ACUFO:

One incident from the [WWII] period, never previously recorded, is particularly baffling. I heard the story from a friend who was working with the Technical Intelligence Division of the U.S. Strategic Air Force. At the time, 1944, he was based in London.

We were getting reports from a number of overlapping sources: planes returning to England from bombing missions over the continent kept experiencing engine trouble. The engines would suddenly become rough, cutting in and out. As the stories accumulated, scattered spy and POW reports reinforced the suspicion that a secret ground installation was responsible for our engine trouble.

There was considerable discussion among intelligence people as to what should be done. The general feeling - that some new German device was causing the electrical problems - presented one major difficulty: the amount of electricity required to short out a B-29 engine was calculated as greater than all the known electrical energy output of Europe!

A special plane was fitted out with monitoring equipment. A volunteer was found to fly the plane. He flew his mission and when he returned to base, he behaved like a madman. He was angry and hysterical and raved about “how we could have subjected him to such things.” When we tried to debrief him he cursed and screamed. He was so wild that nobody could find out just what had happened to him. He was finally sedated and put to bed.

But the strangest thing of all was that when he woke up the next day, he acted as if nothing unusual had happened. He had completely forgotten the previous day's insanity. He had no memory of his anger or hysteria. He was feeling fine, ready to return to his normal duties. Of course, the plane's instruments showed nothing. And future flights over the area were carried out without electromagnetic interference.

One incident from the [WWII] period, never previously recorded, is particularly baffling. I heard the story from a friend who was working with the Technical Intelligence Division of the U.S. Strategic Air Force. At the time, 1944, he was based in London.

We were getting reports from a number of overlapping sources: planes returning to England from bombing missions over the continent kept experiencing engine trouble. The engines would suddenly become rough, cutting in and out. As the stories accumulated, scattered spy and POW reports reinforced the suspicion that a secret ground installation was responsible for our engine trouble.

There was considerable discussion among intelligence people as to what should be done. The general feeling - that some new German device was causing the electrical problems - presented one major difficulty: the amount of electricity required to short out a B-29 engine was calculated as greater than all the known electrical energy output of Europe!

A special plane was fitted out with monitoring equipment. A volunteer was found to fly the plane. He flew his mission and when he returned to base, he behaved like a madman. He was angry and hysterical and raved about “how we could have subjected him to such things.” When we tried to debrief him he cursed and screamed. He was so wild that nobody could find out just what had happened to him. He was finally sedated and put to bed.

But the strangest thing of all was that when he woke up the next day, he acted as if nothing unusual had happened. He had completely forgotten the previous day's insanity. He had no memory of his anger or hysteria. He was feeling fine, ready to return to his normal duties. Of course, the plane's instruments showed nothing. And future flights over the area were carried out without electromagnetic interference.

Another disturbing incident occurred during the Second World War when a pilot on a special mission needed to be heavily sedated after an unexplained incident. At the time UFO's had frequently buzzed Allied and German aircraft! In addition Allied bombers returning from missions over occupied Europe kept experiencing unexplained engine trouble!

Mystery of Second World War.

The problem eventually became so persistent that the Allies suspected the Germans had somehow developed a machine capable of interfering with the electric's of their planes! Considering the power that this would have required - as much as the entire electrical output of western Europe this sounded highly implausible! But what else could it be? Eventually a special plane with sensitive monitoring equipment was sent aloft to try and track down what was causing these faults.

When the plane returned back to base the pilot was in a highly agitated condition, ranting and raving hysterically! He was so wild and emotionally charged that he screamed and cursed at anyone who came near him! As much for his own safety as anything else the pilot was quickly sedated! Surprisingly the next day he woke up as fit as a fiddle but with absolutely no recollection of the previous days hysteria! Instrumentation from the special plane recorded nothing unusual, and the pilot was completely unable to remember what it was that caused him to become so irrational!