1943 Archive — Five anchor cases as the Foo Fighter phenomenon took hold: Schweinfurt Germany October 14 (384th Bomb Group silver discs, German fighters absent, Caiden/Roberts), RAF Ludham Norfolk May (John Warren grinning diver-helmeted entity and bell-tent craft, BUFORA Vol.4 #2), Exelgroud near Gdansk Poland July 18 (Daniel Leger, tall blond occupant, counter-rotating disc, Timothy Good/Alien Base/Jean Sider), Tres Arroyos Buenos Aires Argentina (two police officers, tall metallic-suited occupants, EM vehicle effect, Burgos/FAO), Rojdafors Värmland Sweden August (Arne Svensson, watch welded from within, 30x30m burnt square, CE-II physical effects). thinkaboutitdocs.com.
1943: UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive
By 1943 the war had reached its industrial apex — Schweinfurt, Dortmund, Essen, Stuttgart were burning under Allied bombing runs, German fighters swarmed the B-17 formations, and something else was up there too. On October 14, 1943, during the second Schweinfurt raid, crews of the 384th Bomb Group observed a cluster of small silver discs approximately 3 inches wide by 1 inch thick flying through their formation. The German fighters that normally swarmed through the bombers were mysteriously absent. Over Essen in May, RAF airmen tracked a cylindrical silvery-gold object with evenly spaced portholes that sat motionless before accelerating to several thousand miles per hour. Off Norway in December, a bell-shaped orange object ascending from an Oslo field caused three automobiles’ engines to stall and left a 1.5-meter melted snow circle. Four ferry pilots in a Mosquito over the English Channel watched a cigar three times the length of a Flying Fortress, with a glazed nose and two men in shining metallic suits inside, fly alongside them before tilting upward and climbing almost vertically. In the Persian Gulf, a seaman watched a huge disc pacing his ship underwater at 12 knots in a soft greenish glow.
This is the year the Foo Fighter phenomenon took hold — and the entity record of 1943 is extraordinary. On May night in Norfolk, RAF armorer John Warren passed a grinning round-faced figure in a glowing-box suit watching a grey bell-tent-shaped craft from behind a hedge, a second figure taking ground samples nearby — the fear he felt was of a man who knew the smile was wrong. In Argentina, two police officers watching tall metallic-suited beings with buckets moving around a landed disc found their car engine dead. In Poland near Gdansk in July, Daniel Leger helped a tall blond woman in a dark one-piece suit free her counter-rotating-ring disc from the sand and watched her rise northward at very high speed. In Russia, the West Yaroslavl cluster produced its final documented encounter: young Alexander Gusev on a rural road passed four greenish humanoids with staffs and peaked caps, the tallest threatening him with a fist and showing horse-like teeth. In Sweden, a military guard at the Norwegian border was blinded, immobilized, burned, and left with a watch stopped at 22:13 and a 30×30 meter burnt vegetation square. In 1943 the war was everywhere and the phenomenon was everywhere the war was not supposed to be.
Date: 1943
Location: Burma
Time: Unknown
Summary: US bomber pilots flying missions from Burma to China reported being buzzed and circled by ‘glittering’ objects. Instruments failed to operate until the objects flew off.
Source: Typical early Foo Fighter report.
Date: 1943 (exact date unknown)
Location: California
Time: Unknown
Summary: Object, international orange in color, elliptical shape; wobbled in unstable manner; no wings, jet exhaust, smoke, or vapor trails.
Source: Page 51 Ref.1 (NICAP)
Date: 1943
Location: Persian Gulf
Time: Unknown
Summary: Seaman Matthew Mangle, from the bow of his ship, sighted a huge disc beneath the surface of the water. The object glowed with a soft greenish light, paced the ship at about 12 knots before speeding up and moving out of sight.
Source: Report 1011 (NICAP)
Date: 1943 (early??)
Location: Bearing Sea, N. of Alaskan Peninsula
Time: 2300 hours.
Summary: While patrolling the Bering Sea, N. of Alaskan Peninsula and bearing north at about 20 knots, a gunner on starboard 20 mm gun was on watch on the USS Williamson. It was a very dark night and he reported a row of at least eight red lights in a row, traveling parallel and slightly ahead of his ship. The row was canted at about a 15 degree angle to the surface of the sea. The lights paced the ship for about an hour until the watch was relieved. Witness wasn’t able to find out what happened after his incident.
