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badeskov
QUOTE (skyeagle409 @ Apr 22 2008, 07:04 AM) *
Well, if you use scientific means in your argument, why are you STILL insisting that plasma could have been responsible for the UFO in the case files I presented?!

In fact, if the scientific means you used, then why are none of those UFO case files explained as the result of plasma by the scientific community? That is a very important clue of a few!

You see, you are not looking in the right places to determine what is right and what is wrong, otherwise, you would have already known why those case files were not explained away as plasma, and to this very day I might add.

Also, if you had checked it out, you would have also found why it would have been IMPOSSIBLE for plasma to have been responsible for any of the case files in question.


Yet, I am the one that has presented scientific data that indeed is possible, all you have is your insistance upon the opposite. Nothing whatsoever to back you up, not even a single radar technicality - which I find rather curious given your allegedly vast knowledge and experience with radar systems wacko.gif .

Cheers,
Badeskov
Stellar
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LOL!! Lookdown capability has ALOT to do with it because it rejects that, which is not pertinent to the mission, including weather-related phenomena, (It is an ALL-WEATHER system) with clutter rejection, and that is apparent by the fact that the radar even rejects radar-reflective surfaces on land and sea and in STT mode, aircraft as well except the primary target, which you would have known if you understand the nature of today's air intercept radars.


And how does it decide whether the thing plasma event is a plasma event or an aircraft? It cant.

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All you are proving at this point is that you do not understand anything about such radar systems, especially the STT mode. Now, I mentioned "digital" in regards to that radar and that is just another clue that you are wrong.


You seem like a kid thats played a couple of flightsims and thinks he knows all about radar. What badeskov said was not wrong. It seems to me you are the one who lacks knowledge, not him.

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You seem to think that just because plasma reflects radar waves, it is automatically picked on on that radar, but then again, the radar rejects radar reflective surfaces from buildings, ocean waves, and even other aircraft in STT mode, so here, you are showing me that you don't understand what goes on in the real world since the radar has many modes and sub-modes that reject atmospheric phenomena, but I guess you didn't know that given the fact you were unaware that it was an all-weather digital system as well.


Yes, but it rejects these things based on how the EM waves are returned to it. If the recieving signal is something that the radar mode would track, its going to be picked up. The plasma phenomena reflects signals back the same way an aircraft would, so the radar does pick it up, and it can be tracked in STT mode.

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In other words, it is a 'smart' system and you were unaware of that fact and if you knew anything about any of the case files I have presented, you would have found why it was impossible for plasma to have been responsible, which proves that you do not understand the nature of today's advanced air intercept radars.


I have yet to see you prove anything at all.
skyeagle409
QUOTE (badeskov @ Apr 22 2008, 06:56 PM) *
Yet, I am the one that has presented scientific data that indeed is possible, all you have is your insistance upon the opposite. Nothing whatsoever to back you up, not even a single radar technicality - which I find rather curious given your allegedly vast knowledge and experience with radar systems wacko.gif .


Even without my post, it was clearly evident that the incdient had nothing to do with plasma!\

Have you reviewed those videos, including the interviews with the Colonel, the pilot, and the professor to understand what I mean?
skyeagle409
QUOTE (Stellar @ Apr 22 2008, 07:16 PM) *
And how does it decide whether the thing plasma event is a plasma event or an aircraft? It cant.


Apparently, plasma was not responsible for the incident in quesiotn, so have you reviewed the video to understand what is going on and why plasma was not responsible?

You know, there's this thing I have been saying about skeptics not doing their homework properly if they do it at all.
hazzard
QUOTE (skyeagle409 @ Apr 22 2008, 03:18 PM) *
Watch this video all the way to the end.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=Uh5IKmWDmHk&feature=related


Ok I did, now what..?
badeskov
Sigh. Sky, that corner you have painted yourself into must feel more and more cramped, yet you keep painting. By all means of respect, but you can't even keep track of simple radar terminology. How do you expect me (or any other for that matter) to believe that you know anything about the subject at hand?! Well, while I can tell that it is probably valuable time wasted with respect for your understanding of the topic at hand, I hope others will understand it.

QUOTE (skyeagle409 @ Apr 22 2008, 07:31 AM) *
LOL!! Lookdown capability has ALOT to do with it because it rejects that, which is not pertinent to the mission, including weather-related phenomena, (It is an ALL-WEATHER system) with clutter rejection, and that is apparent by the fact that the radar even rejects radar-reflective surfaces on land and sea and in STT mode, aircraft as well except the primary target, which you would have known if you understand the nature of today's air intercept radars.


