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ACUFO-1940-00-00-UNKNOWNLOCATION-1

Summary:

In 2015, a French “skeptical” Website showed the image below, saying that it appeares on “some ufology Websites”, captioned “Foo-Fighter”, but that it is not “Foo-Fighters” but would (conditional) represent a night launch of “Wasserfall missiles” and would (conditional) have been published in the collective book Allied Photo Reconnaissance of World War II by Chris Staerck at al., Parkgate Books, PRC Publishing Ltd, in 1998.

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[Ref. gfz1:] GILLES FERNANDEZ:

[1] here a link to https://circa71.wordpress.com/2011/07

Aircraft information:

The original photo, it it exists and is not some artwork, looks like it would have been taken from the air, thus from an airplane; but I found no information anywhere about that supposed airplane.

Discussion:

Circa71, cited via a link by Gilles Fernandez as an example of “some ufology Websites” publishing this image as a Foo-Fighter photo is not a ufology Website. It is a blog of some US undefined author saying he founded the “Dayton Creative Syndicate”.

Their previous entry is about the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum; there are pages about apple butter, Christmas cards, Frankenstein movie posters, etc. The topics on the blog are art, history, mysteries, sports, technology, science... actually just about anything.

On this Circa71, the photo is not captioned “Foo-Fighters”; it has no caption, there is no information about it, it just appears inside the article, as if it were an illustration:

The article about “Foo-Fighters” on this blog is a copy of an article credited via a link at the bottom to another blog, https://www.crystalinks.com, which is also not a ufology Website, by a lady naming herself “Ellie Crystal” who proposes “Psychic Reading With Ellie”.

It has a “Foo-Fighters” page at https://www.crystalinks.com/foofighters.html

This page is actually a copy of the beginning of the Wikipedia EN “Foo-Fighters” page; “Ellie Crystal” put a link to it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_fighter) at the end of her page for those who wish to “read more”.

The photo appeared on a website called Nevington War Museum, among other photos, as an illustration for a neo-Nazi propaganda article copied from elsewhere, claiming that “Foo-fighters” and UFOs were “revolutionary Nazi craft”; it is no longer there in 2024. ( https://www.nevingtonwarmuseum.com/foo-fighters.html )

I looked for ufology Websites showing this image as a photo of “Foo-Fighter(s)” of UFO photograph; as of today, there are none.

So, we have here (by “here” I mean the presentation of this image by Gilles Fernandez as shown by “some ufology Websites”,) an ignoratio elenchi rhetoric argument, “ignorance of the argument”, This consist in putting out an excessive conclusion to prove something different than that really at stake. Of course there are photos of things that were never UFOs or “Foo-Fighters” that are published as UFO or Foo-Fighters, of course there are really terrible ufology Websites, but in this case, it is untrue that “some ufology Website” did this with this photo.

Wasserfall:

The “Wasserfall Ferngelenkte FlaRakete” (“Waterfall remote-controlled anti-aircraft rocket” was a German project of guided supersonic surface-to-air missile during World War II, using developments made for the V-2 rocket-powered ground to ground ballistic missile. Development was not completed before the end of the war and it was never used operationally.

However, some tests were made at the Peenemünde base. A first successful firing was made on March 8, 1944; three trial launches were completed by the end of June 1944; a launch on 8 January 1945 was a failure; in February 1945, a successful launch reached a supersonic speed of 2,800 km/h) in vertical flight. Thirty-five Wasserfall trial firings had been completed by the time Peenemünde was evacuated on February 17, 1945.

Whatever the discussed picture shows, there is no “Wasserfall” in it: there are much two many other “pyrotechnics” around it, indicating that it was a picture taken in combat conditions, with flak, flares, phosphorus air to air bombs etc., not a picture of a test launch.

Photo below: a “Wasserfall” test launch in Peenemünde:

Evaluation:

Irrelevant example of ufological error.

Sources references:

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

• [gfz1] * "Les Photos illustrant les Productions ufologiques consacrées aux Foo-Fighters représentent-elles ces Foo-Fighters?", entry by Gilles Fernandez, on his blog, France, January 21, 2015, at https://skepticversustheflyingsaucers.blogspot.com/2015/01/les-photos-illustrant-les-productions.html

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