Topic: Foo Fighters

The modern UFO era began with Kenneth Arnold's 1947 sighting of "flying saucers" over Washington State, following wartime reports of "Foo Fighters" and Scandinavian "ghost rockets." In 1948, Captain Thomas Mantell died after his plane crashed while he was pursuing a large metallic object over Kentucky. The official explanation that Mantell was chasing the planet Venus remains a point of contention for researchers and former colleagues like Senator Howard Cannon.