Sigh. The lookdown capability has nothing whatsoever to do with the capability of a radar to eliminate clutter. As explained to you already in my post here, which you elegantly skipped. But I guess having one's lack of knowledge displayed is something one rather doesn't want to happen and therefore tend to overlook the inconvenient passages. As I said:

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Lookdown/shootdown is a capability to detect, track, engage and negate targets below the horizon as seen by the radar. Which has no bearing on this discussion whatsoever and is thus completely irrelevant. It has a whole host of modes, where some are downlook and some are uplook (which are relevant).


Now, the lookdown is just the name for the ability to look over the horizon, as seen by the radar. That has nothing to do with false target rejection. Uplook (an air-to-air mode of the radar without clutter present) and downlook (air-to-air with clutter prsent) mode does have some bearing on this discussion. Notice the different terminology?! But they are still just the name of the mode and includes, among other things, false target rejection.

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All you are proving at this point is that you do not understand anything about such radar systems, especially the STT mode. Now, I mentioned "digital" in regards to that radar and that is just another clue that you are wrong.


BS. Digital is only a part of a system. Radar is comprised of both analog and digital parts, where neither can be without the other. And while digital is certainly a very important part of a modern radar, it is by no means a magic box that can do whatever you want it to.

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You seem to think that just because plasma reflects radar waves, it is automatically picked on on that radar, but then again, the radar rejects radar reflective surfaces from buildings, ocean waves, and even other aircraft in STT mode, so here, you are showing me that you don't understand what goes on in the real world since the radar has many modes and sub-modes that reject atmospheric phenomena, but I guess you didn't know that given the fact you were unaware that it was an all-weather digital system as well.


Which just shows that you haven't understood anything at all, be it radar or physics. Again, as I explained in my previously referenced post (which part you also elegantly skipped, again demonstrating your lack of enthusiasm to reply when the important details are presented):

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The radar uses a doppler discrimination filter to eliminate anything below an absolute velocity of +/-55knots. Actual implementation is a three-pulse time-domain canceler followed by a Doppler filter realized using a 64bit Fast Fourier Transform. Thus only target data outside of the +/-55knot main beam clutter is passed through. This data is then subjected to a CFAR (Constant False Alarm Rate) filter, which a basically an adaptive filter that uses up-to-date clutter data to, tata, eliminate clutter.


So anything below a certain, absolute velocity is eliminated right away (yes, like buildings, trees, etc). But a plasma typically will have a velocity above 55knots and not exhibit a distributed radar return, thus cannot be filtered out!

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In other words, it is a 'smart' system and you were unaware of that fact and if you knew anything about any of the case files I have presented, you would have found why it was impossible for plasma to have been responsible, which proves that you do not understand the nature of today's advanced air intercept radars.


I was unaware?! I see...interesting observation. Then please present the technical details showing exactly where and why I was wrong. So far you have only presented some fancy movie jargon, and not even that you can do correctly. Technical details, please.

Cheers,
Badeskov
badeskov
QUOTE (skyeagle409 @ Apr 22 2008, 08:45 AM) *
badeskov,

Explained to us all, why it was impossible for plasma to have been responsible for that incident, and, there are several reasons. Do you know them?!


I can't, and neither can you! Just as I can't say that it was impossible for it to be ET. Again, all we have are possibilities, no more, no less.

So what are those reasons (yes, I have asked you before and I am still waiting - and, no, a report about mirages/temp inversions from 1969 is not the asnwer).

Cheers,
Badeskov
badeskov
QUOTE (skyeagle409 @ Apr 22 2008, 11:25 AM) *
Even without my post, it was clearly evident that the incdient had nothing to do with plasma!\

Have you reviewed those videos, including the interviews with the Colonel, the pilot, and the professor to understand what I mean?


Absolute nonsense. If you are talking about the Belgian UFO video, yes, I have...another 3 times last night (I must be crazy). As asked before, would you please state the minute and second where it is said that there were eyewitness to that specific target that was tracked by the F-16s?!

And then, why not add this question, can you please state the minute and second in that video where it is stated that a plasma could not have been responsible for the radar track?!

Again, I am waiting!

