Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode we're talking about the German war machine and
UFOs. That's correct, the German war
machine and UFOs. Now, I've been slowly going
through some of these files from this giant document dump that
happened here last week. There's some cool stuff and but
there's also a lot of stuff that we already know about are
suspected. And it's merely government
officials, investigators, military type discussing about
sightings that happened, maybe newspaper clippings.
So far, I haven't found any real breakthrough revelations other
than the level of fear that people were dealing with, much
like today. Now I'm working on this file
called German Armament Equipment Documents, and there's, there's
so much there. I've pretty much had to use AI
to help me summarize it because it seems like this file, it
originates from 1944 and 1945. So right at the very end of the
war, victory is on the horizon. But the Germans have also
created some really nasty killer weapons like the V2 rocket and
they're what measures makes the the jet airplane they've
created. And they're still, they're still
a threat and they're still maniacal and people are still
worried about them. And you have reports of these
Foo Fighters of American pilots came back talking about that
they can't explain. So the real fear among the US
military was what's the next super weapon that the Nazis are
going to invent? The Germans, I should say that
could that could rescue them from certain defeat in this war
and in that kind of test tube, I guess you could say, or Petri
dish of fear and stress and war. You end up with a lot of a lot
of paperwork, people sending back and forth trying to dot all
the IS and cross all the T's and being very careful about
everything. And so there is a certain level
of redundancy, but there's also some cool stuff just to see
what's happening and how people viewed things at that time.
Now I ask, I ask AI to go ahead and summarize this stuff for me
just a little bit, because there's so much here.
It says, yes, I can access and analyze material from the
document set, but the PDF file itself is extremely large and
appears to be a wartime archive dump focused on late World War 2
German armament and equipment intelligence files rather than a
single narrative report. The files entitled 331-120752
DASH Numeric Files, DASH 1944 to 45-37153 German Armament
Equipment Dump. Now that's kind of the problem
with all these files is that I'm not seeing, other than in the
newspaper clips, one single narrative.
It's just, it's just the US, it's just the US military
vacuuming up thousands of reports and trying to make sense
of this stuff. And they're doing this stuff
without AI and without supercomputers.
So yeah, good on them. Now it says from the available
metadata, the document appears to contain Allied intelligence
on German weapons and military technology, captured equipment
reports, technical evaluations, wartime intelligence summaries,
possibly references to experimental or wonder weapon
programs. That was her big fear and
material gathered around 1945 as Germany collapsed.
A lot of people in the UFO community are interested in
these files because some believe they may reference advanced
German aerospace concepts because the flying disc rimmers
or technology later connected to post war UFO mythology.
Well, you're right there at the very beginning of a lot of this
UFO stuff. And the weird thing is, man,
you've got these genuinely indisputable evil people and the
Nazis practicing all kinds of black magic and, and whatever
the weird stuff they're into trying to connect
interdimensionally with some other thing to get an advantage
and in the war effort. And you throw in the mix a bunch
of really smart guys, so smart that we had to bring them over
here to build our rockets. Then it kind of goes on down and
says Germany's desperation weapons programs began in 1944
and 45. The astonishing level of
advanced aerospace research underway at the end of World War
2 and how much later UFO mythology borrowed from real
Nazi aviation projects. Well, sometimes we can use what
we know to explain what we don't know.
I guess this is the most interesting material likely
contained in the archive is the wonder weapons program.
The archive appears to appears tied to Allied technical
intelligence gathered as Germany collapsed.
That means it likely contains reports on V1 cruise missiles,
V2 rockets, jet aircraft, anti aircraft missile system,
experimental tanks, guided weapons and underground
production facilities. The most important real world
technology was the work done at Piedmundi, where Germany
developed the first operational ballistic missile program.
One especially important point, the V2 program directly
influenced both the US and Soviet space programs.
This is not a conspiracy theory, it is established history.
Wernher von Braun and many other German rocket engineers were
brought to the United States under Operation Paper Clip.
