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10 Mysterious UFOs Seen by WWII Airmen

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Nicholas Veronico, an author who has written
several books on military aviation history, says
that explanation comes up short.

“The V-2 rocket doesn’t have the
maneuverability,” he says. “It couldn’t turn on a
dime and change its acceleration pattern. Once it
started burning, it burned and produced thrust at
one rating.”

Nothing in Nazi Germany’s military-aviation
arsenal can explain the foo-fighter description,
Veronico says. One airman’s observation from
the time—that the foo fighters follow the
fighters so closely as to seem almost magnetized
to them—is particularly confounding, given that
“there just wasn’t the propulsion or
metallurgical technology that could enable
something like that.” But I think they would’ve capitalized on it by a new light.
this point,” the historian says. “Or weaponized
And yet von Braun’s career after World War II is it.”[] What conclusion is to be drawn?
worth considering. Following the collapse of the
Third Reich, the engineer was recruited to be One’s own military experiences become
part of Operation Paperclip, a clandestine U.S. When Secret Mystery mundane in their day-to-day execution and
military program that spared 1,600 Nazi every job has it’s annoyances, no matter how
scientists prosecution for war crimes, moving Planes Landed At The Air glamorous seeming they may be from the
them instead into the American military, where Bases Where I Was outside. Combat aircraft, for example, are
their past was whitewashed to the public. notoriously high maintenance. Conceivably,
Stationed somewhere out there is an F-22 Raptor pilot who

By 1952, von Braun had reinvented himself as a is frustrated to taxi five minutes late because a
space-flight advocate, writing a piece that year nagging problem on startup required that he call
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in Collier’s magazine declaring that “within the maintenance. It’s those moments in which the
next 10 or 15 years, the earth will have a new greater privilege of being part of our nation’s
companion in the skies, a man-made satellite legacy and heritage of aerial achievement and
that could be either the greatest force for peace Other military personnel share similar advanced technology is lost on the individual.
ever devised, or one of the most terrible experiences that are seemingly brushes with
weapons of war—depending on who makes and black projects; some seemingly factual, but The break in what becomes a mundane routine
controls it.” His prediction proved overly many bordering on myth, and in some cases, comes in experiences like the two I shared in
conservative: The Soviets launched Sputnik 1 utter absurdity. In the complete and absolute this article. They serve as a powerful reminder
only five years later. Von Braun helped the U.S. vacuum of anything seen or heard on either that our nation has the most advanced fighting
Army launch Explorer 1 shortly thereafter. By occasion, personal to myself I can’t even force ever seen in all of human history and that
1960 he was with NASA, where he became the speculate as to what happened or what the force appears to have some wondrous
chief architect on Saturn V—the rocket that sent aircraft involved was. That much is agreed upon capabilities that lay tucked away out of sight.
Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 crew to the by those I shared the experiences with. Some of which we may never truly understand.
moon.
Looking back, I’ve had to relegate those two I am just glad I got to at least be in close
As von Braun recast himself as an American experiences to the unknown with diminished proximity to such a thing, not one, but two times
patriot, his career in the Nazi party shadowed expectations they will ever come back to me in in my military career. []
him, an ambiguous secret that reporters would
playfully poke at. At one press conference
before one Apollo launch, a reporter asked von
Braun to assure the press that the rocket
wouldn’t hit London. But they could never
prove his involvement, and it was only in
1985—several years after von Braun’s death—
that CNN broke news of the full extent of the
aerospace engineer’s Nazi past, more than 40
years after the fact.

Veronico hopes the foo-fighter narrative will
follow a similar trajectory.

“The fantasy is that 100 years after the war, the
U.S. or Soviets will release information about
what they captured, and it’ll blow all our minds.