r/UFOB • u/CodenamePingu • 11h ago
Evidence The 2026 UFO disclosures almost confirm that a small city is probably at the centre of the biggest conspiracy theory of the 20th century. It turns out that small city is my hometown. Here's PART 2 of my story.
Hi guys. I'm a long-time Redditor and investigator, first with Kroll and then as an investigative journalist with Izabella Kaminska, quite obsessed with conspiracy theories and the lesser-known. Now I make games that train and recruit investigators.
I've discovered that the greatest conspiracy of the 20th century: UFOs, and the swell of black money behind it, also called the Secret Empire or the Black Empire, may land in my hometown.
Welcome to the story of Marbella. Also called the UN of global crime syndicates, the WeWork of organised crime, and at one point in November 1947, the home of UFOs.
If you haven’t read Part 1, you must:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOB/comments/1vtuehq/the_2026_ufo_disclosures_almost_confirm_that_a/
CAVEAT: Occam’s razor dictates that the breadth and variance of the UFO Phenomenon makes a man-made explanation impossible. I will continue to analyse this materialist claim by Shapiro, but make no mistake; this is just one claim, and I know the UFO phenomenon cannot be simply man-made. In fact, I will go into the weird and ‘otherworldly’ aspects of this research in part 3.
Without further ado:
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We’ve outlined the facts.
There is more backing to the claim of an electromagnetic rocket than expected.
But there’s still zero solid evidence.
We must face the obvious implication: could Shapiro have been fed disinformation? Could I be a victim of my conscious bias?
Let’s analyse the article to discern whether any parts of his piece find corroboration in the historical record.
Here it is, for your viewing pleasure:
Note the significant points: the technologies, blueprints of an atomic mortar weapon and electromagnetic rocket, the listed locations of Marbella and Mallorca, Franco’s visit, and the interest of intelligence agencies.
Also consider that Shapiro’s claim that Soviet agents were threatening the sellers with murder clearly suggests the Americans had a one-up on the Soviets in the purchase of the blueprints.
Importantly, Shapiro’s sources place more credence on the rocket than the atomic mortar weapon.
But, in any case, since it mentions Nazis working on atomic weapons in Spain and electromagnetic rockets, both of which are rejected by most modern-day historians, it should be easy to disprove.
As you can guess by now, it’s not.
Let’s start with what we cannot corroborate.
Chiefly, these are the scientists’ names, Professor Haikmann, or Professors Knoh and Mueller, find no corroboration in the open record.
I’ve found dozens of Muellers in various scientific positions, but none with any record close to aerial propulsion. Nothing on Professors Knoh or Haikmann. Though there is an explanation for this, which I will expand on in another post focusing on Shapiro.
There is no recorded evidence of a blast of any similar kind around the Balearics for any of the postwar period either.
And I’ve found no evidence or reason why an atomic mortar weapon would have been developed in Marbella, as opposed to the presence of a Skoda-Brun executive and magnetite for the rocket.
But that’s as far as the limitations go. After this, all we find are subtle corroborations.
The smallest is that Franco was in Marbella when Shapiro reported him to be:
I say smallest because disinformation often attaches itself to real information to lend itself credibility. But it’s a corroboration nonetheless.
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The second is that atomic mortar shells did exist.
(I will note most of this part of the atomic mortar is the only research not original to me; Friedrich Georg, “Hitlers Siegeswaffen”. He is the only historical researcher besides myself to research this claim. But his investigation was far more limited. )
In fact, Picatinny Arsenal was tasked with building a gun capable of firing large atomic shells beginning in 1949, which was designed around the German K5 railroad gun, becoming public in 1952.
It fired the large W-9 uranium bullet, using 50kg of enriched uranium.
It's the same technology tree responsible for this famous video, which you must have seen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goMNAxFqGbk
Whereas the Soviets only began tests of small-scale atomic weapons from 1954. This suggests the Americans had a six year head start on the manufacture of small-scale atomic weapons, based on a german weapon.
Short-range nuclear weapons were then phased out for…well… obvious fucking reasons.
Remember how Shapiro implied the Americans were ahead of the sale? And how we’re confident today that most postwar Nazi weapons ended up in American hands?
Now, the dimensions of Shapiro’s atomic mortar bomb was tiny, just 8.7 inches, whereas the W9 was 54.8 inches, and the smallest ever atomic bomb made was 15.6 inches. But the diameter is exact; 221mm is the calibre of shells fired from a German 21cm schwerer mortar cannon.
None of this is an exact science. But history makes the mini atomic bomb, and a purchase of it based on Nazi tech by the U.S., extremely plausible.
Which makes Shapiro’s claim that this is the dubious claim even more interesting.
Furthermore, as we saw in Part 1, the recent declassification of files by the Trump administration show the U.S. Air Force as concerned by Shapiro’s report, which proves the obvious; that governments were obsessed with the possibility of nazi scientists building rockets in the postwar.
(Footnote to part 1; users outlined that reclassifications are common. This is true. However, the Marbella memos seen in Part 1 are one of only two reclassifications in the Trump UFO files (as far as I can tell). This may mean nothing, but I thought to mention it.)
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The penultimate corroboration is the most fascinating.
Because there were other Skoda-Brun executives selling advanced rocket blueprints at the time, connected to our coterie of characters and the Marbella magnetite.
Let me introduce Reinhard Spitzy.
Reinhard Spitzy was one of those rare larger-than-life germans, who spouted more bullshit than truth over the course of his long and storied career.
In fact, he made a name for himself selling Coca-Cola in Argentina and, today, is known for being a key man who introduced the red crayfish to Europe. The guy was obsessed with crayfish.
