Hitler's Flying Saucers - Fact or Fantasy?

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Credits: Panzerfux; Richard Elzey; US National Archives
Thumbnail painting by Jim Nichols (1990)

[gunnere-]

America had the “Flying Pancake” so Germany had the “Luftwaffle” lol 😂

[drep]

You covered in less than 20 minutes what the history channel could stretch out for a whole season

[Chreeeis]

Mark Felton, taking History channel’s route, doing it better, and putting them to shame. Amazing.

[samuelallen]

Mark Felton is teaching history accurately, intelligently, and reaching all audiences . Thank You Mr.Felton

[Phase]

I personally think the projects did exist in Germany at the time, but the results were grossly exaggerated by the the people involved in an effort to gain more funding/support. Then after the war, it also served the survivors to exaggerate their results in the hopes of getting employment/protection from the US.

[headshot]

I agree, why would Hitler fly to Antarctica in a disc when he could simply teleport there using Die Glocke?

[Edit] There are some real conspiracy nutjobs in the comments. It's a joke for God's sake!

[troglodyte]

“The kind of nonsense reserved for popular tv shows”
History Channel: low blow man

[Andy-imkj]

You are legitimately one of the most educational channels I listen to. Thank you for your hard work for these videos.

[maccarr]

Hitler's Flying Saucers was actually just what happened when he was displeased with his afternoon tea

[azkrouzreimertz]

Caught my wife walking around humming the intro to your videos, i was so proud

[joshkolchins]

There’s simply no better military history channel on YouTube or anywhere else. Thank you for all you do, Dr. Felton!

[canis]

I had heard an interesting theory about the UFO conspiracy. The theory goes that it was actually started by the CIA itself. The reason was that they were aware of German flying saucer research (even if the claims were exaggerated they thought it was at least possible) and they were afraid that the Soviets had captured enough research to make their own version. Their biggest fear was a sort of Sputnik scenario (before sputnik) where the Soviets seemed to have vastly superior tech and disenfranchise the public. So they used their WWII connections to Hollywood to put out the thought that if any American saw a flying saucer in the sky their initial thought was in aliens rather than a soviet spy plane. After all, the CIA couldn't care less if people thought aliens were real but they cared a whole lot if Americans thought Communism was superior to Capitalism. Then this conspiracy took on a life of its own. Years later the CIA would reshape the theory to disguise their secret stealth research so now alien craft where thought of by enthusiasts to be triangles or some other shape and not saucers, so if the public saw a weird triangle shaped craft they wouldn't start talking about covert American research but think it was an alien craft. I don't know if this theory is true but its at least interesting.

[madcat]

You compressed into the quarter of an hour what takes the history channel a three hour special.

[RCAvhstape]

3:30 even when the flying saucer is man made and the photographer was involved in building it, you still get only grainy photos. Something about flying discs makes them impervious to photography.

[KnifeChatswithTobias]

Mr. Felton claims: "Hitler never flew to a secret base in Antarctica!" So carefully worded. We can see now that Mr. Felton is indeed part of the cover up! LOL

[alexcordero]

Mark Felton goes into UFOs... Perfect! The point of the UAP/UFO report was to get everyone talking about this phenomenon sans ridicule... Nothing more. I know you did the video prior to the report's release but it shows that everyone is now willing to discuss this. I'm 56 and part of the generation that ridicule's UFOs. But my kids' generation does not and openly discusses this because of videos like these. Love your work, Mark.

[randyeller]

Is it just me or does Epp’s original drawings look like they could have influenced the design for the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars?

[DerUfo]

my grandmother told me about seeing 2 nazi disk shaped aircraft in WW2, she said this was near the wars end and mentioned to me about them as we discussed the topic of ufo's in the 1960's. She said that they were a extremely secret project and she what able to see them fly by just being in the right place at the right time accidentally. Although she was threatened by the military, but as a German woman playing ignorant of things, after being threatened and told this is not to be spoken about or else, she was released, and good to her word, for 25 years she never mentioned them, except to me shortly before her earthly existence ended. They are real, and the Avro flying disk was to use the ground effect to be able to get to speed for take off and flight over damaged runways and not take off vertically as often stated.

[rapter]

seriously, The only channel that gives you most, if not all the facts about a certain subject in a matter of 20 minutes! I recommend my history teacher to your channel and he plays it in class now. Keep up the good work mark!

[Owen]

Have you done a video on the "foo fighters" phenomenon reported by bomber pilots over Germany?
If not, could you do one? It would be interesting to know what the records say!