Oskar and Gabriele Linke’s Haselbach encounter

Witness account

Oskar Linke said that, while traveling with Gabriele after a motorcycle breakdown, he approached what first looked like animals and saw two figures beside an unusual structure. He described the structure becoming a luminous disc and departing. He initially considered a secret Russian machine. The account reached international newspapers after the family had moved to West Berlin.

Public record

A 1952 newspaper interview explicitly dates the alleged event to 17 June 1950. Bloecher’s later dossier traces the July 1952 notarization and Davidson’s 1958–1959 correspondence, but lacked a copy of the original deposition. Gabriele, identified in a 2014 interview as Linke’s stepdaughter, described observing the departure from the road.

Sources

• Le Figaro, 7 July 1952: report of Oskar Linke and the Sunday Graphic story; scan and transcript
• Nachtdepesche, 15 August 1952, and Ted Bloecher, 1980: Oskar Linke source texts reproduced in Shards of Magonia
• Ralf Bülow: Das Haselbach-UFO von 1950 — die Augenzeugin spricht; 2014 interview, published 2016