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Recently, governments and individuals have released video of some very unusual UFOs, including some appearing in the shape of spheres, discs and tictacs.

If we believe the hypothesis that some of these UFOs are alien in origin and have been observing us for centuries, we should expect to see these UFOs shapes earlier in our history.  I’ll share four vintage Polish UFO cases where their shapes and behavior mimic those that have been revealed in the last few years. 

Hi, I'm MF Thomas, and this is My Dark Path. 

War has always been a theater of the extraordinary, but amidst the chaos of World War II, strange phenomena occasionally broke through the carnage, astonishing even battle-hardened witnesses. These wartime accounts from Poland have been mostly lost in the folds of history.  Still, each seems shockingly modern when we grapple to understand the spheres and tictacs that haunt our skies and oceans today.

Last year, I traveled to Poland to research the country’s famous and little-known UFO cases.  This episode will cover a few of the fascinating incidents that have much less notoriety.  Be sure to watch my episodes on the Gdynia Incident, Poland’s Roswell and the Emilcin Incident.  I’ll have links to both in the end credits and will continue to release new episodes based on my travel there. 

If you have been baffled by the odd behavior and shape of the spheres which have tracked our planes, you’ll find this first case from 1943 unsatisfyingly familiar.

Alien Spheres on the Battlefield

The spring day of April 9, 1943, was unseasonably warm in Warsaw. Despite the beautiful weather, the air was heavy with the dread that blanketed the city under Nazi occupation. The Warsaw Ghetto smoldered. The occupation would culminate in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising that would erupt days later on April 19 as a Jewish resistance movement against the Nazi forces attempting to deport the remaining inhabitants of the Warsaw Ghetto to extermination camps. For 18-year-old Kazimierz Bzowski, a scout in the underground resistance, this day would mark the beginning of his lifetime’s pursuit of the unknown.

Virtually everyone in the city had some role in resisting the Nazi occupation. Bzowski and two companions had been assigned to monitor German troop movements near Bon--frater-ska Street. Kazimierz was performing his duties, noting Nazi troop positions and movements when something unexpected caught his attention.

A strange object emerged from the hazy sky above the Ghetto. Initially, it appeared as a mere speck in the distance, but its distinct features became apparent as it flew closer. The object was spherical, seemingly metallic and its surface shimmered with two interwoven colors: a rich raspberry hue and a deep, bluish-green. The colors shifted and blended as the sphere approached their position.

“It wasn’t like anything we’d ever seen,” Bzowski would later write. The sphere ascended and descended repeatedly, its speed reminiscent of a German Fieseler Storch reconnaissance aircraft, a relatively slow 100 miles per hour. Bzowski and his companions estimated the object to be approximately 25 feet in diameter, flying at an altitude of around 200 feet. It seemed to defy all logic and understanding.

As the sphere moved closer to the area, something remarkable happened. The German soldiers stationed along Bonifraterska Street—tasked with shooting anyone attempting to escape—stopped their grim work almost in unison. Their attention turned upward, experiencing the same astonishment and unease that Bzowski and his companions felt. The ethereal yet tangible object floated down the war-torn street above their positions, clearly visible to all.

Then, the German soldiers opened fire. Dozens of rifles erupted, bullets tearing through the air in a barrage aimed at the sphere. Bzowski, watching intently, saw that the bullets had no effect on the sphere. It neither wavered nor reacted, merely continued flying serenely amidst the chaos.

The firing continued the roar of gunfire echoing through the ruined streets of Warsaw. Civilians hiding nearby must have watched in equal bewilderment, wondering what could warrant such an aggressive response from the German forces. The sphere continued its surveillance without reaction.

Suddenly, the sphere shifted course. It glided away from Bonifraterska Street, heading toward the Old Town. The soldiers hesitated, their weapons falling silent, as the object stopped mid-air. Then, in a burst of movement so swift it left onlookers stunned, the sphere shot off into the sky at an impossible speed. Within moments, it was gone, vanishing into the sky.

For Bzowski, this encounter transformed his life. The sphere, with its unearthly colors and imperviousness to bullets, was unlike anything he would witness, even amid the depravity of the war. At a time when the horrors of war had numbed him to much of the extraordinary, this experience nevertheless left him profoundly unsettled.

Decades later, as a ufologist, Bzowski noted this event proved to be the genesis of his fascination with the unexplained. His later controversial yet thought-provoking work revolved around the idea that the Earth itself might play a role in these phenomena. Working with engineer Miloslaw Wilk, he developed a theory of “energetic stitches” in the planet’s subtle energy web—weak points that allowed anomalous objects to manifest. Whether this theory held any truth remained a matter of debate, but for Bzowski, it was a way to make sense of that fateful day in 1943.

Bzowski’s encounter with the unexplained sphere, a true UFO, is just as unnerving as the unexplained spheres that move seamlessly between ocean and sky in today's modern world. What do you think these spheres are?