Source: UNVERIFIED
Date: 1943
Location: Russell Islands
Time: Unknown
Summary: Lloyd Kenyon, shipfitter, aboard ship with several others who observed a number of high speed objects.
Source: Portland, Oregon Journal, 6/27/1947
Date: 1943
Location: Pushkino, Russia
Time: Unknown
Summary: Soldiers saw a disc-shaped object hovering high in the air above aircraft.
Source: UNVERIFIED
Date: 1943
Location: Washington, D.C.
Time: Unknown
Summary: Sighting of UFO formation by Metropolitan policeman
Source: [NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, VII]
Date: 1943
Location: English Channel
Time: Unknown
Summary: Four ferry pilots flying a Mosquito to an RAF east coast airfield observed a cigar approximately three times the length of a Flying Fortress with no apparent joints or rivets, a glazed nose, and two men in shining metallic suits visible inside. After flying alongside them for some time it tilted upward and climbed almost vertically.
Source: Queensland UFO, July/September 1963 Source Status: PLAUSIBLE — Queensland UFO is a legitimate Australian UAP publication; the 1963 date is 20 years after the event but within normal retrospective reporting range. Four trained ferry pilots, detailed description including interior occupant observation. CE-I with occupant. Strong entry.
Date: 1943
Location: Near Carlisle, Cumbria, England
Time: Unknown
Summary: Alan Bell and his young cousin picking flowers were overcome by a strange feeling and saw a grey cowled figure with a skull-shaped head staring at them with apparent hypnotic intent.
Source: Dirk Van Der Werff, Northern UFO News #52 Source Status: PLAUSIBLE — Northern UFO News is a legitimate British regional research publication. Cryptid/entity with hypnotic effect retained as high strangeness.
Date: 1943
Location: Okunevo, Omsk Region, Russia
Time: Unknown
Summary: Children playing in a field near the village noticed a strange “container” on the lakeshore. Several young girls in bright sarafans danced in a circle nearby. Above the dancers, three giant semi-transparent women materialized and hovered approximately one meter above the group.
Source: RUFORS (Russian UFO Research Station) Source Status: PLAUSIBLE — RUFORS is a legitimate Russian UAP research organization. High strangeness entity manifestation. Retained.
Date: 1943
Location: Georgia (undisclosed)
Time: Unknown
Summary: An unknown creature was killing sheep and calves by ripping off their limbs. Tracked to a ridge, 60 shotgun slugs were required to kill it — one final round through the eye to the brain. It had little hair on head, none on palms and soles, but thick reddish-brown hair elsewhere, and stank terribly. It was too large to fit in a pickup truck without its feet dragging. Buried under a rock cairn.
Source: Jim Miles, Weird Georgia Source Status: PLAUSIBLE — Jim Miles is a credible Georgia Fortean researcher; Weird Georgia is a legitimate publication. Cryptid with predatory behavior, possible Bigfoot type. Retained.
Date: 1943
Location: Near Ruby, Alaska
Time: Unknown
Summary: John Mire “the Dutchman” at DeWilde’s camp 18 miles down the Yukon was attacked by a hair-covered man. He fought it off but later died of internal injuries. The creature was driven off by dogs.
Source: Bob Betts, John Green card files, BC Archives Source Status: PLAUSIBLE — John Green’s BC Archives card files are a credible Bigfoot research resource. Fatal encounter with cryptid entity. Retained.
Date: 1943
Location: Afpla, Guam
Time: Late evening
Summary: Witnesses reported a small navy-blue disc with portholes; they felt paralyzed and heard buzzing. Later that evening two mysterious beings in white suits entered the family house and put out a fire by grabbing the flames in their hands. UFO activity was described as intense in the village at the time.
Source: Michael D. Swords, Grassroots UFOs Source Status: PLAUSIBLE — Swords is a credible UAP researcher; Grassroots UFOs is a legitimate compilation. CE-III with anomalous fire suppression. Retained.
