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• UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION In Reply, Please Refer to FileNo. 62-0-11328 Miami, Florida June 8, 1967 RE: PAUL .~RL INFOR~i~i CONCERNING &t>,€,# h/ny ~ /9.;.,-y .1/'/ ,4~,...s'di//J On April 26, 1967, PAUL L. PEYERL, _ 1430 Sautbwest 76th Street, Miami , Florida, appeared at the Miami Office and furnished the following information relating to an object, presently referred to as an unidentified flying object, he allegedly photographed during November , 1944: Sometime during 1943, he graduated from the German Air Academy and was assigned as a member of the Luftwaffe on the Russian Front . Near the end of 1944, he was released from this duty and was assigned as a test pilot to a top secret project in the Black Forest of Austria . During this period he observed the aircraft described above . It was saucer shaped, about twenty-one feet in diameter, radio controlled, and mounted several jet engines around the exterior portion of the craft . He further described the exterior portion as revolving around the dome in the center which remained stationary. It was PEYERL ' s r esponsibility to photograph the object while in flight . He asserted he was able to retain a negative of a photograph he made at 7,000 meters (20,000 feet). A Xerox copy of the negative, as furnished by PEYERL, appears on the last page of this communication. Also , a still photograph he allegedly made "at the risk of my life", illustrating the object parked in a hanger, appears on the last page . According to PEYERL, the ab~e aircraft was designed and engineered by (First Name Unknown) KUEHR, a German engineer whose present whereabouts is unknown him . He assumed KUEHR was taken into custody by Allied Fores upon the termination of hostilities . PEYERL stated KUEHR unsuccessfully attempted to avoid the German draft, but was apprehended by the Gestapo