foo fighters ufos

 foo fighters ufos are unexplained flying objects that usually appear as a large, glowing, circular or elliptical white light with spokes. They have often been reported to emit beams of light from their underside and to fly in circles or fly in an extremely irregular manner. foo fighters are usually reported in military situations, often by pilots or anti-aircraft units, and can apparently fly in formation or perform maneuvers that are impossible for any known aircraft. foo fighters have also been associated with a variety of UFO-related events, including the appearance of humanoid beings in association with the objects.

There were eight official reports of foo fighters during World War II from pilots and air crews (including bomber crews) of various Allied countries and their opponents. There have also been many other unconfirmed sighting reports from around the world in other wars dating back to World War I. While foo fighters are sometimes dismissed as naturally occurring phenomenon like ball lightning and some aircraft lights, many ufos are thought by some people to be used by secret military technology designed primarily for spy purposes like surveillance and deception operations.

Explanations for foo fighters are varied. Some people believe that they are artifacts of unexplained natural phenomenon like ball lightning or aircraft lights. Others believe that they are plasma balls, reflections, or simply mirages produced by the heat and haze from ground based atomic weapons testing in the Pacific north east region of the United States during the 1950s. Whatever the reason, foo fighters are common in the coastal regions of the Pacific north east and sightings have become more frequent as time goes on. They are most often seen near or above large bodies of water, especially over the ocean and occasionally at altitudes as high as 10,000 to 20,000 feet. The chief characteristics of foo fighters are their orange color, even sky glow at night, noticeable movement that is erratic or completely unnerving, strange floating sound and flashing lights. Sometimes various luminous structures will appear from them.

These phenomena don't pose any danger but are nevertheless spectacular to watch. People have listed many different explanations for them such as UFO's (unidentified flying objects), aircraft lights or reflections on clear nights. Still other people claim that foo fighters are debris from crashed UFOs but this view is dismissed by many UFO researchers as unlikely.

Accounts of foo fighters have been reported as early as World War I. Many of these reports were made as testimony during the Battle of Britain, in which thousands of Allied and German planes fought in a series of aerial engagements over southern England. Foo fighters are often reported as luminous balls, stars or streaks that fly alongside aircraft. They have been most commonly seen during World War II: for some people they have been described as seeing the "shadow" of their aircraft's propeller blades or taking on a shape similar to its fuselage. Other descriptions include observing cylinders and spheres that follow planes above them, or forms that resemble animals such as birds, bats, cats and dogs. Many foo fighter sightings have been related to the proximity of nuclear weapons tests at the Nevada Test Site and the Pacific north-east region of the United States between 1952 and 1963.

One of the first U.S. Air Force documents recording reports of foo fighters occurred on September 23, 1948, when an Air Force investigator from Wright Patterson AFB was sent to investigate a three day period in which one out of seven aircraft he personally studied was unable to detect orbiting objects overflew him. The investigator noted:

Some of the "greater percentages" of unexplained cases stem from those reports [i.e. foo fighters] coming from aircraft at night... [In such instances,] a red light is observed close to or approaching the aircraft. The red light appears to either match or trail the aircraft, and in some positions, it shines brightly and then disappears suddenly. 

During the 1950s, foo fighters were routinely sighted in the vicinity of nuclear weapon tests conducted at the Nevada test site. For example, a reporter for the Las Vegas Sun stated that his plane containing reporters and crew was being followed by flying disks over Frenchman Flat during Operation Teapot on March 7, 1953. A Los Angeles Times reporter also witnessed nine glowing objects over Frenchman Flat on that day.

On June 20, 1952, an F-82 fighter pilot for Air Defense Command (ADC) near Moses Lake reported seeing lights in his aircraft's vicinity while chasing an unidentified target on radar. Upon investigating them he found three large lights flying between 9-10 thousand feet directly above him. The objects traveled in a triangular formation and then merged into one.

On June 12, 1953, an air defense command radar site near Terra Haute, Indiana tracked a high altitude object from their site. A pilot flying nearby was able to confirm the radar readings and saw the craft as well. He described it as having very bright lights underneath and being unlike any aircraft he had seen before. The pilot provided an estimated 1100 mph speed for the unknown object.

On September 12, 1954, an F-94C Starfire jet fighter was scrambled from New Castle AFB in Delaware to pursue a large bogey over Pennsylvania at 25,000 feet. The pilot saw a group of red lights six to eight miles ahead near the towns of Lock Haven and Williamsport. When he approached to within four miles the lights disappeared.

On March 28, 1956, a pilot from Langley AFB claimed to see a bright red light just off his right wing in the vicinity of Norfolk, Virginia. He was flying an F-89J Scorpion at 25,000 feet. The aircraft's weapons system officer saw it also. They attempted to pursue the unknown object but it outpaced them easily even though they were flying at 600 mph.

On September 5, 1958, a flight of four F-100 Super Sabres and an F-101 Voodoo were scrambled from MacDill AFB to intercept a bogey over Virginia. After a short chase the aircraft lost visual contact with the target and returned to base without having been able to reach it.

Reports of foo fighters apparently ceased after 1963 but reports continued into the 1980s. Since an estimated 40 percent of UFO sightings are cases on which multiple witnesses agree, it is thought that foo fighters still occur frequently. Reports of foo fighters usually come from witnesses who are not pilots and are generally associated with large glowing lights in the vicinity of nuclear weapons tests and sometimes radar sightings.

During the 1950s, the USAF investigated foo fighters with a special "Project Blue Book" unit and had their own explanation for the phenomena. The USAF believed that they were part of an air force secret project called "VehicleIdentification (VIP)" system which was a countermeasure against hostile foreign aircraft. The Navy, on the other hand, claimed that foo fighter sightings were caused by electrostatic discharges in objects such as ships' foghorns which were mistaken for UFOs.