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Hello and welcome to the program
UFO Warning. 

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In this episode we're talking 
about the German war machine and

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UFOs. 
That's correct, the German war 

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machine and UFOs. 
Now, I've been slowly going 

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through some of these files from
this giant document dump that 

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happened here last week. 
There's some cool stuff and but 

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there's also a lot of stuff that
we already know about are 

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suspected. 
And it's merely government 

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officials, investigators, 
military type discussing about 

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sightings that happened, maybe 
newspaper clippings. 

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So far, I haven't found any real
breakthrough revelations other 

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than the level of fear that 
people were dealing with, much 

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like today. 
Now I'm working on this file 

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called German Armament Equipment
Documents, and there's, there's 

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so much there. 
I've pretty much had to use AI 

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to help me summarize it because 
it seems like this file, it 

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originates from 1944 and 1945. 
So right at the very end of the 

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war, victory is on the horizon. 
But the Germans have also 

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created some really nasty killer
weapons like the V2 rocket and 

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they're what measures makes the 
the jet airplane they've 

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created. 
And they're still, they're still

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a threat and they're still 
maniacal and people are still 

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worried about them. 
And you have reports of these 

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Foo Fighters of American pilots 
came back talking about that 

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they can't explain. 
So the real fear among the US 

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military was what's the next 
super weapon that the Nazis are 

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going to invent? 
The Germans, I should say that 

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could that could rescue them 
from certain defeat in this war 

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and in that kind of test tube, I
guess you could say, or Petri 

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dish of fear and stress and war.
You end up with a lot of a lot 

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of paperwork, people sending 
back and forth trying to dot all

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the IS and cross all the T's and
being very careful about 

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everything. 
And so there is a certain level 

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of redundancy, but there's also 
some cool stuff just to see 

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what's happening and how people 
viewed things at that time. 

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Now I ask, I ask AI to go ahead 
and summarize this stuff for me 

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just a little bit, because 
there's so much here. 

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It says, yes, I can access and 
analyze material from the 

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document set, but the PDF file 
itself is extremely large and 

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appears to be a wartime archive 
dump focused on late World War 2

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German armament and equipment 
intelligence files rather than a

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single narrative report. 
The files entitled 331-120752 

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DASH Numeric Files, DASH 1944 to
45-37153 German Armament 

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Equipment Dump. 
Now that's kind of the problem 

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with all these files is that I'm
not seeing, other than in the 

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newspaper clips, one single 
narrative. 

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It's just, it's just the US, 
it's just the US military 

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vacuuming up thousands of 
reports and trying to make sense

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of this stuff. 
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without AI and without 
supercomputers. 

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So yeah, good on them. 
Now it says from the available 

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metadata, the document appears 
to contain Allied intelligence 

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on German weapons and military 
technology, captured equipment 

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reports, technical evaluations, 
wartime intelligence summaries, 

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possibly references to 
experimental or wonder weapon 

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programs. 
That was her big fear and 

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material gathered around 1945 as
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A lot of people in the UFO 
community are interested in 

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these files because some believe
they may reference advanced 

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German aerospace concepts 
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or technology later connected to
post war UFO mythology. 

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Well, you're right there at the 
very beginning of a lot of this 

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UFO stuff. 
And the weird thing is, man, 

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you've got these genuinely 
indisputable evil people and the

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Nazis practicing all kinds of 
black magic and, and whatever 

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the weird stuff they're into 
trying to connect 

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interdimensionally with some 
other thing to get an advantage 

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and in the war effort. 
And you throw in the mix a bunch

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of really smart guys, so smart 
that we had to bring them over 

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here to build our rockets. 
Then it kind of goes on down and

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says Germany's desperation 
weapons programs began in 1944 

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and 45. 
The astonishing level of 

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advanced aerospace research 
underway at the end of World War

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2 and how much later UFO 
mythology borrowed from real 

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Nazi aviation projects. 
Well, sometimes we can use what 

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we know to explain what we don't
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I guess this is the most 
interesting material likely 

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contained in the archive is the 
wonder weapons program. 

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The archive appears to appears 
tied to Allied technical 

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intelligence gathered as Germany
collapsed. 

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That means it likely contains 
reports on V1 cruise missiles, 

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V2 rockets, jet aircraft, anti 
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experimental tanks, guided 
weapons and underground 

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production facilities. 
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technology was the work done at 
Piedmundi, where Germany 

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developed the first operational 
ballistic missile program. 

