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 Some time in late 1944, a P-47 pilot west of Neustadt, Germany, saw "a gold-colored ball with a metallic finish" moving slowly through the air. The sun was low in the sky so the observer could not tell if the sun was reflecting off the object or if the object had its own light source. A "phosphorescent golden sphere" three to five feet in diameter was seen by another P-47 pilot in the area. 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 excecuted 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." Foo fighers continued to plague the 415th all through January 1945. Usually the lights, colored orange, red, or white, would tail the aircraft for a few moments before streaking away. The ghostly objects never showed up on radar, but the veteran crews discounted theories that the glowing globes were reflections, St. Elmo's fire, or flares, all of which they had observed many and would have easily recognized. One pilot even insisted that he had felt prop wash as the foos zipped passed him. That same month George Todt, in the company of 50 or 60 Frenchmen, watched a glowing object in the sky over Paris. "We all saw the same thing," he said. "It was neither an hallucination nor a 'temperature inversion'." Robert Crawford, now a consulting geologist, was one of 14 sailors who witnessed an incredible sight south of the Aleutian Islands in March 1945. Crawford and the other sailors were aboard the U.S. Army transport Delarof when they saw a dark sphere suddenly erupt out of the water half a mile away, circle the ship, and fly away in an instant. He estimated the UFO to have been about 400 feet in diameter. On March 25th elements of the 6th Armored Division were dug in south of Darmstadt, Germany, east of and overlooking the Autobahn when a formation of UFOs flew overhead. Later in the evening 30 soldiers watched six or seven bright yellow-orange circular objects approach the Autobahn from the west at an altitude of about 150 feet. The lights were not traveling in formation; whle moving in the same general direction as the rest, each object had its own distinct erratic movement as if individually controlled. They were three to four feet in diameter and so bright that they illuminated the trees around them. They descended slowly, moving about 10 miles per hour, until they entered the forest. After five or six minutes the foos were too far inside the dense forest to be visible any longer. Even the combat-hardened observers found the sight eerie and frightening. BOOKMARK www.digestezine.com |
