ACUFO:

23. More Foo-Fighters were in the air last night. The Ops. report says: “In vicinity of Haguenau saw 2 lights coming toward A/C [aircraft] from ground. After reaching the altitude of the A/C they leveled off and flew on tail of Beau for 2 minutes and then peeler up and turned away. 8th mission - sighted 2 orange lights. One light sighted at 10,000 the other climbed until it disappeared.”

S E C R E T

1st W/Ind

D-W-2

HEADQUARTERS XII TACTICAL AIR COMMAND, APO #374, U.S. Army, 23 January 1945.

TO: S-2, 415 Night Fighter Squadron.

Forwarded for compliance with paragraph 2 of 1st Ind.

[Signature]

LEAVITT CORNING, JR,.
Lt. Colonel, G.S.C,.
A/C of S, A-2.

2nd W/Ind

415th. NIGHT FIGHTER SQUADRON, APO #374, U. S. Army, 30 January 1945.

TO: AC of S A-2. XII Tactical Air Command, APO 374, U. S. Army.

1. In compliance with paragraph 2 of Ist. Ind., the following extracts from the Sortie reports of various pilots who have encountered the Night Phenomenon are submitted for your information.

[... other cases...]

Night of December 22-23, 1944 - “Patrolling at Angels 10 [= 10.000 feet] from Sarrebourg to Strasbourg North and South of highway. At 06:00 hrs. saw two lights coming towards A/C from the ground. Upon reaching altitude of plane, they leveled off and stayed on my tail for approximately 2 minutes. Lights appeared to be a large orange glow. After staying with A/C for approximately 2 minutes, they would peel off and turn away, fly along level for a few minutes and then go out. They appeared to be under perfect control at all times. Lights were seen somewhere in vicinity of Hagenau [sic].”

[... other cases...]

S E C R E T

2. In every case where pilot called GCI Control and asked if there was a Bogey A/C in the area he received a negative answer.

[Signature.]

F. B. Ringwald
Captain, A.C.
Intelligence Officer

* Foofighters is the name given these phenomenon by combat crews of this Squadron.

S E C R E T

On December 22-23, 1944, another 415th night fighter squadron pilot and radar-observer were flying at 10,000 feet altitude near Hagenau [sic]. “At 0600 hours we saw two lights climbing toward us from the ground. Upon reaching our altitude, they leveled off and stayed on my tail. The lights appeared to be large orange glows. After staying with the plane for two minutes, they peeled off and turned away, flying under perfect control, and then went out.”

The Strange Mystery Of The FOO FIGHTERS

During the closing months of the war our fighters chased weird colored balls of fire that suddenly disappeared.

By Harold T. Wilkins

[...]

No other observations of queer things in the sky came the way of the U.S. 415th Night Fighter squadron until three days before Christmas, 1944. On December 22, 1944, Lieutenant David McFalls, of Cliffside, N. C., and Lieutenant Edward Baker, radar observer, of Hemat, Calif., were flying at 10,000 feet just south of Hagenau [sic] in the old German Reichsland. Hagenau is 20 miles north of Strasbourg and 16 miles west of the Rhine.

Here is the report of U.S. pilot Giblin:

“At 0600 (six p.m.), near Hagenau, at 10,000 feet altitude, two very bright lights climbed towards us from the ground. They levelled off and stayed on the tail of our plane. They were huge bright orange lights. They stayed there for two minutes. On my tail all the time. They were under perfect control. Then they turned away from us, and the fire seemed to go out.”

No other observations of queer things in the sky came the way of the U.S. 415th Night Fighter squadron until three days before Christmas, 1944. On December 22, 1944, Lieutenant David McFalls, of Cliffside, N.C. and Lieutenant Edward Baker, radar observer, of Hemat, Calif., were flying 10,000 feet just south of Hagenau in the old German Reichsland. Hagenau is 20 miles north of Strasbourg and 16 miles west of the Rhine.

Here is the report of U.S. pilot Giblin:

At 0600 (six p.m.), near Hagenau, at 10,000 feet altitude, two very bright lights climbed toward us from the ground. They leveled off and stayed on the tail of our plane. they were huge bright orange lights. They stayed there for two minutes. On my tail all the time. They were under perfect control. Then they turned way from us, and the fire seemed to go out.

Lieutenants David McFalls and Edward Baker, flying over Haguenau, France, on December 22, 1944, at 6:00 P.M., saw two very bright lights approaching them from the ground. These lights remained behind the aircraft; they appeared to be “under perfect control.”

