Viktor Schauberger

Due to round-the-clock bombing the SS was forced to try even more drastic measures, launching
unmanned interceptor discs from the Schwarzwald. These discs were known as the "Feuerball"
weapon, sometimes erroneously referred to as the mystery "V-7" weapon (of which there never was an
official designation). The WNF Feuerball relied on a rocket motor for launch, a plume sensor for aerial
detection, and an electrostatic filed weapon invented at Messerschmitt’s Oberammergau facility.
Production of these craft was initially performed by WNF. Because the discs burned chemicals around
its ring to create the electrostatic field necessary to disable Allied bomber engines and radar the object
was soon nicknamed the "Foo Fighter" by the Allies who sighted this fiery halo weapon approaching
them by day or night. FOO was a take on the French word Feu (Fire) and from the Smokey Stover
comic of a bumbling fireman that actually started fires!
Naturally, WNF observed the burning effect too and soon nicknamed their weapon the WNF Feuerball
(Fireball). The Feuerballs plagued the 415th NFS from November 1944 to April 1945. By that time
production had been shifted to the Zeppelin Werk that nicknamed the larger improved weapon as
"Kugelblitz" (Ball Lightning). The Allies seemed confused by these weapons which ranged in size from
small to large and attacked in singles or multiples. The Germans further confused the Allies by launching
"Seifenblasen" along with the Feuerballs. Seifenblasen (Soap Bubbles) were large weather balloons
trailing metal strips that confused Allied radar. Their large round shape reflecting in daylight gave them
the appearance of a shining globe similar to the Feuerball. The Germans further complicated the
identification of the "Foo Fighters" with a range of smaller purely spherical aerial probes that were used
as psychological weapons. These "KugelWaffen" (Ball weapons) played aerial games with the Allied
bomber gunners that would have in time distracted them from the real threat of larger approaching
Kugelblitz discs.
But by the spring of 1945 the war was lost regardless and most of the remaining disc programs were
halted. Henri Coanda had been arrested in Paris in 1940 and forced to work on a disc under SS
supervision. His design for a lenticular disc that benefited from his own "Coanda effect" was a
masterpiece of jet disc design. But because it required 12 JUMO 004 jets to power the huge machine
the project never got past the wind tunnel testing phase. Likewise, Andreas Epps independent Omega
Diskus which utilized two Pabst ramjets and 8 Argus lift fans was also confined to 1/10th scale model
testing.
Dr. Alexander Lippisch had also studied disc aerodynes back in 1941 but was too involved in the ME-
163 Komet and DM-1 delta glider programs to produce anything more than brief design concepts based
on the Gottingen K 1253 disc wing profile. The Horten brothers, experts with flying wings, also studied
circular wing designs but did not actually work on any in Nazi Germany. They did so for the US Govt.