE.

IT WAS CODE-NAMED "PAPERCLIP."

Gough:
COME THE END OF THE WAR, THERE
WAS AN INCREDIBLE COMPETITION.

I MEAN, A FRENZIED COMPETITION
TO GAIN ACCESS

TO THE INDIVIDUALS
WHO WERE THE BRAINS

BEHIND GERMANY'S
LEADING TECHNOLOGICAL ELITE.

SO, RUSSIA WANTED THEM.
EVERYBODY WANTED THEM.

AND IRONICALLY, THE U.S.,
ONE OF THE ALLIED FORCES,

WAS VICTORIOUS
IN OBTAINING THEM.

Cox: THEY EXTRACTED
WERNHER von BRAUN,

AND HE BECAME A CHIEF SCIENTIST
AT NASA,

DEVELOPED THE SATURN V ROCKET.

AND THIS IS A MAN THAT DEVELOPED
ROCKETS THAT BOMBED LONDON

INITIALLY, SO IT WAS A RACE.

IT WASN'T JUST A RACE
TO CAPTURE BERLIN.

IT WAS A RACE TO GET TECHNOLOGY.

Verga: AT THE END OF THE WAR,
THE ALLIES SEIZED SOMETHING LIKE

MORE THAN TWO MILLIONS
OF PATENTS

FROM THE GERMAN INDUSTRY.

THESE PATENTS WERE GIVEN
FOR FREE TO PRIVATE INDUSTRIES

IN GERMANY AND FRANCE
AND THE U.K.

AND, OF COURSE, IN RUSSIAN.

AND IT WAS A FANTASTIC BOOTY.

Narrator:
IN FACT, THERE WERE BOTH

RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN
FLYING-SAUCER PROJECTS

THAT WERE DEVELOPED
AFTER THE WAR.

THE RUSSIAN PROJECT
WAS CALLED TARIELKA,

AND THE AMERICAN ONE WAS A
JOINT EFFORT WITH THE CANADIANS

CALLED THE AVROCAR.

Verga:
IN 1953, INTERNATIONAL PRESS
CAME UP WITH ASTOUNDING NEWS.

CANADIANS WERE WORKING
ON A FLYING SAUCER.

ACTUALLY, THE AVRO AVIATION
COMPANY, CANADA,

WAS FUNDED BY THE AMERICANS TO
DEVELOP A DISC-SHAPED AIRCRAFT.

Man:
BOTH VEHICLES WERE MODIFIED...

ONE FOR FURTHER STATIC
AND FLIGHT TESTING

AT THE AVRO FACILITY

AND THE OTHER FOR TESTS
IN THE 40x80-FOOT TUNNEL

AT AMES RESEARCH CENTER.

Verga: AMERICANS INVESTED
A LOT OF MONEY.

NOT SO MUCH
BUT A GOOD AMOUNT OF MONEY.

AND THE CANADIANS DEVELOPED
THE DISC PRETTY SLOWLY.

AND A FEW YEARS LATER,
THEY CAME UP WITH A TEST CRAFT,

AND THERE IS SOME FOOTAGE
ABOUT THAT.

YOU SEE SOMETHING
LIKE AN OVER-CRAFTER

JUMPING OVER THE GROUND,
ABOUT 2 METERS OVER THE GROUND,

WITH VERY, VERY POOR
PERFORMANCES.

AND AFTER THAT,
THE AMERICANS REALIZED

THAT THE MONEY
WAS COMPLETELY WASTED.

AND SO
THEY CANCELED THE PROJECT.

BUT THERE IS ANOTHER STORY.

MANY THINK
THAT THERE WAS A CONSPIRACY,

THAT AVROCAR
WAS JUST A POOR CRAFT

SHOWN TO THE PUBLIC

TO DEMONSTRATE
THAT THE PROJECT HAD FAILED.

BUT BEHIND THE SCENES, THERE WAS
ANOTHER PROJECT SUCCESSFULLY

MAKING A REAL FLYING SAUCER
WITH TOP PERFORMANCES

THAT NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT THAT,
OF COURSE.

Narrator:
BACK IN THE OWL MOUNTAINS,

IGOR TOOK JAMIE TO EXPLORE
ANOTHER NAZI FACILITY.

THIS WAS SOBON.

