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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Over Europe, between 1941 and 1945:

Case number:

ACUFO-1944-00-00-EUROPE-2

Summary:

In the years 2000 - 2020, several websites, and social networks, published this image as showing “Foo-Fighters”, or perhaps “Foo-Fighters”, or perhaps a “faking”:

Neither original source, nor date, nor place, are given by these publications.

Data:

Temporal data:

Date:	Between 1941 and 1945
Time:	?
Duration:	?
First known report date:	2000
Reporting delay:	Immediate, 6 decades.

Geographical data:

Country:
State/Department:
City or place:	Probably Europe

Witnesses data:

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

Ufology data:

Reporting channel:	The Web and social networks.
Visibility conditions:	?
UFO observed:	?
UFO arrival observed:	?
UFO departure observed:	?
UFO action:	?
Witnesses action:	?
Photographs:	Yes.
Sketch(s) by witness(es):	No.
Sketch(es) approved by witness(es):	No.
Witness(es) feelings:	?
Witnesses interpretation:	?

Classifications:

Sensors:	[ ] Visual: [ ] Airborne radar: [ ] Directional ground radar: [ ] Height finder ground radar: [X] Photo: 1. [ ] Film/video: Possible. [ ] EM Effects: [ ] Failures: [ ] Damages:
Hynek:	DD or NL
Armed / unarmed:	Armed, 5 7.62 mm machine guns.
Reliability 1-3:	1
Strangeness 1-3:	1
ACUFO:	No strangeness.

Sources:

[Ref. gfn1:] WEBSITE "GREY FALCON":

This photograph appears with the caption:

Interestingly enough, with all the sightings and reports, and all the gun cameras and high altitude photographs, no truly GOOD pictures of Foo Fighters from the period have surfaced.

[...]

Flares from another B-17?

Aircraft information:

The plane on the image is a B-17.

The US B-17 “Flying Fortress” was a heavy bomber fitted with five 7.62 machine guns for its defense against enemy fighter planes.

Discussion:

As of April 2024, the photo also appears on these Web pages:

https://www.nevingtonwarmuseum.com/foo-fighters.html
https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/Foo_Fighters__WWII_UFOs_/5-1443768
https://www.fenomenum.com.br/ufo/galerias/galeria1

None of them gives any original source, date or place.

The B-17s operating mainly over Europe while in the Pacific the B-29s replaced them, I note the location as Europe, but this is of course not certain.

The three bright spots could be other aircraft reflecting the sun, or film faults, or bullets.

The image is probably a frame from some WWII footage. The strangeness is null to me.

Evaluation:

No strangeness.

Sources references:

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

[gfn1] * "Foo-Fighters - Photographs", Web page of the GreyFalcon, Website, not dated, as of January 2024, at http://foofighters.greyfalcon.us/photos.html

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	April 13, 2024	Creation, [gfn1].
1.0	Patrick Gross	April 13, 2024	First published.

This page was last updated on April 13, 2024.