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One especially important point, 
the V2 program directly 

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influenced both the US and 
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This is not a conspiracy theory,
it is established history. 

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Wernher von Braun and many other
German rocket engineers were 

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brought to the United States 
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This is what I find a little bit
bothersome. 

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I think a lot of these UFO 
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reported by our US pilots were 
all lumped into this together 

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and so EU. 
The UFO sightings were treated 

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just like more of this top 
secret information surrounding 

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the V1V2 rockets and all these, 
all this wartime stuff going on.

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And so they're set for 50, 
sixty, 7080 years locked away in

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top secret mode when there's 
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advanced aircraft designs that 
sound like UFOs. 

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One reason UFO researchers 
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because Germany was 
experimenting with aircraft that

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genuinely looked futuristic for 
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The archive likely references 
swept wing aircraft, ramjet 

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concepts, vertical takeoff 
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shaped aerodynamic studies, 
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systems, and captured German 
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research into supersonic flight,
swept back wings, Jet Propulsion

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and missile guidance systems. 
These were decades ahead of many

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allied aircraft designs at the 
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stories probably grew out of 
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Well this was kind of the idea 
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OK. 
Witnesses saw an unfamiliar jet 

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aircraft, so they thought it was
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that because we're talking about
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The description of these things 
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orbs. 
They're not so much like like 

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the newest jet invented by the 
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But here again they've conflated
the UFO sightings with these top

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secret super weapons that the 
Nazis were trying to develop at 

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the end of 1944 and 1945. 
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of this stuff was classified 
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Now it says the reality behind 
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This is where things get 
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There's little verified evidence
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operational flying saucer. 
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did exist. 
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the craft. 
Unconventional VTOL concepts 

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were studied and some engineers 
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structures. 
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became mixed with post war 
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stories and the Glock legends 
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Most historians believe the 
famous claims about the virile 

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class craft. 
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Remember it was 1 where the 
Nazis rented this whole cult and

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they were trying to I think more
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fly this saying the hambu 
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anti gravity propulsion 
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we're heavily exaggerated. 
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but you kind of have to wonder 
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Still, the real German aerospace
programs were advanced enough 

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that they became fertile ground 
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There again, they're kind of 
convolating all of the stuff 

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that our pilots reported this, 
like I said, this weird Foo 

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fighter stuff that we can't 
explain with actual Nazi 

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programs. 
One especially, one especially 

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chilling theme. 
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Germany tried to maintain 
military production even while 

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collapsing the late war armament
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underground, relied heavily on 
forced labor and pushed 

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emergency weapons into rush 
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Well, we know that they use, 
they use as poor folks that were

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trapped in concentration camps 
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and underground it, it was just 
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And we've talked about von Braun
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And his response pretty much 
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rockets come down. 
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And and that there there are the
risks of NASA right there, 

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Somebody who cared about 
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about the people that were 
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Rockets that they designed. 
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This produced a bizarre 
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revolutionary technology 
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collapsing logistics and 
destroyed infrastructure made 

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large scale deployments 
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Well, thankfully for us of 
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If you know much about history, 
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been big problems in World War 2
economy had pretty well crashed.

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Hitler, a socialist came along 
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what was left of the economy. 
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only reason that they were evil 
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war the way they were us because
they were able to steal gold 

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every the first time they did 
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country, whether it was France 
or Hungary or you know, whatever

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it was, steal the gold and then 
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Switzerland. 
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documented. 
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scam going on with with the 
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stealing the life insurance 
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You can look that all up. 
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So the whole entire proposition 
of the the Nazi regime was based

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on stealing stuff. 
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that's based on stealing, when 
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you run out. 
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said, it works until you run out
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And that's what happened with 
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So they started off with with, I
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professor explaining to us that 
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and how how angry they were. 
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about Hitler destroying that 
aspect than they were about all 

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the horrible war crimes in the 
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But yeah, Germany was it was a 
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And they use that entire 
reservoir knowledge not for 

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good, but to try to create 
advanced weapon systems so they 

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could continue on with the evil 
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Now, according to AI thinks that
the most compelling short 

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excerpts out the short summaries
this is that Germany was 

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developing weapons that look 
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The Vt rocket was the world's 
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that captured German aerospace 
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Cold War, and some UFO mythology
likely emerged from real 

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classified aircraft research. 
And the truth is both less 

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supernatural and more here's 
historically shocking, I guess 

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that seems to be kind of the 
same mainline take on this that 

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we get from a lot of people. 
But I think the important lesson

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here to learn is how the US 
military has collected all these

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reports from our own pilots, 
along with all the other files 

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and, and the information that 
they got about Germany trying to

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develop the Super weapons. 
And they piled it all together 

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and they classified it. 
And so here we are, what, 80 

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years later, trying to figure 
out what they did. 

