He writes:"On November 27, 1944, a B-27 of the United States Air Force,returning from a raid on Speyer, West Germany, encountered ahuge, orange colored light moving upward at an estimated speedof 500 MPH. When the pilots reported, sector radar hadreported negatively, because nothing had registered on thescreen.But the object seen by the returning bomber was only the first ofnumerous others spotted by American pilots over wartime Germanyand promptly baptized 'foo-fighters.'Fighter pilots Falls and Backer, of the 415th Squadron,reported such an encounter a month later forcing the Air Force toadmit that such objects might exist. Later encounters with foofighters led experts to assume they were German inventions of anew order employed to baffle radar.How close they came to the truth, they learned only when thewar was over and Allied Intelligence teams moved into the secretNazi plants. The foo-fighters seen by American pilots were only aminor demonstration, a fraction of a vast variety of methods usedto confuse radar and interrupt electro magnetic currents.Work on the German anti-radar Feurball, or fireball, had beenspeeded up during the fall of 1944 at a Luftwaffe experimentalcenter near Oberammergau, Bavaria. There, and at the aeronauticalestablishment at Weiner Neustadt, the first fireballs wereproduced. Later, when the Russians moved closer to Austria, theworkshops producing the fireballs were moved to the Black Forest.Fast and remote controlled, the fireballs, equipped withklystron tubes operating on the same frequency as Allied radar,which could eliminate the blips from radar screens. This allowedthem to remain practically invisible to ground control.The Nazi Feurball failed to interfere with the Allied airoffensive. The foo fighters had been launched too late and couldno longer change the course of events, but in themselves they weresignificant not only because they were the outcome of a technicalevolution which could have led to more dangerous weapons, but alsobecause they showed that Nazi technology had moved in a directionfar beyond anything expected by Allied Intelligence.As the fall of Germany approached, the Nazi Leaders revertedto an ambitious project created by Gauleiter Franz Hofer who hadbecome high commissioner for the Italian Tyrol and the SouthernAlps. The project foresaw setting up an incredible fortress inthe mountains, including parts of Italy, Austria and Bavaria.Hofer submitted his plan to Hitler's aide, Martin Bormann inNovember 1944, having prepared for this moment back in 1938 whenNazi agents carefully mapped all mountain passes, caves, bridges,highways, and located sights for underground factories, munitionsdumps, arms and food caches. To complete work on this fortress,Hofer demanded a slave labor force of a quarter of a million, to
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