Foo Fighters as UFO Sightings

The name Foo Figthers may be most commonly used to describe a rock and roll band from Seattle, but the term has older origins that refer to the UFO Sightings that occurred during the second World War. During this war, pilots from the Allied side used the term of Foo Figthers to refer to strange UFO Sightings and other aerial phenomena that happened where the battles were being fought. In fact, pilots from both the Allied and Axis force reported seeing the strange things in the sky, but the name Foo Figthers was created by the pilots of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron from the Allied side. Although several explanations have been developed to explain the phenomena, many pilots still believe they saw true UFO Sightings.

The general assumption during the war, was that those Foo Figthers were actually top secret weapons being used by the opposition. The prevailing thought is that the phenomena were caused by a missile that was launched from the ground and aimed at the aircrafts. However, after the war, there was only one weapon discovered that would fit the descriptions given by the pilots, and still there has been no full explanation given by bodies of military intelligence. The weapon was called a Fireball, or Feuerball in German, and consisted of a flak mine in the shape of a disk that was able to fly using jets powered by gas. The legend of the Feuerball is largely anecdotal but there has been no real evidence that shows a true existence of the device. On the other hand, military authorities did take the occurrences very seriously and even enlisted the help of notable scientists to evaluate the observations and come to a reasonable conclusion. While the scientists were known as experts in their respective fields, no explanation ever satisfied the eye witness accounts of the pilots.

Another explanation stated that the phenomena could be a electrical discharge. As the planes flew through the sky, the tips of the wings could have had an electrical reaction that could possible cause the strange images, and these images may have been misinterpreted as actual UFO Sightings. Yet another explanation is that the images were simply ball lighting, a natural phenomenon in which lightning has a ball shape. A more probable theory that the U.S. military proposed was that the act of flying at night could cause certain visual illusions. In fact, the theory was so popular that the U.S. Navy started experiments regarding the existence of Foo Figthers as simply being a natural illusion similar to an oasis.