ACUFO:

There is the case of a U.S. bomber pilot of the 8th U.S. Air Force. He reported that he saw 15 foo fighters following his plane at a distance, with their lights winking on and off.

Other pilots [in 1944] reported that they had seen strange balls of blazing light flying in precise formation. The crew of one British bomber reported that 15 to 20 of these balls followed their bomber at a distance.

This bomber crew said: “We saw a strange flare come from them, and it winkled in and out.”

Back in time.

And yet, there always exist minds bold enough or skeptical enough to doubt even what is proven, demonstrated, classified in the store of scientific truths under a definitive label.

From that moment, - it is July 1947, - some curious people had the idea of ​​searching in the past to see whether stories like that of Kenneth Arnold were really new. Whatever the explanation for the flying saucers - hallucination, celestial phenomenon, etc. - why would they have waited until 1947 to make their entry into history?

This is what an editor of the American magazine Star said in particular (1). On July 6, 1947, two days before Washington's “authoritative source” floated their glider hailstones idea, this editor was able to report that airmen based in England during the war had already given accounts similar to Kenneth Arnold's.

“Fighter pilots,” he wrote, “came to believe towards the end of the war that Hitler had a new secret weapon. The Americans called these machines “ghost fighters” or “Kraut fireballs.”

“An aviation intelligence officer, now participating in the aviation investigation into the saucers, was then given the task of collecting and verifying military pilots' accounts of the circular 'ghost fighters' seen above Europe or on the route of bombers heading to Japan. The officers of the intelligence service never managed to clarify this question of the silver balls and discs seen in 1944-45 above countries occupied by the Germans and on the air route followed by the B 29s going to bomb Japan.”

“In Europe, these ghost fighters sometimes came so far as to brush against the wings of planes, even during bomber dives. Others appeared in formation. Once, the crew of a bomber counted around fifteen of them who followed them at a distance, with a strange glow that alternately went out and lit up.”

“One of these ghost hunters,” says an Associated Press war correspondent, “once followed Lieutenant Meiers, from Chicago, for about thirty kilometers across the Rhine valley. Some intelligence officers believed at the time that these devices were remotely controlled and were intended to disrupt the ignition of the Allies' engines or radars.”

The editor of Star then put forward the hypothesis that the Americans had acquired the secret of these machines after victory, and that they were carrying out tests on United States territory. Obviously, this would have explained their appearance over Washington, Oregon and Idaho. But a little thinking destroyed the American journalist's hypothesis:

1° If it had been a German craft, how can we explain that none of these “ghost fighters” ever showed the slightest aggressiveness? Because whereas the airmen's stories evoked various circumstances, the investigators did not discover a single case where they had suffered the slightest attack. Would Hitler have used such a weapon with such magnanimity at the time when the V1s were shelling London?

2° and then, there was the famous mass ratio. By putting itself outside the laws of humanity, German technology did not escape this island of physics!

This is why the investigation organized in 1944-45 by the 8th American Air Force resulted in the case being closed. In the absence of any trace of an attack by an unknown device against the planes, the investigators had no other information than the aviators' stories. And they concluded that it was a hallucination, at least officially. Because in truth, a curious incident took place at the Pentagon in 1949, five years after the affair was supposedly closed.

Major Donald Keynoe, former head of information for the aeronautics section of the American Department of Commerce, was then carrying out an investigation into the saucer question for True Magazine. Having asked the Pentagon to hand him the exact report of the intelligence service on the affair of the ghost hunters, he was told that this file was secret. Why?

1. Star, July 6, 1947.