Case file · Close encounter
Oskar Linke's landed disc
Oskar Linke, a former mayor of Gleimershausen who fled to West Berlin, said that in June 1952 he and his daughter saw two figures in shiny clothing beside a large disc-shaped object in a forest clearing in Thuringia.
1952 CE · 50.60, 10.45 · status: account
The account
Linke described the object as about 15 m across with a ring of holes, which rose spinning and humming when the figures climbed back in. A CIA intelligence summary titled 'Flying Saucers in East Germany' recorded his story, which made it famous after declassification.
The sceptical view
The only witnesses were Linke and his 11-year-old daughter, the story reached the West through the press, and versions differ on the place and date.