AND UNLIKE OSOWKA, IT WAS A BASE

WHICH HAD BOTH ABOVE-
AND BELOWGROUND FACILITIES,

INCLUDING WHAT IGOR THOUGHT

COULD HAVE BEEN
A HUGE STONE TEST RIG

FOR A VERTICAL-LIFTOFF CRAFT,

MAYBE EVEN A MAN-MADE UFO
CODE-NAMED "DIE HAUNEBU."

I'M NOT SURE WHAT IT WAS,
BUT THIS IS GENERAL ROOM

THAT ONE BUILDS
SUCH A TEST RIG

FOR TESTING HELICOPTERS
OR DRONES TAKING OFF VERTICALLY.

SO IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
FOR TESTING SOME FLYING OBJECT.

BECAUSE IT DOESN'T FIT
ANY OTHER EXPLANATION, IN FACT.

SO, LET ME
JUST GET THIS STRAIGHT.

SO, WHAT?

THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN MAYBE SOME
KIND OF FLYING OBJECT IN HERE...

INSIDE.

THAT COULD HAVE
TAKEN OFF VERTICALLY.

PERHAPS. THAT'S ONE OF
THE EXPLANATIONS.

THE BASE WAS RUN
BY THE ELITE S.S. TROOPS,

WHO MAINTAINED THE HIGHEST LEVEL
OF SECURITY.

IN FACT, THE ENTIRE VALLEY
THAT SURROUNDED IT

WAS SEALED OFF
BY THOUSANDS OF SOLDIERS,

ROADBLOCKS,
AND GUN EMPLACEMENTS.

HISTORIANS HAVE NICKNAMED IT
THE NAZI AREA 51.

SO, WHATEVER IT WAS
THAT THE NAZIS WERE DOING HERE,

WHATEVER EXPERIMENTS
THEY WERE DOING HERE,

THEY WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT
NO ONE GOT ANYWHERE NEAR IT.

NOT ONLY THAT, BUT, ALSO,

DESPITE THAT FACT
THAT THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS

WERE WORKING HERE...
MOSTLY UNDERGROUND OF THIS...

NO ONE OF THEM
HAS SURVIVED.

WHY IS THAT?

THEY WERE... ACCORDING TO
THE GERMAN NOMENCLATURE...

"BEARERS OF THE SECRETS."

SO THEY HAD NO RIGHT PHYSICALLY
TO LEAVE THIS PLACE ANYTIME.

IF THEY CAME HERE,

THEY WERE SENTENCED
TO REMAIN HERE FOREVER.

SO THEY CAME HERE TO WORK,
AND THEY CAME HERE TO DIE.

EXACTLY.

WHAT SECRETS LIE HIDDEN
IN THE UNDERGROUND LABYRINTH

BENEATH THIS TOP-SECRET
NAZI FACILITY?

JUST WHAT WERE
THE GERMAN SCIENTISTS BUILDING

IN THIS VAST NETWORK
OF TUNNELS AND BUNKERS?

WAS IT REALLY A FLYING SAUCER?

MORE INCREDIBLE REVELATIONS WHEN
"FORBIDDEN HISTORY" RETURNS.

Narrator:
JOURNALIST JAMIE THEAKSTON
IS INVESTIGATING THE CLAIMS

THAT THE NAZIS SECRETLY
DEVELOPED ADVANCED FLYING CRAFT

TOWARDS THE END OF WORLD WAR II

WHICH WERE MISTAKEN FOR UFOs
BY ALLIED AIRCRAFT.

INCREDIBLY,
RECENTLY RELEASED

DECLASSIFIED INTELLIGENCE
DOCUMENTS AND FOOTAGE

SEEMS TO BACK THIS IDEA UP,

REVEALING A NUMBER OF
TOP-SECRET ENGINEERING PROJECTS

TAKING PLACE IN SPECIALLY-BUILT
UNDERGROUND BASES

IN SOUTHWEST POLAND.

SO FAR,
LOCAL HISTORIAN IGOR WITKOWSKI

HAS TAKEN JAMIE INTO TWO
FORMER TOP-SECRET NAZI BASES.

AND HE'S SHOWN HIM PLANS,

BLUEPRINTS,
AND OFFICIAL NAZI DOCUMENTS

THAT PROVE THEY WERE DEVELOPING

SOME SORT OF ADVANCED
VERTICAL-TAKEOFF

OR DISK-SHAPED
HYPERSONIC FLYING CRAFT.

