ACUFO-1944-00-00-EUROPE-6
In his 1974 book "UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors", U.S. ufologist Raymond E. Fowler told that he recently talked to an airline pilot who had seen a number of UFOs during World War II. The pilot told him that on several occasions, his flight encountered hovering formations of aluminum-colored balls while on the way to bomb targets within Germany, and that many pilots were reporting them and assumed that they were some experimental device sent aloft by the Germans to confuse Allied radar.
Date: | Between 1944 and 1945 |
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Time: | ? |
Duration: | ? |
First known report date: | 1974 |
Reporting delay: | 3 decades. |
Country: | |
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State/Department: | |
City or place: | Europe |
Number of alleged witnesses: | Several. |
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Number of known witnesses: | 1 |
Number of named witnesses: | 0 |
Reporting channel: | Personal account to ufologist. |
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Visibility conditions: | ? |
UFO observed: | Yes. |
UFO arrival observed: | ? |
UFO departure observed: | ? |
UFO action: | Hovering. |
Witnesses action: | |
Photographs: | No. |
Sketch(s) by witness(es): | No. |
Sketch(es) approved by witness(es): | No. |
Witness(es) feelings: | ? |
Witnesses interpretation: | Radar jamming devices. |
Sensors: |
[X] Visual: Several.
[ ] Airborne radar: [ ] Directional ground radar: [ ] Height finder ground radar: [ ] Photo: [ ] Film/video: [ ] EM Effects: [ ] Failures: [ ] Damages: |
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Hynek: | ? |
Armed / unarmed: | Armed, machine guns. |
Reliability 1-3: | 2 |
Strangeness 1-3: | 2 |
ACUFO: | Insufficient information. |
[Ref. rfr1:] RAYMOND E. FOWLER:
Recently, I talked to an airline pilot who had seen a number of these objects during World War II. He told me that on several occasions, his flight would encounter hovering formations of aluminum-colored balls while on the way to bomb targets within Germany. He said that many pilots were reporting them and assumed that they were some experimental device sent aloft by the Germans to confuse Allied radar.
The report only indicates that the aircraft were American bombers.
Of course the information is insufficient; we can only note that this is another report of aluminum-colored balls hanging in the sky on the European Theater of Operations seen by U.S. Army Air Forces bombers crew during their raids - Press reports of the time called them "silver balls" or "floating silver balls".
Insufficient information.
* = Source is available to me.
? = Source I am told about but could not get so far. Help needed.
Main author: | Patrick Gross |
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Contributors: | None |
Reviewers: | None |
Editor: | Patrick Gross |
Version: | Create/changed by: | Date: | Description: |
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0.1 | Patrick Gross | July 17, 2024 | Creation, [rfr1]. |
1.0 | Patrick Gross | July 17, 2024 | First published. |