I’m sure most people here are aware of the stories of Foo Fighters from WW2 (and yes, that’s where Dave Grohl got the name). The popular description is that they were small colorful fireballs that followed allied bombers during the war in both the European and Pacific theaters.
And while this does seem to represent the majority of sightings, there were also daytime sightings that describe them as silver or gold colored metal balls three to five feet in diameter, but these descriptions have very much been overlooked.
I’ve been studying this phenomenon for 40 years and it’s only just recently that I started going through old newspaper accounts that I found these alternate descriptions of Foo Fighters as metallic spheres. The similarities with recent disclosures that the US military is seeing metal orb UAP’s (like the 2022 Middle East video or the 2016 Mosul orb) is striking and perhaps significant.
I’ve included several articles here, including one from January 2, 1945 that was an AP story syndicated in numerous US papers, the famous article in the December 1945 issue of American Legion Magazine, and a July 8th, 1947 issue of a South Carolina newspaper the week after Roswell and the 4th of July “flying disc” flap which immediately made the connection to the earlier Foo Fighters.
Those WW2 encounters are a neat puzzle piece often overlooked. To me they confirm that what pilots are witnessing isn’t a US black budget program or foreign adversary tech. They are here since at least 80 years.
deadfileman on
If I remember correctly there were also somewhat larger structured craft reported, but they were enveloped in brilliant light which gave them a more spherical appearance. That could be a mixup on my part though. Too many UFO stories in this brain haha
New-Ad3222 on
As I recall, Allied pilots thought they were Axis weapons and Axis pilots thought they were Allied weapons.
The things to consider are that during a war, pilots and crew would he hyper observant of anything near their airspace. It’s also a period when thousands of aircraft were in the air, not flying the regular flight routes of commercial aircraft nowadays.
ohnobonogo on
Well, times like these were uncertain. Stories from that time could go on for everlong. Focusing too much on it could seriously put you on a long road to ruin. However it probably did encourage a generation to learn to fly, just to catch a glimpse.
My great uncle flew in WWII but didn’t report anything like this, although he was still my hero. From my perspective every single different story puts a monkey wrench in the overall narrative.
(Hope you enjoy)
DavidM47 on
What’s interesting is that these articles describe the metal spheres as floating—where as the orange fiery orbs were following the pilots.
This adds further support for the idea that the metal spheres are manmade, whereas the fiery orbs are not.
curiousopenmind22 on
This might be of interest to some, but I used to look after an elderly gentleman who was a mechanic for aircraft in ww2. He had an interest in UFOs, and we talked a lot. He always found it confusing how it was common knowledge that British pilots apparently thought the foo fighters were enemy craft. He said it wasn’t like that at all in reality and that pilots he spoke to knew full well there was something else to them because of their manoeuvring capabilities.
yti555 on
My grandfather is former USAF and told me a few years ago how they’d catch “bogies” following certain planes
hockenduke on
RIP Taylor 🥁
DayVCrockett on
Great find. I had no idea the foo fighters were metallic spheres.
Albertjweasel on
A ‘friend of a friend’ told me you could tell they were foo fighters because of ‘the colour and the shape’ and the way they were ‘floaty’ and going going ‘back and forth’
atleast35 on
A good friend of mine was a B52 pilot after Vietnam. He saw unexplained balls of light on a flight once (when they were much higher than commercial aircraft). He said the ball moved in ways that an aircraft couldn’t. No idea what he saw.
ASanguineCorpse on
This is such a cool fucking article, man. Thanks for sharing this.
MangoMousillini on
About 25ish years ago, me and some buddies would regularly sleep out under the stars on their trampoline and I vividly remember on a clear night when all the stars were out we could see dozens of orange-hued balls that appeared to be smaller than stars moving frantically around up in space, it almost looked like they were interacting with each other and were changing directions insanely fast.
