Are there any reports of modern jets being chased by foo fighters, like there were in World War Two? Similarly, are modern day ships affected by St. Elmos fire?
What are the current hyoptheses about what foo fighters actually were? For example, I’ve seen it claimed that they may have been ball lightning, yet I’ve also seen reports that stated that planes were buzzed and circled by the foo fighters. How could ball lightning do that?
Before high altitude prop aircraft–no Foo fighters.
During use of High Altitude/high performance Prop aircraft–Foo fighters seen.
After jets largely replace props at altitude–no more Foo fighters.
Prop enigine aircraft create electrical/radio discharge from their engines. Anybody who lives near a small airport & watches broadcast TV (as I did throughout the 1970’s) can testify to this, as it messes up radio/TV reception.
High altitude has littlkw humidity. Very dry air.
My conclusion–Foo Fighters are a static electric phenominon, & the motion is caused the the unintended electrical/radio output from the engines, particularly the air-cooled radial engines which are now very rare. Those radials pumped out the biggest interferrence, as I recall.
Just a couple days ago some UFO’s were reported flying around some Mexican Air Force planes. UFOs Filmed over Mexico.
Yeah, the Mexican sightings are what prompted me to ask.
If jets aren’t susceptible to foo fighters, are modern day prop aircraft (and Spitfires / Mustangs) that are still flyign still able to be chased by them?
Even if the cause was electrical in nature, how can that explain them moving around the aircraft in the fashion often reported?
Another thing:
I’ve heard it mentioned several times that professional pilots are loathe to report any strange lights which they spot whilst flying, in fear of their judgement being called into question. What with any mention of strange lights instantly being connected to extra terrestrials, and the crackpots that are attracted to that area of study, I can’t really lame them.
Any reports of passenger aircraft being buzzed by strange lights do seem to be connected instantly to UFOs by the press, in my experience.
Perhaps the drop in the number of foo fighter sightings is more connected with the general reluctance to report strange lights, and the misidentification of any sightings that are reported?
Just a thought.
Heh
It doesn’t take an ‘expert’ to make a pronouncement like that; there were some objects, they appeared to be flying and they couldn’t be identified; they are UFOs.
Well, another modern case of UFO sightings involving military aircraft was back in 1989-90 when the Belgian Air Force ended chasing a number of UFO’s with their F-16s. Said inccident had numerous witness in the ground and air, several video recording & pictures(all which saw the same triangle shaped craft), and radar contacts over a 4 month period.
Yeah. Nothing triangle-shaped could ever fly!
NOPE! NOTHING OF THIS EARTH THAT WAS SHAPED LIKE A TRIANGLE COULD FLY! NOPE! LINK
BTW-- the images on TV are from an Infra Red Camera mounted on the plane. The pilots did not see anything.
It was a film problem, no doubt.
Tryu reading a detailed news account, instead of just the most sensational ones. :dubious:
Bosca, why would an American stealth fighter be flying into Belgian airspace without the Belgians knowing? I mean, it’s not like the Belgians would have refused to let them fly through their airspace, so why risk the possibility of the Belgians tryign to shoot the thing down?
How fast can a stealth fighter go anyway? The Belgian military reported the craft were travelling in speeds excess of the speed of sound, and produced no discernable sonic boom.
I always thought that the F117A was sub sonic?
Bosda. My name is Bosda. Haven’t you done that before? :dubious:
Likely the Belgians did know …at the highest levels. But Joe Fighter Pilot might not have, for security reasons.
Might have been somebody closer to home…
Sorry, it was an honest mistake. I don’t think I’ve mispelled your name before.
From http://ufos.about.com/library/weekly/aa031698.htm
I don’t think a Mirage can do those things.
http://keyholepublishing.com/What_Are_The_Triangles.htm
Interesting. Perhaps it was a super secret reconnaisance plane after all.
And if it’s unmanned - either automated or RC - then there would be fewer performance-envelope restrictions.
Or, one of the recon drones the military is working on.
Unmanned, & high performance.
What the heck are foo fighters, anyhow? 
Please define for the class…
UFOs seen by British pilots in the Second World War.
A band.
We violated Belgian neutrality? :eek:
uh-oh, that never turns out too well for anybody.
I didn’t know they had an air force at cannae.
