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Aug 15

Tonights Show The Foo Fighters

The Foo Fighters of World War II. It was nearly the end of World War II. But for the airmen of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron, it felt more like the beginning of War of the Worlds.

 

Lt. Fred Ringwald was the first to see it. He was riding as observer in a night fighter piloted by Lt. Ed Schlueter, with Lt. Donald J. Meiers on radar. It was a late November evening in 1944, partly cloudy with a quarter moon. They were roaming the Rhine Valley just north of Strasbourg on the French-German border when Ringwald said, “I wonder what those lights are, over there in the hills,” according to an American Legion Magazine story on the sightings from 1945.

 

 

There were eight to 10 of them in a row, glowing fiery orange. Then Schlueter saw them off his right wing. They checked with Allied ground radar, but they registered nothing. Thinking that the lights might be some kind of German air weapon, Schlueter turn the plane to fight…only to have the lights vanish.

 

We will be chatting with two guest tonight who both have seen these strange lights on their property along with strange cryptids.

7 Responses to “Tonights Show The Foo Fighters”

  2. Ed M

    Awesome Wes. I really think that much of this phenomena is related and to just stay on one aspect of it does a disservice to the spirit of exploration and ultimately science itself. You are (IMHO) walking in the shoes of a pioneer in this subject matter. I might compare you the the great Art Bell, rest his soul. Thanks for all your scrutiny and hard work into these enigmas.

  3. Bob B

    My Dad was Deputy Commander of one of the Squadrons within the 36th Fighter Group during WWII flying the unfriendly skies over Europe. Dad related encounters to me of seeing what became known as ‘Foo Fighters’ while piloting his P-47. Foo Fighters are and were real. What exactly they are or were remains uncertain. But many reports of tube like lights flying along as if keeping formation with fighter planes were shared between certain fighter pilots within the squadron.

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