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Ported to OBJ from the CG recreation by Dave "First Fleet" Metlesits. Based on multiple purported but never proven reports about Nazi flying saucer research as part of their wunderwaffe program during World War II. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. You can download this wonderful and absolutely free 3D model at the link below:

Haunebu (possibly "heaven ship?"), also written as Hanebu, Hannebu, and a half-dozen or so other ways, is a darling of Nazi conspiracy theorists as well providing ample fodder for all kinds of "what if" works of speculative fiction from authors like me (grin), although I've not written any about it myself ... yet. Dunno if I will. Anyway, to make a long story short, and according to some of these so-called "sources," late in the 1930s and continuing into the 1940s a certain group of fringe German scientists were working to perfect a so-called "gravity motor" that could be used as a non-traditional propulsion system. First the German military and then the S.S. got involved as war loomed on the horizon, and there were supposedly three different kinds of working Haunebu type Nazi flying saucers built before the end of World War II in 1945. These were Haunebu I, II, and III respectively, each one larger than the previous model and sporting a more powerful gravity motor as well as additional features in each iteration. There was also a fourth, Haunebu IV, the biggest and most advanced of them all, that never got built even in prototype form (as was Haunebu III) and I'll let you look those up for yourselves as well as for the details on the earlier and smaller Haunebu I (which did).

Haunebu II is by far and away the most familiar Haunebu model to almost everyone due to it appearing in all kinds of media as well as several model kits being made of it by different manufacturers. It was supposedly the most "solid" and stable of the bunch and a fair number of these were actually built per the various "sources" (a-hem). There were supposedly fully operational and capable of both transatmospheric and interplanetary flight from the very late 1944 time frame on to the end of the war in mid-1945 and possibly for some time after, if you believe in the supposed Nazi base under the ice in Antarctica and all that. These were quite big, although both their crew size and cargo carrying capability were limited due the sheer size of their experimental gravity motors. Haunebu II was also supposedly armed in various ways, with Dave's CG recreation depicting one of the more commonly accepted weapons configurations. I'll let you research the Haunebu program yourself if you need more info. (smile) For one with heavier weaponry, check out what's supposed to be a photo of a Haunebu II taken only a few years after the war, with what looks like a single Flak-88 in a belly mount.

i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk/incomi…

Sternglocke ("star bell") was actually a different but parallel Nazi UFO program, as near as I can make out, although the name sometimes also gets applied to the Haunebu series because both were Nazi UFO programs and the later and bigger Haunebu models do have something of a squashed bell-like shape. The actual Sternglocke was the famed "Bell" (die glocke) of UFO legend, and you can find out a whole lot more about it under that name if you want. Here's a link to a Popular Mechanics article on it from back in the day ....

www.popularmechanics.com/milit…

Again, whether you believe any of this or not is your own business (I don't), but even I will concede that there's enough in the Haunebu program story regardless of from where any of it came to certainly fire the imagination, if not inspire confidence from the more skeptical of us. For those of you who do believe in Nazi UFOs and their supposed early Cold War era descendants, Dave has done you a big favor with this model. It's very well done as is all of his stuff, and best of all it's absolutely free. Download it and knock yourselves out.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only. Please credit Dave Metlesits if you use this in any of your own personal 3D projects.

ASIDE - The only Nazi "spacecraft" for which hard evidence exists AFAIK are the manned version of the V-2 (?!?!?), some of its planned but never built derivatives, and the planned but never built silberbogel (Ger. "silver bird"). That last was a sub-orbital large rocket bomber based on known and proven rocket technology at the time. Documentation has survived for all of that, corroborated by former members of Germany's rocket research program at the time. We writers have had a lot of fun with those too (wink). For example, look for the silberbogel in the original novel of Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle. All that said, don't let my skepticism put a damper on your own imaginations regarding your own impressions and potential uses of the Haunebu series, okay? Okay. Still friends? XD

