foo fighters  The foo fighters, or ìkraut balls,î as they were also called, were first observed as very small (from a few inches to a few feet in diameter) balls of light that followed and seemingly ìteasedî military fighter and bomber aircraft during the final months of World War II. These miniature-sized UFOs would appear alone, in pairs, or in groups, and seemed at times to be under some kind of remote, intelligent control. They would sometimes emit a steady glow of red, gold, or white light; other times they would blink on and off.
Although it is customary in most UFO literature to associate the foo fighters with the beginning of the ìmodernî phase of the UFO phenomenon in general, there are important differences between these and most other UFO reports. In fact, there are good reasons to believe that the foo-ball mystery is explainable in nonprosaic, albeit earthly, terms.
More reports followed, as the mystery spread to other parts of the world. The foo fighters (a name that was picked up from the Smokey Stover comic strip, wherein it was frequently said that ìwhere thereís foo, thereís fireî.) appeared also on the bombing route to Japan and over the Truk Lagoon in the mid-Pacific. The reports were similar: speeds generally estimated at between two hundred and five hundred miles per hour, orange, red. and white colors. steady or blinking lights, alone or in groups, but not detectable by radar.