Open up any book on famous mysteries of World War II and you'll find this story.

A year into the United States participation in the war, one of its fighter planes came

limping into Pearl Harbor, shot to pieces, and crashed in a field.

Rescue crews were shocked to find no pilot at all, but just as inexplicable was it it

was a type of P40 that was no longer in use.

So just what is the truth behind this popular legend?

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com, the ghost fighter plane of Pearl Harbor.

It was December of 1942, a year and a day after the Japanese sneak attack that launched

the United States into World War II.

The American Navy was on guard at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

Published accounts say that radar contact was made with an incoming aircraft, and fearing

another attack, fighter planes were scrambled to intercept it.

But instead of an attacking Japanese bomber, they encountered a ghost fighter, a pre-war

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