Revealed: The UFO files of the German Secret Service
Posted by: Andreas Muller July 10, 2014 0 5,812 Views
Saarbrucken (Germany) – For several decades, German
government officials have claimed there was never an official interest in
investigating or studying the topic of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). But
now, the editor of the German news-blog on frontier sciences and the paranormal
“www.grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de” (GreWi.de), Andreas Muller, was able to access formerly secret
UFO-files compiled by the German foreign secret intelligence agency
“Bundesnachrichtendienst” (BND), which tells a complete different story.
Background
It was in 2008 that the German Federal Minister of the
Interior of that time, Dr. Wolfgang
Schaeuble, repeated what
other officials said several times before over the last decades, when they were
asked about an official interest of German governments and the military’s
interest into the topic of UFOs and its investigation, by saying:
… I have no knowledge of any official agency,
institution or body that deals with or investigates sightings of unknown flying
objects, so-called UFOs. Furthermore I have no knowledge of any such official
projects whatsoever.
The Files
Front page of the “UFO”-files of the German foreign
secret intelligence agency “Bundesnachrichtendienst” (BND). | Copyright:
Bundesarchiv.de (Credit: grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de)
The newly revealed UFO-files by the BND now contradict
this official version with a whole file-set of 67 pages already titled with
“UFO”. The content of these files are “sightings of unidentified flying objects
over the border zones between West Germany and the German Democratic Republic
(GDR) and Chechoslovakia (CSSR)”.
The files can be found under the keyword “UFOs” within
the German Federal Archives (“Bundesarchiv”) based in the City of Koblenz.
However, due to the fact that all documents that get released into these
archives are automatically protected and embargoed for 30 years, according to
the German Federal Archive Law, this files are said to be protected and closed
until the year 2021. However, you can ask for such files to get released before
that date. And if somebody already went through this process successfully
beforehand, such files will be open also for later applicants. Likely due to
the fact that the whole file also includes non-UFO-related parts about the
former border between West and East Germany, someone else already got
permission to view this file, which is why now the whole file – including the extensive
chapter on UFOs – was already open to be viewed for everybody. However, so far
the crux of the matter was that this fact is neither officially mentioned nor
listed. Actually the files are still listed today as “closed until 2021″ – and
seemingly nobody took the trouble to ask for its current status. Until know…
The files that are listed under the identification
code “B 206/1914 – Bestand B 206 des Bundesnachrichtendienstes” were obviously
not created originally because the German foreign secret agency BND wanted to
study unidentified flying objects because of an possible exotic or even
extraterrestrial nature, but because of the fact that during the Cold War such
sightings were thought to reveal possible enemy-activities or actions of
espionage from the side of the Warsaw Pact states and Soviet troops stationed within
the GDR and CSSR. While there are a few sightings which were reported by
civilians, the majority of the listed cases were reported by members of the
border patrol and frontier protection units.
And while indeed the majority of the contained and
described cases can truly be easily explained by Soviet drones and
probe-balloons, because the described objects completely resembled such drones
of that area, like the plane-like Soviet drone “Tupolev M-141″, or conventional
probe-balloons (like in many cases of official UFO-files from other countries)
there is a small amount of cases that defy such explanations, not only due to
the exotic nature of the observed characteristics of the sighted objects, but
also because even the official investigations had problems or completely failed
to explain the sightings – at least as described and covered within this very
files.
All 67 pages of the BND-UFO-Files. | Copyright:
Bundesarchiv.de (Credit: grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de)
Close-Encounter above German Border Guard office and
Navy station in the Baltic Sea
The most interesting case of the sightings of an
exotic UFO by four officials happened in 1986 on Fehmarn, Germanys third
biggest island in the Baltic Sea (which was a frontier island during that time
when post-WW-2-Germany was still divided into West and East).
About this event the BND-UFO-Files reveal the
following:
In the early morning of 26.08.1986 (August 26, 1986),
in the time between 03.00 and 03.30am, three public officers of the Border
Guard office at Puttgarden, who were serving the night-shift, out of their
office’s window observed a flying object that travelled in slow speed towards
the ferry-station at Puttgarden.
At the same time this flying object was observed by a
Puttgarden customs officer too, from the so-called “car-park” of the
ferry-station which was positioned about 300 meters (about 900ft) away (from
the three border guards officers).