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And it seems like a lot of the 
UFO research that could have 

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been done, that could have been 
these personal accounts that 

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could have really been looked 
at, transcribed, analyzed, have 

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been buried along with this huge
document dump from 80 years ago.

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And let's be honest, a lot of 
this stuff has just been sitting

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on a shelf somewhere, in a box 
somewhere unnecessarily 

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classified for sixty, 7080 
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It's really quite ridiculous. 
Getting back to this idea of the

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Foo Fighters. 
Now, we've probably heard of 

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those these more or less just 
UFO reports from American 

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fighters and some French 
fighters back during World War 

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2. 
Now, if we ask AI, it tells us 

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during World War 2, Foo Fighters
were mysterious aerial phenomena

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reported primarily by Allied 
pilots flying night missions 

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over Europe and the Pacific. 
The term has nothing to do with 

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the rock band originally. 
The band later took its name 

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from these wartime UFO reports. 
Yeah, I think we could figure 

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that out. 
What are Foo Fighters? 

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Pilots described? 
Glowing balls of light. 

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Metallic looking spheres, Fiery 
orbs or strange lights that 

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appeared to intelligently follow
aircraft. 

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Glowing balls of light? 
Yeah, we're talking about warp 

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sightings here. 
Metallic looking spheres? 

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That reminds me of the one that 
Korbel released here a couple 

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years ago. 
And the fiery orbs. 

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I've seen one of those myself. 
Very strange or strange lights 

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that appear to intelligently 
follow aircraft. 

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That's still going on today. 
With the commercial airplanes 

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and some of our military 
aircraft. 

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The objects were often reported 
pacing military planes, 

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maneuvering rapidly and 
sometimes disappearing 

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instantly. 
The reports became especially 

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common in 19441945. 
Who reported them? 

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The most famous reports came 
from the US Army Air Force's 

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415th Night Fighter Squadron, 
operating over France, Germany, 

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and the Rhine Valley. 
Pilots flying the Northrop P61 

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Black Widow repeatedly described
strange glowing objects 

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following their aircraft. 
The phenomena was covered by 

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major newspapers during the war,
including The New York Times in 

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December 1944. 
This article described balls of 

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fire following Allied aircraft 
over Germany. 

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Goes on and says pilots reported
orange or red glowing spheres, 

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lights flying in formation, 
objects that climbed rapidly, 

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sudden and possible turns and 
lights unaffected by evasive 

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maneuvers. 
Some said the objects that flew 

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alongside the wings hovered near
cockpit level or appeared to 

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play with aircraft. 
Importantly, radar operators 

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often failed to detect them, and
objects rarely attacked aircraft

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directly. 
And asked why did pilots call 

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them Foo Fighters? 
The name likely came from the 

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comic strip Smokey Stover, where
the nonsense phrase where 

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there's Foo, there's fire 
appeared Repeatedly. 

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Pilots adopted the slang term of
Foo Fighters for the mysterious 

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lights. 
And what did military 

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intelligence think at the time? 
Allied intelligence fear the 

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objects might be secret German 
weapons, advanced anti aircraft 

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technology or psychological 
warfare devices or experimental 

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aircraft. 
So this is what I'm talking 

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about. 
You end up with the reports. 

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The reports get lumped in with a
bunch of files, may be captured 

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at the end of World War 2 about 
Nazi super weapons, and then we 

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never see the reports again. 
They're locked down as top 

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secret. 
This is really a complete 

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misapplication of the secrecy 
laws and it's stripping away 

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hundreds of reports that we 
could be using to gain an 

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understanding of these things. 
It's really, it's kind of 

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tragic. 
It says Germany really was 

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developing advanced technology 
during World War 2. 

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Jet fighters, guided missiles, 
ballistic rockets, infrared 

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weapons and experimental 
aircraft. 

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So pilots were already on edge 
looking for secret enemy 

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technology. 
Well, you can imagine if you're 

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an airplane that's flying maybe 
400 mile an hour and you got a 

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jet flying up on you at 500 or 
better. 

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Yeah, it's it's not a good 
situation. 