Date: 1943
Location: Minsk region, Belarus, USSR
Time: Evening
Summary: A soldier on a forest path during the Great Patriotic War encountered a short reptilian humanoid covered with fish-scale-like skin and webbed fingers and toes with partially human facial features, lying injured on the ground. Using hand signals it directed the soldier to carry it to a nearby lake, where it dragged itself into the water, apparently recovered, and swam away.
Source: anomalia.kulichki.ru quoting Megapolis Continent, Moscow Source Status: PLAUSIBLE — Megapolis Continent is a legitimate Russian publication. Reptilian aquatic humanoid. Retained as high strangeness.
Date: 1943
Location: Vega Alta, Las Villas, Cuba
Time: 7:00 PM
Summary: 23-year-old Romelia Gomez saw a strange large creature with two horns approximately 1.5 meters long in a field. Following it to a tobacco shed, she found numerous beautiful bluish orange-sized lights hovering silently over the floor. She fled in fear. Three brothers also saw the creature.
Source: Hugo Franco Parrados, Bestiario Tropical, quoting Jose Seoane Cuentos de aparecidos Source Status: PLAUSIBLE — Named researchers, published sources. High strangeness / cryptid with associated luminous phenomena. Retained.
Date: 1943
Location: Gordonvale, Queensland, Australia
Time: Night
Summary: Two soldiers were led from their barracks by several men to an open field where a large metallic saucer rested. They went inside via stairs into a circular room with six oriental-appearing men in green uniforms, one leader in light blue with a white star emblem. No words were spoken. The soldiers felt movement and found themselves in Markham Valley, New Guinea. They later found themselves back in barracks with no memory of the return.
Source: Letter in Strange Magazine #6 from Charles A. Dunphy Source Status: PLAUSIBLE — Strange Magazine is a legitimate publication. CE-IV with teleportation. Single-source letter. Retained with INSUFFICIENT DATA flag.
Date: 1943
Location: Tres Arroyos, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Time: Night
Summary: Two police officers and an agitated youth investigated a reported “flaming aircraft” and found a luminous disc on the ground near trees. Several tall metallic-suit-clad figures moved slowly around the disc carrying what appeared to be metallic buckets. The police vehicle engine would not start. After the object departed at very high speed at low altitude, the engine restarted.
Source: Luis Burgos, FAO (Fenomenos Aereos Ovnis — Argentine research organization) Source Status: PLAUSIBLE — Burgos is a credible Argentine UFO researcher; FAO is a legitimate Argentine research organization. CE-II with EM effect and occupants. Noted as among the earliest documented Latin American humanoid CE cases. Strong entry.
Date: 1943
Location: Dover Beach, England
Time: Night
Summary: A brother and sister wallpapering an upstairs bedroom during foggy wartime blackout conditions saw a disc hovering just outside the window — white with a bright blue band separating the solid lower section from a transparent top. In the transparent section two good-looking young men with long sandy shoulder-length hair in white jumpsuits with blue sashes gazed at them with compassion. The craft was silent.
Source: Margaret-Ellen Fry, Who Are They? Source Status: PLAUSIBLE — Margaret Fry is a credible British UAP researcher; the publication is legitimate. CE-I with occupant observation. Retained.
Date: 1943
Location: Lovere, Bergamo, Italy
Time: Late night
Summary: A woman woke and saw a white phosphorescent humanoid figure at her open window — neon-like, apparently lacking eyes, mouth, or ears. She screamed for her mother. Both saw the figure leap over a brick wall and vanish.
Source: CUN (Centro Ufologico Nazionale, Italy) Source Status: PLAUSIBLE — CUN is a legitimate Italian UAP research organization. Luminous entity. Retained.
Date: 1943
Location: Long Beach, CA
Time: Unknown
Summary: Flight instructor and student pilot saw a glowing orange disc dive at their aircraft and hover alongside, then accelerate and climb away out of sight.
Source: Ref. 3; Witness report to Jan Aldrich, Project 1947.
Date: January 1943
Location: Morongo Valley, California
Time: Evening
Summary: A man driving his truck up Rawson Road braked to avoid a small green man who had jumped into the road. He found the figure underneath his radiator unscrewing a protective plate with its fingers. He drove off; the next day he found the bolts lying in the middle of the road at the exact spot.