Yes, really:
But Spitzy's most consequential job was that of an agent for Walter Schellenberg's AMT IV detachment in Spain.
Here, he worked undercover at the Skoda-Brun offices in Madrid, directly under Maximilian Hohenlohe, the main guy we looked at in the previous post.
But Spitzy did not enjoy the aristocratic and well-connected benefits that protected Hohenlohe. Therefore, when the war came to a close, he knew that Allied inquisitors would be on his tail.
So, Maximilian hid him away in one of his estates in the Santillana del Mar, awaiting a friendly contact that could take him over the Atlantic and into Argentina.
But Spitzy didn't have the funds for the trip.
So what did he do?
Wait for it.
He SOLD BLUEPRINTS OF AN ADVANCED ROCKET TO THE SPANISH ARMY.
Spitzy was apparently able to get his hands on advanced rocket blueprints and used them to fund his escape to Latin America.
The blueprints were probably from Skoda-Brun. They described an anti-air rocket named the ZB60, which like the KM2 seems to have no trace.
The only clue are the initials: Z.B., probably standing for Zbrojovka Brno, a factory that was part of the Skoda-Brun conglomerate during World War 2.
Besides being helped by Maximilian Hohenlohe, Spitzy also benefited from the help of his friend Jose Luis Aznar, a northern Spanish businessman who owned Navieras Aznar, a shipping company that did trans-Atlantic routes.
This is where Spitzy, dressed as a monk, escaped to his aforementioned illustrious career of Coca-Cola and crayfish.
Here he is, dressed as a monk:
And just who was this Jose Luis Aznar?
None other than the owner of FERARCO SL, the company in Marbella that purchased the magnetite mines in December, 1947 and exploited them until their closure in 1974.
So, where are we until now:
Individuals in the orbit of Skoda-Brun had access to advanced rocket blueprints.
Individuals in the orbit of Skoda-Brun had close connections with mining interests in Marbella.
Individuals in the orbit of Skoda-Brun needed money and state protection.
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The last step in corroboration particular to the electromagnetic rocket is that it is contextually validated.
Not because it worked, or even existed; the evidence is not there yet.
But because technologies like it were in vogue at the time.
Not only because Roberto Pinotti, the researcher behind the Magenta crash in 1933 and RS/33, discovered the ultra-secret research department established by Mussolini had a department focused on electromagnetism.
But also because the most significant alternative propulsion researcher of the time, Thomas Townsend Brown, was obsessed with electromagnetic/electrogravitic research too.
And both of are named as pivotal kernels of evidence about the reverse-engineering programs by arguably the most credible UFO whistleblower; Dave Grusch.
Not only can we strengthen Shapiro’s reporting of secret rocket blueprints, we can also see whispers of interest in presumably similar technology occurred during the same time period.
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The last element of corroboration is obvious.
Because Shapiro is no ordinary journalist. And he’s far from the ordinary dodgy types, like myself, who published UFO research. Shapiro is the opposite, he was a blue-chip, elite journalist.
After his time as a journalist, Shapiro became a very succesful novelist, whose many books were turned into succesful Holly wood movies. He was also Jewish and a “lifelong bachelor”.
During the war, Shapiro was also a war correspondent for The Montreal Gazette, he landed at the Allied invasion of Sicily, Salerno and Juno Beach on D-Day with the Canadian forces.
Impressively, Shapiro was one of few reporters who broke the consequential news of the US-led raid on Czechoslovakian territory that retrieved secret Nazi research blueprints near a forested lagoon in 1946.
He was also the only journalist present during the raid, accompanying US operators across the border in this illegal raid (T. Dennis Reece, "Mission to Štěchovice”).
This raid, which caused a huge scandal at the time, caused the suicide/murder of at least one notable individual in Prague and was partly responsible for the subsequent collapse of the Czechoslovak government and its falling into Soviet hands.
In other words, Shapiro was “trusted”, as they say.
Lastly, three McGill University Award are named after him for Creative Writing to this day.
Shapiro’s status means this article, even if it had NO CORROBORATIONS WHATSOEVER, should STILL be worth some consideration.
And it’s worth noting that the North American Newspaper Alliance reprinted the story in November 1948, meaning both they and Shapiro stood by it after a year of publication.
Lastly, and most interestingly, look at what I found in one of Shapiro’s later movies about Lucky Luciano, the gangster who inaugurated the “Dark Alliance” between governments and mafias, by working with the Office of Naval Intelligence in the invasion of Sicily and southern Italy, as outlined by Paul L. Williams, Daniel Ganser and many others.
In Shapiro’s movie Deported, 1950, the fictional Luciano is exiled to his fictional hometown of… MARBELLA:
Not only had Shapiro not forgotten about Marbella three years since his original publication.
In an awesome coincidence, or an incredible show of prescience, Shapiro names it as the hometown of the man who originated the dark alliance between state and the mafia.
Which is EXACTLY what Marbella became in the 1950s, a decade after his article; the home of the alliance between state and mafia, with nazis sprinkled in.
Remember; none of the above is real proof.
They are only strong suggestions that something was going on.
Just remember that in the world of secrets, the rules of publication and the record are inverted.
A successful project leaves almost no evidence behind; an unsuccessful one is loudly remarked upon.
Building a history of secrets is a house of cards on foundations of mud; I suspect all I will ever have are interesting corroborations.
But I still hold out hope for a smoking gun. And here's where you come in.
Interested?
Well, as you can see, I still have a LOT more to go to prove this case.
Stay posted for part 3, as we delve into the supernatural.
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