Cheers,
Badeskov
badeskov
QUOTE (skyeagle409 @ Apr 22 2008, 11:28 AM) *
Apparently, plasma was not responsible for the incident in quesiotn, so have you reviewed the video to understand what is going on and why plasma was not responsible?

You know, there's this thing I have been saying about skeptics not doing their homework properly if they do it at all.


You know what, if you actually had something to back up your claims, the rest of us wouldn't have to run around doing your work. It is very simple:

1. Present your hypothesis
2. Present your arguments (in a somewhat scientific way)
3. Discuss your argumens (and not by telling others they haven't done their homework when it is very obvious who has and who hasn't).

Cheers,
Badeskov
badeskov
QUOTE (skyeagle409 @ Apr 22 2008, 11:28 AM) *
Apparently, plasma was not responsible for the incident in quesiotn, so have you reviewed the video to understand what is going on and why plasma was not responsible?

You know, there's this thing I have been saying about skeptics not doing their homework properly if they do it at all.


I think you conveniently forgot to answer Stellar's actually very pertinent question here:

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Yes, but it rejects these things based on how the EM waves are returned to it. If the recieving signal is something that the radar mode would track, its going to be picked up. The plasma phenomena reflects signals back the same way an aircraft would, so the radar does pick it up, and it can be tracked in STT mode.


I am still waiting for that one also!

Cheers,
Badeskov
badeskov
QUOTE (skyeagle409 @ Apr 22 2008, 08:52 AM) *
Hint of the Day

"Triangular-shaped craft, larger than a jumbo-jet (note: Boeing 747), that moved at speeds below 60 kilometres per hour (note: roughly 40 miles p.h.), with a slight whirring sound and not the classic reaction-motor noise - cannot be confused with laser projections or holograms."

General-Major Wilfried De Brouwer, former Adjunct-Chief of the Belgian Air Force


So?! Laser projections and holograms?! I agree, that sounds far out, but what does that have to do with the present discussion - and especially the possibility of a plasma phenomenon?

And your quotes:

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CIA

"Unknown objects are operating under intelligent control... It is imperative that we learn where UFO's come from and what their purpose is...

VICE ADMIRAL ROSCOE H. HILLENKOETTER
Director, Central Intelligence Agency 1947-1950


In those days the CIA and US military in general were terrified that the Soviets would instigate a nuclear attack and a sneak attack was the worst scenario possible. That is one of the reasons why they were so interested.

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General Curtis LeMay

"Many of the mysteries might be explained away as weather balloons, stars, reflected lights, all sorts of odds and ends. I don't mean to say that, in the unclosed and unexplained or unexplainable instances, those were actually flying objects. All I can say is that no natural phenomena could be found to account for them... Repeat again: There were some cases we could not explain. Never could."

GENERAL CURTIS LEMAY
autobiography Mission With LeMay
New York: Doubleday, 1965.


So they couldn't find any natural phenomenon at that time that could explain them. Well, now we have one such phenomenon. Also, he specifically states that he does not want to say that they were actually flying objects.

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JAPAN


"Much evidence tells us UFOs have been tracked by radar; so, UFOs are real and they may come from outer space... UFO photographs and various materials show scientifically that there are more advanced people piloting the saucers and motherships."

GENERAL KANSHI ISHIKAWA
Chief of Staff of Japan's Air Self-Defense Force
Commander of the 2nd Air Wing
Chitose Air Base 1967


Keywords: UFOs are real (nobody is diputing that, but that doesn't make them ET) and they may come from outer space. Not that they are certainly coming from outer space, but that they may.

Not really very supportive of your hypothesis, is it?

Cheers,
Badeskov
merril
I think Skyeagle409 if off on a wild goose chase. This world has plenty of such pursuits.

IMO, what people may have thought they once saw, or read about, or argued about, has clearly not given us a reason to rationally and honestly conclude ET spaceships.

One needs to own up to the wealth of human brainpower, and put this ET UFOs into the category of modern day mythology.

It is an area naturally to inquire about. And, an area to use scientific knowledge to try and understand.

ET has not been established, and can not be concluded. Time and again, stories appear, amidst a backdrop of wordly activities. Therein, lie the answers.

It's time to give scientists a little credit. UFOs are us, and nature. Probably always have been.