But observations of this type are not very conclusive; enormous orange lights can be caused by reflections or even by phenomena of atmospheric distortion, as Dr. Menzel has pointed out.

[... other case...]

The lights seen at night by pilots during the war have been called “foo-fighters.” As we have seen, they were merely balls of light, red or orange, without details or structure. They do not seem to have been detected on radar. Seen at night or during the day, they followed the planes even into the clouds. But these reports have to be considered with caution, for the behavior of the objects is very often that of a distorted image of the aircraft itself or a reflection of some ground object. The wartime conditions, the birth of a new technology involving rockets, electronic guidance and the ever-present fear of “secret weapons” make the sightings of that period difficult to analyze.

On the evening of December 22, 1944, another fighter was flying at 10,000 feet altitude near Hagenow [sic], twenty miles north of Strasbourg. “At 0600 hours we saw two lights climbing toward us from the ground,” the crew reported. “Upon reaching our altitude, they leveled off and stayed on our tail. The lights appeared to be large orange glows. After staying with the plane for two minutes, they peeled off and turned away, flying under perfect control, and then went out.”

On December 22, 1944, around 0600, under dark morning skies, some airmen of the haunted 415th night fighter squadron were again in the air scrutinizing the Rhine area for enemy targets, when two lights rose from somewhere below the plane, leveled out at the same altitude (10,000 feet). The lights paced the American can warplane for a time and then dived to a lower altitude.

A typical [Foo-Fighter] incident was related by a veteran pilot of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron. He was flying a mission over Hagenau, Germany, on December 22, 1944. At 6:00 a.m. while flying at an altitude of ten thousand feet, the pilot and his radar operator were astonished to see two “large orange glows” climbing rapidly toward them.

“Upon reaching our altitude,” the pilot said, the objects “leveled off and stayed on my tail.” He went into a steep dive and the “glows” followed in sharp precision. He banked as sharply as he dared and the objects followed. For two minutes the “lights” stalked the fighter through several intricate maneuvers, peeled off under perfect control, then blinked out...”

It seems that every member of the 415th saw at least one of the foo fighters between November 1944 and January 1945.

The source is indicated as “Lore, Gordon I. R., Jr., and Deneault, Harold H., Jr. Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective. Englewood Cliffs. N.J.: Prentice-Hall (1968), p. 22.”

On December 22nd a pilot with the 415 Night Fighter Squadron encountered two “large orange glows” which climbed rapidly toward him as he flew over Hagenau, Germany, at six a.m. The radar operator also saw the strange objects.

“Upon reaching our altitude,” the pilot said, they “leveled off and stayed on my tail.” He executed a steep dive, a sharp bank, and other intricate maneuvers but the objects matched them all. “After staying with the plane for two minutes,” he said, “they peeled off and turned away, flying under perfect control, and then went out.”

A few days before Christmas, in 1944, two spherical glows came up on a night fighter at about 2 miles altitude. They pursued briefly, and then wheeled away, suddenly extinguishing themselves in the distance.

On 22 December two other pilots of 415 Fighter Group [cf 1944.11.23] were flying over Haguenau at an altitude of 3,000 metres when at 1800 hours the pilot reported: “Two very bright lights have left the ground and are headed towards us. Right now they are following us.” For two minutes the two orange spheres stayed in the aircraft's wake, then suddenly they abandoned the aircraft and vanished.

A typical report is offered by Lieutenant David McFalls of America's 415th Night-Fighter Squadron. At six pm on 22 December 1944 he was flying over Alsace-Lorraine on the France/Germany border when he saw:

“Two very bright lights (that) climbed up towards us from the ground. They levelled off and stayed on the tail of our plane. They were huge, bright orange lights. They stayed there for two minutes... Then they turned away from us and the fire seemed to go out.”

December 23 [1944] - “More Foo-Fighters were in the air last night. The Ops report says: 'In vicinity of Hagenau saw 2 lights coming toward A/C from ground. After reaching the altitude of the A/C they leveled off and flew on tail of Beau (Beaufighter - their aircraft, Ed.) for 2 minutes and then peeled up and turned away. 8th mission - sighted 2 orange lights. One light sighted at 10,000 feet the other climbed until it disappeared.'”

[...]

