maximus otter
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Hearken to the Witches' Rune!
Echoes and Angels: UFOs on Radar!
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Echoes and Angels: UFOs on Radar!
maximus otter
I'm still waiting for 402 to arrive!Hearken to the Witches' Rune!
Echoes and Angels: UFOs on Radar!
maximus otter
Arguably, a large part of the UFO phenomenon is all kinds of military tests hidden behind an extraterrestrial smokescreen. That doesn't make the subject less Fortran.having had a day or two to read more of it, more reflections. the case of the invisible UFO that the radar station spotted, and was screaming to the interceptor crew that they were going to crash into it - but the aircraft crew saw only a completely empty sky. I'm thinking here about "tinsel" in WW2 - dedicated aircraft throwing vast amounts of aluminium foil into the air to overwhelm and confuse German radar with lots of false readings.
I read somewhere - can't remember where - that as well as trying to make the current generation of aircraft as invisible to radar as they can, the Americans are refining the WW2 "tinsel" idea and finding ways to somehow project false images onto enemy radar screens - so that the radar can't tell the difference between a false and a genuine contact, and/or that they'll send aircraft chasing after ghosts. Was this ghost UFO over Hong Kong an early attempt at this, somebody trying out the tech (unknown to either the radar operator or the pilots) to see if it worked? (Any American warships in the vicinity at the time trying out their tech on the Brits?)
Project Palladium was (you might wanna check the precise details as I'm running this from memory alone) a 1950s/60s operation based around the idea that essentially overclocking a radar will allow you to project (paint) an image to someone else's screen. I think there's a suggestion that at least one of the classic radar visible cases is a Palladium test run - a case where the scrambled pilot saw nothing of the battleship sized target and was asked to not discuss it afterwards. It's one of the really famous UK ones, but the books are too far away from my desk right now...I read somewhere - can't remember where - that as well as trying to make the current generation of aircraft as invisible to radar as they can, the Americans are refining the WW2 "tinsel" idea and finding ways to somehow project false images onto enemy radar screens
Toni Arthur.
Still gorgeous.
The reason why so many adolescent boys watched TV shows meant for pre-schoolers and seven year olds. Hey, seventies TV wasn't all about sinister, strange, liminal and weird. Although discovering an adolescent fantasy from "Play Away", somebody otherwise as squeaky-clean as a Blue Peter presenter, had a secret life as a witch.... yup. That's Seventies TV. You can't keep the strangeness out.