Here at the tin foil hatsociety home page, we see a pretty good description of what a foo fighter is/was, along with lots of accounts. What I don’t get is how, in a war zone, a bizarre and unknown object can come up behind a heavily armed aircraft and not get shot at? Also any thoughts as to what these things were? Has any one seen one lately? I’m thinking some kind of natural phenomenon, not little green men.
My dad saw them. They were too fast for the gunners to hit. He later decided they were ME-163s but I thought he was shot down before they went operational (5/14/44). I’ll have to look into when he was shot down. He said he was lucky because he got to England after the first Schweinfurt raid (8/17/43) and crashed in Switzerland before the second (10/14/44)–he was real glad to miss both of those raids.
dropzone’s account notwithstanding, my own pet theory as to why nobody shot at a particular kind of foo fighter satisfies me to no end. Your results may vary.
Many of the reports came from British bomber crews flying at night. The reports are often similar: a bright light flying closely behind a bomber, making impossible maneuvers and changing direction seemingly at will.
I theorize that the reason why these objects were not fired upon by the person in the best place to do it–the tail-gunner of the pursued plane–is because he was preoccupied at the time.
He was busy playing a flashlight on the contrail of his own plane, scaring the piss out of his mates on a long and largely uneventful flight.
Hey, dropzone, check this out:
However, from that vague timeline it looks as if the first combat flight was in August, 1944. The test group was based in Bad Zwischenahn, but I have no idea where that is or where your dad was going when he went down.
I found the coincidence interesting, though.
What a GREAT name for a rock group!!!
Oh…never mind…
i’m sure Groll has too many body guards for that. besides, his music isn’t all THAT bad.
** Sofa King ** wrote:
He he heee…that’s funny. And about what I would expect. Except I thought contrails were only found behind * jet * aircraft.
** dropzone ** wrote:
I had not previously herd of the ME-163. It looks like one of those back yard ultra light kit airplanes.
I was thinking this might be some kind of static generated by these giant prop driven aircraft, after all, this was talked about over Japan, and by the enemy on both sides as well, (as far as I can tell from the solid reference site of the tin foil hat society that is). But anyway, at this point there is no explanation for these things and no one had been able to recreate the phenomena lately, is what I really wanted to find out, where is Cecil when you need him?
Or heard of one even.
Or heard of one even.
But he’s heard of two evens.