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A PAIR OF "FOO FIGHTERS"

WWII

Boeing B-17G "Flying Fortress"

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Some time ago, I was watching a documentary on the air war over Europe in World War II. I happened to notice this pair of white orbs passing through a formation of US Army Air Force B-17 bombers as they flew above Nazi occupied territory on their way to destroy Hitler's war machine.

As I always do when something like this catches my eye, I ran the tape back again and again to see what is there. Below is an animated GIF I made from still frames taken from the original tape. This film was first shot in the 1940s as news footage to be shown on the home front.

Flyers on all sides of the conflict reported seeing these orbs of light passing near their planes. At the time, most people assumed that these things were enemy secret weapons. Of course, after the war was over, none of the belligerents were found to be responsible. Allied pilots nicknamed these objects "Foo Fighters".

A pair of "Foo Fighters" seen passing amongst B-17 bombers over occupied Europe during the Second World War. These enigmatic interlopers were reported by all sides, in all theaters, of that war. They were generally said to be quite small; about the size of a basketball, or European football. It was only after the conflict ended that reports of the disks, and larger objects began.

This is the clearest frame showing one of the two objects alone in the air. This, and the rest of the blow-up frames, are at 200% normal. Due to the fact that the film is over 60 years old, and digitalized by the documentary producers for television, we cannot obtain the quality of image we'd like for close inspection.

Here the object is seen against the dark background of a B-17 wing.

Same frame, not markings.

In this frame, the object is silhouetted agains the tail of another bomber.

Once more, the encore frame, no markings.

Here we have a new (2005) animated GIF composed of 52 frames. These are freshly captured for this GIF. Now the motion of the objects is much smoother, and their trajectories can be followed with more accuracy. You might notice, after watching a few cycles, that the camera man was obviously more concerned with the two glowing white objects than he was with tracking the B-17s. These objects are NOT German weapons or aircraft. Nothing man-made in the skies of wartime Europe resembled the anomalies seen here. They remain unexplained. Some 50 years later, an object almost identical to these was seen flying amonst a formation of F-15E fighter jets over Iraq in 1991. That event is explored HERE.

At the end of the day, it's up to YOU to draw your own conclusions.