-SomeKindOfMonster- on
BLARGHI’VE GOT ANOTHER CONFESSION TO MAKE
DeathByDrone on
Nah, they were just Chinese drones back then too. No need for anyone in government to inquire about these flying around today. /s
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I’m sure most people here are aware of the stories of Foo Fighters from WW2 (and yes, that’s where Dave Grohl got the name). The popular description is that they were small colorful fireballs that followed allied bombers during the war in both the European and Pacific theaters.
And while this does seem to represent the majority of sightings, there were also daytime sightings that describe them as silver or gold colored metal balls three to five feet in diameter, but these descriptions have very much been overlooked.
I’ve been studying this phenomenon for 40 years and it’s only just recently that I started going through old newspaper accounts that I found these alternate descriptions of Foo Fighters as metallic spheres. The similarities with recent disclosures that the US military is seeing metal orb UAP’s (like the 2022 Middle East video or the 2016 Mosul orb) is striking and perhaps significant.
I’ve included several articles here, including one from January 2, 1945 that was an AP story syndicated in numerous US papers, the famous article in the December 1945 issue of American Legion Magazine, and a July 8th, 1947 issue of a South Carolina newspaper the week after Roswell and the 4th of July “flying disc” flap which immediately made the connection to the earlier Foo Fighters.
Fu-Go = spherical Japanese balloon bombs.1944-45
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb
Those WW2 encounters are a neat puzzle piece often overlooked. To me they confirm that what pilots are witnessing isn’t a US black budget program or foreign adversary tech. They are here since at least 80 years.
If I remember correctly there were also somewhat larger structured craft reported, but they were enveloped in brilliant light which gave them a more spherical appearance. That could be a mixup on my part though. Too many UFO stories in this brain haha
As I recall, Allied pilots thought they were Axis weapons and Axis pilots thought they were Allied weapons.
The things to consider are that during a war, pilots and crew would he hyper observant of anything near their airspace. It’s also a period when thousands of aircraft were in the air, not flying the regular flight routes of commercial aircraft nowadays.
Well, times like these were uncertain. Stories from that time could go on for everlong. Focusing too much on it could seriously put you on a long road to ruin. However it probably did encourage a generation to learn to fly, just to catch a glimpse.
My great uncle flew in WWII but didn’t report anything like this, although he was still my hero. From my perspective every single different story puts a monkey wrench in the overall narrative.
(Hope you enjoy)
What’s interesting is that these articles describe the metal spheres as floating—where as the orange fiery orbs were following the pilots.
This adds further support for the idea that the metal spheres are manmade, whereas the fiery orbs are not.
This might be of interest to some, but I used to look after an elderly gentleman who was a mechanic for aircraft in ww2. He had an interest in UFOs, and we talked a lot. He always found it confusing how it was common knowledge that British pilots apparently thought the foo fighters were enemy craft. He said it wasn’t like that at all in reality and that pilots he spoke to knew full well there was something else to them because of their manoeuvring capabilities.
My grandfather is former USAF and told me a few years ago how they’d catch “bogies” following certain planes
RIP Taylor 🥁
Great find. I had no idea the foo fighters were metallic spheres.
A ‘friend of a friend’ told me you could tell they were foo fighters because of ‘the colour and the shape’ and the way they were ‘floaty’ and going going ‘back and forth’
A good friend of mine was a B52 pilot after Vietnam. He saw unexplained balls of light on a flight once (when they were much higher than commercial aircraft). He said the ball moved in ways that an aircraft couldn’t. No idea what he saw.
This is such a cool fucking article, man. Thanks for sharing this.
About 25ish years ago, me and some buddies would regularly sleep out under the stars on their trampoline and I vividly remember on a clear night when all the stars were out we could see dozens of orange-hued balls that appeared to be smaller than stars moving frantically around up in space, it almost looked like they were interacting with each other and were changing directions insanely fast.
BLARGHI’VE GOT ANOTHER CONFESSION TO MAKE
Nah, they were just Chinese drones back then too. No need for anyone in government to inquire about these flying around today. /s