The Aldebaran Deception: How a Nazi-Alien Myth Was Manufactured
For decades, a bizarre claim has circulated through the darker edges of UFO culture: that during the rise of the Third Reich, occult mediums established telepathic contact with extraterrestrials from the star Aldebaran – and that these beings supplied the technology for Nazi flying saucers, exotic energy systems, and even atomic weapons.
It’s a story that blends ancient Sumer, secret scripts, lost civilizations, and a hidden post-war space program. It appears in documentaries, books, and online forums with disturbing persistence.
But when the claims are traced back to their source – when the symbols, languages, and timelines are examined under real historical scrutiny – the entire structure collapses.
What remains is not hidden history.
It is a modern fabrication.
The Star That Launched a Thousand Conspiracies
Aldebaran is the bright “eye of the bull” in the constellation Taurus, located about Aldebaran is a real and well-known star: the bright red-orange “eye” of the constellation Taurus, about 65 light-years from Earth, visually near the Pleiades star cluster. In mythological terms, it has long been associated with watchers, guardians, and radiant power – fertile territory for occult imagination.
A favorite trivia hook often appended to the legend is that Pioneer 10, launched in 1972, will pass near Aldebaran in roughly two million years. The fact is accurate. The implication – that Aldebaran is somehow “connected” to human destiny – is not.
Yet somewhere along the way, Aldebaran was transformed from a distant star into the alleged homeworld of a hidden alien race quietly guiding Nazi science.
The Birth of a Modern Myth
Despite claims that the Aldebaran contact originated in secret societies of the early 20th century, the historical record tells a very different story.
Occult historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, author of The Occult Roots of Nazism, pinpointed the true origin of the myth:
In the early 1990s, two Austrian writers – Ralf Ettl and Norbert Jürgen Ratthofer – published a pamphlet called The Vril Project. It was here, for the first time in history, that all the familiar elements appeared together:
- Nazi UFOs
- A secret “Vril Society”
- Mediums like Maria Orsic
- Ancient Sumerian extraterrestrials
- And an alien civilization located in the Aldebaran system
Before this publication, no document, archive, diary, or intelligence record mentioned any of these elements as a unified narrative.
In other words: the Aldebaran story does not emerge from 1919.
It appears suddenly – fully formed – after 1990.
The Real Origin of the “Telepathic Mediums”
Every version of the Aldebaran contact story traces back to one man: Ralf Ettl (d, 2006).
According to David Childress, Ettl claimed that in 1989 he received mysterious documents in a parcel in London describing:
- A secret Vril Society
- Telepathic mediums including Maria Orsic
- And extraterrestrial contact going back to 1919
No original documents were ever publicly authenticated. No postal records surfaced. No independent verification followed.
Yet from this one unverified package, an entire alternative history would be built.
The Vril Society Problem (Historical Breakdown)
The parcel purportedly contained information about telepathic mediums associated with the “Vril Society,” who contacted Aldebaran beings around 1919. However, an examination of historical references to the “Vril Society” reveals significant inconsistencies in the narrative:
• 1947: The first mention of a “Vril Society” appears in an article by defected German Third Reich rocket engineer Dr. Willy Ley, titled “Pseudoscience in Naziland.” Although Ley mentions the Vril Society, he makes no reference to telepathic mediums or extraterrestrial contacts. Instead, meditating upon an apple core reveals the nature of “Vril.”
• 1960: A subsequent reference to the “Vril Society” occurs in the book “The Morning of the Magicians,” which cites Ley’s article and introduces a link to the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians with the Vril Society.
• 1990: It is not until the release of Ralf Ettl and Norbert Ratthofer’s narrative, “The Vril Project,” that any claim of telepathic contact, extraterrestrial communication with Aldebaran, or connections to the Thule society or UFOs is introduced.
The extraterrestrial narrative appears nowhere in the historical record until the publication of The Vril Project.
The Language That Wasn’t Alien
Ralf Ettl and Jürgen Ratthofer describe a secret meeting held in December 1919. At this meeting, the innermost circles of the Thule and Vril societies gathered. The medium Maria Orsic allegedly presented two stacks of papers. One stack featured a bizarre-looking German Templar secret script, while the other contained what appeared to be a normal, legible text.
According to the narrative, these texts were received via mediumistic channeling – dictated both in a mysterious “temple script” and in a language completely unknown to the medium. Orsic herself believed that the unknown language must have been ancient and Near Eastern in nature. Later, it was asserted that this mysterious language was Sumerian – i.e., the language of the ancient precursors of Babylonian culture. The Aldebaranian language is identical to Sumerian! That’s because the Aldebaranians came to visit Earth 500,000 years ago. And then again later.
(The author Zecharia Sitchin told a similar story in 1976 in his book “The Twelfth Planet.” Only his extraterrestrial Anunnaki came from “Nibiru,” a planet in our solar system beyond Neptune.)
