Unidentified flying objects
were in fact nothing new when they first came upon the public
consciousness after 1947. Pilots in all theaters of World War II had
been seeing them following and keeping pace with their aircraft for
some time. Without guidance from their commanders , Allied airmen
chose their own name to refer to these objects. They called them foo
fighters. They borrowed this name from a popular comic strip of the
day called Smokey Stover. http://www.smokey-stover.com/
Smokey was a fireman who drove an impossible vehicle to fight fires called The Foomobile. This vehicle was a small two-man
fire engine that had only two wheels on a single axle. In the comic
strip of course this worked just fine, while if such a vehicle had
been created it would've simply fallen over with the
technology of the 1940s. It simply could not work. Since the foo fighters appeared to operate
in a manner inexplicable in the 1940s the Allied airmen decided to
name them after Smokey Stover's impossible Foomobile.
This wasn't the only time
that a comic strip was used to suggest a name for an object used by
the military and World War II. The awkwardly named general purpose
vehicle became a much loved and ubiquitous tool used by all services.
It was initially commonly referred to by its initials GP. This
four-wheel-drive vehicle could go anywhere. Shortly before its
introduction the popular comic and cartoon character Popeye introduce
another comic character called the Jeep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYK66ysrhiY This strange creature
resembled a small dog walked upright on two legs and went anywhere.
It would walk up walls walk across ceilings with a complete disregard
for gravity, and walk over buildings. No obstacle slowed it down.
Therefore it comes to no surprise that almost every G.I. in every
theater simultaneously came to the conclusion that the general
purpose vehicle had to be called the Jeep.
Interestingly with
present-day technology the Foomobile is actually quite possible. Its
basic design in the comic strip is quite similar to that of the
present day Segway. A Foomobile could be constructed today using the
computer controlled gyroscopic system of a Segway. This of course
could not even be imagined during World War II.
Similarly the flight
characteristics and physical behavior of unidentified flying objects
have been impossible to understand and completely impossible to
explain since their first appearance in antiquity. The fact that the
mechanism of their flight behavior cannot be explained in any way by
commonly accepted science has been a major argument for skeptics and
debunkers. If the flight characteristics of UFOs appear to be
impossible then the objects themselves are equally impossible. This
however may change dramatically quite soon. Scientists are making new
breakthroughs that might explain them. Boaz Almog is a physicist in
Israel. He has made a fascinating presentation for the TED talk
series. This presentation can be watched in its entirety at the TED
website. http://www.ted.com/speakers/boaz_almog
In this he describes his research into superconductors and
magnetic fields and an
amazing principle that he refers to as quantum locking. In the
demonstration viewable on the Ted website he takes extremely thin
sapphire discs and super cools them to near absolute zero using
liquid nitrogen tuning them into superconductors. He then places the
disc over a magnet where it becomes locked within the magnetic field
and maintains its position completely defying gravity in relation to
the magnet. This is accomplished by quantum locking, a principal
described by Almog in detail in the video. The behavior of the super
cooled superconducting discs in this video is strikingly similar to
the behavior commonly attributed to unidentified flying objects. Boaz
Almog may not believe in unidentified flying objects himself, he
certainly doesn’t comment on them in the video, but is very
possible that he may have explained how they might possibly work
within the science that is known today.
Like Smokey Stover's
impossible Foomobile modern theoretical science might now have
explained how unidentified flying objects just might possibly work
and how we might someday be able to build them. No matter how
impossible, if it can be imagined today it can be done tomorrow.
