Product Description

Many theories have been mooted to explain the Roswell incident, most of which involve flying saucers and little green men from Mars. What has never been considered, though, is the odd coincidence that the high-speed, high-flying spherical object which crashed on Roswell bears an uncanny resemblance to some of the extraordinarily futuristic aircraft which were blueprinted in top-secert conditions by Nazi scientists during the Second World War. Many of these blueprints - and the scientists responsible for them - mysteriously 'disappeared' into Allied hands post-1945 as a result of plans like the American 'Operation Paperclip', which initially strove merely to find out about V-1 flying bombs and V-2 rockets. BLUE FIRE tells an extraordinary story of cover-ups and conspiracies, and it gives a fascinating alternative version of world history since 1945.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #849133 in Books
• Published on: 2001-03-29
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 278 pages

About the Author
Gary Hyland owns a successful company that produces original sculptures. He has a long-held fascination for the Nazis' development of new technologies during the Second World War.

Customer Reviews

Avoid this book!
I don't often give up on a book! However, about three-quarters of the way through 'Blue Fires', by Gary Hyland, I had had enough. I read a good deal of world war two history, aeronautics and psychology - a useful mix for reviewing this book. 'Blue Fires' is a mish-mash of historical snippets, wild speculation and fantasy. Hyland has the tendency to speculate in areas that he clearly does not understand (physics, aerodynamics, propulsion systems etc.) - this speculation, a few pages later has become 'fact', at least in his mind. He manages to tie in every current UFO aspect (Roswell, Area 51 etc) - I guess he doesn't want to miss any potential buyer for his book. There are many good books on Nazi aircraft development - this is not one of them!

smoke and mirrors
the book is one long series of guesses. admitting that there are no photographs, no blueprints, no-one willing to speak properly on the record, we are then given information about the construction, performance, and operation, first of foo fighters, then of the follow-on 'saucers' built from the German plans. of the foo foghters we ware told that the Allies thought that they were German secret weapns (proving that they were German); the Germans thought that they were Allied secret weapons (proving how well-kept the secret was in Germany). The foo fighters were also seen over Japan - presumably this proves that the secret was so well kept that the plans and kits were sent over to Japan, and the involved Japanese not only kept the secret but chose not to exploit it after the war. The involved Germans would not talk about it for fear of Odessa and similar SS post-war groups; except, of course, for those people who did talk about it, and had it published. Books may have been written on this but the Men in Black intervened to ensure no publication occurred, if people got too close to the truth - so perhaps this is an admission that this book is miles away from the truth? Or the Men in Black are slipping? Or the author is authorised to at last disclose the truth, but in a manner that will have it discounted? Still, we *are* given the details of the foo fighters, plus a drawing of what they looked like - nothing like the Allied reports, but that shows how the foo fighters distracted atention from their true appearance. And the explanation of why they were not used as offensive weapons? Because having been built, in reasonable numbers, and despite being large, the Germans did not have the time to arm them, nor the willingness to use them even to crash into bombers. Piloted planes, yes. Unpiloted vehicles, no. This is for fear that the remnants, falling down over German-held teriitory, would be captured by the Allies, studied, and used against the Germans - at the same time as we are told that the technology was such that it would several years for teh Alliest o fully make use of it, even with blueprints.

the book is an intriguing look at the nature of Nazi/Gemran-Aryan society - though no mention is made that one of the starting points, Vril, is so popular in Britain that a drink was made to promote it (Bovril). read it as an entertainment, but allow for the huge number of holes. it is totally unconvincing, because of the way that small nuggets of truth are extrapolated, and areas that state that they are guesses based on zero knowledge are later referred back to without the caveats. The wild extrapolation about the British capture of the blueprints is one of many areas that requires a suspension of thought: since we have no proof that they found such blue prints, since we know that they did and job in more conventional areas, this proves that they must have found them and did not bother with the conventional exploitation of Nazi technology.

Ugh!

For the love of all that is intelligent.. please dont read
I should have read the reviews and saved myself from an experience which I think has actually left me slightly less intelligent for having picked it up. What makes matters worse, I actually paid money for it.....so please if you are a fan of serious well researched written accounts of this subject (like Hunt for Zero Point), FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DONT DO IT!!!!!