This is what I find a little bit bothersome.
I think a lot of these UFO reports and sightings that were
reported by our US pilots were all lumped into this together
and so EU. The UFO sightings were treated
just like more of this top secret information surrounding
the V1V2 rockets and all these, all this wartime stuff going on.
And so they're set for 50, sixty, 7080 years locked away in
top secret mode when there's really no reason for it #2
advanced aircraft designs that sound like UFOs.
One reason UFO researchers obsess over these archives is
because Germany was experimenting with aircraft that
genuinely looked futuristic for 1945.
The archive likely references swept wing aircraft, ramjet
concepts, vertical takeoff concepts, flying wings, disc
shaped aerodynamic studies, guided missiles, Jet Propulsion
systems, and captured German aeronautical documents included
research into supersonic flight, swept back wings, Jet Propulsion
and missile guidance systems. These were decades ahead of many
allied aircraft designs at the time and some post war UFO
stories probably grew out of that.
Well this was kind of the idea it's been thrown at us.
OK. Witnesses saw an unfamiliar jet
aircraft, so they thought it was UFOI happen to disagree with
that because we're talking about these Foo Fighters.
The description of these things are more like, are more like
orbs. They're not so much like like
the newest jet invented by the Nazis.
But here again they've conflated the UFO sightings with these top
secret super weapons that the Nazis were trying to develop at
the end of 1944 and 1945. And as far as I can see, a lot
of this stuff was classified unnecessarily.
Now it says the reality behind Nazi flying saucers.
This is where things get interesting for UFO audience.
There's little verified evidence Germany ever built a true
operational flying saucer. However, circular craft concepts
did exist. Well, that's the concept, not
the craft. Unconventional VTOL concepts
were studied and some engineers experimented with annular wing
structures. Over time these real projects
became mixed with post war occult mythology, fabricated s s
stories and the Glock legends and Cold War disinformation.
Most historians believe the famous claims about the virile
class craft. Now this.
Remember it was 1 where the Nazis rented this whole cult and
they were trying to I think more or less just interdimensionally
fly this saying the hambu saucers and anti Nazi bases or
anti gravity propulsion originated after the war and
we're heavily exaggerated. Well, I guess according to them,
but you kind of have to wonder about some of the stuff.
Still, the real German aerospace programs were advanced enough
that they became fertile ground for UFO speculation.
There again, they're kind of convolating all of the stuff
that our pilots reported this, like I said, this weird Foo
fighter stuff that we can't explain with actual Nazi
programs. One especially, one especially
chilling theme. The files likely show how
Germany tried to maintain military production even while
collapsing the late war armament system moved factories
underground, relied heavily on forced labor and pushed
emergency weapons into rush development.
Well, we know that they use, they use as poor folks that were
trapped in concentration camps to work in these cave systems
and underground it, it was just a living hell on earth.
And we've talked about von Braun being part of that system.
And his response pretty much was, well, rockets go up,
rockets come down. Yeah.
And and that there there are the risks of NASA right there,
Somebody who cared about building rockets but didn't care
about the people that were enslaved dying building the
Rockets that they designed. Pretty scary stuff.
This produced a bizarre situation that says where
revolutionary technology existed, but fuel shortages,
collapsing logistics and destroyed infrastructure made
large scale deployments impossible.
Well, thankfully for us of course.
If you know much about history, Germany, even though there had
been big problems in World War 2 economy had pretty well crashed.
Hitler, a socialist came along and just basically destroyed
what was left of the economy. And so they were the only the
only reason that they were evil even able to continue with the
war the way they were us because they were able to steal gold
every the first time they did when they went into a new
country, whether it was France or Hungary or you know, whatever
it was, steal the gold and then launder that gold through
Switzerland. That's all pretty well
documented. And then they had quite a little
scam going on with with the Jewish folks that they murdered,
stealing the life insurance policies from them.
You can look that all up. That's all well documented.
