Czernica, Silesia, Germany, Summer 1937 (claimed) — a disc-shaped craft allegedly recovered by SS troops, yielding three grey-skinned alien beings, one dead and two dying. Claimed inspection by Hitler, Göring, Heisenberg, Hahn, and Von Braun. Three documented historical impossibilities: the Waffen-SS did not exist until March 2, 1940; Czernica was German not occupied Polish territory in 1937; Eva Braun's family was Munich-based with no documented Silesian land. Source: Jesensky/Leśniakiewicz, Wunderland. Rebuttal: Tim Matthews, UFO Magazine UK, October 22, 1998. Case Status: PROBLEMATIC — Insufficient Data. thinkaboutitdocs.com.
THINK ABOUTIT CRASH REPORT
1937: Czernica, Germany (Poland) Crash
Nazi pseudo history???
The 1937 Czernica crash claim is one of the most widely reproduced pieces of Nazi UFO mythology in the pre-modern fringe literature — and one of the most thoroughly dismantled. The story holds that a multicolored disc-shaped craft fell in a field near Czernica, Silesia, in summer 1937, was cordoned off by SS troops from nearby Hirschberg, and yielded three small grey-skinned four-fingered beings — one dead, two alive — who died in German custody after one provided information about alien underground bases in the Canadian Arctic. Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Werner Heisenberg, Otto Hahn, and Wernher von Braun allegedly inspected the craft. The technology ultimately inspired the disc-shaped Haunebu aircraft program. The entire complex was blown up before Soviet troops arrived. The wreck is still there, sealed underground, emitting radiation masked by nearby uranium mines. The page that carries this account calls it “Nazi pseudo history???” and appends Tim Matthews’s 1998 rebuttal, which documents the key impossibilities: Czernica was German territory in 1937, not occupied Poland, so there was no invasion for SS troops to arrive with; the Waffen-SS was not formed until March 2, 1940 — three years after the alleged cordoning; and Eva Braun’s family was Munich-based for generations with no documented land in Silesia. The claim is not suppressed history. It is fabricated history, and the archive holds it with the question marks it has always deserved.
Date: Summer 1937 (claimed, unverified — the claim’s own internal chronology is inconsistent with documented history)
Sighting Time: Unknown
Day/Night: Not documented
Location: Czernica, Germany (Silesia; now Poland) — claimed, unverified
Urban or Rural: Rural (claimed)
No. of Entity(‘s): 3 (claimed — no independent verification)
Entity Type: Claimed “small dwarfs” — no witness, no photograph, no physical evidence ever produced
Entity Description: As claimed in the source narrative: approximately 0.9–1.0 meters in height, large hairless pear-shaped heads, small dystrophic-looking bodies, long narrow hands with four fingers, grayish skin, large dark slanted eyes. No independent corroboration exists for any of this description.
Hynek Classification: Not applicable — this is not a witnessed sighting and should not carry a Hynek classification. An earlier version of this page incorrectly assigned CE-III, which has been removed.
Duration: Not documented
No. of Object(s): 1 (claimed)
Description of the Object(s): As claimed: a large dome encircled by a narrow outer rim, a smaller flat dome on the bottom, six oval structures resembling non-transparent portholes near the base of the upper dome, twelve lights on the lower rim, an insignia resembling the letter “T” with two flanking props, dull metal-gray coloring
Shape of Object(s): Multicolored ball or globe-shaped, per the claim
Size of Object(s): Claimed: 7.6 meters in diameter, 3.8 meters high
Distance to Object(s): Not applicable — no witness account exists
Height & Speed: Not documented
Color of Object(s): Claimed dull metal gray, with 12 lights on the lower rim and a “T”-shaped insignia
Number of Witnesses: 0 — no named witness exists anywhere in the source material; “multiple” witnesses is asserted without any names, ranks, or accounts
Source: Robert K. Leśniakiewicz; Miloš Jesenský, “Wunderland”; Extraterrestrial Technologies; Anton Anfalov; Lenura A. Azizova, Iryna V. Volyk & Sergey V. Kovalevskiy — a chain of fringe/conspiracy-adjacent compilers with no primary documentary source, military record, or archival evidence ever produced for the underlying claim.
Case Status: Not a field report. Retained as documented UFO folklore/mythology only, not as a sighting case.
