FBIUnknownAmbiguous

Anonymous German-language letter describing disc-shaped V-weapon — Cincinnati, 1952

~Aug 1952

⟳ Deeper read pending. This record is from the FBI 62-HQ-83894 flying-disc file, whose cursive, clippings and faint scans are under-read by automated OCR. It is flagged for a vision-transcription pass and likely undercounts what the source contains — see the documents collection note.

Analysis — our summary

The FBI Cincinnati office submitted an anonymous letter written in German, received by the Cincinnati Enquirer, which was translated by the FBI Cryptanalysis-Translation Section. The letter claimed that flying saucers were a weapon tested in 1944, now in Thuringian (Soviet) hands, consisting of a rotating disk approximately 48-50 meters in diameter with 45-50 automatic nozzles, capable of an effective range of 3,500 km and able to carry atomic bombs. The author claimed the constructor of V-weapons, identified as Fiedel, confirmed this was a typical V-weapon.

As reported — verbatim from the document

“"Flying Saucer, a weapon tested in 1944 which is probably now being produced in series... has a round body similar to a disk having a diameter of about 48-50 m. On the outer ring it has about 45-50 automatic circular nozzles which after the ignition of the disk circulate around a plexiglass sphere in the center... These weapons are in Thuringian hands and can have an effective range of 3,350,000 km."”

Analyst notes — caveats & confidence

Anonymous letter; author signed only 'H. Sch.' No physical evidence. Claims are extraordinary and unverified. The document is a German-language letter with FBI translation; internal contradictions (range given as 3,350,000 km in one place, which would be interplanetary — likely OCR error or translation artifact). Filed under Security Matter-X. OCR quality is moderate.

Provenance

Source document65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_6.pdf

Document typecorrespondence collection

Reporting agencyFBI

Source pages271

DeclassifiedFirst public at this release (2026)

Held classified~74 years (≥, to this release)

Extraction confidence Very lowHow cleanly this record could be parsed from the source — driven by legibility & redaction. It is not a measure of how credible or anomalous the sighting is.