1945.01 In January 1945 other pilots from [415] Squadron were followed in the same fashion by three of these balls, red and white this time. (UFOs 1947-1987: The 40-Year Search for an Explanation, Evans and Spencer)
Haguenau, Alsace, France, Europe
1944.12.22 18.00 On 22 December two other pilots of 415 Fighter Group [cf 1944.11.23] were flying over Haguenau at an altitude of 3,000 metres when at 1800 hours the pilot reported: “Two very bright lights have left the ground and are headed towards us. Right now they are following us.” For two minutes the two […]
Paris, Ile-de-France, France, Europe
1944.12.13 Silver Balls Floating in Air Nazis’ Newest War Device (The Associated Press) Paris, Dec. 13. – As the Allied armies ground out new gains on the western front today, the Germans were disclosed to have thrown a new “device” into the war – mysterious silvery balls which float in the air. Pilots report seeing […]
Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria, Europe
1944.12 In December 1944… Major Leet, in a B-17 bomber, observed an amber disc which seemed to follow the manoeuvres of his aircraft over Klagenfurt. (UFOs 1947 – 1987: The 40-Year Search for an Explanation, Evans and Spencer) Army Air Major William D Leet: “My B-17 crew and I were kept company by a ‘foo-fighter’, […]
Speyer, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, Europe
1944.11.27 17.00c Lt Henry Giblin, of Santa Rosa, California, pilot, and Lt Walter Cleary, of Worcester, Massachusetts, radar-observer, were flying at 1,000 feet altitude when they saw a huge red light 1,000 feet above them, moving at 200 miles per hour. As the observation was made on an early winter evening, the men decided that […]
Vosges Mountains, Alsace, France, Europe
1944.11.23 22.00 The most widely quoted [foo fighter] sighting occurred on 23 November 1944 and involved the 415th, an American night fighter unit flying out of France. They seem to have been the location of most of the best-known 1944-5 reports and were the source of the “foo fighter” nickname. On this date, Lieutenant Edward […]
Peenemünde, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, Europe
1944.10c Jenny Randles interviewed comedian Michael Bentine, who in late 1944 was an intelligence officer stationed in eastern England dealing with free Polish troops. (The Complete Book of UFOs, Hough and Randles) [Bentine was an] intelligence officer with the bomber wing of 626 Squadron. (UFOs and How to See Them, Randles) He had to debrief […]
Schweinfurt, Bavaria, Germany, Europe
1943.10.14 Moving on to the period of World War Two, we find the most notable event, ufologically speaking, was the widespread appearances of small discs and spheres of unknown origin which were at the time nicknamed “foo-fighters”. Their first official appearance was on 14 October 1943, during a bomber raid on the German industrial complex […]
Pushkino, Russia, Europe
1943.09 Spanish volunteers fighting alongside the Germans in Russia, in the Azul Division, were in a bunker during a battle between German and Russian air forces. The witnesses were astonished to see a disc-shaped UFO stationed above the planes in combat “as if watching the battle”, as one of the witnesses described it. After a […]
Frome, Somerset, England, Europe
1942.07 SPACE ODDITY CALLED ABNEMOS IT happened in July, 1942. Nine-year-old Ron Evans, a wartime evacuee, was staying with a village family in Frome, Somerset. It was a hot day and he went off to collect firewood in the forest. “I saw this green haze, like the sun streaming through the leaves,” said Ron, now […]
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