IF THIS TALE WAS an episode of the X-Files, the script might start like this:
Ext. Day. High above a snowy European countryside. A brief title says 'Czechoslovakia, February 1945'. We hear a 'whirring' sound. A flying saucer slowly rises into view, stops in mid-air, then zips away.
Cut to several men walking. All we see are their shiny boots in muddy snow. They come to a stop. Camera pans up, revealing them as SS officers, looking up. The saucer comes into view and makes a soft landing. A hatch opens and a Luftwaffe pilot climbs out. He gives the officers the 'Heil' salute. They click their heels and reply in kind.
Cut to Main Titles and Music.
Such is the stuff of the internet-driven legend that says there was once such a day. A legend of secret research sites and gravity shields, of captured technology and black budget ops.
A legend easily consigned to conspiracy sites... were not one of it's main proponents also an Aviation Editor at Jane's Defence Weekly, the world's most respected and authoritative publication on military technology.
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