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"a minor X-COM detail"
 
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Today I learned that there's an urban legend that attempts to explain the "foo fighter" phenomenon (World War II aircrews reporting UFOs before UFOs were a pop culture Thing) as a secret German antiaircraft drone codenamed Feuerball. This was supposedly a small saucer-shaped device that flew by means of tiny jet engines and had advanced anti-radar capabilities. Further, since these technologies were beyond the scope of the 1940s (and, indeed, their purported active radar-canceling capability is still technologically unfeasible today), some believers in the Feuerball idea insist that "borrowed" extraterrestrial technology must have been involved.

I can only assume that the Gollop brothers knew about this concept (despite the fact that the book that most prominently put it forward was published in the same year as the original UFO: Enemy Unknown). If they didn't, it's a striking coincidence that the first vehicle X-COM builds from reverse-engineered alien tech is a saucer-shaped interceptor codenamed Firestorm.

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