Don't like it? It's the way things are. We are lucky to be here, as a living planet. But, such places are separated by astronomic distances. There is no escaping that fact. To conclude some planet's inhabitants overcame all odds, developed to some unimaginable level while having seemingly unlimited natural resources, became able to travel interstellar distances, and came here is so much wishful thinking.

It makes no sense.

Evangium
QUOTE (badeskov @ Apr 23 2008, 07:36 AM) *
So?! Laser projections and holograms?! I agree, that sounds far out, but what does that have to do with the present discussion - and especially the possibility of a plasma phenomenon?

And yet he still mised one of the eyewitnesses to Rendleshem stating that he saw a 'projection of a craft'.
Typical of the pelican though, throw 'em a red herring and they'll swoop on that fish...

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So they couldn't find any natural phenomenon at that time that could explain them. Well, now we have one such phenomenon. Also, he specifically states that he does not want to say that they were actually flying objects.

Interestingly enough 'one who 'knows' should be able to get his hands on those scientific reports, since websearching tends to return a few results for scientific/research databases. Any wonder then we're only seeing one side post facts and the other lol/smileying nervously...

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Keywords: UFOs are real (nobody is diputing that, but that doesn't make them ET) and they may come from outer space. Not that they are certainly coming from outer space, but that they may.

Not really very supportive of your hypothesis, is it?

Cheers,
Badeskov

Unfortunately, Badeskov, it doesn't matter how many times you read the same errancy presented across a multitude of sites, books, etc..., the only thing Aubrey will accept as correct and 'done your homework' is the forced conclusion that makes you grab your flashlight and join the rest of the kooks on the hill trying to flag down a passing spaceship... no.gif

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FireMoon
Friendly aircraft have a transponder on them that signals they are just that and it wasn't there on the Belgian sighting... So it wasn't a NATO object...

If you were to watch a few UFO shows made in Europe you would know that the object that was tracked on Radar was also sighted and reported by people on the ground who described a dark triangular craft... A craft with a startlingly similar shape was seen over a period of weeks right across Belgium.

Evangium
Note that they're talking about incoherrent plasma scatters, which I'm making an educated guess is not the phenomena that Badeskov has been refering to.Link
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COMMENTS to the Detailed Spectrum Investigation, Phase III
by the European Incoherent Scatter Association (EISCAT)
Kiruna, October 13, 1998 - Gudmund Wannberg, Deputy Director
1. Introduction
Incoherent scattering of radio waves from plasma is a physical process, which has been understood in principle ever since the classical work on the properties of the electron by J.J. Thomson in the late 19th century. It was realised that free electrons immersed in an electromagnetic field would be accelerated by the electric component of the field and thus reradiate a part of the energy contained in the field. Once the mass and charge of the electron were determined, it became possible to compute the electron scattering cross section. This proved to be so small, of the order of 10-24 m2, that the process was initially believed to be of no practical significance.

However, the development of high power VHF and UHF radars during WW II pushed technology to a point where physicists and radar engineers realised that, given a large enough radar, it should be possible in principle to detect incoherently backscattered radar returns from the plasma in the ionosphere. One should then be able to determine the electron density at altitudes above the F-layer peak, which normal ionosondes cannot reach. Tests were performed at different laboratories during the early 1960s and backscattered signals were eventually received on the ground. It came as a pleasant surprise that the initial predictions of signal strength and information content were overly restrictive, and that in fact the radar echo contained a wealth of information about the scattering plasma. This led to the establishment of a number of dedicated incoherent scatter radar (ISR) facilities in many areas of the world during the 1960's and 1970's.

So would I be correct in saying that this relates to an upper atmosphere phenomena that is above the normal operation of aircraft and RADAR?

And maybe our RADAR 'expert' could translate this into plain English
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Plasma structures responsible for sporadic E region quasi-periodic echoes

Yen-Hsyang Chua, , , Chien-Ya Wangb and Kuo-Feng Yanga

aInstitute of Space Science/Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan, ROC

bDepartment of Physics, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC


Received 25 September 2005; revised 8 October 2006; accepted 20 October 2006. Available online 19 December 2006.




References and further reading may be available for this article. To view references and further reading you must purchase this article.


