S. D. Tucker is the author of 7 books. Nazi UFOs: The Legends and Myths of Hitler’s Flying Saucers in WW2 was published in 2022. This is the 77th book I have completed in 2022.

Opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own! I categorize this book as G. As the title implies, the book examines the myths connecting the Nazis with UFOs or other fantastical engineering feats. Claims of UFO sightings began to rise and claim headlines from 1947 forward. Several claims are repeated, then debunked in the book. Claims mostly come from late in WWII, with the majority surfacing post-war.

The background of Unidentified Flying Objects is told. Included are the Foo aircraft often reported by allied pilots. There is also coverage of post-war R & D and the relationship to UFOs. Many experts claiming knowledge of UFOs after the war are uncovered as charlatans.

I enjoyed the 9 hours I spent reading this 208-page nonfiction book. I hesitate to call this WWII history. It is a collection of post-war conspiracy theories and myths with supposed connections to the Nazis. I do like the chosen cover art. I give this novel a rating of 3.3 (rounded down to a 3) out of 5.

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Despite being the most horrifying period of the 20th century and the most embarrassing and terrible in known human history, the Nazi regime collected and progressed science, aviation, and physics to new levels, with the vast knowledge base, best-trained scientists, and funds, the Nazi regime was able to design and produce most advanced flying machines for the period, which puzzled and up until today mesmerize by their advanced techniques and capabilities. the work presents all the heights and advancements the regime was able to make and create bases for the aerospace development we have today.

An interesting book that gives you information on the history of ufos well researched with some interesting facts and details..

Not exactly what i was expecting as there's not a lot about Nazi techonlogies but i found it highly entertaining and had fun.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine

I really hope S D Tucker will forgive me if this wasn't the intention, but I found "Nazi UFOs" to be a deeply amusing book (grins, chuckles, and snorts galore!). It's also slightly scary if you think about it a bit more... I vaguely knew the myth, but this book provided so much more than I expected and I loved it from start to finish.

My thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley. This review was written voluntarily and is entirely my own, unbiased, opinion.

A very interesting look at what became a grand meme, of Nazi flying saucers, UFOs, foo-fighters, and suchlike. Starting from the very muddled beginning of such a concept, when things were first globular light formations, then small bits of shrapnel-sized floaty stuff, then full-on flying saucers and spaceships, the book proves early reports were kind of bogged down in people not having the right terminology to classify what they thought they saw, and therefore mostly said they’d seen something long after their term of choice had had time to gain traction.

Of course, according to these pages at least, what they were seeing was not a UFO, Nazi or otherwise (it seems the general opinion early on was that any special such craft were created here on Earth, whether by one enemy or the other, or one’s own side). The author points out that we know how convoluted and time-expensive the creation of just the first jet fighter was, let alone any one-man operation in a shed creating anti-gravity engines, perpetual motion devices and things that still are sheer hooey.

The book can be a little awkward at times – one large detour is into the mindset of people who still in recent decades publish books about how successful the Nazis were in expanding the V-1 and V-2 rocket projects into flying saucers, which humorously shows up the pseudo-history and pseudo-science (and, of course pseudo-fascism) needed to write such guff, but feels a little off-topic at times; the fluid dynamics ideas of one such inventor lacks any such comedy appeal. The jury is still out on how much reference to a certain Borges story we need to have in discussing how memes gain truths from their fictional status.

The flip-side to the seriousness of looking at this subject as only a top Fortean could, is the author’s willingness to thrust as many examples of his word-play and punning into proceedings. One chapter is titled “Discoid Inferno: the Saucerers’ Apprentices Invade the Newspapers”. Still, when the acerbic words dare call out, say, the History Channel as being providers of “sci-fi drama series” such as ‘Project Blue Book’ you know the sharpness of a good comedy mind was needed to filter out some of the farcical non-truths, or “total twaddle”, in his words. Drop the longueurs and some of the personal style of the author and this would have been a great, concise look at a bizarre and arcane element of Nazi history. As it is, in looking at the history of ideas as well, it feels a little too woolly, but no less intriguing, whether to the pro-UFO reader or the sheer sceptic.

I thought this would be a history of the Nazis and their tech that was mistaken for UFOs or Himmler’s obsessions with unexplained phenomena. Instead it’s a rant against post war UFO cults.

Thank you for the opportunity to read Nazi UFOs by S D Tucker. It was a very interesting book about supposed UFO sightings over America in ww2

I have seen programs on cable about Nazi flying saucers so this was a perfect story to read. The book starts with a very interesting tale of a scam artist in the Eastern parts of the US trying to get money for the new fourth reich. People actually fell for it but the story goes on to be an example of the war of fake news and real news that went on after the Germans were defeated. This book has an explanation for the saucers that is very plausible after the examples of the hysteria over Hitler maybe being still alive. I dont want to ruin the explanation but the math and the science maybe was there for German flying craft of an unbelievable origin . Excellent and interesting look at the Bell and other possible Nazi craft.