One of the best fighter planes:the YAK
 

Welcome to our Yak ARchive. Have fun browsing!

 

(Browse for more articles)

 

World War II Foo Fighters

In the 1938 comic strip Smokey Stover, a baffled pilots attempted to intercept,
firefighter was known for his line, and even fire upon the globes, their
"Where there's foo, there's fire." From efforts were unsuccessful, and the
Smokey, aircraft pilots borrowed the term objects usually zoomed away of their own
"foo fire" to describe the various accord.
unexplainable phenomenon seen in the Foo fighters were mentioned in the
skies over Europe and the Pacific theatre American mass media. Ponderous articles
during World War II. While Allied pilots appeared in Time and Newsweek in 1945,
initially thought the flying objects were contributing to the wave of UFO
German secret or psychological weapons, consciousness building in the US. By 1952
after the war it was discovered that so many civilians were contacting
sightings were also reported by the government agencies regarding UFO reports
enemy, who had assumed the crafts were that regular intelligence work was being
US-made. To this day, the sightings affected.
remain a mystery. While scientists have never been able to
Over the course of the war, fireballs, explain the phenomenon, many speculations
estimated to be as big as 300 feet and as have been advanced as possibilities. Five
small as 1 foot in diameter, were of the most plausible theories are:
reported and thoroughly documented. These 1. The fireballs may be nothing more than
apparitions left witnesses awe-inspired, St. Elmo's Fire, a reddish brush-like
wary, and frightened-although the foo discharge of atmospheric electricity
fighters never harmed or attempted to which has often been seen near the tips
harm anyone. The CIA was commissioned in of church steeples, ships' masts and
1952 to study the reports and concluded yardarms. It also appears at a plane's
that while mysterious, foo fighters were wing tips.
not a considered a threat to national 2. They may have been optical illusions,
security. mere after-images of light remaining in
A Foo fighter is an umbrella term that pilots' eyes after being dazzled by flak
includes flying objects of various shapes bursts.
and sizes. Wobbling, or vibrating flares 3. Occurrences may have been the rare
were described as glowing globes of effect of "ball lightning," a glowing,
intense green, yellow, red, orange, or drifting bubble of light typically eight
white lights. One crew even reported inches in diameter. These generally,
observing the phosphorescent spheres though not always, follow regular
going through a sequence of color changes lightning strikes.
at regular intervals. Other reports 4. Bright ground objects reflected from
describe them as silver or gold metallic, the curved plastic canopy of an aircraft
and disk-shaped. They frequently appeared can be perceived as images above the
at the wing tips of planes in pairs or horizon.
alone, although sometimes they were found 5. Proponents of the extraterrestrial
in larger clusters of fifteen or more. In hypothesis (ETH) have suggested that foo
one report 150 objects were estimated to fighters are hard evidence of ETs
be arranged in 10-12 lines. Picking up an visiting earth.
aircraft, these blobs of fire could Foo fighters are certainly some of the
reportedly pace a plane at very high best documented reports of UFOs, and
speeds through extensive evasive photographs and respected testimony
maneuvers for several minutes. One abound. Hopefully in time the mystery
British officer and his crew of sailors will be solved, and this comic book name
tracked an object from the deck of their will be replaced by its true name.
vessel for over an hour. Although a few




www.yak-54.com keyword stats [2008-03-24-2008-03-24]



Daily top traffic source : MSN
Historical MSN keyword trend


Most current MSN search phrases:

russian planes for fs 2004 Ultralight Aircraft Sale
FSX DOWNLOAD AIRPLANES fsx airplanes
world war II fighter airplanes Used Ultralight Aircraft Sale
Download Aircraft For Fs X freeairplane games
fs2004 spitfire addons fsx
aircraft hangers for sale Free Flight Sim Aircraft Download
cargos military planes for fs 2004 experimental airplanes for fs 2004
Private Planes For Sale ultralight planes
WW 1 AIRPLANES avionics
rc ww2 fighter planes yak airplane


Daily top traffic source : Yahoo
Most current Yahoo search phrases:

flight sim x "aircraft installer" free yakolev
yak-54


Other search engines trends:



Other search phrases:

flight simulator 2004 aircraft list securing a uae health card
Government Auctions US Marshalls japanese world war 2 planes
passenger planes for sale vehicle
download aircrafts FS X FLIGHT SIM 4 PAPER PLANE
"ww2 aircraft" sale iPod Nano delete songs
world war ii war planes airplanes in world war ii
flight sim x paper plane putin
world war two fighter aircraft YAK-7
extra aircraft for sale Flight Sim X airforce one
plane take off video ultralight airplane engine
secret japanese aircraft of world war luxury jet airoplanes for sale
ultra light aircraft for sale FREE AIRPLANES FS
Navy Ships for sale pictures of planes taking off
model airplane simulators





1- A- 2- 3- 4- 5- 6- 7- 8- 9- 10- 11- 12- 13- 14- 15- 16- 17- 18- 19- 20- 21- 22- 23- 24- 25- 26- 27- 28- 29- 30- 31- 32- 33- 34- 35- 36- 37- 38- 39- 40- 41- 42- 43- 44- 45- 46- 47- 48- 49- 50- 51- 52- 53- 54- 55-