Mystery Theatre: Those pesky German UFOs

In the year nineteen sixteen the LZ60 Zeppelin broke its moorings and was lost for all time. But the world is a small place and things have a habit of showing up somewhere.

Torn from moorings Koenigsberg May 1915

Ghost Rocket Sweden Feb. 1946

A strange rocket is seen over Sweden.

Shiny spheres Oklahoma July 1947

Maury Island incident involved donut-like disks that looked like catchers mits and a rain of aluminium debris. Followed by a similar sighting over Oklahoma.

A Disk Oregon 1950

Photographs of disks, spheres, and catchers mits suggest that the hydrogen bladders in the zeppelin were in giant flat tyre tube-like sections in aluminium framework. As the zeppelin broke up they were released from the tail end.



In 1954 in A UFO was seen in the afternoon by about 800 people living in three villages in Manbhum district of Bihar. According some witnesses the UFO was shaped like a saucer about 12 feet in diameter and grey in colour.

Trinidad 1957

The Trinidad photo depicts a visible disk, but it also has an obscured zeppelin shape in clouds at the top of the image that are not all that visible. So our mothership is still dragging that disk in 1957.



In 1957 the crews of four fighter-bombers watched a large luminescent mothership and smaller attendant UFOs during a nighttime flight at 25,000 ft.

A long cigar shaped mothership and smaller flying craft have left something of a trail of UFO sightings over the last century.
A distinctly zeppelin object is spotted over Rhode Island july 1967, for the most part intact. Though the trailing object may have been a bladder, or it may have been suspended by 500 feet of 'cable' from the zeppelin (unnoticed as with the 1950 oregon sighting). Oops- I'm a dumb ass. That might be a mooring anchor on a 500ft 'cable' towing behind.

In 1976 a man is burned by gas from a cigar shaped craft at Falcon Lake in Manitoba Canada.

October 1967 Shag Harbour Canada UFOs trailing a triangular larger object. Perhaps part of the Tail section and donut bladders on a central cable.

In 1969 Finnish Traffic control spot seven disks, possibly bladders on a shared cable. Though they do two hundred kilometres in a few minutes which seems odd though possible for an intense wind.

Occasionaly the disk or cigar touches ground- likely due to microbursts.

In 2004 a pilot from the USS Nimitz spots a giant tic tac drop from 80,000ft to 20,000ft to 50ft in what can only be described as the result of a microburst moving the Zeppelin fragment.

In 2006 a saucer is seen stationary over O'Hare Airport Chicago before ascending. This seems to be the disk on the 500ft cable hanging from the tic tac.

May 2007 seven objects travelling single file over South Africa. Again probably seven bladders on a common cable.

A giant tic tac over Texas Nov. 2018

A rather short object was spotted over Texas in November 2018. You might ask what happened to the rest of it.

Aluminium Debris Cambodia, Oct. 2018 

Aluminium debris rained from the sky over a ten kilometre radius in a province in Cambodia a month earlier in October 2018. It would appear at this point to have shed significant mass.

A hatch. Cambodia, Oct. 2018.

So there are still pieces out there in the sky, and they probably pose significant aviation hazard. Such encounters have one thing in common- they dont include actual aliens or men in black. This potentially reduces the list of UFO sightings by half.

In case there was any doubt...

Zeppelin Mooring Tower

'Nazi UFO'

That just leaves the Abduction stories as a seperate myth.