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The Original Foo Fighters -- The Legend of the Nazi UFO
Manage episode 294396993 series 2837510
As well-documented as things are, there’s so much left that’s unknown. And the speculation about just what the Nazis could be capable of didn’t start in the aftermath as historians and scientists worked to put together a record of it all. It had an impact on the battlefield at the peak of the fighting.
Maybe the best way to capture this dark path of imagination where I found myself on this dark and stormy night, of wondering how far the reality of Nazi ambitions went, and how these other legends about them could have evolved, is to tell you the story of the Foo Fighters. And no, I’m not referring to the band from Seattle that was just voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I’m referring to how they got their name. It’s a story that involves a Chicago comic book artist, a 19th-century fantasy novel, and one of our favorite things here at My Dark Path – strange lights in the sky…listen to learn more about
- Project Bluebook: the United States Military investigation into flying saucers and other unexplainable phenomena
- the extraterrestrial kraut fireballs that troubled WWII pilots
- The Nazi's Flying Saucer Project
- How The Foo Fighters got their name
- Project Bluebook
- The origins of the phrase, "a dark and stormy night" and "the pen is mightier than the sword"
SEE FULL SHOW NOTES AT https://www.mydarkpath.com/season1episode13
REFERENCES/ADDITIONAL READING:
Smoky Stover
Smokin' Rockets by Patrick Lucanio
http://www.luft46.com/misc/sackas6.html
Pseudoscience in Naziland by Willy Ley
The Durant report of the Robertson Panel proceedings
MUSIC
Darker Days, Alternate Endings
Perfect Spades, Third Age, Nu Alkemi$t
Visit us at
www.mydarkpath.com
www.youtube.com/@mydarkpath
www.patreon.com/mydarkpath
62 episodes
Manage episode 294396993 series 2837510
As well-documented as things are, there’s so much left that’s unknown. And the speculation about just what the Nazis could be capable of didn’t start in the aftermath as historians and scientists worked to put together a record of it all. It had an impact on the battlefield at the peak of the fighting.
Maybe the best way to capture this dark path of imagination where I found myself on this dark and stormy night, of wondering how far the reality of Nazi ambitions went, and how these other legends about them could have evolved, is to tell you the story of the Foo Fighters. And no, I’m not referring to the band from Seattle that was just voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I’m referring to how they got their name. It’s a story that involves a Chicago comic book artist, a 19th-century fantasy novel, and one of our favorite things here at My Dark Path – strange lights in the sky…listen to learn more about
- Project Bluebook: the United States Military investigation into flying saucers and other unexplainable phenomena
- the extraterrestrial kraut fireballs that troubled WWII pilots
- The Nazi's Flying Saucer Project
- How The Foo Fighters got their name
- Project Bluebook
- The origins of the phrase, "a dark and stormy night" and "the pen is mightier than the sword"
SEE FULL SHOW NOTES AT https://www.mydarkpath.com/season1episode13
REFERENCES/ADDITIONAL READING:
Smoky Stover
Smokin' Rockets by Patrick Lucanio
http://www.luft46.com/misc/sackas6.html
Pseudoscience in Naziland by Willy Ley
The Durant report of the Robertson Panel proceedings
MUSIC
Darker Days, Alternate Endings
Perfect Spades, Third Age, Nu Alkemi$t
Visit us at
www.mydarkpath.com
www.youtube.com/@mydarkpath
www.patreon.com/mydarkpath
62 episodes
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