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Natural atmospheric phenomena. 
Well now here's some of the 

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crazy. 
Bring in the swamp gas St. 

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animals. 
Fire ball lightning, plasma 

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effects or electrical 
discharges. 

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Yes, all things that you can't 
repeat. 

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Good old ball lightning. 
I guess that just explains 

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everything, doesn't it? 
These effects can appear as 

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glowing lights around aircraft, 
especially during storms or 

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electrical conditions. 
However, many pilots assisted 

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the objects behaved 
intelligently. 

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Don't you love it when they 
compare an intelligently 

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controlled orb to lightning? 
Not Combat Stress and 

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misidentification. 
Well, of course, these guys were

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so stressed that they couldn't 
properly identify an orb as 

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compared to a lightning strike. 
But we could trust them in 

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combat situations to protect 
bombers, to attack targets on 

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the ground, to take down other 
airplanes and to fly one of 

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those machines at night in 1945 
S to me, they're really they're 

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really reaching here. 
Pilots were told that they'd 

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seen things such as stars, Venus
tracer fire reflections or or 

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ground lights. 
Of course, these guys knew what 

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they saw and they knew that that
was none of that. 

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Some UFO researchers believe Foo
Fighters may have involved 

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classified Axis technology, 
experimental propulsion systems,

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or early electronic warfare 
devices. 

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Well, and you have to ask 
yourself, if the Germans had all

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that and they were able to 
deploy it like that, wouldn't 

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they have been using it a little
bit more effectively? 

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Of course there's also the UFO 
or non human intelligence 

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theory. 
That's kind of where I fall out 

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with this stuff. 
Modern UFO researchers often 

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point to Foo Fighters as one of 
the earliest mass military UFO 

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encounters. 
They argue trained military 

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aviators observed structured 
phenomena, the objects 

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demonstrated unusual 
maneuverability, and the reports

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resemble later UFO sightings 
from the Cold War era. 

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Some compare Foo Fighter reports
to modern orb sightings reported

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by military pilots today. 
As I always say, the more things

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change, the more they stay the 
same. 

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One important historical detail 
of the strange objects were 

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reported by Americans, British, 
Germans, and Japanese pilots. 

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In some cases, German pilots 
thought the Allies had secret 

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glowing aircraft, while Allied 
pilots thought Germany did. 

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The mutual confusion is one 
reason the phenomena remains 

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historically fascinating. 
As far as the legacy of Foo 

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Fighters, Foo Fighters became 
one of the earliest widely 

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documented military phenomena 
and help shape post UFO culture 

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and the famous 1947 flying 
saucer wave. 

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Their reports are still studied 
by aviation historians, military

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researchers and UFO 
investigators. 

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I'm not so sure that it helped 
shape the flying saucer wave as 

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much as this is when the wave 
started and it started with our 

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pilots. 
The modern rock band Foo 

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Fighters took its name directly 
from the World War 2 sightings. 

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What makes the story so 
enduring? 

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The most compelling aspect is 
this. 

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Experienced combat pilots 
repeatedly reported objects they

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could not identify during one of
the most technologically 

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secretive wars in history. 
The combination of advanced 

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wartime technology, genuine 
mystery, and eyewitness military

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testimony is why Foo Fighters 
remain a major topic in U.S. 

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history. 
Now, I want to finish up with a 

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couple of articles about these 
Foo Fighters. 

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The first one I was able to find
a summary from the New York 

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Times article. 
It's back in 1945. 

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It says, here's some of the most
important reported statements 

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from the New York Times coverage
and related wartime reporting. 

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And it goes on and says balsa 
fire or accompany US fighters 

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for miles over Germany. 
I mean, if there were weapons, 

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you think they would have 
attacked the airplanes, not just

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flown along beside them? 
One pilot reportedly said. 

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A Foo fighter picked me up 
recently and chased me 20 miles 

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down the Rhine Valley. 
Another described red balls off 

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his wing tips that stayed with 
the aircraft even during a steep

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dive. 
Pilots also reported formations 

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of lights, rows of glowing 
spheres, clusters like a 

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Christmas tree, and objects that
suddenly accelerated vertically 

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out of sight. 
Now imagine you're one of these 

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fighter planes flying along, and
this thing's just accelerate up 

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out of sight. 
That's talking. 

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You're talking about some real G
forces there. 

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The wartime military initially 
suspected that these were secret

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German technology, psychological
weapons, radar interference 

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devices or some kind of 
electrical phenomena. 