Abstract
We used the interferometry technique to reconstruct the spatial structures of 3-m field-aligned irregularities (FAI) in the nighttime sporadic E (Es) layer responsible for quasi-periodic (QP) echoes. We found that the scattering regions that give rise to the QP striations with positive range rates occurred in patchy patterns with zonal and vertical extents of approximately 5–20 and 3–8 km, respectively. These echo patterns appeared quasi-periodically with periods of 2–6 min and moved horizontally from southeast to northwest at an approximately constant height. One of the important findings of this study is that the zonal trace velocities of the kilometer-scale plasma structures were approximately the same as the zonal drift velocities of the 3-m FAI. The former were deduced from the temporal displacement of the echo patterns on the horizontal plane, and the latter were estimated from the observed Doppler velocities of the 3-m FAI combined with the angular positions resolved by the interferometry technique. This feature strongly implies that the small-scale FAI were “frozen” within the large-scale plasma structures responsible for the QP echoes. On the basis of this frozen-in property, the meridional component of the drift velocity of the plasma structures can be obtained from that of the 3-m FAI, irrespective of the limitations of the extraordinarily narrow width of the expected echoing region in the north–south direction. Our results show that the maximum drift velocity of the plasma structures is as large as approximately 135 m/s in the direction from southeast to northwest. On the basis of the long dwelling time (greater than 6 min) and small horizontal dimension (average of approximately 10 km) of the QP scattering regions, we speculate that the configuration of the large-scale plasma structures responsible for the QP echoes is likely to be a horizontally elongate shape whose major axes are primarily aligned in the meridional direction with respect to geomagnetic north.

Keywords: Ionospheric plasma instability; Field-aligned irregularities; VHF radar; Drift velocity; Frozen-in property Link
badeskov
QUOTE (Evangium @ Apr 22 2008, 07:25 PM) *
Note that they're talking about incoherrent plasma scatters, which I'm making an educated guess is not the phenomena that Badeskov has been refering to.Link

So would I be correct in saying that this relates to an upper atmosphere phenomena that is above the normal operation of aircraft and RADAR?


You would be correct. This is an ionosphere phenomena, and measuring the backscattering from the ionosphere can yield many valuable, meteorological data. In essence, it works as a high altitude "electron barometer". The incoherent radar backscatter stems from electrons removed from their atoms by high energy ultra-violet light from the sun and as the energy scattered from each electron is a known quantity, the electron density can be computed from the backscattered energy and therefrom a whole host af upper atmospheric data derived. original.gif

Plasma can be encountered many places, in many shapes or forms. Simply put, a plasma is a gas ionized to the point where the energy is enough for electrons to break free from their host molecules. To that effect the degree of ionization is defined (a), which is really the fraction of atoms from which electrons have broken free (a=Ni/(Ni+Nn)), where Ni is the number of ionized atoms (lost electrons) and Nn the number of neutral atoms (retained their electrons). As it is free electrons that carry electricity (e.g., currents in copper wires), it is easy to see that such plasma can be highly electrically conductive and react to magnetic fields. And the higher the degree of ionization, the more free electrons and the better the conductor it is. For many purposes the conductivity of such a plasma can be treated as infinite, thus the resemblance to a metal with respect to electromagnetic radiation.

The differences between plasmas are many, and the upper atmosphere plasmas are low density plasmas. What we encounter in our lower atmosphere are obviously higher density. The geometrically very confined plasmas (like a sphere) is theorized to have a high temperature gradient at the boundary, which is preserving the shape. And so one and so forth wink2.gif

Cheers,
Badeskov
skyeagle409
QUOTE (hazzard @ Apr 22 2008, 07:29 PM) *
Ok I did, now what..?


Good deal, McNeil!!

Now, tell the other skeptics, based on what the experts have said, why plasma played no part in that incident.
skyeagle409
QUOTE (badeskov @ Apr 22 2008, 06:56 PM) *
Yet, I am the one that has presented scientific data that indeed is possible,...


And, I am insisting, that plasma played no part in any of the case files I've posted. You can provide all the scientific data you want, but you can't rewrite the laws of physics to make those UFOs have anything to do with plasma.

Read the reports!
skyeagle409
QUOTE (badeskov @ Apr 22 2008, 10:08 PM) *
Sigh. Sky, that corner you have painted yourself into must feel more and more cramped, yet you keep painting.


What is amazing to me, is that you keep insisting that plasma could have played a part in any of case files presented, when the fact of the matter is, investigations revealed that the UFOs were in fact, intelligently controlled vehicles and many of those case files were radar/visual where the aircrews described structured flying crafts, not plasma.

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By all means of respect, but you can't even keep track of simple radar terminology. How do you expect me (or any other for that matter) to believe that you know anything about the subject at hand?!


