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Mark T. B. Carroll ([personal profile] mtbc) wrote2017-09-24 05:57 pm

Foo fighters

On yesterday evening BBC television showed the band Foo Fighters performing in London and I got to thinking about the original foo fighters: lights seeming to exhibit fast movement and direction changes, named before the term flying saucer was coined, though I am not aware that foo fighters' shape was discerned. Nonetheless, they were seen by many wartime pilots from countries on both sides of WWII.

I had been expecting to now be able to search the web and find some reasonably widely accepted explanation for these lights. With the Bermuda Triangle we have a theory about methane release from the ocean floor making the seawater less dense and so on. However, even an article last year in Air & Space Magazine does not give the impression that anything convincing was ever figured out about foo fighters though some ideas were circulated. I wonder what caused them to be seen.