So the whole entire proposition of the the Nazi regime was based
on stealing stuff. And just like any other outfit
that's based on stealing, when you run out of stuff to steal,
you run out. Kind of like Margaret Thatcher
said, it works until you run out of other people's money.
And that's what happened with these guys.
So they started off with with, I remember my old college
professor explaining to us that Berlin was a center of learning
and how how angry they were. Seemed like they were more angry
about Hitler destroying that aspect than they were about all
the horrible war crimes in the Holocaust.
But yeah, Germany was it was a center of learning at one time.
And they use that entire reservoir knowledge not for
good, but to try to create advanced weapon systems so they
could continue on with the evil empire.
Now, according to AI thinks that the most compelling short
excerpts out the short summaries this is that Germany was
developing weapons that look like science fiction.
The Vt rocket was the world's first ballistic missile, and
that captured German aerospace research directly shaped the
Cold War, and some UFO mythology likely emerged from real
classified aircraft research. And the truth is both less
supernatural and more here's historically shocking, I guess
that seems to be kind of the same mainline take on this that
we get from a lot of people. But I think the important lesson
here to learn is how the US military has collected all these
reports from our own pilots, along with all the other files
and, and the information that they got about Germany trying to
develop the Super weapons. And they piled it all together
and they classified it. And so here we are, what, 80
years later, trying to figure out what they did.
And it seems like a lot of the UFO research that could have
been done, that could have been these personal accounts that
could have really been looked at, transcribed, analyzed, have
been buried along with this huge document dump from 80 years ago.
And let's be honest, a lot of this stuff has just been sitting
on a shelf somewhere, in a box somewhere unnecessarily
classified for sixty, 7080 years.
It's really quite ridiculous. Getting back to this idea of the
Foo Fighters. Now, we've probably heard of
those these more or less just UFO reports from American
fighters and some French fighters back during World War
2. Now, if we ask AI, it tells us
during World War 2, Foo Fighters were mysterious aerial phenomena
reported primarily by Allied pilots flying night missions
over Europe and the Pacific. The term has nothing to do with
the rock band originally. The band later took its name
from these wartime UFO reports. Yeah, I think we could figure
that out. What are Foo Fighters?
Pilots described? Glowing balls of light.
Metallic looking spheres, Fiery orbs or strange lights that
appeared to intelligently follow aircraft.
Glowing balls of light? Yeah, we're talking about warp
sightings here. Metallic looking spheres?
That reminds me of the one that Korbel released here a couple
years ago. And the fiery orbs.
I've seen one of those myself. Very strange or strange lights
that appear to intelligently follow aircraft.
That's still going on today. With the commercial airplanes
and some of our military aircraft.
The objects were often reported pacing military planes,
maneuvering rapidly and sometimes disappearing
instantly. The reports became especially
common in 19441945. Who reported them?
The most famous reports came from the US Army Air Force's
415th Night Fighter Squadron, operating over France, Germany,
and the Rhine Valley. Pilots flying the Northrop P61
Black Widow repeatedly described strange glowing objects
following their aircraft. The phenomena was covered by
major newspapers during the war, including The New York Times in
December 1944. This article described balls of
fire following Allied aircraft over Germany.
Goes on and says pilots reported orange or red glowing spheres,
lights flying in formation, objects that climbed rapidly,
sudden and possible turns and lights unaffected by evasive
maneuvers. Some said the objects that flew
alongside the wings hovered near cockpit level or appeared to
play with aircraft. Importantly, radar operators
often failed to detect them, and objects rarely attacked aircraft
directly. And asked why did pilots call
them Foo Fighters? The name likely came from the
comic strip Smokey Stover, where the nonsense phrase where
there's Foo, there's fire appeared Repeatedly.
Pilots adopted the slang term of Foo Fighters for the mysterious
lights. And what did military
intelligence think at the time? Allied intelligence fear the
objects might be secret German weapons, advanced anti aircraft
technology or psychological warfare devices or experimental
aircraft. So this is what I'm talking
about. You end up with the reports.