The Claim, As Circulated
A multicolored ball or globe-shaped UFO was claimed to have fallen in a field belonging to Eva Braun’s parents (Adolf Hitler’s future mistress). The area was said to have been cordoned off by SS troops from Jelenia Góra (then called Hirschberg), with the craft transported to a Hirschberg SS base under heavy guard. The disk was claimed to be 7.6 meters in diameter and 3.8 meters high, with a large dome, narrow outer rim, six non-transparent oval structures near the dome’s base, twelve lights on the lower rim, and a “T”-shaped insignia. Inside were said to be three small seats and three entities: one dead, two alive, both of whom reportedly died within roughly six weeks. The claim continues that the craft was later moved to “Der Riese,” a real Nazi construction complex in the Owl Mountains, and that the surviving alien described an origin star system and underground bases in the Canadian Arctic before dying — none of which is corroborated by any surviving German record, Allied post-war technical intelligence assessment, or independent historian.
Contemporary Debunking — Tim Matthews, UFO Magazine (UK), October 22, 1998
This claim has been directly and specifically debunked in print. UK researcher Tim Matthews’ response, published in UFO Magazine on October 22, 1998, is preserved here in full because it identifies the specific factual impossibilities in the story:
“Yes, the new ‘UFO Magazine’ (UK) is on the stands… One article — UFO crash at Czernia — is a hilarious brand of Nazi pseudo history, factual inaccuracy and a desperate attempt to shore up the ‘ET recovered’ technology myth… The story has it that a UFO ‘crashed’ in Poland on land owned by Eva Braun’s parents no less… in 1937. So far so bad but what else? It was recovered — not by the Polish cavalry, at this stage still on horseback, but by a detachment of Waffen SS troops! 18 months before Gleiwitz and the subsequent invasion of Poland by Hitler’s troops! … This Nazi/occult stuff is the fall back position for those unhappy and/or unconvinced by the ever-so-shaky Roswell case. It is desperate stuff totally lacking in any evidence and entirely without a factual basis… I note an even bigger mistake in the ‘Czernia’ article featured in UFO Magazine (UK). The Waffen SS was not even formed until 2nd March 1940. So what was it doing in Poland three years before? Time travel? A quick check on the Internet was all it took to find this out…”
Additional documented problems with the claim, independent of Matthews’ piece: Czernica (Silesia) was German territory until 1945, so the narrative’s framing of “Germans seizing the crash site after the invasion” is internally contradictory — there was no invasion to seize territory from in a town that was already German. The occupation of Poland began in September 1939, two years after the claimed 1937 date. Eva Braun’s family is documented to have lived in Munich for generations; her father was a joinery teacher with no documented landholding in distant Silesia.
RESEARCHER’S NOTES
Czernica — Distinguishing Nazi-Occult Mythology From the Sighting Record
- Source Chain Assessment: Every named source in the citation chain — Leśniakiewicz, Jesenský, and the Anfalov-linked compilers — is part of the same post-war Nazi-UFO fringe publishing lineage discussed in this archive’s 1936 Black Forest, Germany entry. No primary military record, contemporaneous press account, or independent historian has ever substantiated any element of this claim.
- Classification Correction: The previous CE-III classification has been removed. There is no witness, so there is nothing to classify on the Hynek scale.
- Pattern Context: This entry shares its mythological lineage directly with the 1936 Black Forest entry — both trace to the same “Vril Society”/”Haunebu” fabrication tradition, and both attach real historical figures (Eva Braun, Werner von Braun, Hermann Göring, Otto Hahn, Werner Heisenberg) to an entirely unsubstantiated narrative in a way that lends false credibility through name association.
- Evidentiary Weight: None. The claim contains internal, verifiable historical impossibilities (the Waffen-SS predates its own founding in this narrative by nearly three years) that place it outside any serious evidentiary consideration. It is retained here as documented UFO folklore, alongside its own contemporary debunking, so readers encountering this story elsewhere have accurate context.
The Czernica claim is retained in this archive for the same reason as the Black Forest entry: it is a real and recognizable piece of UFO mythology, not because any part of it is considered a credible historical event. Readers researching Nazi-occult and underground-base mythology in more depth may find subterraneanbases.com a more appropriate resource; this archive’s standard is documented field reports, and this entry does not meet that standard.
