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Chronicle year

1944

1944-12-01 / European Theater of Operations (ETO)

SHAEF Air Staff file 37153 contains messages and memorandums from December 1944 through March 1945 documenting reports of "night phenomena (foofighters)" by crews of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron over the European Theater. Crews described blinking lights that changed colors and flew in formation with their aircraft, reddish flames, red balls of fire, and arrow-like light formations. On 1 March 1945, HQ IX TAC reported that pilots observed an aluminum-colored cylinder-shaped object approximately 12 feet long floating at 9,000 feet, which was attacked, partially deflated, and produced a red flame without smoke.

1944-01-01 / Gut Alt Golssen, approximately 30 miles east of Berlin, Germany

In a November 7, 1957 interview conducted by SA Cassius Rathbun, Wladyslaw Krasuski of 5457 Joseph Campau, Detroit, described witnessing a circular vehicle rise vertically from a tarpaulin-enclosed compound near Gut Alt Golssen, approximately 30 miles east of Berlin, circa 1944, while held there as a Polish prisoner of war. The vehicle was circular, 75 to 100 yards in diameter and about 14 feet high, with a rapidly moving middle section producing a continuous blur similar to an aeroplane propeller.