Let's just say that I know other things that radar can do that you won't find on the internet.
skyeagle409
QUOTE (badeskov @ Apr 22 2008, 10:10 PM) *
I can't, and neither can you!


Wrong again, because if you had truly checked out the videos, you would have found that the witnesses were describing a triangular-shaped flying object, not plasma, and if you had checked the video on the JAL incident, you would have heard that military and commmercial aircrews reported encountering flying saucers, not plasma.


UFO debunker, Phil Klass and CSICOP tried to explain away the JAL incident as planets, until they found the planets were not in the same patch of sky as the UFOs and then, they changed their story to that of ice clouds, but meterological conditions excluded ice clouds as well.

Later analysis of the data in Washington D.C., confirmed the reports of the JAL aircrew.


skyeagle409
QUOTE (FireMoon @ Apr 23 2008, 02:54 AM) *
Friendly aircraft have a transponder on them that signals they are just that and it wasn't there on the Belgian sighting... So it wasn't a NATO object...

If you were to watch a few UFO shows made in Europe you would know that the object that was tracked on Radar was also sighted and reported by people on the ground who described a dark triangular craft... A craft with a startlingly similar shape was seen over a period of weeks right across Belgium.


And, that is a primary reason why the object had nothing to do with any plasma; it was a structured, flying craft, not the result of any natural phenomenon..
badeskov
QUOTE (skyeagle409 @ Apr 22 2008, 09:03 PM) *
And, I am insisting, that plasma played no part in any of the case files I've posted. You can provide all the scientific data you want, but you can't rewrite the laws of physics to make those UFOs have anything to do with plasma.

Read the reports!


Now, as I have asked over and over, please do point to the exact point in said reports where it is said that a plasma wasn't responsible! And if you had just a hint of knowledge of what you are talking about, you would actually know that there would be no need to rewrite the laws of physics, rather, plasmas are well within the laws of physics.

Cheers,
Badeskov
skyeagle409
QUOTE (Stellar @ Apr 22 2008, 07:16 PM) *
And how does it decide whether the thing plasma event is a plasma event or an aircraft? It cant.


Since some air intercept radars can differentiate between types of jet engines based on the characteristics of the rotating compressor blades, and do so frrom many miles away, what do you really think? Even aircraft have their unique signatures and radar can even detect a pilot's helmet inside the cockpit and there are many other things it can do that you won't find on the internet either.

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You seem like a kid thats played a couple of flightsims and thinks he knows all about radar. What badeskov said was not wrong. It seems to me you are the one who lacks knowledge, not him.


LOL!!

It was I, who revealed the facts on the F-16's radar that had nothing to do with flight sims, and look what you posted! Besides, the F-16 pilot pretty much summed in up in his interview that the craft was real, not related to atmospheric phenomena, but I had already told you that! BTW, I harbor much more info' on such radar that you won't find in any flight sims! Just thought you would like to know that! original.gif

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Yes, but it rejects these things based on how the EM waves are returned to it. If the recieving signal is something that the radar mode would track, its going to be picked up. The plasma phenomena reflects signals back the same way an aircraft would, so the radar does pick it up, and it can be tracked in STT mode.


If the pilots designates the target to where the radar jumps into STT mode, he is not tracking any plasma.

As I've said before, all you are doing is similar to copying Japanese language characters and not knowing what those characters represent.

Now, did you review the video that proves that plasma played on part in that incident and why?
badeskov
QUOTE (skyeagle409 @ Apr 22 2008, 09:08 PM) *
What is amazing to me, is that you keep insisting that plasma could have played a part in any of case files presented, when the fact of the matter is, investigations revealed that the UFOs were in fact, intelligently controlled vehicles and many of those case files were radar/visual where the aircrews described structured flying crafts, not plasma.


Yeah, the old tirade with nothing to back you up whatsoever.

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Let's just say that I know other things that radar can do that you won't find on the internet.


I am guessing from Top Gun the movie, as so far you have indicated that to be your level of knowledge of radar.

Cheers,
Badeskov
badeskov
QUOTE (skyeagle409 @ Apr 22 2008, 09:15 PM) *
Wrong again, because if you had truly checked out the videos, you would have found that the witnesses were describing a triangular-shaped flying object, not plasma, and if you had checked the video on the JAL incident, you would have heard that military and commmercial aircrews reported encountering flying saucers, not plasma.


