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Orbs

Glowing balls of light — the most-reported shape of all.

1,820 sightings 🎥 1,399 videos 🗓️ 1938–2026 📍 Most from New Jersey, Mexico, Florida

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📖 Term · 6 min readFoo fightersFoo fighters were unidentified glowing lights and objects that followed Allied aircraft during the Second World War over Europe and the Pacific, particularly in late 1944. The term was coined by the U.S.

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