RECOVERED OLD FILE
Posted Oct 17.01
British UFO researcher Tim Matthews [Lancashire UFO Society/British UFO Studies Centre],
announced this week that he had made contact with "a former high-ranking designer with
Hawker-Siddeley - the big aircraft manufacturer who owned AV Roe/AVRO in the 1950s".
Matthews went on to report that his new unidentified source made the following remarkable claims:
1 - He was involved in British Intelligence efforts to retrieve 'advanced'
German technology in Austria in 1945/6 and knew all about the early - and
somewhat primitive - flying discs built by the joint
Heinkel/BMW/Schauberger effort (our latest information suggests that
Schauberger was attached to the Miethe/Schriever team and did not operate
as a separate entity).
2 - He subsequently worked in aviation on various projects including highly
classified projects involving flying discs.
3 - Both he and several of his colleagues knew of the AVRO disc effort to
the extent that they provided technical support. The AVROCAR was a cover.
4 - The effort involved the test flight of experimental discs in the UK as
well as at other locations within the North American continent.
5 - The projects operated on a 'Most Secret' basis and until he read my
book he had never talked to anyone about this work outside his former
colleagues circle of friends.
Tim Matthews is the author of, UFO Revelation - The Secret Technology Exposed? (Blandford 1999), and has also been busy during March/April in trying to secure information from the US Navy regarding its wartime and post-war Navy discplane projects including the much-publicized V-173 ['flying flapjack'] and more-advanced XF5U-1 ['flying pancake']. Using the FOIA his requests have finally resulted in around fifty pages of previously classified information being made available to him.
Matthews adds, "I have always maintained that the 8th July 1947 Project Blue Book 'unknown'
involving reports of a metallic disc was evidence of the test-flight of a
Navy disc. The usual suspects, both skeptics and believers, met my claim
with the expected derision. This simply encouraged me to dig deeper and
after a dozen or more letters to and from the US Navy (variously claiming
that the relevant documents had been "lost", "removed" and/or "destroyed")
I now know where some of them are kept and hope to visit the relevant
archives ASAP. Hopefully one of these rich Rockefeller types will cough up
some money........"
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