Tuesday 13 August 2019

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.”


“VETERANS HISTORY PROJECT: Joe Thompson, Jr.”

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







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)

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.”


“VETERANS HISTORY PROJECT: Joe Thompson, Jr.”

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






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)

UFO News Article:
“Surprise fills the skies near South Texas oil well
sites - There have been reports of possible UFOs”


Updated: 23 January 2013
(Houston Chronicle, Texas)

The article (contains a UFO photo) reports on UFO sightings over the Eagle Ford Shale (Eagle Ford Group) and in the skies between San Antonio and the Rio Grande.

Three photos that were taken by an unattended wildlife camera near Nixon on 29 December 2012 – appear to show a series of anomalies in the sky and near the ground, according to the newspaper.

The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) has investigated these UFO cases.


Wikipedia article: “Eagle Ford Group”:


Quote from the Wikipedia article:
“The Eagle Ford was one of the most actively drilled targets for unconventional oil and gas in the United States in 2010,[5] but its output had dropped sharply by 2015.[6]”

Related posts:


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Eagle Ford outcrop map (text by Wikipedia)
(wikimedia.org image)
















Satellite photo of Nixon, Texas (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)