Some of these Polish wartime UFO cases are not limited to sightings only – but include actual enounters of the 3rd kind as you’ll see in this history of the

Alien Encounter at Nowiny

The story of the Nowiny alien encounter unfolded in 1943, in the small Polish village in the Chelm area, near the modern border with Ukraine. Even today, the quiet rhythm of rural life hides the extraordinary event that took place on single night over 80 years ago.

Two Polish UFO researchers, Piechota & Rzepecki, uncovered the incident decades later in 1987, bringing it into the public view when they interviewed the sole surviving witness. This man had been only 16 during the encounter and here’s the story he shared.

After a day of labor in the fields, the witness and three other men had been sitting outside a hut talking. The ages of the other four were not disclosed – but they must have been either too old or too young for military service.

The event started when the men saw a light, glowing softly, penetrating the thick canvas of the night.  The light originated from a field about 110 yards away from the hut where he and four others sat. Perhaps braver and more curious than the rest— he and one other man decided to investigate. Armed only with lanterns, they made their way across the field.

As they drew close, they came upon a large object resting in the field. It’s appearance defied anything they had experienced or heard of. As described later to Piechota and Rzepecki, the object resembled a “hat set on a wide bollard.”  A bollard being a round base. The cabin of the craft rested atop the cylindrical base.  It was obviously mechanical and it pulsed with an unusual brightness.

The cabin featured a row of windows glinted in the moonlight, and the cylindrical base bore a sliding door from which a small ladder extended to the ground. In total, the craft stood approximately 11 feet tall and a width of 13 feet.

The two men merely stared for a moment, their lanterns casting trembling beams on the object. Then, nearby movement startled them. Emerging from the shadows, as though they had been temporarily away from their craft, a group of beings approached—eight or nine in total.  Each stood about 4 and 1/2 feet tall. These aliens, later dubbed the “Nowiny humanoids,” did resemble humans in some ways. They roughly appeared like our idea of a grey alien, but their skin carried a pinkish hue when seen under the lights of the craft and their lanterns. But what was most unsettling to the two humans were the alien’s smiles: when they grinned, the corners of their mouths arced upwards into eerie half-moon shapes. 

The Nowiny humanoids wore headgear that was strapped under their chins and simple two-piece outfits that seemed tailored to their diminutive forms. Their movements were deliberate, almost hypnotic, and their voices—a shrill, rapid-fire language - reminded the men of what they thought Japanese might sound like.

Seeing the two men, the aliens approached them, clearly speaking to them. Though their words were incomprehensible, their tone and gestures conveyed their intent: they wanted the two men to enter the craft.

The witnesses, however, were in a state of shock. They shook their heads vigorously, backing away while raising their hands in refusal. The aliens pressed on, their gestures becoming more insistent.

The standoff continued, until, finally, one of the aliens, apparently frustrated, raised its hand and made a sharp, sweeping motion. Instantly, an invisible force struck the men, sending them tumbling to the ground as if swept by a powerful gust of wind. The witness recalled the sensation vividly—it wasn’t pain but a force that overpowered them.

For whatever reason, the aliens gave up their request for the human witnesses to join them.  Dazed from the assault, they watched the aliens ascend the ladder and enter the craft.  The door closed, and the ship came alive.

First, a loud hiss cut through the night, followed by a low vibration that reverberated through the ground and a deafening buzz. Then, the craft lifted effortlessly, ascending vertically and vanishing into the star-strewn sky.

When the witness and his companion returned to the hut, they found their two companions huddled together, wide-eyed with terror. Though they hadn’t seen the aliens or spacecraft, they had witnessed the strange glow and heard the cacophony of sounds that accompanied the departure. The group talked through the experience for the rest of the night though the events seemed beyond their ability to process.

Years later, when the surviving witness recounted his story, the events remained dreamlike to him as he worked to reconcile his memory of the event. The aliens, the craft, and the encounter remained enigmatic, forever lodged in the dark space between myth and reality. Did the aliens come to study, to invite, or to warn? And why had they chosen a tiny village in eastern Poland amidst the chaos of World War II?

Foo Fighters – objects which appeared to be intelligently controlled and observed both allied and axis sides of World War II – brought the idea of UFOs into public view – even before Roswell and Arnold.

The Enigma of the Foo Fighters: A Polish Perspective

The skies over Europe were rarely quiet during World War II. They echoed with the roar of engines, the whistling descent of bombs, and the rattle of machine guns. Yet, strange, luminous phenomena known as "foo fighters" bewildered witnesses. These mysterious lights, often spherical and displaying behavior suggestive of intelligent control, became a persistent element of wartime. Among the most intriguing accounts comes from Poland.

Initially, the Allied command speculated that these lights might be secret German weaponry—perhaps some revolutionary form of aerial defense. However, this theory waned as reports consistently described no aggression from the orbs, only their peculiar movements that appeared to be monitoring human activity.

One of the earliest Polish accounts of foo fighters occurred in September 1941, aboard the S.S. Pulaski, a Polish transport vessel navigating the Indian Ocean. The ship was tasked with transporting British soldiers. One evening, the sudden appearance of a sphere maneuvering above their ship alarmed two Polish crew members. The orb hovered, darted, and changed direction with a grace and speed impossible for any known aircraft. They described it as a "strange globe glowing with greenish light, about half the size of the full moon as it appears to us." A British officer also watched the movements of the sphere with them for over an hour. This sighting, while extraordinary, was only the beginning of Poland’s foo fighter experience. 

