ACUFO-1944-00-00-EUROPE-1
In 2024, a few sensation Websites about UFOs illustrate their articles with this photo, sometimes claiming it shows "Foo-Fighters" of WWII but giving no details nor source:
I show below in this file that this photo is a fake based on a well-known photo of a "Liberty Belle" B-17.
Date: | 1944 or 1945 |
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Time: | Day. |
Duration: | ? |
First known report date: | 2024 |
Reporting delay: | 8 decades. |
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State/Department: | |
City or place: |
Number of alleged witnesses: | ? |
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Number of known witnesses: | 0 |
Number of named witnesses: | 0 |
Reporting channel: | UFO sensation Websites. |
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Visibility conditions: | Day. |
UFO observed: | No. |
UFO arrival observed: | N/A |
UFO departure observed: | N/A |
UFO action: | Fly along plane. |
Witnesses action: | |
Photographs: | Yes. |
Sketch(s) by witness(es): | No. |
Sketch(es) approved by witness(es): | No. |
Witness(es) feelings: | ? |
Witnesses interpretation: | ? |
Sensors: |
[ ] Visual:
[ ] Airborne radar: [ ] Directional ground radar: [ ] Height finder ground radar: [X] Photo: 1 [ ] Film/video: [ ] EM Effects: [ ] Failures: [ ] Damages: |
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Hynek: | DD |
Armed / unarmed: | Armed, 5 7.62 mm machine guns. |
Reliability 1-3: | 1 |
Strangeness 1-3: | 1 |
ACUFO: | Modern photographic hoax. |
[Ref. uao1:] "UAAI.INFO" WEBSITE:
Foo Fighters were seen all over the world during World War II. They looked like balls of light or metal plates, and flew in swarms, closely following the fighter jets and flying as if surveying the battlefield. Here are some famous examples.
The US B-17 "Flying Fortress" was a heavy bomber fitted with five 7.62 machine guns for its defense against enemy fighter planes.
This alleged photo of "Foo-fighters", as usual presented without caption, without source, without date, without report, without any details, is a fake.
The fake was based on a well-known photograph of one of the B-17's "Liberty Belle" over Europe in 1944 or 1945:
"Liberty Belle" or "Miss Liberty Belle" was actually a name given to more than twenty B-17s and some B-24s of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) during World War II, but one of them had been widely publicized.
On the Western Web, the photo is found in 2024 on two Websites (and their copies), illustrating "UFO" articles unrelated to the photo or to the Foo-Fighters:
https://www.paranormalcrucible.com/2020/03/general-douglas-macarthur-warns-of.html
https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2018/02/daily-2-cents-military-foo-fighter.html
And on 1 Website as illustration of a paragraph on the Foo-Fighters:
https://www.reymisterios.com/ovnis/foo-fighters-ovni.htm
Modern photographic hoax.
* = Source is available to me.
? = Source I am told about but could not get so far. Help needed.
Main author: | Patrick Gross |
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Contributors: | None |
Reviewers: | None |
Editor: | Patrick Gross |
Version: | Create/changed by: | Date: | Description: |
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0.1 | Patrick Gross | April 20, 2024 | Creation, [uao1]. |
1.0 | Patrick Gross | April 20, 2024 | First published. |