Foo fighters

 What are foo fighters? Foo fighters were balls of light, sometimes with a metallic appearance. They moved at high speed and performed various maneuvers during World War II for as long as the pilots observed them. These objects were likened to ball lightning or will-o'-the wisps. Some foo fighter reports were collected by Allied intelligence agencies and sent to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt shortly after Japanese air attacks on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in December 1941.

There were other military sightings of the phenomenon during World War II. American fighter pilots in Europe and Japanese naval aviators in the Pacific both reported phenomena similar to foo fighters, which they called will-o'-the-wisps or "ghosts." Allied reports at the time attributed these sightings to mysterious meteorological phenomena such as St. Elmo's fire.

The term foo fighter was used by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II to describe various UFOs or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the European and Pacific theaters of operations. The first sightings occurred in November 1944, when pilots flying over Germany by night reported seeing fast-moving round glowing objects following their aircraft. The objects were described as fiery and glowing red, white, or orange. Some pilots described them as resembling Christmas tree lights and fireballs. They usually appeared singly, but sometimes in pairs or in larger groups: one report mentioned 50 to 100 foo fighters clustering around a single plane.

Although the military took the sightings seriously enough to instruct crews how to report them (use code word "foo-fighter"), according to the U.S. Air Force, these sightings were generally disregarded as war nerves or allied propaganda. There are few documented cases of foo fighters. According to the U.S. Air Force, cases of UFO activity can be identified as foo fighter reports, but no official documentation has been recovered that uses the term foo fighter……….………

So, what were those foo fighters? No one really knows, but speculation has been made about them being some kind of extraterrestrial technology or a secret Nazi aerial defense system. Whatever they were, there is no doubt that foo fighters caused great concern to the pilots who encountered them.

The following is a description from an American aircraft gunner: "These balls would fool around and then they'd go right straight up in the air and disappear." They did not appear to be reflecting any light from the sun. They seemed to be made of shiny material with a metallic color and were sighted close to the plane, near enough so that some details could be seen. They were much faster than a fighter aircraft and much more maneuverable……….

What makes it difficult to identify foo fighters is that the sightings are made over a period of many months and in different parts of the world. Although there is no strong evidence that foo fighters were extraterrestrial or secret Nazi technology, there are many eyewitness accounts. Any opinions……