Archives personnel provided a large cardboard box holding three feet of file folders of the 415th NFS and affiliated bomber groups. The period covered was late September 1944 - April 1945. It was obvious that I would spend at least a full day scanning this bunch. The records were not in the best condition, a fact which should be of great concern to those interested in the contents of old files, not just on this but on any subject. Many of the papers were onion-skin copies, very fragile and yellowing. Other reports were on coarse, brown paper which was very brittle, flakes of which were coming off on my hands. It was no longer surprising why quite often when CAUS would request and receive government files the copies were difficult, and sometimes impossible, to read. We are in a race against time as many government records are literally self-destructing on the shelf. With the millions of copies for which the National Archives is responsible, there is simply not enough staff or resources to take care of it all.

What also became clear is that the staff of the National Archives are not absolute authorities on the records that we have obtained regarding UFOs. The response I had to a request for help in locating a particular Air Force document with an identifying number was, “Good luck, we don't know.” Not that they were being fresh but that the Air Force had lost the inventory to that group of documents. I had a new appreciation for the time delays in responding to FOIA requests as well. It took me the best part of a day just to scan one box thoroughly. I was in a room with about thirty to forty people, all of whom had their own agenda and own piles of paper to scan. Factor in mail requests and the demands on the staff must be terrific. I heard a complaint by one of having to pull hundreds of boxes himself to fulfill researchers' requests just for that day.

The 415th's mission reports tended to be brief in their descriptions of everything. There were reports of aircraft destroyed, buildings bombed, flak, vehicles destroyed; etc. Then, scattered amongst the information, were reports of strange lights in the sky.

December 22/23, 1944 - Mission 7 - 0350-0730 - Patrolled 10,000 feet Strasbourg - Sarrebourg. At 0600 saw 2 lights coming toward a/c from south. Turned away after about 2 minutes when near Hagenau. Saw orange glow and thought it might possibly be jet a/c.

One frustrating feature of these reports is their brevity. It is difficult to form a hypothesis on the origin of Foo-Fighters when such fragmentary information is available. It is sometimes hard to tell whether reports of “lights” by the pilots were in the air or on the ground so one should exercise caution when reading reports where this is not clear.

In a similar incident, another veteran pilot of the 415th and his radar operator were awe-struck when two “large orange glows” of unknown origin climbed rapidly toward them during a mission over Hagenau, Germany, at 6:00 A.M., on December 22, 1944. They had been flying at 10,000 feet.

“Upon reaching our altitude,” the pilot said, the objects “leveled off and stayed on my tail.” He went into a steep dive and the “glows” followed in sharp precision. He banked as sharply as he dared and the objects followed. For two minutes the “lights” stalked the fighter through several intricate maneuvers, peeled off under perfect control, then blinked out.

The following evening, again at 10,000 feet, the same two men observed a single, mysterious “red flame” on another mission.

The authors indicate that Lt. David L. Mcfalls, of Cliffside, North Carolina, and Lt. Ned Baker of Hemat, Calif., saw a “glowing object” shoot vertically, which looked like an airplane making a pass, and then dived sharply after the maneuver and disappeared. The craft appeared to be under intelligent control.

Just a month later [on November 27, 1944], three days before Christmas, Foo Fighters were sighted again. Lt. David McFalls of Cliffside, North Carolina, and radar observer Lt. Edward Baker of Hemat, California, flew south of Hagenau on December 22, 1944. The town is 20 miles north of Strasbourg and 16 miles west of the Rhine. Pilot McFall reported: "At about 10,000 feet near Hagenau, we saw two bright lights flying toward us, which had risen from the ground. They appeared very large and were bright orange. They remained on my wing for about two minutes and were apparently perfectly controlled. Finally they flew away and the fireballs seemed to die out."

Two days later, the same two men had another disturbing experience. They say: "A glowing red balloon suddenly shot up from below. A moment later the thing looked like an airplane turning on its side. Shortly afterwards it dived downwards and disappeared (Wilkins 1967, pp. 22-23).

On December 24, 1944, David Mc Falls and Edward Baker, pilot and co-pilot of a USAF military plane, which flew over the Alsace-Lorraine region saw “A large luminescent red ball” rushing straight at their bomber. Here is what McFalls said next: “Suddenly it turned into a plane, wings spread, and the plane pitched under us and disappeared.” (9)

1944 Dec 22; 6:00/Hagenau, Germany/Lore-Deneault, Arnold-Palmer

Two large, orange glowing objects climbed to a 10,000 ft. altitude and leveled off on the tail of the airplane for several min. Then the object changed into an airplane and did a wing over and left. A red flame was also seen on the 23rd.

