A former Polish prisoner of war tells the FBI of a vertical-rising craft that stalled his tractor in Germany (1944; interviewed 1957)
This FBI Detroit file (100-DE-26505) dates from November 1957. (As context not stated in the file: that was days after the Levelland, Texas reports of engines stalling near a light.) A man named Krasuski said that in 1944, as a Polish prisoner of war working on the estate of Gut Alt Golssen about 30 miles east of Berlin, his tractor stalled and he heard a high-pitched whine. An SS guard was present. Inside an enclosure with a tarpaulin wall about 50 ft high, he saw a circular craft 75 to 100 yards across and about 14 ft high rise vertically. Its edge was a continuous blur like an aircraft propeller, and his tractor stalled again. He mentioned copper-like cables, a work crew of 16 to 18, and a fellow prisoner, Franciszek Grabowski. The agent who interviewed him recorded no sign of irrational or abnormal behaviour. The file also holds a November 1957 teletype, correspondence with Robert Cutler about a "rocket in Texas", and a 1966 letter from Oklahoma. The FBI drew no conclusion. *Method note: war.gov blocks this server. The 15-page file was read from the original PDF on the ufotransparency.com mirror. It has no usable text layer: page 10 was read from its page image, and the other pages cited here come from the mirror's page-by-page transcription, which was spot-checked against the images where noted.*
How plausible · Moderate
A named former prisoner told the FBI, which found him credible, of a circular craft rising from a screened enclosure; no second witness is on file.
- ●●Access He was there.
- ●●No gain sought Nothing sold.
- ●●Checkable details check out FBI Detroit file.
- ●○Cost of speaking Named to the FBI.
- ●○Character record The FBI found him credible.
- ●○Fits the documented skeleton German wartime secret projects are documented.
- −Lone source, no corroboration His fellow prisoner's account is not on file.
Plausibility weighs how well an account fits where secrecy hides the documents by design, so missing records never count against it. Strength measures what is documented. Assessed 2026-10-23.
On the record
- "circular in shape, 75 to 100 yards in diameter, and about 14 feet high" (65_HS1-101634279_100-DE-26505, p. 10; read from the page image); the edge was a "continuous blur similar to an aeroplane propeller"; it rose vertically from an enclosure about 100-150 yards across behind a tarpaulin wall about 50 ft high; the tractor stalled again; copper-like cables; work crew of 16 to 18; fellow prisoner Franciszek Grabowski.
- The 1944 setting is given on p. 9 (mirror transcription): Krasuski was a POW at Gut Alt Golssen, about 30 miles east of Berlin; his tractor stalled; there was a high-pitched whine; an SS guard was present.
- A teletype dated 6 November 1957 and a letter to Robert Cutler concerning a "rocket in Texas" (p. 8, mirror transcription).
- SA Cassius Rathbun noted "No indication of irrational or otherwise abnormal behavior" (p. 12, mirror transcription).
- A 1966 letter from Oklahoma is filed at p. 15 (mirror transcription).