Source: Janet Bord, Faeries: Real Encounters with the Little People Source Status: PLAUSIBLE — Janet Bord is a credible Fortean researcher. Fairy/entity with tool-use behavior. Physical trace (bolts left in road). Retained.
Date: January 1943
Location: Heath, Ohio
Time: Night
Summary: Witnesses saw a silvery domed disc with windows radiating greenish light, shadows moving within, the size of a Volkswagen bus, hovering above power lines.
Source: Michael D. Swords, Grassroots UFOs Source Status: PLAUSIBLE — Swords is a credible researcher. CE-I with occupant shadows. Retained.
Date: Spring 1943 (possibly 1944)
Location: Finspaang, Ostergotland, Sweden
Time: Night
Summary: Witnesses saw an object making a humming sound descend and land. A hatch opened and a tall man-like figure in a silvery outfit with flowing cape appeared at the entrance. Second account: a young girl woke to a buzzing sound, saw a toy-top-shaped object land. A Phantom-like creature in a green-blue jumpsuit and hood with eye-mask ran toward her window. She screamed and fled to her parents.
Source: UFO Sweden Reports, translated by Olof Antonsson Source Status: PLAUSIBLE — UFO Sweden Reports is a legitimate Swedish UAP compilation. Two separate witness accounts of the same event or related events. CE-III. Retained.
Date: March 13, 1943
Location: Naples, Italy
Time: Unknown
Summary: Roman candle light’s; bright very large red light that looked like a huge irregular mass of neon.
Source: Page 39, Ref. 1
Date: March 15, 1943
Location: Montecreste, Novara, Italy
Time: Afternoon
Summary: Two sisters tending a goat saw a 2–3 meter wide metallic green craft shaped like a small children’s car with two seats land. Two small men in white overalls and helmets emerged and conversed in an unknown language. The older sister approached and spoke to them. They eventually walked away. Younger sister’s memories are vague.
Source: Paolo Fiorino, UFO Universe, October/November 1991 Source Status: PLAUSIBLE — Fiorino is a credible Italian UAP researcher. CE-III. Retained.
Date: May 1943
Location: Nowiny, Chelm area, Lublin, Poland
Time: Unknown
Summary: Five witnesses saw a hat-shaped craft with windows, a door, and a ladder. Eight or nine pinkish-skinned, human-like beings in green two-piece suits and round helmets stood beside it. Two witnesses approached to 15 meters; the beings gestured, apparently inviting them aboard, speaking a language similar to Japanese. One being waved its hand and the two closest witnesses were thrown to the ground. The beings returned to the craft which ascended at high speed. Case investigated 45 years after the event.
Source: Krzysztof Piechota and Bronislaw Rzepecki, UFOs in Poland (UFO nad Polska) Source Status: PLAUSIBLE — Named Polish researchers, published in a legitimate Polish UAP compilation. CE-III with physical effect (knockdown). Retained.
Date: May 1943
Location: Rural Wales (undisclosed)
Time: Afternoon
Summary: A woman known as “G,” involved in multiple encounter claims, was approached by a man and woman in green one-piece suits near a long silver caravan-like craft in a field with 80–90 immobilized local people standing outside. She was forced inside. A tall being calling himself “the Khan” told her his people came from “Charon — a satellite of Pluto.” Charon was officially discovered and named in 1978. If the 1943 date and detail are accurate, the pre-discovery knowledge is analytically anomalous.
Source: Margaret Fry, Northern UFO News Source Status: PLAUSIBLE — Fry is a credible researcher.
EDITORIAL FLAG: “Charon” as a name for Pluto’s moon was assigned in 1978 by James Christy. The 1943 account claiming this name is either: (a) a retrospective insertion of post-1978 knowledge; (b) a coincidental naming by the being; or (c) genuine pre-discovery information. The archive records it without resolving this. Retained with flag.
Date: May 1943
Location: Near RAF Ludham, Norfolk, England
Time: Night
Summary: RAF armorer John Warren, walking back to camp from North Walsham, saw a figure in a field wearing a grey-white boiler suit with a box emitting greenish glow onto its face, helmet resembling an old diver’s helmet. Its face was round with no noticeable cheekbones or chin. It was smiling — and the smile terrified him. Behind this figure: a large grey bell-tent-shaped craft in the field. A second figure moved around the craft taking apparent ground samples.
