Aliens On Earth.com Resources for those who are stranded here Our Bookstore is OPEN Over 5000 new & used titles, competitively priced! Topics: UFOs - Paranormal - Area 51 - Ghosts - Forteana - Conspiracy - History - Biography - Psychology - Religion - Crime - Health - Geography - Maps - Science - Money - Language - Recreation - Technology - Fiction - Other - New Search... for keyword(s)   in Page Titles in Book Title/Author in Contents of Pages ---other searches--- Metacrawler Yahoo FAST Search Google Altavista Dogpile Inference Find Northern Light IWon.com MSN Search Las Vegas Sun Location: Mothership -> UFO -> Updates -> 1996 -> Dec -> Project 1947 - Foo-Fighters

UFO UpDates Mailing List

From: Jan Aldrich <jan@CYBERZONE.NET>
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 11:19:15 -0800
Fwd Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 12:46:19 -0500
Subject: Project 1947 - Foo-Fighters

Some excerpts from a letter from Jeff Lindell:

     "I wish I had more time to include the work I've done with Project
X-148....I hope this will spark some interesting responses....

     "The B-29 units and time periods that will prove fruitful in a
search at Maxwell AFB are:

    58th Bomb Wing (BW) June-August 1944, April-May 1945
      40th Bomb Group (BG)   "                 "
     444th BG                "                 "
     462nd BG                "                 "
     468th BG                "                 "
       1st Photo-reconnaissance (Temp. Detachment from McDill)
                         June-August 1944

    73rd BW         All BG Aprip-May 1945
     497th BG
     498th BG
     499th BG
     500th BG

   313th BG           All BGs Arpil-May 1945
       6th BG
       9th BG
     504th BG
     505th BG

   314th BW             All BGs April-May 1945
     19th BG
     29th BG
     39th BG
    330th BG

  315th Bomb Wing      All BGs April-May 1945
     16th BG
    331th BG
    501st BG
    502nd BG

   "The Wing and Bomb Group levels should have reports of Baka bombs,
Robombs, Foo fighters, Balls of light (fire), Kamikazes and possibly the
Mitsubishi J8M1 "Swinging sword."  There is really no way for me to
predict by what names these things may be called in units that I have no
access to records.  You will probably find some new names.  The 20th Air
Force and the 21st Bomber Command should also have intelligence records
on the phenomena.  Also, Venus reports will probably be found in the last
May or early June records for these Groups...."

                 *          *          *          *

   We have 20th Bomber Command's 1945 records.  There are several reports
of "Balls of fire," but as to be expected they are not as detailed as
reports in subordintate units records.


   Project X-148 was a Navy project that deal with the preception of
lights seen from aircraft in the night.  In the beginning they collected
all types of reports.  However, they quickly narrowed down to ground
lights mistaken for flying lights or vice verse.  The immediate goal was
to try to prevent night crashes involving possible disorientation.
Lindell's research shows that X-148 went on for years after the war.  The
Navy has no records of it.  Results were published in small scientific
journals like the Hawaiian Academy of Science Review.  There are no
"foo-fighters" here just some probably explanations for some cases.

Jan Aldrich