Still Unexplained: UFOs Over Wartime Germany

Above, an alien at the Roswell Trailer Village RV park. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

U.S. airmen over World War II Germany in November 1944 spotted some strange lights. At first, they thought they were some sort of weapon the Nazis were deploying, which is understandable. But they were something else.

According to an article in History.com:

It was nearly the end of World War II. But for the airmen of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron, it felt more like the beginning of War of the Worlds. 

Lt. Fred Ringwald was the first to see it. He was riding as observer in a night fighter piloted by Lt. Ed Schlueter, with Lt. Donald J. Meiers on radar. It was a late November evening in 1944, partly cloudy with a quarter moon. They were roaming the Rhine Valley just north of Strasbourg on the French-German border when Ringwald said, “I wonder what those lights are, over there in the hills,” according to an American Legion Magazine story on the sightings from 1945. 

There were eight to 10 of them in a row, glowing fiery orange. Then Schlueter saw them off his right wing. They checked with Allied ground radar, but they registered nothing. Thinking that the lights might be some kind of German air weapon, Schlueter turn the plane to fight…only to have the lights vanish. 

At first the men said nothing, fearing they’d be ostracized. But then the sightings spread through the unit.

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