Foo Fighters - Aircraft of World War II

Bronc · 10-20-2009, 07:15 PM

For those who might not have heard the term: Foo fighter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Anyway, if anyone has a plausible theory as to what they were, it's going to be someone on WW2Aircraft.net.

They were seen in all theatres of the war, but not so much in Korea, and rarely if ever today. So what were they?

Bronc

vanir · 10-21-2009, 07:16 AM

Likely explanation is a variety of phenomenae being reported as the same thing. As technology and scientific familiarity in standard education curriculums increased various elements contributing to these reports have been eliminated from continuing reports, such as ball lightning for example, of which little was known until the seventies. Ufoe reporting still continues, mostly among commercial airliners and military (whether it is not often reported by civilian pilots due to ridicule or because they rarely fly very high performance craft in unusual and all weather conditions day and night is open to speculation), also by astronauts.

Project Blue Book reports are interesting to read, there is one very good incident supported by interceptors, a commerical airliner and ground stations in the sixties of a ufoe reported by a commercial airliner in US airspace, which was then observed by ground stations and finally by a pair of F4 Phantoms sent to intercept, a giant glowing ball which accelerated well beyond the capabilities of the Phantoms to continue pursuit, although they had been within visual range of it for some time before it did this.

The USSR also spent official subsidy investigating supernatural phenomenae, somewhat similar to the US Project Blue Book, theirs included investigating claims of paranormal activities among the community. There is quite of bit of footage taken by KGB agents who would interview people who claimed to have such powers as telekinesis. None were proved however.

Wartime, whether World War or Cold War is a weird time. I'd say put that with people doing things our psychology was probably never intended to handle like flying through the air at 500mph plus in the dark...

10-20-2009, 07:15 PM	#1
Bronc Banned Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 57	Foo Fighters For those who might not have heard the term: Foo fighter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Anyway, if anyone has a plausible theory as to what they were, it's going to be someone on WW2Aircraft.net. They were seen in all theatres of the war, but not so much in Korea, and rarely if ever today. So what were they? Bronc

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10-21-2009, 07:16 AM	#2
vanir Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Melbourne Posts: 316	Likely explanation is a variety of phenomenae being reported as the same thing. As technology and scientific familiarity in standard education curriculums increased various elements contributing to these reports have been eliminated from continuing reports, such as ball lightning for example, of which little was known until the seventies. Ufoe reporting still continues, mostly among commercial airliners and military (whether it is not often reported by civilian pilots due to ridicule or because they rarely fly very high performance craft in unusual and all weather conditions day and night is open to speculation), also by astronauts. Project Blue Book reports are interesting to read, there is one very good incident supported by interceptors, a commerical airliner and ground stations in the sixties of a ufoe reported by a commercial airliner in US airspace, which was then observed by ground stations and finally by a pair of F4 Phantoms sent to intercept, a giant glowing ball which accelerated well beyond the capabilities of the Phantoms to continue pursuit, although they had been within visual range of it for some time before it did this. The USSR also spent official subsidy investigating supernatural phenomenae, somewhat similar to the US Project Blue Book, theirs included investigating claims of paranormal activities among the community. There is quite of bit of footage taken by KGB agents who would interview people who claimed to have such powers as telekinesis. None were proved however. Wartime, whether World War or Cold War is a weird time. I'd say put that with people doing things our psychology was probably never intended to handle like flying through the air at 500mph plus in the dark...