However, one of the most compelling Polish accounts came from a daytime sighting during the Warsaw Uprising in mid-August 1944. Amidst the carnage and chaos of the battle for Poland's capital, Zenon Sergisz, a civilian caught in the crossfire, experienced a moment of quiet amid the turmoil. Standing under a clear sky around 11 a.m., he gazed upward, appreciating the rare peace. A German bomber flying overhead drew his attention. But immediately, he observed three small objects flying below the bomber. They caught the sunlight, reflecting it brilliantly.

At first, Sergisz dismissed them as debris or secondary aircraft, but as the bomber roared away, these objects descended rapidly. Their altitude dropped so low that they disappeared behind nearby buildings. Moments later, they reappeared, ascending at an angle before vanishing into the sky.

Sergisz was left stunned. The objects, he reported, resembled “flattened spheres, smaller than the airplane and resembling something between a lens and a coin.” They maneuvered in formation, moving in ways that defied any aircraft he had ever seen.

What surprised Sergisz the most was the objects' behavior. They seemed to mimic the playful, elusive patterns of the foo fighters reported by Allied pilots: curious but non-aggressive, as if observing the world below for purposes unknown. The mysterious elegance of these unknown entities overshadowed the bomber, a harbinger of destruction.

Foo fighter sightings were not confined to Warsaw. Throughout the war, other Polish cities bore witness to similar phenomena. In 1942, residents of Warsaw reported glowing orbs moving silently through the night sky, their orange and red hues standing out against the darkened cityscape. In 1944, just months before Sergisz’s encounter, a farmer near Czestochowa claimed to see a fleet of glowing disks flying low over his fields. In 1945, near Ostrzeszów, soldiers saw a formation of lights following a retreating column of German trucks; the soldiers described the movement of the disks as  "playful" rather than threatening.

In the years following the war, Polish ufologists, including Andrzej Trepka, diligently collected these accounts, attempting to piece together the puzzle of the foo fighters. To this day, Sergisz’s encounter during the Warsaw Uprising is one of the most detailed and vivid.

What do you know about the origin of the term foo fighter?  You might be interested in our video on the subject, found here. [NB1] 

The Fiery Shield of Czudec

During the summer of 1944, as war raged across Europe, three men were drawn to observe the battle for Wi-clo-pole Skrz-yń-skie approximately 9 miles away from their home village of Czudec.  K. Marcus, his brother, and their father—a seasoned veteran of World War I and the Polish-Bolshevik War – scaled a nearby hill to watch.

To their surprise, the battle was subdued that day, the usual cacophony of gunfire and explosions reduced to sporadic exchanges. With little action to observe, they decided to return home, the fading light of evening casting long shadows over the valley. It was then, as the sun dipped behind the southern hills, that something extraordinary appeared.

A strange and fiery object emerged, commanding the attention of the small family. Marcus described it as a brick-red disk, its color intense but oddly muted, lacking the radiant glow of fire. The object’s diameter appeared to be roughly half the size of the full moon from their position.  It hovered at an altitude of 600 to 800 feet, its movement both steady and hypnotic.

“It was rolling,” Marcus later wrote later in a letter to magazine. The shield rotated as it glided horizontally from south to north, its motion so precise that each full revolution lasted about two seconds. Its eerie, deliberate flight stood out against the serene evening sky, captivating the three onlookers.

The valley, stretching nearly five miles across, provided a clear view of the phenomenon. In just 15 to 20 seconds, the object traversed the entire expanse, maintaining its unwavering path above the hilltops. The speed, size, and unique motion of the shield defied any explanation the family could muster.

The boys turned to their father for insight. With decades of military experience, he had witnessed countless artillery flares, tracer rounds, and explosives. Yet even he seemed perplexed. “It might be an artillery flare,” he mused, his tone betraying doubt. “But such a thing… flying horizontally? It’s impossible.”

The fiery disk soon disappeared beyond the northern hills, leaving behind a silence as profound as its enigmatic presence. For the Marcus family, this brief encounter with the unexplained became a lasting memory, an enduring question against the backdrop of a world at war.

While many of these sightings remain anecdotal or secondhand, their consistency and detail align with the broader pattern of wartime UFO encounters. They defy easy explanation. Were they experimental technology, natural phenomena, or something more otherworldly? Their deliberate movement and apparent lack of hostility hint at intelligence, yet their purpose remains elusive – just like those spheres, orbs and other UFOs observed today.

So, as the tales of Nowiny and others, fade into obscurity, they leave behind more questions than answers. Yet, for those who lived through them, they were moment when the ordinary world cracked open, offering a fleeting glimpse into something far more mysterious than they could ever expected.

If you’re watching on Youtube you can catch up on my episodes about the Gdynia UFO crash and the discovery of an alien survivor.  You can also watch the episode about the Emilcin Incident where a farmer was brought aboard a UFO.  Follow the links on the screen.

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