ACUFO-1945-01-12-DIJON-1
It was reported on the web in the 2000's, that according to the 1971 book “Intercept But Don't Shoot” by Renato Vesco, on January 12, 1945, in Dijon, France, “Several groups of bombers reported the sightings of 'Foo fighters'”.
| Date: | January 12, 1945 |
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| Time: | ? |
| Duration: | ? |
| First known report date: | 1971 |
| Reporting delay: | 3 decades. |
| Country: | France |
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| State/Department: | Côte-d'Or |
| City or place: | Dijon |
| Number of alleged witnesses: | Several. |
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| Number of known witnesses: | ? |
| Number of named witnesses: | 0 |
| Reporting channel: | UFO book by "nazi saucers" proponent Renato Vesco. |
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| Visibility conditions: | ? |
| UFO observed: | Yes. |
| UFO arrival observed: | ? |
| UFO departure observed: | ? |
| UFO action: | ? |
| Witnesses action: | ? |
| Photographs: | No. |
| Sketch(s) by witness(es): | No. |
| Sketch(es) approved by witness(es): | No. |
| Witness(es) feelings: | ? |
| Witnesses interpretation: | ? |
| 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. |
| Reliability 1-3: | 1 |
| Strangeness 1-3: | 2 |
| ACUFO: | Distorted story by "nazi saucers" promoter. |
[Ref. tfo1:] GIANFRANCO DE TURRIS AND SEBASTIANO FUSCO:
These authors say that on January 12, 1945, at an unspecified location in France, some Allied bombing squadrons reported to higher command in Dijon that they had seen one or two or four flying globes with their own luminosity.
[Ref. dwn3:] DOMINIQUE WEINSTEIN:
January 12, 1945 Dijon, France
Several groups of bombers reported the sightings of “Foo fighters”.
Source: Intercept but don't shoot, Renato Vesco, p.83
There is no aircraft information, except that it was claimed they were bombers.
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Renato Vesco, source for this report, was a promoter of fantasy “nazi saucers” who claimed the “Foo-Fighters” in WWII were a secret nazi weapon called “Kugelblitz” - all interviewed German officers and technicians who were involved in advanced aerial programs denied any involvement or knowledge that the “Foo Fighters” may have been anything German.
Vesco made many claims, which started in 1969 only, that were proven fraudulent, mainly by ufologists Kevin McClure and Maurizio Verga.
For example, he claimed that he had “commanded the technical section of the Italian Air Force” in 1944. But he was born in 1924, so that it is impossible that he received such a prestigious position at age 20. He claimed to have studied at the “German Institute for Aerial Development”, but he would have been 15 then.
Vesco claimed in his second book that the British landed on the moon in 1951 and on Mars in 1954 using secret Nazi technology! (The “nazi saucer” buffs keep this under wraps because they do not want you to find out that the person they are claiming to be an “aviation expert” was just one of many scammers.)
(Refer to my 2006 article about the nazi saucers fraud).
The case shown here is obviously fraudulent. There is no corroboration whatsœver. Vesco likely heard about Foo-Fighters sightings in early 1945 made by airmen of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron, a unit based on airfields near Dijon at the time, and this then changed in his book into sightings over Dijon, by bombers instead of night fighters.
Distorted story by “nazi saucers” promoter.
* = 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 | December 24, 2023 | Creation, [dwn3]. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | December 24, 2023 | First published. |
| 1.1 | Patrick Gross | May 27, 2024 | Addition [tfo1]. |