Observations continue at photo 1614:

December 23: “There were even more Foo-fighters in the sky last night. The operations report indicates: “Near Hagenau saw two lights coming from the ground and heading towards the A/C. After reaching the altitude at which the A/C was located, they stalled to fly behind Beau (Beaufighter - their own aircraft, Editor's note) for two minutes before initiating a turn and moving away. Eighth mission saw two orange lights. One at 10,000 feet, the other climbed until it completely disappeared.”

Just what proportion of UFO observations we should take under the [“Ball Of Light”, alleged flying plasma balls, includin the very real “ball lightning”] umbrella is a wide and complicated question. Here and now, let us confine ourselves to one specific manifestation, which has the especial merit that it occurred before the 'age of the flying saucer' (generally taken to have been ushered in by the Kenneth Arnold sighting in July 1947). The so-called Foo Fighters of World War Two were paradoxical both in their behavior and in the circumstances of their manifestation; for example:

On 22.12.1944, an American bomber crew over Germany saw two very bright lights climb towards them from the ground. On reaching the plane they levelled off and stayed on the plane's tail for about 2 minutes. They were huge, bright and orange coloured; they seemed to be under perfect control. (7)

[... other case...]

12.22.44 region of Haguenau (France)

Flying at night, about twenty kilometers north of Strasbourg, Lieutenant David McFalls of the 415th NFS is followed for two more minutes by two enormous phosphorescent masses of orange.

On 22 December 1944, Lt. David Mcfalls of the US 415th night-fighter squadron was over Hagenau, Germany. At 6:00am, he saw two 'huge, bright orange lights' climbing toward the plane. Mcfalls dived, banked and turned his plane, but the UFOs stuck with him for two minutes, then peeled off and blinked out.

A summary of incidents [reported by airmen of the U.S. Army Air Forces 415th Night Fighter Squadron] was prepared by Captain F. B. Ringwald, Intelligence Officer with Headquarters 12 of the Tactical Air Command to advise S-2 of the “Night Phenomenon” encountered by the pilots and dated January 30, 1945.

“Night of 22-23 December 1944 - Patrolling at Angels 10 from Sarrebourg to Strasbourg North and South of highway. At 06:00 hrs. saw two lights coming towards A/C from the ground. Upon reaching altitude of plane, they leveled off and stayed on my tail for approximately 2 minutes. Lights appeared to be a large orange glow. After staying with A/C for approximately 2 minutes, they would peel off and turn away, fly along level for a few minutes and then go out. They appeared to be under perfect control at all times. Lights were seen somewhere in vicinity of Hagenau.”

It is noteworthy to point out that these pilots made a distinction between the usual flak bursts sent up by anti-aircraft fire and what they were seeing in these incidents. One might expect that due to technical advances during the war, eventually one side may develop a new sort of anti-aircraft weapon that could behave in an intelligent manner in pursuit of enemy planes. The problem with this here is that there are no known reports of “Foo Fighters” bringing down aircraft of either side. The objects that seemed to be “under perfect control at all times” didn't seem to do damage but merely accompany planes on their respective missions without interference.

To end the summary, Ringwald said that in each case where the pilot called GCI control to ask if “Bogey A/C” were in the area, he received a negative answer. It was also noted, perhaps more of interest to modern audiences, that these objects were called “Foofighters.” One word only, which should we call it? Chamberlin added his own written footnote for another sighting on February 28: “Returning, 45 miles East of Base (Loral Ochey) sighted foo fighters to rear starboard. Orange red in color. Turned to have a look and it disappeared. Near Luneville, SECRET north of Strasbourg. Lt. Buscio & Krasner RO.”

THE FOO FIGTHERS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

The Second World War saw a famous UFO episode, that of the foo fighters. It began in 1943, when luminous balls regularly appeared to Allied planes in flight. Moving around the aircraft, sometimes in formation, undetectable on the on-board radar, they will be so familiar to the military that they nickname them foo fighters ¹⁵

On December 22, 1944, David McFalls, on a mission above Haguenau, noted: “It is 6 p.m. The bright stars left the ground and headed towards us. They are following us for now. ¹⁶ They hover very close to the plane, which they follow for around ten minutes. Two days later, McFalls witnesses another miracle. This time, it's a red ball of light that rushes towards the plane. “Suddenly,” the pilot says, “it took the form of an airplane, which, after making a very sharp turn, swooped down, then disappeared.” ¹⁷ The army thinks of a German secret weapon. However, after the end of the war, German pilots claimed to have encountered similar phenomena.

