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A photograph purportedly showing kill markings that indicate flying saucers on the side of a German World War II anti-aircraft gun has been showing up on the internet for several years, often used as proof that unidentified flying objects are a part of the historical record because a German tank shot down a UFO: This digitally manipulated image has been circulating since at least 2013 when it was published in the Humor section of the Mod DB web forum under the title I never though the Flak 88 were THAT versatile. While the photograph does show a German Flak 88mm anti-aircraft gun, the UFO markings were not part of the original photograph: The original photograph was lifted from the cover of a 1943 issue of Der Adler, a Nazi propaganda magazine: The caption identified the kill markings on the weapon as 11 planes, 40 armored tanks, and 15 anti-aircraft forts. There was no mention of UFOs.
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