ACUFO-1945-09-00-SOUTHPACIFIC-1
In 2013 or a bit earlier, and still in 2024, there is an entry about the “Foo Fighters” in the English version of the Wikipedia collaborative online encyclopedia.
Only a few cases are presented; not the most known, not the most relevant. One of them is told this was, without any source reference:
“Career U.S. Air Force pilot Duane Adams often related that he had witnessed two occurrences of a bright light which paced his aircraft for about half an hour and then rapidly ascended into the sky. Both incidents occurred at night, both over the South Pacific, and both were witnessed by the entire aircraft crew. The first sighting occurred shortly after the end of World War II while Adams piloted a B-25 bomber. The second sighting occurred in the early 1960s when Adams was piloting a KC-135 tanker. (citation needed)”
Many Websites simply copied this, generally not mentioning they took it from Wikipedia; but there seems to be no other, more detailed information on this alleged case.
| Date: | September 1945 or in 1946 |
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| Time: | Night. |
| Duration: | 30 minutes. |
| First known report date: | 2013 |
| Reporting delay: | 7 decades. |
| Country: | |
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| State/Department: | |
| City or place: | The South Pacific. |
| Number of alleged witnesses: | 1 to 8 |
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| Number of known witnesses: | 1 |
| Number of named witnesses: | 1 |
| Reporting channel: | Wikipedia EN. |
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| Visibility conditions: | Night. |
| UFO observed: | Yes. |
| UFO arrival observed: | ? |
| UFO departure observed: | ? |
| UFO action: | Follows for 30 minutes, goes away up. |
| 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: 1 to 8.
[ ] Airborne radar: [ ] Directional ground radar: [ ] Height finder ground radar: [ ] Photo: [ ] Film/video: [ ] EM Effects: [ ] Failures: [ ] Damages: |
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| Hynek: | ? |
| Armed / unarmed: | ? |
| Reliability 1-3: | 1 |
| Strangeness 1-3: | 2 |
| ACUFO: | Probable Wikipedia contributor invention. |
[Ref. wia1:] "WIKIPEDIA EN":
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Career U.S. Air Force pilot Duane Adams often related that he had witnessed two occurrences of a bright light which paced his aircraft for about half an hour and then rapidly ascended into the sky. Both incidents occurred at night, both over the South Pacific, and both were witnessed by the entire aircraft crew. The first sighting occurred shortly after the end of World War II while Adams piloted a B-25 bomber. The second sighting occurred in the early 1960s when Adams was piloting a KC-135 tanker. (citation needed)
[Ref. mmj1:] "MUFON MINNESOTA JOURNAL":
Career U.S. Air Force pilot Duane Adams often related that he had witnessed two occurrences of a bright light which paced his aircraft for about half an hour and then rapidly ascended into the sky. Both incidents occurred at night, both over the South Pacific, and both were witnessed by the entire aircraft crew. The first sighting occurred shortly after the end of World War II while Adams piloted a B-25 bomber. The second sighting occurred in the early 1960s when Adams was piloting a KC-135 tanker.
The North American B-25 “Mitchell” (photo below) was a high-performance medium bomber, used during WWII in Europe and the Pacific by the U.S. Army Air Forces.
Its crew was normally 8 men, its range was 2,170 km, its defensive armament was, depending on the versions, from 2 to 18 12.7 mm caliber machine guns.
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This Wikipedia information seems fishy. There are dozens of copies of the Wikipedia text on other Websites, including sensation Websites about UFOs, without any source of additional details. But I found nothing in the serious UFO literature.
The only member of the U.S. Army Air Forces of U.S. Air Force I found so far with the name Duane Adams was a Lieutenant, of the Air Force Weapons Laboratory, WLRB-1, at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, in 1964, and later DARPA Deputy Director. But he died in 2020 so he cannot be the witness of this case.
Probable Wikipedia contributor invention.
* = 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 | April 20, 2024 | Creation, [wia1]. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | April 20, 2024 | First published. |
| 1.1 | Patrick Gross | July 21, 2024 | Addition [mmj1]. |