The reports get lumped in with a bunch of files, may be captured
at the end of World War 2 about Nazi super weapons, and then we
never see the reports again. They're locked down as top
secret. This is really a complete
misapplication of the secrecy laws and it's stripping away
hundreds of reports that we could be using to gain an
understanding of these things. It's really, it's kind of
tragic. It says Germany really was
developing advanced technology during World War 2.
Jet fighters, guided missiles, ballistic rockets, infrared
weapons and experimental aircraft.
So pilots were already on edge looking for secret enemy
technology. Well, you can imagine if you're
an airplane that's flying maybe 400 mile an hour and you got a
jet flying up on you at 500 or better.
Yeah, it's it's not a good situation.
Natural atmospheric phenomena. Well now here's some of the
crazy. Bring in the swamp gas St.
animals. Fire ball lightning, plasma
effects or electrical discharges.
Yes, all things that you can't repeat.
Good old ball lightning. I guess that just explains
everything, doesn't it? These effects can appear as
glowing lights around aircraft, especially during storms or
electrical conditions. However, many pilots assisted
the objects behaved intelligently.
Don't you love it when they compare an intelligently
controlled orb to lightning? Not Combat Stress and
misidentification. Well, of course, these guys were
so stressed that they couldn't properly identify an orb as
compared to a lightning strike. But we could trust them in
combat situations to protect bombers, to attack targets on
the ground, to take down other airplanes and to fly one of
those machines at night in 1945 S to me, they're really they're
really reaching here. Pilots were told that they'd
seen things such as stars, Venus tracer fire reflections or or
ground lights. Of course, these guys knew what
they saw and they knew that that was none of that.
Some UFO researchers believe Foo Fighters may have involved
classified Axis technology, experimental propulsion systems,
or early electronic warfare devices.
Well, and you have to ask yourself, if the Germans had all
that and they were able to deploy it like that, wouldn't
they have been using it a little bit more effectively?
Of course there's also the UFO or non human intelligence
theory. That's kind of where I fall out
with this stuff. Modern UFO researchers often
point to Foo Fighters as one of the earliest mass military UFO
encounters. They argue trained military
aviators observed structured phenomena, the objects
demonstrated unusual maneuverability, and the reports
resemble later UFO sightings from the Cold War era.
Some compare Foo Fighter reports to modern orb sightings reported
by military pilots today. As I always say, the more things
change, the more they stay the same.
One important historical detail of the strange objects were
reported by Americans, British, Germans, and Japanese pilots.
In some cases, German pilots thought the Allies had secret
glowing aircraft, while Allied pilots thought Germany did.
The mutual confusion is one reason the phenomena remains
historically fascinating. As far as the legacy of Foo
Fighters, Foo Fighters became one of the earliest widely
documented military phenomena and help shape post UFO culture
and the famous 1947 flying saucer wave.
Their reports are still studied by aviation historians, military
researchers and UFO investigators.
I'm not so sure that it helped shape the flying saucer wave as
much as this is when the wave started and it started with our
pilots. The modern rock band Foo
Fighters took its name directly from the World War 2 sightings.
What makes the story so enduring?
The most compelling aspect is this.
Experienced combat pilots repeatedly reported objects they
could not identify during one of the most technologically
secretive wars in history. The combination of advanced
wartime technology, genuine mystery, and eyewitness military
testimony is why Foo Fighters remain a major topic in U.S.
history. Now, I want to finish up with a
couple of articles about these Foo Fighters.
The first one I was able to find a summary from the New York
Times article. It's back in 1945.
It says, here's some of the most important reported statements
from the New York Times coverage and related wartime reporting.
And it goes on and says balsa fire or accompany US fighters
for miles over Germany. I mean, if there were weapons,
you think they would have attacked the airplanes, not just
flown along beside them? One pilot reportedly said.
