Kevin Randle reviews Keith Chester’s Strange Company: Military Encounters with UFOs in WWII in the Spring 2009 issue of the Journal of Scientific Exploration. “As I began reading Strange Company,” writes Randle, “I wondered whether we would be treated with a series of stories of indistinct lights, which, I confess, was my concept of the foo fighters of World War II…But we read of solid objects with sharply defined edges moving the foo fighters from the realm of ionized air and other natural phenomena into something that is solid and probably extraterrestrial….Chester gives us the documents created at the time by intelligence officers trained in interrogation techniques and whose job it was to understand all that the flight crews were telling them because lives hung in the balance…this book is a unique history of the Second World War…What Strange Company does quite well is move the modern era of the UFO from June 1947 when Kenneth Arnold’s report hit the newspaper to World War II. It is clear that these sightings, considered at the time to be classified information and therefore weren’t widely discussed, are the beginning of the modern [UFO] era.” Randle ends his review saying that by correcting the misconception that the foo fighters were some kind of enemy weapon, “Chester has performed a valuable service and should be commended for it.”