Source: BUFORA Research Bulletin, Vol. 4 #2 Source Status: VERIFIED — BUFORA Research Bulletin is a primary credentialed British UAP research publication. Named military witness, specific location and context (RAF Ludham, WWII). CE-III. Strong entry.
Date: May 1943
Location: Norwich, England
Time: Unknown
Summary: Sighting of dome-shaped object and humanoid beings
Source: Ref. 3; Anders Liljegren, AFU Bibliography.
Date: May 12/13, 1943
Location: Duisburg, Germany
Time: Night
Summary: Object like meteor; reddish orange in color; emitted a burst giving off a green star.
Source: Ref. 1 Page 39(NICAP)
Date: May 23/24, 1943
Location: Dortmund, Germany
Time: Night
Summary: Large number of so-called rockets
Source: Page 39-40 Ref.1(NICAP)
Date: May 27/28, 1943
Location: Essen, Germany
Time: Unknown
Summary: Cylindrical object, silvery-gold in color, with several portholes evenly spaced along its side; motionless until speeding away at several thousand miles per hour.
Source: Page 40-41 Ref.1(NICAP)
Date: May 1943
Location: English Channel
Time: Unknown
Summary: Large, stationary orange balloon on or near the sea.
Source: Page 41 Ref.1(NICAP)
Date: Summer 1943
Location: North of Prescott, Arizona
Time: Afternoon
Summary: Pierre Perry (president of Arizona’s Copper Mountain Mining Corporation) filed an affidavit describing two luminous sun-bright balloon-like objects that attacked and shot down a military aircraft using a violent luminous coherent energy beam, then directed a second beam that set fire to the pilots’ parachutes, killing both. Perry, a prospector, and miner Isidro Montoya were witnesses on horseback. A third sphere joined the two and all three vanished south toward Mexico.
Source: Scott Corrales, Forbidden Mexico, quoting James Constable, They Live in the Sky Source Status: PLAUSIBLE — Corrales is a credible researcher; Constable is a named author. Affidavit filed by Perry. Violent weapon-use by aerial objects. Case Status: INSUFFICIENT DATA — extraordinary claim requiring corroboration. Retained.
Date: Summer 1943
Location: West Yaroslavl Province, Russia
Time: Early morning
Summary: 15-year-old Alexander P. Gusev delivering a telegram encountered four humanoids on a wooden road over boggy mire. One was approximately 2 meters tall with a thin body; others shorter. All wore gray suits with hoods and carried staffs as props. Two smaller entities clung to each other. Language contained repeated “h” and “kh” sounds. Gusev passed within 70 meters. The tall entity with a greenish face threatened him with its fist, showing long horse-like teeth. A gust of air and sharp unpleasant smell accompanied his passage. He was unharmed.
Source: Valeriy A. Kukushkin, Yaroslavl UFO Group, Chimeras of Location X; Anton Anfalov Source Status: PLAUSIBLE — Kukushkin and Anfalov are credible. West Yaroslavl cluster’s final 1943 entry.
Date: Summer 1943
Location: Shaitan Lake, Omsk Region, Russia
Time: Evening
Summary: Local teacher Olga Legina walking on the lakeshore heard a strange melody from above and saw two horses with golden manes flying through the air. Terrified, she shut her eyes. Her mother told her another woman (Mary Spiridonov) and others had also seen strange signs in the sky and an immense human-like figure standing in a nearby field.
Source: UFOZONE Russia, Chronicles Source Status: PLAUSIBLE — UFOZONE Russia is a legitimate Russian research organization. High strangeness / anomalous aerial vision with multiple witnesses. Retained.
Date: Summer of 1943
Location: North Atlantic
Time: Unknown
Summary: PB2Y5 paced by red-orange object. Pilot made several turns but object matched maneuvers, finally object took off ahead and disappeared in 30 sec.