Forget the JAL incident, we are still discussing your Belgian radar data. And I have repeated asked you to point me to the exact minute and second in the youtube video you posted, as I have watched it several times and I see nowhere the eyewitnesses related to the specific target yielding your posted radar track.

But I guess I can keep waiting.

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UFO debunker, Phil Klass and CSICOP tried to explain away the JAL incident as planets, until they found the planets were not in the same patch of sky as the UFOs and then, they changed their story to that of ice clouds, but meterological conditions excluded ice clouds as well.

Later analysis of the data in Washington D.C., confirmed the reports of the JAL aircrew.


Again, forget the JAL until we are finished with your Belgian data - then we can discuss the JAL incident.

Cheers,
Badeskov
badeskov
That you keep asking the same questions and blatantly display your inability to answer even simple radar related questions doesn't really suit you.

QUOTE (skyeagle409 @ Apr 22 2008, 09:39 PM) *
Since some air intercept radars can differentiate between types of jet engines based on the characteristics of the rotating compressor blades, and do so frrom many miles away, what do you really think? Even aircraft have their unique signatures and radar can even detect a pilot's helmet inside the cockpit and there are many other things it can do that you won't find on the internet either.


Now we are getting somewhere. So we can differentiate between a plasma and an aircraft due to the resolution of the radar and the details we know about aircraft. OK, so how do you differentiate between a plasma and ET. It will just be a return that you can't match to a known aircraft, but it will otherwise be solid.

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It was I, who revealed the facts on the F-16's radar that had nothing to do with flight sims, and look what you posted! Besides, the F-16 pilot pretty much summed in up in his interview that the craft was real, not related to atmospheric phenomena, but I had already told you that! BTW, I harbor much more info' on such radar that you won't find in any flight sims! Just thought you would like to know that! original.gif


By all means of respect, pure and simple nonsense. He summed it up as a not a natural phenomenon that he is familiar with - he can't do anything else.

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If the pilots designates the target to where the radar jumps into STT mode, he is not tracking any plasma.


Nonsense, as has been described to you before and you have yet to show any knowledge of the field by describing how this is possible.

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As I've said before, all you are doing is similar to copying Japanese language characters and not knowing what those characters represent.


No, it is japanese to you because you don't understand what is being said.

Cheers,
Badeskov
SkepticalEd
QUOTE (hazzard @ Feb 8 2008, 07:41 PM) *
Are all these credible high ranking fine people with top secret clearance crazy or lying!?

Skeptical Ed: "When I saw the word skeptical in the title I thought that the person behind the post was an open-minded skeptic. But no luck. After reading the post I don't think the originator is a skeptic. I think the originator is close-minded. Asking about people with top secret clearance is limiting. Why don't you ask about people in general, the ones actually having the sightings and videotaping the objects."

I dont know.

So? Maybe, maybe not.

Have you ever seen one jot of proof that any of whats been sighted, reported, filmed, or photographed has ever, in any way, been shown to be alien. I do not deny that some things might be alien. Im all for that. What I do deny is that there has been any proof of it.

SE: "You damn right that there's plenty of proof. How could such a stupid question not only be posted but constructed? Where you been, hermitsville?"

You see, I do not deal in belief. I deal in knowledge. There is a vast difference between the two. You may believe all you want to. But knowledge requires a higher standard than that which propels belief.

SE: "No, you don't deal in knowledge; you deal in close-mindness. Don't make yourself to be what you indicate you're not. I deal in knowledge and the knowledge is that there are aerial objects that are not human-constructed. You can deny their existence all you want, because you haven't had a sighting. At least you don't sound like you've had a sighting."

There is no reason to get upset about it. What needs to be understood is the burden of proof that science and its method requires.

SE: "Oh, get off your high horse and talk common sense. Are you a scientist? I doubt it."

As believers begin to build the case about UFO = Aliens, the foundation of this is built on hear say, speculations, theories, guess work, assumptions, beliefs and emotions.

But there are no real scientific evidence or Facts.Until we can prove 100% that these are not earth based ships - we are guessing. So, what it all comes down to is EVIDENCE..!!!

Were is it!?

SE: "Well, since you're making the claim that there is no evidence then YOU prove that what is being seen and videotaped is human-constructed. If you can do that, you got a case. At the moment, though, you DON'T have a case, just hot air."

