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38 lines
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SUBJECT: FOO FIGHTERS FILE: UFO2285
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A little remembered cartoon character named Smokey Stover used to declare,
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"Where there's foo, ther's fire." So when enigmatic aerial phenomena kept pace
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with airplanes and ships in both the European and Pacific theaters during
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World War II, someone called them "foo fighters." The name stuck. Nobody knew
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for sure what the foo fighters were, but it was usually assumed that the other
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side-either the Allies or the Axis powers-had developed a secret weapon. After
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the war's conclusion, it soon became clear that this was not the explanation.
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With the arrival of "flying saucers" in the summer of 1947, memories of foo
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fighters were revived. Like UFOs after them, foo fighters came in assorted
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shapes and descriptions, from amorphous nocturnal lights-which gave them their
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name-to silvery discs.
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A typical sighting of foos took place in December 1942 over France. A Royal
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Air Force pilot in a Hurricane interceptor saw tow light shooting from near
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the ground toward his 7,000-foot cruising altitude. At first he took the
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lights to be tracer fire. But when they ceased ascenidng and followed him,
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mimicking every exasive maneuver he made, the pilot realized they were under
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someone's intelligent control. The lights, which kept an even distance from
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each other all the while, pursued him for some miles.
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In August of that same year, Marines in the Solomon Islands were startled to
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see a formation of 150 "roaring" silvery objects. Thier color, one witness
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said, was "like highly polished silver." They had neither wings nor tails and
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moved (as later ufo witnesses would often remark) with a slight wobble.
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Official censorship kept reports of these phenomena out of the newspapers
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until December 1944. All during the war, however, similar objects were
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sightied by both military and civilain observers in the United States.
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