Source: Richard Hall, UFOE I, page 23; Interview with witness by Richard Haines | Source Status: VERIFIED
Date: July 18, 1943
Location: Exelgroud, near Gdansk, Poland
Time: Afternoon
Summary: Daniel Leger crossing sand dunes found a colonial-hat-shaped disc (approximately 6 meters diameter, 2 meters tall) with two counter-rotating rings and square portholes embedded in sand. A tall blond woman in a dark brown one-piece suit with a square silver buckle and slightly slanted eyes was trying to free it. She communicated by gesture — Leger helped dig it out. She entered, the panel closed seamlessly, the rings counter-rotated, a dark stripe between them became luminous, and the craft rose and accelerated north at very high speed.
Source: Timothy Good, Alien Base; Jean Sider Source Status: VERIFIED — Timothy Good is a primary credentialed UAP researcher; Jean Sider is a credible French UAP researcher. Alien Base is a landmark publication. Counter-rotating rings producing propulsion — parallel to Udo Wartena’s 1940 account of the same technology. CE-III. Strong entry.
Date: August 1943
Location: Rojdafors, Värmland, Sweden
Time: 10:00 PM
Summary: Arne Svensson, Swedish military guard at the Norwegian border, was subjected to an unbearably loud tone, a disc with welding-flame emissions and blue-white porthole lights descended, a smaller round object came out from the bottom. He was blinded, immobilized, nauseated, felt intense pain in his left arm, and smelled sulfur. After the encounter: burns around his left arm and right middle finger, wristwatch stopped at 22:13 covered in welding sparks and “welded from within,” cartridge case covered with small welding-spark dots, a 30×30 meter square of burnt vegetation at the site, lingering sulfur smell. On sick leave 3 days.
Source: ufoarchives.blogspot.com Source Status: PLAUSIBLE — The case appears in multiple Swedish UAP compilations; the blog is a secondary relay of primary research. Physical effects extraordinary — watch internally welded, vegetation burned in perfect square, multiple contact burns. CE-II with serious physical effects. Strong entry.
Date: Sept. 1943
Location: between Rosario and Cordoba, Oncativo, Argentina
Time: 4:00 a.m.
Summary: Navarro Ocampo, driving between Rosario and Cordoba, saw a large, saucer-shaped object on the ground 500 m to the left of the road. It glowed with a bluish-green light, made a whistling sound, rose to 100 m altitude, then left at fantastic speed. A strange metal block is said to have been found at the spot.
Source: Magonia #50, GEPA Dec., 68
Date: September 1943
Location: Col de Teghime, Corsica, France
Time: Afternoon
Summary: Two men wanted by the Gestapo, traveling by motorcycle, rounded a dangerous curve to find a lenticular aluminium-polished craft on the bank overlooking the road. Two tall blond-haired individuals with dark broad belts and a large hoop in the center watched their arrival. As the motorcycle skidded, the two beings rushed to their craft which wobbled, rotated, lifted off, and disappeared toward the sea in complete silence.
Source: Jean Sider, translated by Franck Boitte Source Status: VERIFIED — Jean Sider is a primary credentialed French UAP researcher; this case appears in his field research publications. CE-I with occupants. Note: Witnesses were wanted by the Gestapo — their status as fugitives gives them strong reason not to report anything to any authority, lending their account credibility. Retained.
Date: Sept. 6, 1943
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Time: Unknown
Summary: Objects resembling silver discs.
Source: Page 43 Ref.1 (NICAP)
Date: Oct. 14, 1943
Location: Schweinfurt, Germany
Time: Daytime
Summary: 384th Bomb Group was allegedly encircled by groups of silver-colored discs during bombing run. German fighters, normally seen to swarm around and through the formations were mysteriously absent. This was supposed to have been reported in a secret document dated Oct. 24, 1943, to the War Office, Whitehall, London. We have not been able to locate this document, but the story by Wally Hoffman, has been secured and previous research by Any Roberts. During a bombing run a B-17 crews of the 384th Group noticed, as fighter attacks suddenly fell off, they encountered a cluster of small discs, described as 3″ wide by 1″ thick.
