48-year-old Oscar Linke and his 11-year-old daughter Gabriella swore to have seen a “huge flying pan” landed in a forest in the Soviet Zone of Germany in 1952.

A tire of his motorcycle blew out, forcing him and his daughter to walk toward Hasselbach. That was when Gabriella pointed at something from a distance, which he assumed was a deer. When he walked over to where his daughter was standing, what he saw instead were two men wearing “shiny metallic clothing” and “[stooping] over and were looking at something lying on the ground”. He walked closer and saw what appeared to be a large frying pan. When his daughter called him, the two strange men “immediately jumped on the conical tower and disappeared inside”. Linke described the object to rise from the ground and “rotate like a top”.

Interestingly, Linke had never heard of the flying saucer before he escaped from the Soviet Zone. His first impression of the UFO was different; he thought it was a new Soviet Military machine.

Oftentimes, you’d hear of UFOs aimlessly flying up in the air before vanishing without harming a soul. But this wasn’t the case on 5 December 1948 when two plane crews were headed west to east. One of the pilots claimed that a fireball rushed toward the plane, urging them to swerve the aircraft away. Later on, another pilot flying a commercial plane radioed in about seeing something unusual on their radar. Strangely enough, various other pilots reported the sighting throughout that month.

Theories were formed over time; some considered that these green balls of light were meteors, while others were convinced that it could have been top-secret “unconventional defensive devices” that the US government was testing. Unfortunately, no one has concluded what these green fireballs were.

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