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What is an Amateur Historian?
Generally, historians are a special breed of people who devote their lives to studying the past. Some professional scholars get paid to do it, while…
Freight ship captain reported fire balls during wild hurricane, Saint Elmo’s fire
Strange lights, Saint Elmo’s fire, and other events happened during a hurricane while Captain Watson was out at sea. A fascinating retelling by the Captain…
Woman kills another for witchcraft after balls of flaming fire entered home
Mrs. Waldman accused Mrs. Cooper of being a witch after fire balls entered the Waldman’s home. The end result was that Mrs’ Waldman murdered Mrs….
Foo Fighters look like flying saucers
A 1947 description of foo fighters looking like flying saucers. Numerous explanations are given in this 1947 article, ranging from static electricity to ball lightning…
Cigar-shaped UFOs were called flying bananas to humiliate witnesses
It wasn’t enough that reporters and the powers-that-be ridiculed people for seeing flying saucers, but when a large number of people spotted a cigar-shaped UFO,…
The flying saucer season – The Air Force thinks you are full of shit
Flying saucers are actually meteors, and the Air Force would show their disdain for flying saucer reports (and the discussion of flying saucers) by putting…
Foo Fighters only static – World War II news
From being a secret Nazi weapon to being merely static electricity, here is another article (published in 1945) explaining away the foo fighters spotted by…
Nazis newest trick, fire balls, follow or precede planes – Foo Fighters
Having long been fascinated with the Foo Fighters during World War II, I finally decided to dig up some articles on the issue. In this…
Baffled by a ghostly ball that burns, Louisiana
Strange, ghostly balls of fire hovered and vanished on an old gravel road in Bayou Liberty back in 1942. There were many theories about the…
Falling stars blamed for sinking ships and destroying planes
A fascinating look into the possibility that “falling stars” may have sunk a few ships and wiped a few airships out of the sky. While…
