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Merged Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program UFO'S

Steve001

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Just released report.

For five years, from 2007 to 2012, the Pentagon ran a $22 million program that investigated reports of UFOs. The program investigated accounts by military personnel and commercial pilots who witnessed unidentified aircraft that appeared to move or hover without visible signs of propulsion or lift, the reports said.

One of the sightings investigated had been captured on videotape, released in August, showing a white oval object the size of a commercial plane as it was chased by a pair of Navy fighter jets off of San Diego in 2004, the Times said.

https://nypost.com/2017/12/16/pentagons-search-for-ufos-revealed/<br>
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“I think it’s one of the good things I did in my congressional service. I’ve done something that no one has done before.”

Most of the $22 million spent on the program went to an aerospace research company run by Reid’s friend and fellow Nevadan, Robert Bigelow, the Times said. Bigelow, a devout believer that aliens have visited Earth, is currently working with NASA on producing space modules for human use.
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Uh huh, you did a good thing for some lunatic friend of yours anyways.
 
I almost think this would be better in the General Skepticism forum.

Anything new here, other than the government wasting more money chasing shadows?
 
Carl Sagan often said that if there were any believable evidence of “alien visitors”, the military would be clamoring for funds to address this potential threat, starting with Roswell.

Yet, all we (and the Soviets) did was to spend bucketloads on preparing to blow each other up.
Maybe the aliens would get caught in the “nuclear winter”....
 
There's another thread on this. I'll report this post and request a merge.

Meanwhile, what I noticed from the clip I just saw on TV is that the "object" remains in the exact same spot on the HUD screen while the plane is manueuvering. Looks like an artifact, to me.
 
As some other poster here pointed out: anyone with a decent telescope anytime in the last 500 million years would have figured out there was life here.

I wouldn't be surprised if some alien civ became interested in this system enough to send some probes to keep an eye on things. The tech's not even that hard. Another 100 years and we'll be doing it.
 
Bikewer said:
Carl Sagan often said that if there were any believable evidence of “alien visitors”, the military would be clamoring for funds to address this potential threat, starting with Roswell.

Yet, all we (and the Soviets) did was to spend bucketloads on preparing to blow each other up.
Maybe the aliens would get caught in the “nuclear winter”....
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Why assume it's aliens?
 
Trebuchet said:
There's another thread on this. I'll report this post and request a merge.

Meanwhile, what I noticed from the clip I just saw on TV is that the "object" remains in the exact same spot on the HUD screen while the plane is manueuvering. Looks like an artifact, to me.
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If the jets radar is locked on the object wouldn't the object say centered?
 
Steve001 said:
If the jets radar is locked on the object wouldn't the object say centered?
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Not usually, there would nornally be a certain amount of "hunting" depending on the severity of any evasive action taken by the target. If the radar locked target changes direction, the tracking radar responds but its not able to anticipate what the target is going to do, so there will be some "trailing" of the target by the TD Box


That dark mark does no look or act like a radar locked target. It looks like a video artifact on the HUD itself.
 
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Not usually, there would nornally be a certain amount of "hunting" depending on the severity of any evasive action taken by the target. If the radar locked target changes direction, the tracking radar responds but its not able to anticipate what the target is going to do, so there will be some "trailing" of the target by the TD Box


That dark mark does no look or act like a radar locked target. It looks like a video artifact on the HUD itself.
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I'm not sure you are correct. There is tracking radar. Looking at this video I believe is IR nightvision not radar possibly using this type of helmet. It appears the video in question is video of the pilot tracking the object visually.
https://youtu.be/Dj4cP4PMPPM
 
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Wow, UFO's with no sonic boom, and look like a reflection. And the reflection has no Radar return.

22 million to investigate UFOs, why so little? Is that all the money Harry could get for his UFO nut buddy.
 
Steve001 said:
I'm not sure you are correct. There is tracking radar. Looking at this video I believe is IR nightvision not radar possibly using this type of helmet. It appears the video in question is video of the pilot tracking the object visually.
https://youtu.be/Dj4cP4PMPPM
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The suggestion was it was a radar locked target. This does not look like any kind of a radar locked target in my experience (which is two years working in the maintenance and testing of a number of fighter aircraft Avionics systems including the AN-APG66 radar - same system as that installed in the F16 at that time - and the Ferranti 4510 HUD on which its information is displayed.)

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IMHO it's video from FLIR using optical lock. Just my 2 cents based on playing a game 10 years ago.
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Even if it is a FLIR display, the target object would still not stay fixed in exactly the same place on the HUD. It will move with subtle changes in attitude of the aircraft and the TD Box would track it.
 
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