ACUFO:

ACUFO is my comprehensive catalog of cases of encounters between aircraft and UFOs, whether they are “explained” or “unexplained”.

The ACUFO catalog is made of case files with a case number, summary, quantitative information (date, location, number of witnesses...), classifications, all sources mentioning the case with their references, a discussion of the case in order to evaluate its causes, and a history of the changes made to the file.

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Northeastern Nagoya, Japan, on April 7, 1945:

Case number:

ACUFO-1945-04-07-NAGOYA2-1

Summary:

In the U.S. Army Air Forces report for Mission 59, a B-29 night bombing raid on the Mitsubishi Aircraft engine plant, located in the Northeastern part of the Nagoya urban area, flown April 7, 1945, the part of the report about "Air-to-Air Bombing and rockets" said that there were 2 reports of balls of fire coming up from the ground.

Data:

Temporal data:

Date:	April 7, 1945
Time:	Night.
Duration:	?
First known report date:	1945
Reporting delay:	Hours.

Geographical data:

Country:	Japon
State/Department:	Aichi
City or place:	Northeastern Nagoya.

Witnesses data:

Number of alleged witnesses:	?
Number of known witnesses:	?
Number of named witnesses:	0

Ufology data:

Reporting channel:	Military mission report.
Visibility conditions:	Night.
UFO observed:	Yes.
UFO arrival observed:	?
UFO departure observed:	?
UFO action:	Climb up from the ground.
Witnesses action:
Photographs:	No.
Sketch(s) by witness(es):	No.
Sketch(es) approved by witness(es):	No.
Witness(es) feelings:	?
Witnesses interpretation:	?

Classifications:

Sensors:	[X] Visual: ? [ ] Airborne radar: [ ] Directional ground radar: [ ] Height finder ground radar: [ ] Photo: [ ] Film/video: [ ] EM Effects: [ ] Failures: [ ] Damages:
Hynek:	NL
Armed / unarmed:	Armed, 12 Browning M2 12.7 mm machine guns.
Reliability 1-3:	3
Strangeness 1-3:	1
ACUFO:	Totally insufficient information.

Sources:

[Ref. aaf1:] U.S. ARMY AIR FORCES:

This appeared in the report for Mission 59, flown April 7, 1945. It was a B-29 bombing raid on the Mitsubishi Aircraft engine plant, located in the Northeastern part of the Nagoya urban area.

3. Air-to-Air Bombing and rockets:

[...]

c. There were 2 reports of balls of fire coming up from the ground.

Aircraft information:

The Boeing B-29 “Superfortress” was the heaviest bomber of the U.S. Army Air Forces, used in operations from May 8, 1944 and on. Its maximum speed was 574 km/h.

Its defensive armament was 12 Browning M2 12.7 mm machine guns.

Discussion:

The information is obviously totally insufficient.

Evaluation:

Totally insufficient information.

Sources references:

* = Source is available to me.
? = Source I am told about but could not get so far. Help needed.

[aaf1] * Tactical mission Report for Mission 59, flown April 7, 1945, Headquarters XXIst Bomber Command, U.S. Army Air Forces, 1945

File history:

Authoring:

Main author:	Patrick Gross
Contributors:	None
Reviewers:	None
Editor:	Patrick Gross

Changes history:

Version:	Create/changed by:	Date:	Description:
0.1	Patrick Gross	July 10, 2024	Creation, [aaf1].
1.0	Patrick Gross	July 10, 2024	First published.

This page was last updated on July 10, 2024.