Of the many never explained observations of unidentified flying objects reported in the twentieth century, the tales of strange, glowing balls of light maneuvering around warplanes over Europe and the Pacific during the Second World War still remain a mystery. When first encountered by Allied fliers, they assumed it was some new type of weapon thrown at them by the Axis war machine despite there being no incidence of one of these objects acting in a hostile manner. Conversely, when the Axis pilots encountered what was to become popularly known as "foo fighters" they too believed them to be machinations of the enemy. To date, no one knows what they were or where they originated.

The first reported sightings began in November of 1944 by Allied airmen during nighttime bombing runs against German factories. Radar operator Donald Meiers of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron gave them the name based on the phrase, "where there's foo, there's fire" in the Bill Holman cartoon strip "Smokey Stover" because the objects first appeared to them as glowing red balls. The objects chased the Allied aircraft and easily followed through a series of high-speed maneuvers.

As the sightings increased, more pilots and airmen described the strange objects as fiery, glowing red, white, or orange. They were disturbed by the lights which they said were "toying" with them. The foo fighters could perform "wild turns before simply vanishing." Often the objects would fly in formation with the Allied bombers and acted and reacted as though intelligently controlled. While never offering hostile behavior, all attempts to force the craft were met with failure as they easily outmaneuvered pursuing fighter planes.

Reports of foo fighters quickly began coming in from the Pacific Theater of Operations as well. There were, however, some differences in the look and behavior of some of the unidentified flying objects spotted there. The "ball of fire" appeared more like a glowing, burning sphere and was often seen hovering although they occasionally followed the aircraft. This led to one reported incident where the gunner of a B-29 bomber fired upon a foo fighter that got too close to his aircraft. He reported that he managed to hit the craft that then broke into several pieces that fell to the ground. Being over enemy territory, there was no way to go back and investigate the wreckage.

Scientists and debunkers have tried to explain away the airmens' sightings in a variety of ways. Some claim that the swift moving objects were just electrostatic discharge, "St. Elmo's Fire," without taking into consideration that these experienced fliers were familiar with the electrical phenomena and would have recognized it for what it was were that the case. Some went so far as to say it was just light reflecting off ice crystals. Another ground-based theory was that the airmen were merely seeing the afterimage of flak bursts despite there having been anti-aircraft fire hurled at them long before the winter of 1944.

Even after the War was over, the glowing fireballs known as foo fighters would make occasional appearances chasing after aircraft like dogs after cars. Even when the more recognizably constructed "flying saucer" caught the public imagination and the flying cigars left observers knowing they were seeing a flying machine, the glowing spheres would still turn up and remind us that the mystery of the foo fighter has never been solved.

It is believed by many, and documented by them as well, that the Nazi’s were researching and developing propulsion systems that were Alien in nature during the latter part of WWII. These “flying discs” which they called “foo fighters” were not extraterrestrial in origin, but rather the work of very talented scientists.

A German inventor, Victor Schauberger was assigned the task of finding a way to use his special propulsion system theory to produce flying saucer-shaped machines. The theory was that as air or water was rotated in a twisting oscillation, a build-up of energy would result that had immense power and could cause levitation.

According to Schauberger the machine was built at the Mauhausen concentration camp by prison laborers. The craft made its debut flight on the 19th of February, 1945 where it rose to an altitude of 45,000 feet within a span of only 3 minutes. The prototype got destroyed by the Nazis before the Allies could capture it.

The Nazi project, known as Operation Paperclip, was declassified in 1973. This top secret project saw approximately 126 German scientists imported into America after the war. The CIA (formerly the OSS) cleaned up some evidence and the records because President Harry S. Truman did not wish to allow true Nazi’s into the country; not only were they allowed in, they were put on the payroll. It was either the United States Government placed these scientists on the payroll in order to learn their secrets, or allow the Russians to do so. The operation has gotten so old that now most of the secrets are no longer classified.

Surprising information surfaced after this declassification, such as the fact that the chief scientist involved with the NASA Apollo moon project was one of these former Nazi scientists. The people in charge of damage control and public relations always attest that the scientists were never really Nazi’s, merely scientists forced to work for them.
At the time of this project, the operation was very discreet. The general public might well have been outraged that in only a matter of a few months after the war had ended, these Nazi scientists were being brought into the United States. There is no amount of spin-doctoring that could have made the situation seem okay in the public eye; especially to those Americans who had lost their sons in the war fighting the German soldiers.

So, in all probability, the UFO crash-landing in Roswell, New Mexico could very well have been a secret military experimental aircraft. Given the patriotism and the overall climate of the day, what would the Government prefer they believe? Are the UFOs being covered up, or are the UFOs the cover-up?
We know that as many as three other ships that crashed are alleged to have been recovered in the New Mexican desert between the date of the initial crash and the 1950’s. Aztec, New Mexico has a budding tourism based upon the UFOs that later crashed, including reports of 16 bodies that were found intact; there is even a UFO conference that would rival the Roswell one.