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The South Pacific, in September 1945 or in 1946:

Case number:

ACUFO-1945-09-00-SOUTHPACIFIC-1

Summary:

In 2013 or a bit earlier, and still in 2024, there is an entry about the “Foo Fighters” in the English version of the Wikipedia collaborative online encyclopedia.

Only a few cases are presented; not the most known, not the most relevant. One of them is told this was, without any source reference:

“Career U.S. Air Force pilot Duane Adams often related that he had witnessed two occurrences of a bright light which paced his aircraft for about half an hour and then rapidly ascended into the sky. Both incidents occurred at night, both over the South Pacific, and both were witnessed by the entire aircraft crew. The first sighting occurred shortly after the end of World War II while Adams piloted a B-25 bomber. The second sighting occurred in the early 1960s when Adams was piloting a KC-135 tanker. (citation needed)”

Many Websites simply copied this, generally not mentioning they took it from Wikipedia; but there seems to be no other, more detailed information on this alleged case.

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Sources:

[Ref. wia1:] "WIKIPEDIA EN":

[Ref. mmj1:] "MUFON MINNESOTA JOURNAL":

[Ref. jah1:] JAN ALDRICH:

[Ref. dhc1:] DAVID HATCHER CHILDRESS:

This author published the Wikipedia [wia1] text, exactly.

Aircraft information:

The North American B-25 “Mitchell” (photo below) was a high-performance medium bomber, used during WWII in Europe and the Pacific by the U.S. Army Air Forces.

Its crew was normally 8 men, its range was 2,170 km, its defensive armament was, depending on the versions, from 2 to 18 12.7 mm caliber machine guns.

Discussion:

This Wikipedia information seems fishy. There are dozens of copies of the Wikipedia text on other Websites, including sensation Websites about UFOs, without any source of additional details. But I found nothing in the serious UFO literature.

The only member of the U.S. Army Air Forces of U.S. Air Force I found so far with the name Duane Adams was a Lieutenant, of the Air Force Weapons Laboratory, WLRB-1, at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, in 1964, and later DARPA Deputy Director. But he died in 2020 so he cannot be the witness of this case.

May 15, 2026: still trying to identify, verify, "Duane Adams", on the Internet, I found a Duane Alfred Adams (1923 - 2010), but he was a B-17 pilot, flying 35 missions over Germany in World War II, not a B-25 bomber pilot in the South Pacific. I found a few other "Duane Adams" who piloted, but none would fit the circumstances of this alleged sighting report. Of course this does not mean the alleged witness did not exist.

Evaluation:

Probable Wikipedia contributor invention.

Sources references:

* = Source is available to me.
? = Source I am told about but could not get so far. Help needed.

• [wia1] * "Foo fighter", entry of the online collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia, EN version, first seen in 2013, as of 2024, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_fighter
• [mmj1] * Ufology bulletin MUFON Minnesota Journal, Mutual UFO Network of Minnesota, USA, No. 164, page 9, November - December 2013.
• [jah1] * Message by US ufologist Jan Aldrich, November 9, 2013.
• [dhc1] * "The Anti-Gravity Files - A Compilation of Patents and Reports", book by David Hatcher Childress, Adventures Unlimited Press publishers, USA, 2017.

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