Welcome to bite-sized UFOs, a show where we break down lesser-known UFO cases in 20 minutes or less.

And now here's your host, Graham Rendell.

Welcome to Episode 11 of Bite-Sized UFOs.

In this installment, let's have a look at a case from March 1945, when an

RAF light bomber was apparently chased over Italy and the Adriatic Sea by six strange objects.

In December 1997, an Italian UFO magazine ran a story about the foo fighters of World War II.

Included was the tale of an

RAF Douglas Boston-like bomber crew, returning to their base between Bologna and Rimini

on a moonlit night after a raid on a target somewhere in the Alps in March 1945, just weeks

before the end of the war in Europe. The aircraft was flying over the Adriatic Sea just west of Trieste,

when six fireballs chased after the bomber and caused a pilot to take evasive action.

According to one of the crew, the aircraft had taken water into its tail section during these maneuvers,

as it had briefly touched the sea at one point.

The crew thought that the altimeter in the aircraft had been affected by the fireballs.

According to the primary witness, the aircraft's navigator cum bomb-eamer, Eric Anderson,

they were flying over the coast at 10,000 feet when what were described as flying spheres were first sighted 8,000 feet below them.

After some discussion on the intercom as to their identity and purpose, the crew believed an attack was imminent,

so the pilot flew a large circle around them at 2,000 feet. The spheres were a deep red colour and strung out in a line,

looking like the pearls on a necklace.

After completing one full circle, the fireballs turned and headed straight for the Boston bomber.

Some ten minutes of violent evasive manoeuvres followed, and the aircraft headed out over the sea with a mysterious object still in pursuit.

At one point, the bomber briefly

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