UFO Article (Blog): “Major Tiger Joe Thompson, WW II UFO Witness”

2 August 2019

(The Saucers That Time Forgot, U.S.A.)

Curt Collins writes about the 1944 UFO sighting of U.S. Army Air Forces/Corps P-51 Mustang pilot Joe Thompson, Jr. (1919 - 2012) and his UFO lecturing work.

Thompson, Jr. was a WWII photo reconnaissance pilot.

Collins also presents several news articles.

Quote from the 30 October 1966 The Nashville Tennessean Magazine article, “Joe Thompson and the Foo-Fighters”:

“He and his wing man were on a mission over the Rhine Valley, photographing German troop movements, when he saw them.

‘We had made some pictures, and I was looking ahead to our next photo target,’ Thompson recalls, ‘when my wing man broke radio silence and said, ‘Bogeys at 9 o'clock!’ ’

(A bogey, in air force parlance, is an unidentified flying object — UFO — which could turn out to be either friendly or hostile.)

‘Off my wing, a little below us, in the direction of Cologne, I saw four or five objects that looked like silvery footballs,’ he says.

‘They didn’t seem to be moving. but they must have been, for they stayed even with us.

‘It flashed through my mind that they were something the Germans had put up there.”

https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2019/08/major-tiger-joe-thompson-ww-ii-ufo.html

“VETERANS HISTORY PROJECT: Joe Thompson, Jr.”

(Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.)

https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp-stories/loc.natlib.afc2001001.09437/

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Nashville’s Joe Thompson in the cockpit of a

photo reconnaissance plane in World War II

(text by The Nashville Tennessean)
(The Nashville Tennessean Magazine/project1947.com photo)

Satellite photo of Cologne (Köln), Germany (tageo.com)

(tageo.com photo)