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UFOs and the Media
NEWSWEEK
December 25, 1944
Foo-Fighters
That was more than a month ago, one of the first times
Allied fighters encountered what they now call "foo-fighters."[*]
In addition to the wingtip balls, pilots have reported two
other types. One is a group of three smaller balls which fly
in front of their planes, the other a group of about fifteen
which appear some distance away and flicker on and off.
Apparently controlled by radio, the foo-fighters keep
formation with the planes, even when they dive, climb, or
take evasive action. "But they don't explode of attack us,"
Meiers said last week. "They just seem to follow us like
will-o'-the-wisps."
Probably related to the silvery balls seen by daylight
pilots (NEWSWEEK, Dec. 25, 1944), the foo-fighters so far
apparently baffle intelligence officers. Possibly they are
the results of a new anti-radar device which the Germans
have developed. On the other hand, they may be the exhaust
trails of a smaller model of the radio-controlled
Messerschmitt-163, a rocket-propelled flying wing.
Day bombers have met the Me163, which has an explosive
charge in the nose and is apparently designed to crash into
Allied planes. When one pilot closely inspected foo-fighters
tagging him, however, he detected nothing but the spheres.
[*] The name comes from the "Smokey Stover" comic strip.
Notes:
(1) Three different types of phenomenon, which gives us the
clue that what is globally termed "Foo-Fighter" is richer
than most people may guess.
(2) Which excludes Venus, among other trivial explanation.
(3) Because the hypothesis was that they were german flying
devices, it was logical to think of radio-control. As we now
know they were not german, we may rather say "under
intelligent control."
(4) Already, there were cases where the anormal aerial
phenomenon paced aircraft.
(5) We now know that the germans did not develop any
anti-radar flying device during the war, and such devices
still do not exist.
(6) We now know that there were never any radio-controlled
smaller model of the Me-163
(7) The Me-163 does not at all look like a sphere, and was
not what was observed, as the pilot reports.
 
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