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From: jan@cyberzone.net (Jan Aldrich)
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 19:47:05 -0700
Fwd Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 22:52:01 -0400
Subject: Re: Aircraft/UFO Encounters Prior to 1942

This thread has gone rather far afield from the original
post.  I would like to ask researcher's help in locating
aircraft/UFO encounters during World War I.

I remember reading in my father's psychology text book (circa
1920) about sightings of strange things in the air from aircraft
especially in World War I.  The authors contend that these
sightings were illusions.  The explanations for these illusions
were the rarefied air and pilot fatigue.  (BTW the authors also
stated that there would be not more wars on the scale of
World War I as the machine gun had made such conflicts
unthinkable.)  This book is not longer available--lost in
a move.

Jeff Lindell told me he had also ran across a brief reference to
strange aerial sightings by French World War I fighter pilots.  It
said that the sightings were announced in notices about the flying
weather.  Lindell cannot locate the reference.

Paris Flammonde also make a brief reference to such sightings
in one of his books.

Last week, a French researcher told me years ago that he too
had seen a similar French reference to World War I sightings
by French pilots.  Again, we do not have an exact reference.

Moving on to World War II:  I have four sightings by ferry pilots
and crews.  They are in the North Atlantic, South Atlantic and
at a training base near Santa Barbara, California.

A few years ago we had only a vague reference to phantom
Zeppelins during World War I.  Now we have dozens.  Hopefully,
we can find additional reports from World War I pilots.

--
Jan Aldrich
Project 1947
http://www.iufog.org/project1947/