1945 UAP Sighting — FBI Files
Georg Klein, a former German weapons expert, claimed that flying saucers were top secret weapons developed by both the US and Russia. He stated that prototypes were built in Germany during the war and witnessed one reach 40,000 feet in three minutes. Klein also alleged the Russia
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 16 of 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_SUB_A, a declassified FBI vault file released by the Department of War on May 8, 2026 as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). The incident is dated 1945 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
Georg Klein, a former German weapons expert, claimed that flying saucers were top secret weapons developed by both the US and Russia. He stated that prototypes were built in Germany during the war and witnessed one reach 40,000 feet in three minutes. Klein also alleged the Russians captured a scale model and technicians in Breslau.
Witnesses on file: Georg Klein.
Verbatim from the file
““Flying Saucers,” he says, are top secret weapons of the US and Russia.”. “Prototype Flying Saucers were built in Germany during the war. I saw one reach height of 40,000 feet in three minutes,”. ““They are a continuation of German wartime experiments.””
Status of the case
The page-level assessment recorded in the file is: no agency assessment. All records released under the PURSUE program are designated unresolved by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office unless otherwise stated, meaning the federal government has not concluded the events were anomalous, has not concluded they were conventional, and has not ruled out either possibility. Conventional candidates for sightings of this period include experimental aircraft, weather balloons (especially the Project Mogul series), atmospheric optical phenomena, and astronomical objects.