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The Foo Fighters: UFOs During World War II | MHP 10.27.21.

The Micah Hanks Program

Micah Hanks

Society & Culture, Science

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

During the Second World War, Allied pilots began to log reports of encounters they had with unusual aerial phenomena during their flights over Europe. According to a once-secret memo from 1945, officials from XII Tactical Air Command intelligence staff wrote that “We have encountered a phenomenon which we cannot explain.”

Later dubbed "Foo Fighters," the reports of odd aerial encounters over Europe appear to represent predecessors to modern reports of unidentified flying objects that would appear in the years after the war. Joining us to discuss the Foo Fighter enigmas is researcher and historian Graeme Rendall, author of the book UFOs Before Roswell: European Foo-Fighters 1940-1945, whose work traces Foo Fighter sightings all the way back to the early days of the war.

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0:00.0

News, science, the unexplained space in the cosmos, exploring our past, our future, and

0:08.6

the mysteries of our universe, taking a critical look at reality and a journey to the edges

0:14.3

of human understanding.

0:16.1

The future is now, this is Micahanks.

0:23.0

From the high mountains of Appalachia in a bunker below ground, welcome when it all

0:27.2

it is the Micahanks program glad, as always, proud in fact to be your host, as we lead

0:32.9

another excursion in pursuit of the enigmatic life we do every week, available, listen

0:38.7

on demand via podcasting apps all around the globe, and indeed we have a global audience,

0:44.9

great to be a citizen of Earth right here with you guys this week, signs of an all-new

0:49.4

planet found outside of our galaxy, an update on alien hunters, and speaking of alien hunting,

0:55.9

we will also see what NASA Administrator Bill Nelson recently had to say about that,

1:02.1

but then for the duration of the program, looking back in time, there were Allied and in

1:07.6

fact, according to some accounts, Axis Pilots during the Second World War who said that

1:12.5

they were seeing not just strange lights in the sky, but sometimes structured objects

1:18.9

of unknown origin.

1:21.0

Today they are known as the Foo Fighters, even before they had that name, they had been

1:25.4

called many things, lights, things, unknowns.

1:30.0

Graeme Randall is my guest this week, he'll be discussing his research into the Foo Fighter

1:35.0

Enigma.

1:36.0

He has a new book out that's all about this, really taking a deep dive into the history

1:41.5

behind this phenomenon, can't wait to get into that with him, of course, glad to be looking

1:47.7

at the broader, bigger picture, regarding UFOs, this of course, is an issue that I raise

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