Project Blue Book
Contrary to popular belief, in which UFOs are often mistaken to be a modern phenomenon due to a rise in worldwide media and public awareness. But UFOs are certainly not a new or modern phenomenon predating even the U.S Air Force's own study into UFO,s named Project blue book in 1952 to 1969. Alongside other UFO programs such as project Signal it remains the best known post WWII study into UFOs by the USAF to this day...
Foo Fighters & World War II
Despite Christopher Colombus being credited for the worlds first ever known writen report of what many interpret as a UFO encounter during his voyage to discover the America,s, It is safe to say awareness about strange objects in our biosphere first became evident many many years later in world war II. As aviation became revolutionized as a weapon of war in world war I, and perfected in world war II as the allied battled Nazi Germany & Japan in an epic fight for domination of the sky,s. Due to the large scale of aerial operations encounters with strange objects dubbed "Foo fighters" on long distance high altitude bomber and escort missions became more frequent and documented in after action reports. Both allied & axis sides encountered Foo fighters on a regular basis and both sides believed they represented secret superweapon technology, only to find out after the war neither side was responsible for these phenomena.
Project Blue Book Was Not What It Seemed.
Blue Book's real purpose was actually focussed on discrediting the UFO phenomenon as opposed to a serious study or scientific inquiry. Progams such as Project Signal focussed much more on the phenomena. Plaged by cold war paranoria it was still believed UFOs could be forms of advanced, still unknown russion spy technology. Alternatively it was believed that with imminent threat of a global nuclear confrontation UFOs could cause mass hysteria on its own, and it was not deemed unthinkable they were enemy assets to spark mass hysteria and/or overwhelm early warning systems to help ensure strategical first strike capability. Thus Blue Book served mainly to ensure UFOs stayed out of general opinion by means of ridicule and discrediting UFOs alltogether, while simultaneously determining if they posed a threat to national security.
