Vril Gammagische Auge
(1945)
By Rob Arndt
The Vril Gammagische Auge (Magic Eye) is a claimed Nazi espionage and reconnaissance device which was in the development stage in early 1945.
Vril Gesellschaft Ing. Rolf Engel developed a miniature Vril Triebwerk (Thrustwork) EMG (Electro-Magnetic-Gravitic) engine and put it into a melon-shaped lightly armored body with a diameter of 40cm (1 foot 4 inches). The body had a reception antenna, a central small television camera, a Schusswaffe, and a telescopic arm that held another miniature camera and a sound microphone.
By virtue of its design and connection to Vril,the magic
eye would have the ability to emerge and submerge dimensionally - appearing and
disappearing at will. As such, this device was suitable for a wide range of
military duties that included aerial recon, submarine protection, and especially
espionage (foreign and domestic). The advantage here was invisibility. While the
main body of the probe remained in the invisible part of inter-dimensional
space, the telescopic sensor arm could lower its other camera and microphone
into our dimension for spying.
The craft was so small that no factories were required to build it. It was a cottage industry device, able to be assembled in a home, garage, apartment, barn, shed, etc… thus, no fear of Allied recovery of major documentation on the device. Ease of assembly and disassembly would make it an ideal device.
By early 1945, Rolf Engel had performed lab tests with the power plant for this device and work was well underway on miniaturizing television equipment down from the bulky 1936 Nazi Olympics cameras to cameras that were just a few times larger than the postwar lipstick cameras of the 1960s. Work on advanced television guidance for missiles had been perfected for the Hs-293D missile and for Mistel composite aircraft being developed by DFS. The very small Argus As-292 target drone had by this time also been converted over to an RPV (Remotely Piloted Vehicle) equipped with small Zeiss optical and infra-red cameras in its small cylindrical body. These went unnoticed by the Allies and none were shot down.
There is no evidence that a fully functional prototype was ever manufactured, but the basic flight characteristics of the small machine were probably tested. The inter-dimensional aspects of the flying drone are questionable but are consistent with Vril Gesellschaft claims of channeled flight with the Jenseitsflugmaschine (Other World Flight Machine of 1922-24) and the Vril/SS E-IV built Flugscheiben (Flight Discs).