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Typically, the things that 
they're trying to write these 

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off is are more unlikely than 
the thing they actually saw. 

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At the same time, scientists 
interviewed by the press 

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proposed explanations like 
optical illusions, Saint Elmo's 

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fire, electrostatic effects, or 
atmospheric plasma. 

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One especially important 
historical point, The phenomena 

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was taken seriously enough that 
Allied headquarters issued an 

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official press release in 
December 1944 describing the 

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objects as a possible new German
weapon. 

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The Foo Fighter reports predate 
the modern UFO era by several 

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years. 
A court occurring during the 

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1947 flying saucer wave and 
before UFO culture existed in 

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the public imagination. 
Yeah. 

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These things weren't made-up. 
They weren't a figment of 

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somebody's imagination. 
These were actual wartime 

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fighter pilots that saw these 
things. 

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Now I want to finish up with 
this last article here, this 

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from the Times. 
It's dated January 15th, 1945, 

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Titled Science Semi Colon Foo 
Fighter. 

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If it was not a hoax or an 
optical illusion, it was 

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certainly the most puzzling 
secret weapon that Allied 

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fighters have yet encountered. 
Last week, US night fighter 

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pilots based in France told a 
strange story of balls of fire 

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which for more than a month have
been following their planes at 

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night over Germany. 
No one seemed to know what, if 

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anything, the fireballs were 
supposed to accomplish. 

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Pilots, guessing that it was a 
new psychological weapon, named 

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it the Foo fighter. 
Their descriptions of the 

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apparition varied, but they 
agreed that the mysterious 

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flares struck close to their 
planes and appeared to follow 

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them at high speed for miles. 
One pilot said that a Foo 

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fighter appearing as red balls 
off his wing tips stuck with him

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until he drove at 360 miles an 
hour, when the balls zoomed up 

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into the sky. 
Skeptical scientists, baffled by

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the whole affair, were inclined 
to dismiss the fireballs as an 

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illusion, perhaps after images 
of light which remained in the 

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pilot's eyes after they had been
dazzled by Flack burst. 

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Isn't it amazing how the people 
that weren't there could figure 

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out what the people that were 
there saw, but frontline 

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correspondents and armchair 
experts had a Buck Rodgers field

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day? 
They solemnly guessed one, that 

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the balls of fire were radio 
controlled and obvious absurdity

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since they could not be 
synchronized with the planes 

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movements by remote control. 2 
that they were created by 

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electrical induction of some 
sort, and three, that they were 

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attracted by attracted to a 
plane by magnetism. 

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The correspondence further 
guessed that the Foo Fighters 

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were intended one to dazzle 
pilots, 2 to service aiming 

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points for anti aircraft Gunners
and three to interfere with a 

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plane's radar, 4 to cut a 
plane's ignition to stop its 

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engines in mid air. 
Some scientists suggest another 

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possibility, that the fireballs 
were nothing more than Saint 

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Elmo's fire, a reddish brush 
like discharge of atmospheric 

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electricity, which has often 
been seen near the tips of 

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church steeples, ships mast and 
yard arms. 

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It often appears at at a plane's
wing tips. 

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Strange. 
I've never seen it. 

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Yeah, well, there you go. 
Same. 

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Same song, second dance. 
I mean, we have the best of the 

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best telling us what they saw. 
Then we had the people in the 

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peanut gallery, the skeptics and
the debunkers telling them to go

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back to sleep. 
They didn't see anything. 

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It just goes to show that even 
when you have the very best 

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possible eyewitness of these UFO
accounts, number one, they'll 

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bring out the debunkers and the 
doubters. 

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They'll make up every excuse in 
the book to say that they didn't

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see what they saw. 
And then if it's in a military 

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situation like this was, they 
simply take all those reports 

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00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:02,320
that they can get their hands 
on, at least pile them in with a

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00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:08,440
bunch of other military files 
and and semi secret stuff, stamp

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00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:12,680
top secret on it and put it in a
box and shove it away somewhere 

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00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,280
for 80 years. 
That's what I'm learning from 

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this whole document dump. 
Not so much that I found 

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anything so far that was early 
earth shattering. 

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But what I am finding is a lot 
of stuff has been over 

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classified. 
A lot of stuff has been 

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classified as secret that should
have never been classified as 

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secret. 
And it's a way to muddy the 

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waters, kind of poison the whale
and keep us from finding out 

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what they know about UFOs. 
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