A Foo fighter picked me up recently and chased me 20 miles
down the Rhine Valley. Another described red balls off
his wing tips that stayed with the aircraft even during a steep
dive. Pilots also reported formations
of lights, rows of glowing spheres, clusters like a
Christmas tree, and objects that suddenly accelerated vertically
out of sight. Now imagine you're one of these
fighter planes flying along, and this thing's just accelerate up
out of sight. That's talking.
You're talking about some real G forces there.
The wartime military initially suspected that these were secret
German technology, psychological weapons, radar interference
devices or some kind of electrical phenomena.
Typically, the things that they're trying to write these
off is are more unlikely than the thing they actually saw.
At the same time, scientists interviewed by the press
proposed explanations like optical illusions, Saint Elmo's
fire, electrostatic effects, or atmospheric plasma.
One especially important historical point, The phenomena
was taken seriously enough that Allied headquarters issued an
official press release in December 1944 describing the
objects as a possible new German weapon.
The Foo Fighter reports predate the modern UFO era by several
years. A court occurring during the
1947 flying saucer wave and before UFO culture existed in
the public imagination. Yeah.
These things weren't made-up. They weren't a figment of
somebody's imagination. These were actual wartime
fighter pilots that saw these things.
Now I want to finish up with this last article here, this
from the Times. It's dated January 15th, 1945,
Titled Science Semi Colon Foo Fighter.
If it was not a hoax or an optical illusion, it was
certainly the most puzzling secret weapon that Allied
fighters have yet encountered. Last week, US night fighter
pilots based in France told a strange story of balls of fire
which for more than a month have been following their planes at
night over Germany. No one seemed to know what, if
anything, the fireballs were supposed to accomplish.
Pilots, guessing that it was a new psychological weapon, named
it the Foo fighter. Their descriptions of the
apparition varied, but they agreed that the mysterious
flares struck close to their planes and appeared to follow
them at high speed for miles. One pilot said that a Foo
fighter appearing as red balls off his wing tips stuck with him
until he drove at 360 miles an hour, when the balls zoomed up
into the sky. Skeptical scientists, baffled by
the whole affair, were inclined to dismiss the fireballs as an
illusion, perhaps after images of light which remained in the
pilot's eyes after they had been dazzled by Flack burst.
Isn't it amazing how the people that weren't there could figure
out what the people that were there saw, but frontline
correspondents and armchair experts had a Buck Rodgers field
day? They solemnly guessed one, that
the balls of fire were radio controlled and obvious absurdity
since they could not be synchronized with the planes
movements by remote control. 2 that they were created by
electrical induction of some sort, and three, that they were
attracted by attracted to a plane by magnetism.
The correspondence further guessed that the Foo Fighters
were intended one to dazzle pilots, 2 to service aiming
points for anti aircraft Gunners and three to interfere with a
plane's radar, 4 to cut a plane's ignition to stop its
engines in mid air. Some scientists suggest another
possibility, that the fireballs were nothing more than Saint
Elmo's fire, a reddish brush like discharge of atmospheric
electricity, which has often been seen near the tips of
church steeples, ships mast and yard arms.
It often appears at at a plane's wing tips.
Strange. I've never seen it.
Yeah, well, there you go. Same.
Same song, second dance. I mean, we have the best of the
best telling us what they saw. Then we had the people in the
peanut gallery, the skeptics and the debunkers telling them to go
back to sleep. They didn't see anything.
It just goes to show that even when you have the very best
possible eyewitness of these UFO accounts, number one, they'll
bring out the debunkers and the doubters.
They'll make up every excuse in the book to say that they didn't
see what they saw. And then if it's in a military
situation like this was, they simply take all those reports
that they can get their hands on, at least pile them in with a
bunch of other military files and and semi secret stuff, stamp
top secret on it and put it in a box and shove it away somewhere
for 80 years. That's what I'm learning from
this whole document dump. Not so much that I found
anything so far that was early earth shattering.
But what I am finding is a lot of stuff has been over
classified. A lot of stuff has been
classified as secret that should have never been classified as
secret. And it's a way to muddy the
waters, kind of poison the whale and keep us from finding out
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