He said he estimated the discs were flying at 932 mph (1,500 km/h). Pierre, who worked at the Elisabethville airfield, pursued the two flying discs in a fighter plane, but gave up after 15 minutes. "The disks glided in elegant curves and changed their positions many times, so that from below, they sometimes appeared as plates, ovals and simply lines," the article said.Īccording to the article, Cmdr. That same year, in what was then the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), two fiery discs were spotted hovering over the uranium mines in the Elisabethville district, according to a news report from the local newspaper Die Presse. Other people in the area reported seeing what looked like a comet at the time. He was convinced that the flying machine was a Soviet military apparatus. Linke, who had recently escaped from East Germany, claimed he had never heard of flying saucers when in the Soviet Zone. It was exactly the same shape as the conical tower," Linke testified to a West German judge at the time. I found a circular opening in the ground, and it was quite evident that it was freshly dug. "I would have thought that both my daughter and I were dreaming if it were not for the following element involved: When the object had disappeared, I went to the place where it had been. Then, it turned horizontally and took off above the trees, disappearing into the distance. While he was watching, the conical structure fell down to the ground, the saucer began rising in the air and its rim was encircled with flames from below. One of the men, according to Linke, had a round protrusion on his chest that glowed green and then red. When his daughter called back to him, she startled the two men, who immediately jumped inside the mysterious frying pan, according to the CIA report. From the flying frying pan of West Germany to the mysterious craft hovering over uranium mines in Africa, here are some of the CIA's most mysterious X-files. While most of these encounters were likely weird cloud formations, lightning or even missile tests rather than little green men, they still inspire countless conspiracy theories.
In fact, by 1953, UFO mania had reached such heights that the CIA marshaled a team of scientific consultants to investigate all of the reports and review the "Unidentified Flying Object Problem," according to a 1953 memorandum by the agency. The space race was on, the Cold War fears had reached a fever pitch, and science-fiction movies like "The Flying Saucer" (1950) catapulted schlocky depictions of aliens and their flying machines into the popular consciousness. Not surprisingly, many of these UFO sightings emerged in the early 1950s. ET), the Central Intelligence Agency has released a trove of once classified documents on several real-life unidentified flying objects. With a nod to the new "X-Files" reboot (which airs on Fox on Mondays at 8 p.m. The real-life stories of UFOs would be enough for the fictional "X-Files" FBI agents Mulder and Scully to spend a lifetime investigating.
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