1944.11.27
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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 perhaps they had eaten something at chow that didn’t agree with them and did not rush to report their experience.
(The Foo Fighters Mystery, article by Jo Chamberlin, in the American Legion magazine, 1945.12)
Four days [after the Vosges incident], Lieutenants Giblin and Cleary, on a mission south of Mannheim, saw over Speyer an enormous luminous orange sphere… As with the previous incident, the radar operators had nothing to report – so far as they were concerned, there was nothing else in the sky at the time.