Theakston:
IF THE NAZIS HAD DEVELOPED
AN ANTIGRAVITY PROPULSION,

WHAT WOULD THE CRAFT THAT WOULD
BE PROPELLED BY THIS LOOK LIKE?

DESCRIBE IT TO ME.

Witkowski: THE CRAFT PROBABLY
WOULD HAVE BEEN CIRCULAR

AND MORE OR LESS FLAT.

BECAUSE THAT'S THE EXTRAPOLATION
OF THE GEOMETRY

OF THE FIELDS THAT ARE SET
AROUND IN SUCH A DEVICE.

IT COULD BE A KIND OF
A SAUCER-LIKE OR DISK-LIKE,

BUT IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A BOWL,
FOR EXAMPLE.

AND THIS LINKS
THIS RESEARCH PROJECT

WITH THE FOO FIGHTERS,
FOR EXAMPLE.

THERE IS A LOT OF DOCUMENTS
ON IT.

WE MAY SAY
WITH ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY

THAT THE GERMANS
WERE PRODUCING, MANUFACTURING

STRANGE FLYING MACHINES,
CRAFTS

WHICH WERE ABLE
TO PERFORM MANEUVERS

WHICH WERE IMPOSSIBLE TO PERFORM
FOR ANY CONVENTIONAL MACHINES.

YOU SAY THEY WERE
WORKING UNDERGROUND.

WHAT'S UNDERNEATH US HERE?

WE ARE OVER THE CENTER
OF THE FORMER MINE,

WHICH WAS TAKEN OVER
BY THE S.S.

AND IT WAS
A HUGE UNDERGROUND FACILITY

WHICH THEY TRANSFORMED INTO A
WAR-RESEARCH-RELATED FACILITY

CODE-NAMED LOTHAR.

AND IT WAS SO HUGE
THAT THE UNDERGROUND SPACE HERE

WAS THE ORDER
OF 20 MEDIUM CUBIC METERS.

SO, IT WAS SOMETHING THAT,
AGAIN, HAS NO EQUIVALENT

ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD,
AS WITH THE SECURITY.

SO UNDERNEATH WHERE WE STOOD NOW
WAS A GIANT SCIENCE LABORATORY?

GIANT SCIENCE
BUT ALSO INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.

SCIENTIFIC
AND INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.

AND THERE ARE REASONS
TO BELIEVE...

SUCH AS TESTIMONIES OF
THE GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR...

THAT THE BELL
WAS TESTED HERE

AND IT WAS DEDICATED TO
THE MOST SECRET RESEARCH PROJECT

CARRIED OUT IN THE THIRD REICH
DURING THE ENTIRE WAR.

Fanthorpe:
IT WOULD BE VERY DIFFERENT
FROM THE TRADITIONAL UFOs,

LARGELY BECAUSE OF THE SHAPE

AND BECAUSE
WE'RE NEVER QUITE CERTAIN

WHETHER IT WAS INTENDED
TO PROJECT SOMETHING ELSE OR...

IN OTHER WORDS,
WAS IT A LAUNCHING DEVICE

WITH ALL THAT MYSTERIOUS POWER
INSIDE IT,

OR WAS IT ITSELF
CAPABLE OF FLYING

AND DELIVERING HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT
TOXIC COMPOUNDS ON THE ENEMY?

Narrator:
NEEDLESS TO SAY, THE ALLIES TOOK
THE WHOLE NAZI-UFO PHENOMENA

VERY SERIOUSLY INDEED.

THE FOO FIGHTERS MIGHT JUST BE
HARMLESS LIGHTS IN THE SKY,

BUZZING AIRCRAFT.

BUT IF THE NAZIS HAD DEVELOPED
SOME EXOTIC HYPERSONIC CRAFT

WHICH COULD EVADE NOT ONLY
AIRCRAFT BUT ALSO RADAR,

THEN IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE
FOR THESE CRAFT

TO DELIVER A CRUSHING PAYLOAD
TO DESTROY LONDON

OR EVEN NEW YORK
AND WASHINGTON, D.C.

AS DARKNESS FELL,

IGOR TOOK JAMIE INTO THE TUNNELS
BENEATH THE BASE.

THIS IS THE ENTRANCE
TO THE NETWORK OF TUNNELS

CODE-NAMED LOTHAR.

AND I'M JUST GOING TO
SHOW YOU THE TUNNELS.

