Conspiracy theorist makes ridiculous claim that Nazi scientists set up a base on the MOON – and he says he can prove it
Vladimir Terziski, from Bulgaria, is a conspiracy theorist dedicated to uncovering the truth behind outlandish claims
AN outrageous conspiracy theory claims that Nazi scientists landed men on the moon in 1942 - and one researcher says he can prove it.
Vladimir Terziski, from Bulgaria, is a conspiracy theorist dedicated to uncovering the truth behind outlandish claims that Nazi scientists put Germans on the moon.
The engineer and physicist says he has "evidence" to back up the theory, according to ... although he's never actually revealed what this evidence is.
He claims that top Nazi scientists developed a sophisticated space programme with the help of researchers from Japan, a fellow Axis power.
Conspiracy theorist Vladimir has travelled the world giving lectures on the theory that the Nazis won the Space Race before it had even begun.
His followers have pointed to advanced German rocket technology, and the Nazi scientists' well-known desire to reach space as evidence of the theory.
He even goes as far as to claim that the Nazis established a base on the moon, using a staging area in Antarctica to launch their secret missions.
And these claims really took off when conspiracy theorists reckoned they'd found the secret base in the Neuschwabenland area of Antarctica.
However, scientists have since poured cold water on theorists' claims about an Antarctic launch base.
Colin Summerhayes, a geologist at the University of Cambridge, has previously published an entire paper dedicated to quashing rumours about a secret Nazi space base.
But this hasn't stopped Vladimir from believing in the crazy theory.
The researcher even thinks that a spate of UFO sightings in the 1940s was actually a series of Nazi craft being tested, culminating in their advanced "flying wing" bomber.
He claims: "The Germans landed on the Moon as early as probably 1942, utilising their larger exo-atmospheric rocket saucers of the Miethe and Schriever type.
"Ever since their first day of landing on the Moon, the Germans started boring and tunnelling under the surface, and by the end of the war there was a small Nazi research base on the Moon.”
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While German rocket technology was decades ahead of its time in many regards, there isn't believed to be any way that they could have got to grips with space travel so early.
Although that didn't stop Nazi scientists from cooking up ambitious plans to put rockets into space.
Among them was Werner von Braun, the SS Major who headed up the Nazi's rocket science division.
However, while the Nazis had no success with their own space programme, some of their former scientists did end up working on the US space programme after the war.
It sounds just as crazy as this conspiracy theory, but the moon has been targeted by warring countries before.
Earlier this year, we told how declassified documents revealed that America and Russia were racing to obliterate the moon with nuclear weapons.
And a more outlandish claim was made about our solar system when a "former Nasa engineer" stated that alien motherships are lurking in Saturn's rings.