Please post about any secret projects (especially German secret projects) from WW2. Philidelphia Project, Manhattan Project, "The Bell", "Foo-Fighters", ect. I'll post shortly on my personal favorite, "The Bell"

One thing you should know is that the two atomic bombs that wre dropped on Japan were from two different projects. One was the Manhattan Project bomb while the other was from a program run by the US navy.

Ok. "The Bell" was a German secret project code named "Laternentrager" or "lantern holder". It's other code name was "Chronos". The Bell was made of a hard heavy metal and was filled with a murcury like substance that was violet in color, code named "Xerium 525". The Xerium 525 was stored in a meter tall thermos flask encased in three centemeters of lead (possibly the Xerium 525 was radioactive?). Also used were thorium and beryllium peroxides.
"The Bell" was an experiment with torsion fields. All spinning objects create torsion fields to some extent, the trick is to get a big enough torsion field to get a large enough torsion field to study. Theory says that if you can generate a torsion field of sufficient magnitude you can bend the four dimensions of space arround the generating object. The more torsion you generate, the more space you disturb, and when you bend space, you also bent time. "Chronos" They were trying to build a time machine???

More on "The Bell"....


The tests involved placing various plants and animals within the Bell's influence. Almost all of them were destroyed: "A crystalline substance formed within the tissues, destroying them from the inside; liquids, including blood, gelled and separated into clearly distilled fractions." The plants lost their color very rapidly and apparently "decomposed" into a substance with the consistency of axle grease. People in the program also suffered from "sleep problems, loss of memory and balance, muscle spasms and a permanent unpleasant taste in the mouth." Many of the scientists even died as a result of their exposure to the activated Bell.

I've heard about this Switchblade. Wasn't it supposed to have something to do with the CIA unearthing secret plans for interstellar time travel?

There were so many secret projects being worked on by both ordinary German scientists and ultra- dedicated Nazis, more often than not, using slave labour from their 'work' camps.

I believe it was the Germans during WWII [1945] that perfected the world's first anti-ship, anti-aircraft and wire guided anti-tank missile.

The Flying Wing heavy bomber was another 'secret' Luftwaffe programme as was the search for anti-gravity 'flying machines'.

I am of the opinion, that much (if not all) of these technologies found their way back to the US during the period 1946-1950, along with the scientists, during what became known (I think[?]) as Operation Papertrail.

You are thinking of "Operation Paperclip" which concentrated on V-2 scientists and aviation experts, as well as working protypes.

Most of American airplane and rocket research in the decade following the war was based on this research.

Operation Paperclip was also related to Operation Overcast in which Nazi scientists were interned on an Island in Boston harbour and worked for USA to help defeat Japan.

Well another one was the Lafferenz (aka Laferentz) capsules.

These were submersible capsules which could be towed by U-boat to within V-2 firing range of USA. There the capsules would be righted and the V-2 rockets inside would be fueled taking half an hour.

Three under construction at Stettin in the Eastern Baltic were captured by the soviets however one smaller 300 odd tonne capsule... The prototype was trialled in the Baltic by U-1080. This capsule was never found after the war but US Navy intelligence believed that U-873 attempted a Lafferenz mission, but that it was aborted in April 1945.

Good links and pics sy.gunson.

Do they remind you of anything?

No?

How about the proposed HOTOL aircraft?

Another interesting project was the Ju-380 transport plane. It had six engines and an extreme long range. After the war Reich's Minister for armaments Albert Speer claimed one had flown to Tokyo "via the Polar route." He said it was flown by test pilots and not regular military personnel.

There is huge debate about claims that one flew from Mount de Marsan near Bayeux, France to New York in March 1944. Critics claim there was only ever one aircraft and that aircraft belonging to a unit called FlugAufklarungsGruppe5 never made such a trip. Critics dismiss claims that second aircraft (of which photos survive) was ever flown.

My friend Nick cook, author of "Zero Point" informed me that a Polish diplomat in Uraguay in 1945 witnessed a Ju-390 being dismantled at an airfield there. I am not quite clear whom the publicity shy diplomat is, but one might ask Igor Witowski.

I just watched a program regarding Hitlers plans to Atom-Bomb new york city and it discussed the production of a six turbo jet flying wing that could fly nonstop from germany to newyork and back. extremely interesting stuff.

Originally posted by gatch333
I just watched a program regarding Hitlers plans to Atom-Bomb new york city and it discussed the production of a six turbo jet flying wing that could fly nonstop from germany to newyork and back. extremely interesting stuff.

That would be the Horton Ho XVIII.