LOOK AT THIS.

YES.
THE DOOR IS ORIGINAL.

IT'S ALL ORIGINAL HERE.

WOW.

HOW LONG DOES THIS
JUST GO ON FOR?

FOR MANY KILOMETERS.

REALLY?

FOR MANY KILOMETERS.

FOR EXAMPLE, THIS TUNNEL
WHICH IS HERE,

IT STRETCHES
FOR 1 1/2 KILOMETERS,

AND THERE IS A ROCK FORM
AT THE END OF IT.

IT'S EXTRAORDINARY.
CAN WE GO DOWN HERE?

WHAT IS STRANGE...

IT LEADS UNDER THE TEST RIG
UNDER THE HENGE.

RIGHT.

AND WHAT YOU CAN SEE
HERE...

THESE NICHES ON THE LEFT
ON THE WALL

ARE FOR HIGH-VOLTAGE CABLES

WHICH WERE SO POWERFUL

THAT ONE SUCH CABLE COULD POWER
AN ENTIRE SMALL-SIZED CITY.

AND WHY DID THEY NEED
SO MUCH POWER DOWN HERE?

I'M JUST GOING TO SHOW YOU
ONE OF SUCH CABLES.

YOU KNOW, IT'S TREMENDOUS.
IT'S VERY HEAVY.

VERY HEAVY.

IT'S JUST A POWER CABLE?

YES.

AND IT'S A SIGN
THAT'S TELLING US

THAT WHAT WAS GOING ON
UNDERGROUND

HAD A PURELY INDUSTRIAL
OR RESEARCH PURPOSE

AND THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING
VERY LARGE DOWN THERE.

WHAT THEY WERE DOING HERE
WAS SOMETHING MUCH LARGER

WHICH INCORPORATED ALL THIS
FACILITY'S RESEARCH AND SO ON.

IT WAS CODE-NAMED
"ZONFERBUVORKHABON S III,"

WHICH MEANS

"SPECIAL CONSTRUCTIONAL
UNDERTAKING S III."

AND IT IS WRITTEN
IN THE DOCUMENT

THAT IT WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT,
SUCH AN UNDERTAKING OF THE S.S.

DURING THE ENTIRE WAR.

THEY WERE PLANNING TO MAKE
A GIANT UNDERGROUND COMPLEX

THE SIZE OF A CITY.

AND PROBABLY
IT WOULD BE SOMETHING

SERVING THE PRODUCTION
AND RESEARCH

OF THE STRATEGIC WEAPONS
OF A COMPLETELY NEW KIND,

SOMETHING THAT WOULD GIVE THEM
A VICTORY IN THE WAR.

Fanthorpe: JUST IMAGINE
IF THOSE HYPER-FAST GERMAN CRAFT

COULD HAVE REACHED MOSCOW,
COULD HAVE REACHED LONDON,

COULD HAVE REACHED NEW YORK.

WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED?

WE WERE RIGHT ON THE BRINK
OF THAT DELIVERY BEING MADE.

IT COULD HAVE CHANGED HISTORY.

Narrator:
HOW FAR DID THE NAZIS GET

WITH THEIR ADVANCED
FLYING-CRAFT PROGRAM?

WERE THEY ABLE TO PRODUCE
A FLYING SAUCER

CAPABLE OF HYPERSONIC SPEEDS?

AND COULD THIS TOP-SECRET
PROJECT CODE-NAMED LOTHAR

HAVE CHANGED
THE FACE OF HISTORY?

THE FINAL SHOCKING CONCLUSIONS

WHEN "FORBIDDEN HISTORY"
RETURNS.

Narrator:
JOURNALIST JAMIE THEAKSTON
HAS BEEN ON THE HUNT

FOR THE EVIDENCE THAT THE NAZIS
WERE ON THE VERGE

OF CHANGING THE WAR BY
DEVELOPING NEW SECRET WEAPONS.

RECENT EVIDENCE REVEALS THAT
HIGHLY-TRAINED NAZI SCIENTISTS

WERE WORKING ON A REVOLUTIONARY
NEW HYPERSONIC FLYING CRAFT

WHICH WAS POSSIBLY DISK-SHAPED.

THE PROJECT WAS BASED
INSIDE A VAST MILITARY FACILITY

IN THE OWL MOUNTAINS
OF SOUTHWEST POLAND.

