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From: jan@cyberzone.net (Jan Aldrich)
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 10:20:04 -0800
Fwd Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 02:48:34 -0500
Subject: Re: Archival Research [Foo Fighters]

UFO UpDates - Toronto posted:

> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 11:12:31 -0500
> From: Graham William Birdsall <106151.1150@compuserve.com>
> Subject: UFO UpDate: Archival Research
> To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>

> Dear Jan,

> It may assist your project to learn that CAUS did discover a huge batch of
> microfilm about a couple of years ago that contained numerous references to
> "Foo Fighters" from the logs of US Night Fighter squadrons based in England
> during WWII.

> Names, places, dates and descriptions - an absolute treasure trove. No more
> speculation or theories, the folks back then were plagued by the things and
> having safely returned to England from flights over occupied, and later
> France after D-Day, everything was meticulously logged in the de-briefing
> sessions with the pilots concerned.

> Suggest you give them a call!

> All the best,

> Graham W. Birdsall [Editor]

> UFO Magazine

> _______________________________________________

 Hi Graham

   Re: FOO-FIGHTER

   That was just an example used to illustrate the difficulties of
finding items at government archives.  CAUS approached the problem was:
the origin of the term "foo-fighter" was the 415th Night Fighter Squadron
(NFS); therefore, look at the 415th NFS unit history which did indeed
yeild results.  There was, as pointed out, no "foo-fighter" files,
however.

Jeff Lindell is probably the most knowledgeable person in this area.  He
has hundreds of hours of taped interviews with World War II aircrews on
the subject.

Quite by accident we obtained Andy Roberts' "foo-fighter" files.  These
too contained valuable material.

We have also obtained all the operations and intelligence reports and
unit histories for all US night fighter squadrons in 1944-5 (except the
6th NFS which has already been screened.)  We also have the XX Bomber
Command Mission 1945 reports for the Pacific which refer some incidents
of "balls of fire."

In my article in IUR (see, Nick's OPRTK or CUFOS Home Pages) I quote
intelligence documents on daylight "foo-fighters"--the small discs and
the "crystal balls."  HQ, AAF had denied the knowledge of "crystal ball"
foo fighters in a later New York TIMES story.

We have prepared a preliminary report on World War II mysteries.  Jeff
Lindell has submitted an article on his studies, Barry Greenwood on the
"Battle of Los Angeles", Anders Liljegern on summaries Overflights 1944
and Overflights 1945 from the Swedish Military archives and also a
preliminary chronology from published sources, and I was to submit some
of the document in my collection.  Hopefully this will still happen.

Jan Aldrich, Project 1947