After an extensive interview and questioning by the
signer (of the report), the following circumstances were confirmed:
1) The unidentified flying object approached the
ferry-station Puttgarden at the mentioned time in a comparative slow speed (in
no way it was a conventional plane) coming from the West.
2) The object was flying at a height of about 50 – 60
m. (ca. 150-180ft.).
3) As it arrived (over) the ferry-station Puttgarden,
it again reduced its speed even more and came to a nearly complete halt just
above the mole-enclosures.
4) At this time of the observation, the border guard
officers heard a sound that they described – in agreement with the customs
officer – as a “comparative silently humming sound”, that could possibly be
compared with the sound of that of a turbine.
5) All officers were unable to give any description
about size, shape and colour of the flying object. This was due top the
following reasons:
5.a )The night was pitch dark.
5.b )The object emitted such a radial blinding
illumination/light, that the above mentioned
observations were impossible to
make out. One officer even speculated that the this illumination could have
been switched on with the intention to avoid an identification, as the used
light was neither that of navigation lights nor flood lights, as no directed
cones of light went downwards.
6) After the nearly half of the object just in front
of the ferry-station Puttgarden, the object continued its hovering flight in
the same altitude eastwards passing above the Navy Coast station Marienleuchte
on Fehmarn (ca. 600m/1800ft away).
7) Attempts of the signer to get more insights about
the observations through other personnel and offices failed.
Inquiries were made to the Navy-Coast-Guard stations
Westermarkelsdorf, Marienleuchte and Stabernuk (all on Fehmarn island), as well
as with the flying squadron of the Border Guard command ‘Coast’ (Helicopters),
the operating surveillance of the ferry-station Puttgarden, with the German
ferryboats ‘Deutschland’ and ‘Karl Carstens’ and the Danish Police at Rodby.
The Puttgarden-Case alone covers 5 pages with the
BND-UFO-Files. | Copyright: Bundesarchiv.de (Credit:
grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de)
Although the witness exclude the possibility that they
had observed a plane and also excluded the option of an helicopter, the file
later makes the assumption that there could be a connection to the alleged
sighting of a Soviet helicopter above the West German City of Luebeck on the
same morning (26.08.1986) but at 07.00am (so 4-3 hours later) that was reported
by a local newspaper. Based on this assumption again further inquiries were
made but again with negative result.
Assessment and Meaning of the BND-UFO-Files
Regardless of how experts in the field of UFOs and the
military will finally value each case of UFO-sightings described within this
newly discovered BND-files, its meaning and importance for a true understanding
of the German government’s interest into the topic of UFOs can’t be valued high
enough.
While the files itself are not secret or embargoed
anymore because of the historical background and can be viewed by anyone at the
Federal Archives in Koblenz, it is already the existence of such files in
itself that makes out its value because – as said before – it totally
contradicts the official position of German governments for several decades,
that there is and never was any official interest, neither by the governments,
its elements, ministries, bodies, institutions, military nor secret services,
into the topic and study of unidentified flying objects.
Furthermore the existence of the BND-UFO-Files
supports also an assessment by the politically independent Congressional
Scientific Research Services (Wissenschaftliche Dienste) of the German
Parliament (Bundestag) regarding the Position of the German government about
UFOs and extraterrestrial visitors on Earth. This assessment
concludes:
The fact that both, the United Kingdom as well as
France (and several other countries), have been engaged with the question about
the existence of UFOs and extraterrestrial life forms, and that they confirmed
this interest by publishing their formerly secret files extensively even
online, suggests that also German agencies and federal ministries are engaged
with this problem and question.
(It might be interesting to the readers that this very
assessment by the German Congressional Scientific Research Services is
currently the topic of an ongoing lawsuit, in which the administration of the
German Parliament is trying hard to keep the assessment from being released
under the Germany freedom of information act.)
Indeed many facets of the above described BND-files
reveal that such an interest at least once did exist (and likely still exist!),
as the files demonstrate that there were procedures and mechanisms for
reporting and investigating sighting-cases of unidentified flying objects by
civilians as well and especially by officials and members of the military and
border guards. One file for example is marked with the handwritten order to
“please create a ‘UFO-procedure’” while others clearly show that legal and
administrative assistance was sought for further investigations into some of
the described UFO-sightings, and this not only to other military units but also
to the Ministry of the Interior itself – so to the very same Ministry that
(like others) claimed for so many years to have neither knowledge nor any
interest regarding UFOs.
- Please find our even more detailed full report about
the BND-UFO-Files in the original
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