IT'S THIS TOP-SECRET
ABANDONED WORLD

THAT LOCAL MILITARY HISTORIAN
IGOR WITKOWSKI

AGREED TO SHOW JAMIE.

Theakston:
WHERE DOES THIS TAKE US?

Witkowski: THIS WILL TAKE US
UNDER THE CENTER OF THE HENGE

OF THE TEST RIG

AND GOES FURTHER
TO THE POWER PLANT.

AND SO DOWN HERE
WAS WHERE

THEY WOULD HAVE CARRIED OUT
THEIR EXPERIMENTS, HUH?

ON A DEEPER LEVEL, YES,
BUT GENERALLY HERE.

THIS IS THE SAME COMPLEX.

RIGHT.

Verga: IN THE LAST STAGES
OF WORLD WAR II,

THE NAZIS DEVELOPED A WEALTH
OF VERY, VERY ADVANCED

AND EVEN EXOTIC PROJECTS
IN AVIATION AND ROCKETRY.

HUNDREDS OF DIFFERENT BLUEPRINTS
FOR EVEN VERY BIZARRE AIRPLANES,

AND MOST OF THEM
WERE JET-PROPELLED.

AND THEY WERE SOMETHING
COMPLETELY DIFFERENT

FROM THE TECHNOLOGY

THAT THE ALLIES HAD
IN THEIR HANDS AT THE TIME.

Butler:
BY DEFINITION, A UFO MEANS
AN "UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT."

BUT MOST PEOPLE THESE DAYS
TAKE A UFO

TO MEAN A FLYING SAUCER

OR AN INTERSTELLAR SPACECRAFT
OF SOME SORT.

IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
THE REAL MEANING OF UFO,

THEN CLEARLY THE NAZIS,
LIKE THE ALLIES,

WERE INDULGING
IN THAT KIND OF BEHAVIOR.

Prince: I THINK THE MAIN THING
THEY WERE AFTER

WAS A VERTICAL-TAKEOFF CRAFT.

THE SIZE OF THE CRAFT THAT
THEY WERE EXPERIMENTING WITH

SEEMS TO INDICATE
THEY WERE THINKING

IN TERMS OF FIGHTERS
RATHER THAN BOMBERS,

'CAUSE THEY COULDN'T ACTUALLY
CARRY LOTS OF HEAVY BOMBS.

BUT THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT
THEY NEEDED AT THAT STAGE.

YOU KNOW, THEY NEEDED SOMETHING

THAT WOULD BE ABLE TO SHOOT DOWN
THE ALLIED BOMBERS

THAT WERE COMPLETELY
OBLITERATING GERMANY THEN.

Cox: I THINK THE NAZIS
WERE UNDOUBTEDLY

PLAYING AROUND
WITH NEW TECHNOLOGY AT THE TIME,

PROPULSION TECHNOLOGIES AND
MAGNETIC TECHNOLOGIES, AS WELL.

AND I THINK WHAT WE'VE DONE IS,
WE'VE ADDED THE WORD "UFO" POST,

AND SO IT FITS A NICE PICTURE
OF WHAT WE SEE TODAY.

BUT I DON'T THINK
THEY WERE BUILDING

WHAT THEY THOUGHT AS
INTERSTELLAR CRAFT.

THESE WERE NEW TECHNOLOGIES
AT THE TIME.

BLOCKED UP.

YES.
THAT'S AS FAR AS WE CAN GO.

WE CAN FEEL THE CURRENT OF
THE AIR, SO IT LEADS SOMEWHERE.

WE MAY BE SURE OF THAT,
BUT...

OH, THAT'S A SHAME,

BECAUSE WHATEVER
THEY WERE WORKING ON

IS FURTHER DOWN
BEHIND THIS BLOCKED WALL.

YES. IT'S LOTHAR.

I THINK I CAN SEE A UFO
DOWN THERE.

Narrator: WHETHER THE NAZIS
WERE REALLY BUILDING UFOs

INSIDE THESE SECRET BASES

WILL PERHAPS ALWAYS
REMAIN A MYSTERY.

BUT ALL THE EVIDENCE SUGGESTS

THAT THEY WERE CERTAINLY
DEVELOPING SECRET WEAPONS

THAT, HAD THE ALLIED VICTORY
NOT COME WHEN IT DID,

COULD HAVE CHANGED
THE COURSE OF THE WAR

AND THE COURSE OF HISTORY.