What do you think the Foo Fighters actually were?

[A51Watcher]

I am interested in members opinions on what the Foo Fighters actually were.

I see many opinions and explanations that run the gamut posted around the net and was curious what members here think.

Feel free to chime in.


 

[biggles]

I thought they were the Japanese kamikaze pilots in WW11.  Also a band.

Apparently the term was coined by US pilots for ufo's seen in WW11 I think.

[The Seeker]

With all the different things that have surfaced that point to there being plasma critters living in the upper atmosphere I am wondering if that is the case here; they couldn't shoot one down in WW2 and they plagued everyone's planes 



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[Pimander]

Small plasmoid phenomena, like miniature ball lightening.  I don't know whether they were artificially created or not.

That was a guess. 

[A51Watcher]

3 opinions on what the foo's were?

Good guesses though they were, but based on outdated information and a limited sampling.

[Ellirium113]

Fly by wire guided plasma ball.

[The Seeker]

3 opinions on what the foo's were?

Good guesses though they were, but based on outdated information and a limited sampling.

Ok, A51,I am waiting on you to share your thoughts and observations on this phenomena; part of my observation was based on a friend from long ago; he was a tail gunner on a B17, and his accounts of the 'foo fighters' and trying to shoot one with a twin .50 caliber Browning machine gun... the hail of bullets he poured into it had no observable effect...

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[A51Watcher]

Ok, A51,I am waiting on you to share your thoughts and observations on this phenomena; part of my observation was based on a friend from long ago; he was a tail gunner on a B17, and his accounts of the 'foo fighters' and trying to shoot one with a twin .50 caliber Browning machine gun... the hail of bullets he poured into it had no observable effect...

Seeker

My thoughts and observations are based on someone who finally did some proper research on the subject.

He went to the national archives and spent nearly four years going through the official documents on the subject and wrote a book detailing the information he discovered there.

Turns out there were 3 official investigations into this subject during the war, the first initiated by the Brits in 1943, the other 2 initiated first by Eisenhower then by Shulgen.

What comes from this wider view instead of a narrow sampling, is the realization that that this subject only gained public awareness because an embedded AP reporter got ahold of the story from the 912th night bomber squadron during the latter part of the war.

Night sightings (which put the subject in the public's mind) of course involve balls of light, yet daytime sightings involve metallic craft, just as they both do at Area 51, and did in 1947.

Daytime sightings of metallic craft also occurred during the war, as well as sightings of mothership size craft along with sports model size. Basketball size probes of metal or light were seen during 1947 as well as the war.   

I have not published as of yet the myriad of fireball sightings during 1947 but you can be sure that once again people saw metallic craft during the day and fireballs at night.

These fireballs also demonstrated 'terrific' speeds and 90 degree turns.

I suspect fireballs or balls of light were the descriptors used in the 40's because self luminous technology had never been seen before. Yet today we understand that this luminosity is merely a byproduct of the technology used.

And BTW, your friends account who was a tail gunner on a B17, is also in the national archives and included in this book.

One troubling aspect to all of this is the revelation that at the archives there is a box of 100 reports on this subject that remain classified to this day.

The author asserts that if it were not for the AP leak of the story, the public would never become aware of the subject.


Kevin Randle was the first to alert me to this research some time ago here -

http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2008/10/revising-ufo-history.html


You can also search youtube on the authors name to see several interviews. 

[Ellirium113]

Government documents prove they KNEW this was advanced German technology and nothing extra terrestrial.









See more info here:
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=2186.msg32087#msg32087

[A51Watcher]

Government documents prove they KNEW this was advanced German technology and nothing extra terrestrial.

I will have to disagree on what those documents prove, since the appearance and capabilities reported in that document do not appear to match the sighting reports contained in the National Archives.


Btw, do you happen to have a source for that document?

The reason I ask is I note that the index for 'other weapons' lists the items to follow as A through F, yet the 'Fhoo bombs' are listed as item 4, not item C as shown in the index. Subsequent items are also listed with a number not a letter as shown in the index.

Also the statement in the document "The few incidents reported by pilots indicate no success" is also highly inaccurate since there are literally hundreds of reports in the National Archives.

Also the incorrect spelling of Foo as Fhoo is not even the term used officially in documentation for this subject by the military according to Keith Chester. Foo was only a slang term invented and used by air crews. 

I suggest as I mentioned before looking over Kevin's assessment and Keith's observations about both day and night sightings from the National Archives to help clarify the situation.


   

[The Seeker]

And BTW, your friends account who was a tail gunner on a B17, is also in the national archives and included in this book.

Cool  His name was Joseph Strickland and he lived in the Harper's Lake community near Hiram, Georgia in the mid 1970's when I met him.

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[A51Watcher]

Cool  His name was Joseph Strickland and he lived in the Harper's Lake community near Hiram, Georgia in the mid 1970's when I met him.

Seeker

Yes certainly an interesting account given that any terrestrial craft would not have survived having his entire clip emptied into it at point blank range, much to his surprise.


 

[The Seeker]

Yes certainly an interesting account given that any terrestrial craft would not have survived having his entire clip emptied into it at point blank range, much to his surprise.

Indeed; 500 rounds of .50 caliber ball(Jacketed Steel) would have shredded anything anyone had during the course of the war or to the present



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