UFO News Article: “Joe Thompson and the Foo-Fighters”

30 October 1966

(The Nashville Tennessean Magazine, Tennessee)

Source: PROJECT 1947 (project1947.com)

The article reports on the 1944 Rhine Valley, Germany, UFO sighting of U.S. Army Air Forces/Corps P-51 Mustang pilot Joe Thompson, Jr. (1919 - 2012).

Thompson, Jr. was a WWII photo reconnaissance pilot.

Quote from the article:

“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.”

http://www.project1947.com/articles/joethomp.htm

“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)