Meiers is said to be the first person to coin the term, and it was quickly adopted by fellow airmen. The article simultaneously posits the idea that this was something the German military was responsible for, while also sharing the first-hand accounts of U.
Meiers is quoted in the article , saying:. A lot of time and effort has gone into debunking these Foo Fighters. The idea that these were being used against any particular side or country was dispelled when investigations showed that both Japanese and German pilots had also reported similar sightings of their own.
While the name Foo Fighter became a catch-all for any UFO sighting for a time, it originally served to describe these specific sightings that looked to many like glowing, orb-like entities or fireballs. This description lent itself to the idea that these sightings could be a weather phenomenon known as St. It is independent of the clouds or the ground, which differentiates it from lightning.
While it was considered plausible by some that St. Another go-to explanation was combat fatigue. While incredibly nuanced, and thankfully better understood today, we still know that the impacts of war and combat on service members can contribute to a multitude of physical and psychological issues.
However, what they suggested then was collective psychosis , which is not only exceedingly rare, but even more unlikely in these scenarios where reports of sightings were happening from all sides and independent of one another.
Then, of course, there was the idea that this was in fact a weapon developed by Nazi Germany. Some placed blame on the Nazis as a collective entity, but others had a specific name in mind: Wernher von Braun. The thenyear-old aeronautics engineer led the development of the V-2 rocket, the first-ever long-range ballistic missile. Braun was regarded as a prodigy in the field and was thought by many to be capable of never-before-seen technology.
His intelligence was so sought after, in fact, that he was one of 1, German scientists and engineers brought to the U. While some still like this idea to this day, aviation experts and eyewitnesses both support the idea that the Luftwaffe had nothing that could even compare to the Foo Fighters.
Despite some close encounters, none of the Airmen had ever seen any mechanical parts in these objects, nor did they ever pick anything up on radar. Nothing ever convinced them unequivocally that these were man-made weapons, or that they were even out to harm them.
There have been a number of investigations into these sightings over the years. In right around the time the U. Unfortunately, this never yielded any official response.
So realistically, we know just as much about these Foo Fighters now as they did back then. However, with time comes technological advancement and advantage. With sightings of these glowing light or fireball-type objects still occurring today, alongside so many other well-documented aerial phenomena, we may be well on our way to figuring out the nearly year-old mystery.
Great article, and love they way you wove the Foo Fighters in with Foo Fighters. Your email address will not be published. The Beatles is in fact a pretty poor pun, while The Sex Pistols is an example of tittering, school boy humour. One of the biggest rock groups on the planet, Foo Fighters have also been given cause to regret their choice of name. Speaking ahead of their British shows next summer, Dave Grohl revealed that had he given it more thought perhaps the band would have been called something more appropriate.
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