ACUFO-1942-00-00-BRUCHHAMMER-1
A Japanese ufologist published in the Japanese ufology magazine UFO Researcher, Volume 17, No. 1, of 2007, the image below:
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The caption said that the description of the photo said that it shows a B-24 shot down over “Bruchhammer, Germany”, and that there is “like a round light next to it.”
| Date: | Between 1942 and 1945 |
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| Time: | ? |
| Duration: | ? |
| First known report date: | 2007 |
| Reporting delay: | 6 decades. |
| Country: | Germany |
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| State/Department: | |
| City or place: | "Bruchhammer" [?] |
| Number of alleged witnesses: | 0 |
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| Number of known witnesses: | 0 |
| Number of named witnesses: | 0 |
| Reporting channel: | Japanese ufology magazine. |
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| Visibility conditions: | ? |
| UFO observed: | No. |
| UFO arrival observed: | N/A. |
| UFO departure observed: | N/A. |
| UFO action: | N/A. |
| Witnesses action: | N/A. |
| Photographs: | Yes. |
| Sketch(s) by witness(es): | N/A. |
| Sketch(es) approved by witness(es): | N/A. |
| Witness(es) feelings: | N/A. |
| Witnesses interpretation: | N/A. |
| 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: | ? |
| Armed / unarmed: | Armed, 7.62 mm machine guns. |
| Reliability 1-3: | 1 |
| Strangeness 1-3: | 1 |
| ACUFO: | Tracer bullet or photo artefact. |
[Ref. urr1:] UFOLOGY MAGAZINE "UFO REPORTER":
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- This time that's it
I just returned from Kochi, Shikoku. I learned a little about this place as it is a place associated with historical figures such as Ryoma Sakamoto and Kazutoyo Yamauchi. It seems that Kochi Castle was the final scene of the taiga drama. Well, here's another photo of an old engraving [sic]. The description says it is a B-24 shot down over Bruchhammer, Germany. You can see something like a round light next to it.
The North American B-25 “Mitchell” (Below) was a high-performance medium bomber, used during WWII in Europe and the Pacific by the U.S. Army Air Forces.
Its crew was normally 8 men, its range was 2,170 km, its defensive armament was, depending on the versions, from 2 to 18 12.7 mm caliber machine guns.
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In the 1960's already, Japanese UFO buffs had explored WWII history books and picked up photos of “things” such as white blobs or dark spots on photographs; thinking they must be UFOs, they circulated such images in their bulletin, and many reached Western world UFO publications as WWII “Foo-Fighters”.
In this case also, there was no UFO sighting report related to the image; the discover even told that it showed “a B-24 shot down over Bruchhammer, Germany”; so that the “something like a round light next to it” was likely a tracer bullet.
I tried to find this photograph in another source - hoping not for a “UFO” but for a better quality image and historical context information - but to no avail so far.
Note that I did not find any “Bruchhammer” in Germany; there must have been a bad spelling causing a mistranslation of the image caption.
Tracer bullet or photo artefact.
* = 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 | July 26, 2024 | Creation, [urr1]. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | July 26, 2024 | First published. |