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Ported to OBJ from the CG recreation by Dave "First Fleet" Metlesits. Based on multiple purported but never proven reports about Nazi flying saucer research as part of their wunderwaffe program during World War II. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. You can download this wonderful and absolutely free 3D model at the link below:

Haunebu (possibly "heaven ship?"), also written as Hanebu, Hannebu, and a half-dozen or so other ways, is a darling of Nazi conspiracy theorists as well providing ample fodder for all kinds of "what if" works of speculative fiction from authors like me (grin), although I've not written any about it myself ... yet. Dunno if I will. Anyway, to make a long story short, and according to some of these so-called "sources," late in the 1930s and continuing into the 1940s a certain group of fringe German scientists were working to perfect a so-called "gravity motor" that could be used as a non-traditional propulsion system. First the German military and then the S.S. got involved as war loomed on the horizon, and there were supposedly three different kinds of working Haunebu type Nazi flying saucers built before the end of World War II in 1945. These were Haunebu I, II, and III respectively, each one larger than the previous model and sporting a more powerful gravity motor as well as additional features in each iteration. There was also a fourth, Haunebu IV, the biggest and most advanced of them all, that never got built even in prototype form (as was Haunebu III) and I'll let you look those up for yourselves as well as for the details on the earlier and smaller Haunebu I (which did).

Haunebu II is by far and away the most familiar Haunebu model to almost everyone due to it appearing in all kinds of media as well as several model kits being made of it by different manufacturers. It was supposedly the most "solid" and stable of the bunch and a fair number of these were actually built per the various "sources" (a-hem). There were supposedly fully operational and capable of both transatmospheric and interplanetary flight from the very late 1944 time frame on to the end of the war in mid-1945 and possibly for some time after, if you believe in the supposed Nazi base under the ice in Antarctica and all that. These were quite big, although both their crew size and cargo carrying capability were limited due the sheer size of their experimental gravity motors. Haunebu II was also supposedly armed in various ways, with Dave's CG recreation depicting one of the more commonly accepted weapons configurations. I'll let you research the Haunebu program yourself if you need more info. (smile) For one with heavier weaponry, check out what's supposed to be a photo of a Haunebu II taken only a few years after the war, with what looks like a single Flak-88 in a belly mount.

i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk/incomi…

Sternglocke ("star bell") was actually a different but parallel Nazi UFO program, as near as I can make out, although the name sometimes also gets applied to the Haunebu series because both were Nazi UFO programs and the later and bigger Haunebu models do have something of a squashed bell-like shape. The actual Sternglocke was the famed "Bell" (die glocke) of UFO legend, and you can find out a whole lot more about it under that name if you want. Here's a link to a Popular Mechanics article on it from back in the day ....

www.popularmechanics.com/milit…

Again, whether you believe any of this or not is your own business (I don't), but even I will concede that there's enough in the Haunebu program story regardless of from where any of it came to certainly fire the imagination, if not inspire confidence from the more skeptical of us. For those of you who do believe in Nazi UFOs and their supposed early Cold War era descendants, Dave has done you a big favor with this model. It's very well done as is all of his stuff, and best of all it's absolutely free. Download it and knock yourselves out.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only. Please credit Dave Metlesits if you use this in any of your own personal 3D projects.

ASIDE - The only Nazi "spacecraft" for which hard evidence exists AFAIK are the manned version of the V-2 (?!?!?), some of its planned but never built derivatives, and the planned but never built silberbogel (Ger. "silver bird"). That last was a sub-orbital large rocket bomber based on known and proven rocket technology at the time. Documentation has survived for all of that, corroborated by former members of Germany's rocket research program at the time. We writers have had a lot of fun with those too (wink). For example, look for the silberbogel in the original novel of Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle. All that said, don't let my skepticism put a damper on your own imaginations regarding your own impressions and potential uses of the Haunebu series, okay? Okay. Still friends? XD