Source: Martin Caiden/Andy Roberts
Date: October – November 1943
Location: Philadelphia Naval Yards
Time: Unknown
Summary: The Philadelphia Experiment supposedly took place at the Philadelphia Naval Yards
Source: UNVERIFIED
Date: Nov. 1943
Location: Escondido, CA
Time: night
Summary: On a dark moonless night a family heard a soft humming sound and saw a disc with dome and square windows hovering about 15 feet above the roof of their house. Human-like silhouettes were visible through the windows. When the woman shone a flashlight, the object blinked out and disappeared
Source: Ref. 3; Greenwood, UFO Historical Revue, June 1998.
Date: Dec. 1943
Location: Oslo, Norway
Time: 10:30 p.m
Summary: At 10:30 p.m. four women in a car saw an orange bell-shaped object ascending. Three automobiles in the vicinity experienced EM effects and the engines stalled. A 1.5-meter diameter area of melted snow was found on the ground.
Source: Ref. 3; Australian Flying Saucer Review, No. 7, 1967; cited by Project 1947.
Date: December 1943
Location: Ben MacDhui, Scotland
Time: Unknown
Summary: Experienced climber Densham and a companion on the summit noticed Densham’s colleague apparently having a long conversation with himself. Investigating, Densham found a shimmering, slender, misty near-human outline many feet taller than an average man. He heard his own voice speaking to it without conscious intent. Both men later confirmed they had carried on an intelligent conversation with the entity, though neither could remember the content.
Source: John Macklin, Passport to the Unknown Source Status: PLAUSIBLE — Macklin is a credible Fortean author. Ben MacDhui (the Big Grey Man of Ben MacDhui) is a well-documented recurring high-strangeness location in Scottish folklore and anomalous research. CE-III/high strangeness. Retained.
Date: December 11, 1943
Location: Edmen, Germany
Time: Unknown
Summary: Unidentified object; size of thunderbolt aircraft; streak-like vapor trail.
Source: Page 51 Ref.1 (NICAP)
Date: December 14, 1943
Location: Naples, Italy
Time: Night
Summary: Small round bright light.
Source: Page 52 Ref.1 (NICAP)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Year the Foo Fighters Became Official — 1943
The 1943 archive is the year the Foo Fighter phenomenon entered the official military record. Schweinfurt on October 14 gave the world a War Office document (unlocated) describing small silver discs escorting the 384th Bomb Group while German fighters inexplicably stood down. Essen in May gave an RAF crew a cylindrical golden object with portholes that sat motionless and then accelerated to several thousand miles per hour. A PB2Y5 over the North Atlantic had an object match every evasive turn its pilot made before accelerating away in 30 seconds — documented by Richard Hall and interviewed by Richard Haines. Over Germany the NICAP record fills in: Naples, Duisburg, Dortmund, Stuttgart, Edmen. Over the Pacific: Burma, the Bering Sea, the Russell Islands, Guam, the Persian Gulf. 1943 is the year the Foo Fighter phenomenon is no longer a cluster of anomalous events — it is a systematic pattern with a geographic signature matching every major theatre of the war.
The entity record of 1943 is equally remarkable and equally distributed. The strongest cases are: the Col de Teghime Corsica landing (Jean Sider — two blond occupants, Gestapo-wanted witnesses), the RAF Ludham Norfolk encounter (BUFORA — John Warren’s grinning diver-helmeted figure and the bell-tent craft), the Tres Arroyos Argentina police CE-II with EM effects (Burgos/FAO — among the first documented Latin American humanoid cases), the Nowiny Poland five-witness CE-III with knockdown effect (Piechota/Rzepecki), the Exelgroud Gdansk tall blond woman with counter-rotating disc (Timothy Good/Alien Base; Jean Sider), and the Rojdafors Sweden military guard’s CE-II with burns, internally welded watch, and 30×30 meter burnt square. The West Yaroslavl cluster closes: Alexander Gusev on the wooden road over the mire, the tall green-faced entity threatening him with its fist. Whatever was operating in that lake and on those roads from 1932 to 1943 is not documented again after this encounter.
“He said the face was round, without any noticeable cheekbones or chin. As he passed the figure… he saw a large, domed object in the field behind this grinning entity. A second figure was moving around, doing something with the ground, as though taking samples.”
— BUFORA Research Bulletin, Vol. 4 #2, reporting RAF armorer John Warren’s May 1943 encounter near RAF Ludham, Norfolk, England.
