ACUFO:

ACUFO is my comprehensive catalog of cases of encounters between aircraft and UFOs, whether they are “explained” or “unexplained”.

The ACUFO catalog is made of case files with a case number, summary, quantitative information (date, location, number of witnesses...), classifications, all sources mentioning the case with their references, a discussion of the case in order to evaluate its causes, and a history of the changes made to the file.

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Kärnten, Austria, in May 1944:

Case number:

ACUFO-1944-05-00-KARNTEN-1

Summary:

In 1975, Gianfranco de Turris, Italian journalist, and Sebastiano Fusco, published a book containing numerous so-called UFO photos.

One of them was presented as taken in May 1944, and would show, according to them, the clearest photo of a "foo fighter", which would have been photographed during a war action by a German pilot of unknown name, flying "near the town of Kärnten" in Germany:

Data:

Temporal data:

Date:	May 1944
Time:	?
Duration:	?
First known report date:	1975
Reporting delay:	3 decades.

Geographical data:

Country:	Austria
State/Department:	Kärnten
City or place:

Witnesses data:

Number of alleged witnesses:	1
Number of known witnesses:	?
Number of named witnesses:	0

Ufology data:

Reporting channel:	UFO photo book.
Visibility conditions:	Day.
UFO observed:	?
UFO arrival observed:	?
UFO departure observed:	?
UFO action:	?
Witnesses action:
Photographs:	Yes.
Sketch(s) by witness(es):	No.
Sketch(es) approved by witness(es):	No.
Witness(es) feelings:	?
Witnesses interpretation:	?

Classifications:

Sensors:	[ ] Visual: 1? [ ] Airborne radar: [ ] Directional ground radar: [ ] Height finder ground radar: [X] Photo: 1. [ ] Film/video: [ ] EM Effects: [ ] Failures: [ ] Damages:
Hynek:	DD
Armed / unarmed:	?
Reliability 1-3:	1
Strangeness 1-3:	2
ACUFO:	Dubious credibility.

Sources:

[Ref. tfo1:] GIANFRANCO DE TURRIS ET SEBASTIANO FUSCO:

14. Kärnten (Germania),
maggio 1944.

La piú chiara immagine dei "caccia di fuocco" scattata durante un'azione bellica. Autore un pilota tedesco (il nome non è noto) in volo nel maggion del 1944 presso la città di Kärnten in Germania. Si noti come, in pratica, si tratti dello stesso eggetto ripreso su New York il 28 Iuglio 1952 (Foto 18): è identica addiritura la sfumatura centrale.

Soit:

14. Kärnten (Germany),
May 1944.

The clearest image of the "fire chasers" taken during war action. Author a German pilot (name unknown) flying in May 1944 near the town of Kärnten in Germany. Notice how, in practice, it is the same object taken in New York on July 28, 1952 (Photo 18): even the central smoke is identical.

Note: The 1952 New York photo said to show the same object is:

[Ref. lwr1:] DR. LOUIS WINKLER:

1944 May/Austria/OUFO (v.l, n.2)

A German pilot photographed one of the objects.

Aircraft information:

All that is known from the report is that the plance was a german war plane of WWII.

However, I found no WWII German plane with pods so far on the wings.

Discussion:

There is no town named "Kärnten" in Germany; "Kärtnen" is a region of Austria, Carinthia in English.

Evaluation:

Dubious credibility.

Sources references:

* = Source is available to me.
? = Source I am told about but could not get so far. Help needed.

[tfo1] * "Obiettivo sugli UFO - Fotostoria dei dischi volanti", book by Gianfranco de Turris and Sebastiano Fusco, Mediterranee publishers, Italy, page 38, 1975.
[lwr1] * "Catalog/database, and analysis, of pre-1947 'UFO-like phenomena'", report by Dr. Louis Winkler, astronomer, Pennsylvania State University, for the Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR), USA, page 59, 1982-1984.

File history:

Authoring:

Main author:	Patrick Gross
Contributors:	None
Reviewers:	None
Editor:	Patrick Gross

Changes history:

Version:	Create/changed by:	Date:	Description:
0.1	Patrick Gross	MAy 5, 2024	Creation, [tfo1], [lwr1].
1.0	Patrick Gross	MAy 5, 2024	First published.

This page was last updated on MAy 5, 2024.