15. Opinions are divided on the meaning of this American slang term. Most authors suggest translating it as “ghost plane”. A. Ribera maintains that this term means “fire hunters”, the word foo being according to him a slang translation of the French “fire”.

16. La Chronique des OVNI, p. 272.

17. A. Ribera, Ces mystérieux OVNI, De Vecchi pub., 1976, p. 46.

1944, December 22 - 24

GERMANY - Hagenau

Two pilots from the 415th fighter squadron based at Dijon, the lieutenants David MacFalls [sic] and Edward Baker, flew over Hagenau at an altitude of 3000 m. While they were at 32 km north of Strassbourg [sic] and nearby 26 km away west of the Rhine, the pilot made this communication: “It is 18 o'clock. Two very bright lights left the ground and headed towards us. They are following us for the moment.” These were two orange spheres that remain in the wake of the plane for two minutes. Then suddenly, these lights left the plane and disappeared. Two nights later, at a few hours of this Christmas Eve 1944, MacFalls [sic] and Baker were making again the same encounter. (Michel BOUGARD: “La chronique des OVNI” - Delarge 1977 - p. 272) [This part in French in the original.]

OTHER VERSION: “December 23. More Foo-Fighters were in the air last night... In the vicinity of Hagenau saw 2 lights coming toward the A/C from ground. After reaching the altitude of the A/C they leveled off and flew on tail of Beau (Beaufighter---their aircraft, Ed.) for 2 minutes and then peeled up and turned away. 8th mission---sighted 2 orange lights. One light sighted at 10,000 feet the other climbed until it disappeared. (Source: microfilm roll containing the Unit History and War Diary of the 415th was obtained from the U.S. Air Force. Frames 1613 and 1614. cfr Just Cause)

[This part in English in the original.]

523: 1944/12/22 17:30 3 7:46:00 E 48:47:00 N 3333 WEU FRN BRH 7:7
HAGUENAU,67,FR:ORG NLTS PACE USAF FIGHTERS:RDR EMEs:^+GONE:/r150+/r226#12p18
Ref#106 WILKINS, Harold: F.S. ON THE ATTACK Page No. 23: IN-FLIGHT

“At 0600, at 10,000 feet, two very bright lights climbed toward us from the ground,” another pilot from the 415th told intelligence officers after an encounter on December 22, near Haguenau, close to where Schlueter, Meiers and Ringwald had been. “They leveled off and stayed on the tail of our plane. They were huge bright orange lights. They stayed there for two minutes. On my tail all the time. They were under perfect control. Then they turned away from us, and the fire seemed to go out.”

Haguenau (67) on 22 December 1944

General features

Num Base:	1206
Département:	Bas Rhin (67)
Place of observation:	Haguenau
Latitude:	48.816
Longitude:	+7.783
Date of observation:	22 December 1944
Hour:	17:05 hours
Duration (HH:MM:SS):	N.C.
Weather:	No weather indication
Type of observation:	Visual: close distance
Nbr of witness(es):	1
Official investigation:	No

Features of the object

Nbr of object:	2
Type of object:	Not-defined
Size:	Not specified
Color:	Orange
Luminosity:	Brilliant
Visual characteristics:	No indication
Speed:	not defined
Movement/Displacement:	Follows a plane
Object on the ground:	No
Instantaneous disappearance:	No

Observation

The pilot of a fighter plane of the USAF observed two huge luminous shapes, orange colored. They followed the plane as it was at 3000 meters altitude.

Sources

UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA EIGHTY YEARS OF PILO par Weinstein Dominique

On December 22-23, 1944, another 415th night fighter squadron pilot and radar observer were flying at 10,(XX) feet altitude near Hagenau. “At 0600 hours we saw two lights climbing toward us from the ground. Upon reaching our altitude, they leveled off and stayed on my tail The lights appeared to be large orange glows. After staying with the plane for two minutes, they peeled off and turned away, flying under perfect control, and then went out.”

On December 22, 1944, three days before Christmas, Lieutenant David McFalls, pilot Giblin and a radar operator, all three of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron now based at Ochey, fly at 3000 meters above Hagenau, at 35 km north of Strasbourg.

“Two very bright lights rise from the ground just in front of us,” they said. "They stabilize in the altitude and place themselves near the tail of our plane where they remain for two minutes. In our opinion, they are under perfect control.” Then, the celestial Christmas balls turn away and drift away...

Case 68

December 23-24, 1944

Approximately l 0 miles from Point X (Q-6745), Germany

The crew of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron noticed to the northeast, approximately five miles, a glowing red object shooting straight up, then changed suddenly to a plane view of aircraft doing a wing over and going into dive and disappearing.

