I'm your host, Kelly Chase.

Today, we begin part two in our three-part series on the

intersection of Nazi and UFO lore. In part one, we explored the emergence of the modern

concept of the UFO, which traces its roots back to a string of sightings in 1947, including

the infamous alleged flying saucer crash in Roswell, New Mexico.

That context is crucial for understanding how Nazi UFO lore evolved.

So if you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, I recommend you start there.

In this episode, we're going to begin to dive into the complex web of mythology connecting UFOs to Nazi Germany.

It's a strange world where the occult,

art, ancient religions, international intrigue, and secret technology collide to create a dense and potent lore. It speaks to us in the language of our most primordial myths, and yet there's an

undeniable modernity to it. The specificity of names,

places, and events intertwined with these fantastical stories lends them an uncanny immediacy

that one doesn't often find in legends and scriptures. Through the refraction of Nazi UFO lore,

we can see the shadows of humanity grappling with the incomprehensible.

The horrors of modern warfare, the more than 6 million lives lost to an unspeakable Holocaust,

and 200,000 more vaporized into nothingness just three weeks after the first successful test of a nuclear bomb.

The collective trauma of these events lives in us. These events didn't just change the world.

In many ways, they created a new one as the world that existed before became irretrievable.

As a species, we've always used myths and symbols to communicate and collectively process the things for which we don't have words.

And so it's not surprising that a Baroque mythology has sprung up around the events of World War II.

We have a deep human need to process these things in a way that is more than just historical.

And at the same time that this mythology began to form, a new kind of archetype was emerging in our collective consciousness,

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