Critical Analysis of the Claims
A closer look at the claims and evidence presented in “The Vril Project” reveals several inconsistencies:
• Sumerian Writing and Language:
Although the Sumerians invented writing, the script they developed – cuneiform – is markedly different from the so-called 13th-century “temple script” described in the narrative. Sumerian cuneiform is recorded on clay tablets that are over 5000 years old and bear no resemblance to any secret “Temple” script.
Moreover, the Sumerian language does not sound like German (click here for a sound sample). This contradicts the report of a language that “almost sounded like German” yet remained incomprehensible.
This is not alien linguistics.
It is stage-magic encryption.
The Nature of the Message:
The messages received by Maria Orsic were in German and encoded with a simple substitution cipher. The availability of a cipher key would have allowed for the deciphering of the texts. This undermines the claim of an entirely unknown language.
The Two “Black Suns” – and the Hidden TV Disk
A central symbol in esoteric Nazism is the Black Sun, which appears in two distinctly different versions:
1. Wewelsburg Black Sun Version:
This version is found at Wewelsburg in Germany, which served during the Third Reich as the spiritual center of an emerging Nazi ideology. It’s only a fairly recent claim that the design resembles a “Black Sun”.
The spoked mosaic of the ‘Black Sun’ at Wewelsburg (designed after 1934) is derived from the decorative rim of the Samarra Bowl. This bowl was discovered by Ernst Herzfelder around 1914 and later exhibited in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. The bowl’s center features one of the oldest known swastika depictions. Samarra is located in the region historically known as Sumeria.
You can stretch the Samarra bowl’s meandering pattern to match the Wewelsburg mosaic’s pattern. It is strange that the authors of “Esoteric Nazism” didn’t pick up on this Sumerian connection.
2. The Ettl “Black Sun” (1990)
Another Black Sun version was first presented in Ettl’s 1990 pamphlet “The Vril Project” and later featured in the pseudo-documentary “UFO: Secrets of the Third Reich” (1995). Peter Moon’s “The Black Sun: Montauk’s Nazi-Tibetan Connection” (1997) also presents this design.
It is similar to the old flag of the Japanese empire. Additionally, this eye-catching design closely resembles the 16-spoke strobe disk of mechanical, low-bandwidth television. This type of TV was first pioneered in 1925.
In 1985, Carl Sagan posed a hypothetical question in the draft script for his movie “Contact.” He asked, “What if the Nazis didn’t have television in 1936?“
What indeed? The video snippet below is from Ralf Ettl’s UFO film,
which kickstarted the popularization of the “Reichsflugscheibe” theory:
Was Ettl inspired by Carl Sagan’s novel, to design his “Black Sun” based on a TV strobe disk? Could the “Aldebaranian” writing on it serve as evidence of “extraterrestrial influence?”
Around the perimeter of the graphic is a slogan of the Thule Society. This slogan is encrypted using the “Templar Script” substitution cipher in German. By no means is it extraterrestrial:
The Neo-Nazi Rune Slip
At the center of the disk, two runes are identified by Ettl and Ratthofer as a double “EH” rune (ᚾᚾ). In reality, the correct reading of the double Naudiz rune is “NN.” We can interpret this as an abbreviation for “Neo-Nazi.” This detail further suggests that the story is a post-war fabrication, as there was no such group before or during the Third Reich.
This alone proves post-war invention.
The Expanding Fantasy: Stargates, Reptilians, and a Fourth Reich
Later writers expanded the story dramatically. Among them, Ella LeBain claimed:
- The Nazis accessed a stargate to Aldebaran
- Used Hebrew “light-codes” for genocide and UFO engineering
- Developed atomic implosion devices powered by the so-called Black Sun
- And passed this technology to U.S. agencies after 1945
The narrative then spirals into claims of:
- Draconians
- Grey aliens
- Hidden Aldebaran elites
- A Fourth Reich and New World Order
None of these claims are supported by:
- Archaeology
- Linguistics
- Intelligence archives
- Engineering records
- Or astrophysics
No document, artifact, laboratory record, or verified testimony supports any of this.
The Final Verdict
The Aldebaran contact story fails on every technical level:
- No verified documents before 1990
- No authentic ancient script
- No alien language
- No valid symbolism
- No credible witnesses
- No engineering pathway from telepathic scribbles to functional spacecraft
What remains is a late-Cold-War science-fantasy narrative, retroactively projected onto the Third Reich to make it feel ancient, forbidden, and powerful.
It is not hidden history.
It is myth engineered for belief.
The Final Irony
Despite all of this being demonstrably false, the model company Revell still produced a physical UFO kit based directly on designs from The Vril Project.
A fictional hoax became manufactured reality.
Final Final Note
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