David Childress - Haunebu- the Secret Files: The Greatest Ufo Secret of All Time

David Hatcher Childress

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Other Books by David Hatcher Childress:

VIMANA

ARK OF GOD

ANCIENT TECHNOLOGY IN PERU & BOLIVIA

THE MYSTERY OF THE OLMECS

PIRATES AND THE LOST TEMPLAR FLEET

TECHNOLOGY OF THE GODS

A HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO ARMAGEDDON

LOST CONTINENTS & THE HOLLOW EARTH

ATLANTIS & THE POWER SYSTEM OF THE GODS

THE FANTASTIC INVENTIONS OF NIKOLA TESLA

LOST CITIES OF NORTH & CENTRAL AMERICA

LOST CITIES OF CHINA, CENTRAL ASIA & INDIA

LOST CITIES & ANCIENT MYSTERIES OF AFRICA & ARABIA

LOST CITIES & ANCIENT MYSTERIES OF SOUTH AMERICA

LOST CITIES OF ANCIENT LEMURIA & THE PACIFIC

LOST CITIES OF ATLANTIS, ANCIENT EUROPE & THE MEDITERRANEAN

LOST CITIES & ANCIENT MYSTERIES OF THE SOUTHWEST

YETIS, SASQUATCH AND HAIRY GIANTS

With Brien Foerster

THE ENIGMA OF CRANIAL DEFORMATION

With Steven Mehler

THE CRYSTAL SKULLS

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Haunebu: The Secret Files

Copyright 2021

by David Hatcher Childress

ISBN 978-1-948803-31-1

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Plans for the Haunebu II.

An early design for the Haunebu.

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Plans for the Haunebu III.

A Haunebu II on the ground.

A Haunebu II in flight. Note the canon beneath the craft.

Dark star crashes, pouring its light into ashes.

Reason tatters, the forces tear loose from the axis.

Searchlight casting for faults in the clouds of delusion.

Shall we go, you and I while we can

Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds?

Dark Star, Grateful Dead

The mystery of the saucers actually began before WWII, but it was during this war, and shortly afterwards that the phenomena of flying saucers, flying boomerangs, flying cigar-shaped objects and more began to flood the skies of the world. What on earth was going on? Were we being invaded from another planet? According to the press and the military, no one knew for sure.

Were there really UFOs in the skies? In later years, various skeptics and skeptical societies promoted the view that there werent really unexplained flying machines in the sky, it was just the overactive imaginations of people in the years after WWII. Yet, is this really a good explanation for a large part of the UFO phenomena? Certainly not. Evidence does exist that craft from other planets are visiting the Earth. Evidence also exists that the Germans were designing and building disk-type craft during WWII and perhaps before.

A Document Dump of German Flying Saucers

Since about 1990, researchers in Europe, Australia, America and elsewhere have received documents that show the designs of German flying saucers. A number of curious photos of the craft, in flight and on the ground, have also surfaced. They arrived via a curious document dump involving a German living in London named Ralf Ettl. Ralf Ettl then teamed up with another German named Norbert Jrgen Rathoffer (sometimes spelled Ratthoffer, with a double t, and sometimes with only one f, and sometimes with a hyphen between Jrgen and Rathoffer).

The two released a book, circa 1989, titled UFODas Dritte Reich schlgt zurck? (UFOThe Third Reich Strikes Back?21). This book published photos and plans of the Haunebu, Vril and Andromeda craft. They went on to author and publish a second book in 1992 entitled Das Vril-Projekt: Der Endkampf um die Erde (The Vril Project: The Final Battle for the Earth22) That same year they also released a one-hour documentary film in German called UFOGeheimnisse des 3 Reichs (UFOSecrets of the Third Reich). This film was released in Austria in 1992 but saw limited release. It was sold as a videotape and it seems doubtful that it was ever shown on television in Austria, but may have been sold to television stations in other countries.

These Haunebu and Vril documents were published again in 1996 in a German language book called Die Dunkle Seite Des Mondes (The Dark Side of the Moon)23 by Brad Harris and published by Pandora Books in Germany. This German language book purported to be the translation of an English book, supposedly published a few years earlier.

However, no such English book ever existed and it would seem that Brad Harris is just a fake name for some German author, perhaps Norbert Jrgen Rathoffer. The book contained a number of Haunebu and Vril documents and I republished some of these illustrations in the updated version of my book Man-Made UFOs.16 This was a clever way of bringing controversial documents outin Germany no lessof the Haunebu and Vril craft that had been rumored for decades. Germany has strict laws concerning symbols and speech surrounding the Nazi era and the swastika is banned from public use, including in magazines, books and posters. Photos of the Haunebu or Vril craft do not have swastikas on them allowing them to be viewed in Germany. When they have a symbol on them it is the German Cross. It was later said that the Haunebu and Vril craft had the Black Sun logo on them, instead of the German Cross. Austria does not have the same laws forbidding discussion or images of the Nazis and this is the reason that the film UFOGeheimnisse des 3. Reichs was released in Austria and not Germany.

This movie can be found on the IMDB website where we learn that the English language version, called UFO Secrets of the Third Reich, was released in Austria in 1998. The brief description says, What did the Germans and Hitler know about the universe and UFOs? This documentary unravels some of the mysterious knowledge that was present during the Third Reich. We are told the two writers are Jrgen Rathoffer (screenplay), Ralf Ettl (screenplay). We are also told that the documentary features Ernst Harmannstein, Wolfgang Pampel, Eugen Lardy, and a number of others.