Sources: USAAF, Report from Captain F.B. Ringwald, Intelligence Officer, 415111 Night Fighter Squadron, To A/C of S,A-2 XII Tactical Air Command, January 30, 1945, NARA I Strange Company, Keith Chester, 2007.

Case 67

December 23, 1944

Vicinity of Haguenau, 20 km from Strasbourg, France

At 6h00, a crew of the 415th NFS were patrolling from Sarrebourg to Strasbourg in the vicinity of Haguenau at 10,000 feet, when they saw two lights that “appeared to be a large orange glow” coming from the ground and heading toward their Beaufighter. The pilot reported: “Upon reaching the altitude of the Beaufighter, the lights levelled off and stayed on my tail for approximately two minutes”. After two minutes the lights would “peel off and turn away, fly along level for a few minutes and then go out. They appeared to be under perfect control at all times”.

Sources: USAAF Report by Captain F.B. Ringwald, Intelligence officer, 415th NFS, 30 January 1945 / Strange Company, Keith Chester, 2007

22nd December, 1944, Whilst on a mission over Hagenau (Germany) Lt. David McFalls of the U.S. 415th night-fighter squadron saw two “huge, bright orange lights” climbing towards his plane. McFalls dived, banked and turned his plane - to no avail, the objects stuck with him for two minutes until they peeled off and disappeared.

(1944) Dec. 22/23, 1944; Hagenau, Germany

Two lights that appeared to be a large orange glow coming from ground - followed plane - appeared to be under perfect control (Page 102,130 Ref.1)

(1944) Dec. 23/24, 1944; Germany (no positive location)

Glowing red object shooting straight up; appeared to be aircraft doing a wingover and going into a dive and disappearing. (Page 103,130 Ref.1)

22 December 1944 18:00

Hagenau [sic], France

USAAF Pilots - 415th NFS incident.

Two huge orange glowing spheres followed a U.S. Army Air Force warplane from the 415th NFS at 10,000 feet altitude over Hagenau [sic], France in the Bas-Rhine region. The pilots names were McFalls and Baker.

Two huge orange luminous spheres followed plane at 10,000' Objects were observed from a car. Two orange spheres, of huge size, were observed by two experienced male military witnesses in a warplane for two minutes (McFalls).

Hynek rating: CE1

Vallee rating: MA1

“Near Haguenau, saw two lights coming towards the aircraft from the ground. After reaching the altitude of the aircraft, they stabilized behind the “Beau” to stay for 2 minutes, then detached and moved away.”

Armed with that insight, let us reexamine the wording of USAAF Lieutenants McFalls and Baker regarding their nocturnal Foo Fighter sighting of 23-24 December 1944. They described it as “a glowing red object shooting straight up, which suddenly changed to a view of an aircraft doing a wing¬over, going into a dive and disappearing” (quoted in Chamberlin, 1945). This is not at all unlike what one might expect to observe during a near miss from a defensive surface-to-air missile that ran out of fuel and fell back to earth. More than a few postmission reports similarly described the perceived Foo Fighters as rising up from the ground, for such was the anticipated behavior of the German antiaircraft threat.

Date: December 22, 1944

Location: Hagenau, Germany

Time: 6:00 am

Summary: Lt. David McFalls of the US 415th night fighter squadron was over Hagenau, Germany. At 6:00 am, he saw two 'huge, bright orange lights' climbing toward the plane. McFalls dived, banked and turned his plane, but the UFOs stuck with him for two minutes, then peeled off and blinked out.

Source:

Date: Dec. 23/24, 1944

Location: Germany (no positive location)

Time:

Summary: Glowing red object shooting straight up; appeared to be aircraft doing a wingover and going into a dive and disappearing.

Source:

1944

Germany, Hagenau: On December 22, 1944, Lt. David McFalls of the US 415th night fighter squadron was over Hagenau, Germany. At 6:00 am, he saw two 'huge, bright orange lights' climbing toward the plane. McFalls dived, banked and turned his plane, but the UFOs stuck with him for two minutes, then peeled off and blinked out.

Chronology of sightings drawn up by Dr. Domenico Pasquariello of CEIFAN (Centre for Investigation of Anomalous Phenomena).

[... other cases...]

- On 12/22/1944 another American fighter spotted two luminous globes near Hagenau in Alsace Lorraine. Such orbs were described as two enormous, glowing, orange-colored bodies that followed his fighter for more than two minutes.

[... other cases...]