General Curtis LeMay, Foo Fighters, and the Nuclear Propulsion Obsession: Did UFO Knowledge Drive USAF Strategy?
Declassified WWII flight logs confirm General Curtis LeMay personally witnessed Foo Fighters during combat raids. After the war he became obsessed with nuclear aircraft propulsion — a goal researchers believe was informed by recovered craft. His conflict with JFK, his contempt for Kennedy’s policies, and his placement alongside Allen Dulles on the Warren Commission form one of the most documented but least discussed intersections of the UAP programme with presidential power.
The Foo Fighters Connection
Curtis LeMay was the finest combat commander of his generation — and he flew the lead aircraft on every major mission he commanded. Recently declassified flight logs from his command of a B-17 Bombardment Group over Germany in 1943 document the presence of UFOs — known to airmen as Foo Fighters — during raids he personally led. One incident records a B-17 colliding with several silver discs over the target. LeMay flew into that airspace. He saw what his crews saw.
One of the commanders was Curtis LeMay. He was the finest combat commander of any service I came across in war. But he was extraordinarily belligerent, many thought brutal.
— Robert McNamara, former Secretary of Defense
The Nuclear Propulsion Obsession
After the war, LeMay became fixated on retrofitting bombers with nuclear propulsion units. This was not conventional defence thinking — nuclear-propelled aircraft presented extraordinary engineering challenges that conventional propulsion research was nowhere near solving. Researchers have argued that LeMay’s drive in this direction was informed by what had been recovered: a propulsion system that used nuclear energy in a manner no human engineer had yet conceived, demonstrated by the craft at Magenta (1933), Cape Girardeau (1941), and Roswell (1947).
The JFK Collision
LeMay’s pursuit of advanced propulsion put him on a direct collision course with the CIA and two consecutive presidents. His conflict with John F. Kennedy is documented — LeMay was contemptuous of Kennedy’s handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis, while Kennedy wanted to rein in Air Force autonomy. Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963. LeMay, who despised Kennedy, was placed on the Warren Commission — alongside Allen Dulles, MJ-12’s J-1, who had been fired by Kennedy months before.
The convergence of LeMay, Dulles, and the Warren Commission is not a conspiracy theory — it is a documented fact. Two of the most senior officials with alleged UAP programme knowledge, both removed or marginalised by Kennedy, were placed on the body investigating his death.