No BS, I want the undisputed hard scientific proof that there is other life in the universe...!!

SE: "Until you become someone of any importance to be catered to you'll have to get your own evidence. Go outside and stay out there for a while. Don't look for any other life in the universe while you're standing on planet earth. We are it."

****Skyeagle.....Dont post any of the old stuff, please!!!

SE: "What do you know of old stuff and how would you recognize the new "stuff" ? With your hot air, I'm surprised you haven't floated off the planet's surface!"

skyeagle409
QUOTE (badeskov @ Apr 22 2008, 10:36 PM) *
So?! Laser projections and holograms?! I agree, that sounds far out, but what does that have to do with the present discussion - and especially the possibility of a plasma phenomenon?


They were no more responsible for any of the case files in question, any more than plasma.

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And your quotes:

In those days the CIA and US military in general were terrified that the Soviets would instigate a nuclear attack and a sneak attack was the worst scenario possible. That is one of the reasons why they were so interested.


That is a joke and so was JANAP-146 and many commercial pilots voiced that anger as well.

Having flown aircraft for more than 38 years, did they really think that commerical pilots are going to spend all of their time looking out for Soviet aircraft when there was the DEW line and Pine Tree defense zones in operation in addition to other air defense radars???

If Soviet aircraft were already over Cleveland, Ohio by the time Soviet aircraft were spotted by commercial pilots, it would have already been too late, so do you see the silliness in the way the government does business with its deceptive practices in regards to the UFO enigma?

We already knew that the explanation by the govenment, which was posted above, was just another form of deception by the government. With that, I have to reiterate "KNOWLEDGE" as a means to know when to "throw 'em, and when to hold 'em."


The CIA has been known to use forms of deception on UFOs and documents are now revealing just how extentive the CIA was involved in deceiving the public on UFOs and just the other day, I posted the facts surrounding the U-2 when the CIa was claiming that the U-2 was passed off as a UFO when it fact, it was passed off as a high alitude weather aircraft.

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So they couldn't find any natural phenomenon at that time that could explain them. Well, now we have one such phenomenon. Also, he specifically states that he does not want to say that they were actually flying objects.


Certain mirages will show up on radar, but are not visible more than 2 degrees above the horizon, and that is why many UFO icidents could not be explained as radar mirages and besides, radar controllers know he difference and as one senior radar controller noted: they know what birds look like on radar and what mirages look like on their scopes.

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Keywords: UFOs are real (nobody is diputing that, but that doesn't make them ET) and they may come from outer space. Not that they are certainly coming from outer space, but that they may.


Such a flying craft exhibiting technology not found in our science books is a clue and another reason why a B-52 aircrew had stated for the record on video, that the UFO they encountered over the Minot AFB area, was in fact, an extraterrestrial craft.
skyeagle409
QUOTE (badeskov @ Apr 23 2008, 05:41 AM) *
I am guessing from Top Gun the movie, as so far you have indicated that to be your level of knowledge of radar.


LOL!!!

"Top Gun" doesn't even come close to exhibiting my level of knowlege on what air intercept radars are capable of and as a pilot, I noticed quite a few descepancies in the "Top Gun" movie that went by the general public, but then again, it was just another Hollywood movie that lack facts on the way its done in the rreal world.

One example is where he guy (Tom Cruise} turns his F-14 upside-down and goes conopy to conopy with the enemy. I oftened wondered jsut how far the vertical stabilizers were sticking into each other's fuselages with that maneuver.




skyeagle409
QUOTE (badeskov @ Apr 23 2008, 05:44 AM) *
Forget the JAL incident, we are still discussing your Belgian radar data.


Why forget the JAL incident???

Plasma played no more a part in that incident anymnore than in the Belgian incident!

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And I have repeated asked you to point me to the exact minute and second in the youtube video you posted, as I have watched it several times and I see nowhere the eyewitnesses related to the specific target yielding your posted radar track.


I have to go back because I don't have the numbers and why I asked you to review the video and what the pilot, the Colonel and the professor had said. So review he video and please post the statements of each of those individuals.
skyeagle409
QUOTE (badeskov @ Apr 23 2008, 05:50 AM) *
That you keep asking the same questions and blatantly display your inability to answer even simple radar related questions doesn't really suit you.


I have already made it knows as to why plasma played on part in the Belgian incident but it seems you are ignoring those facts as to why plasma played no part and in fact, why it was impossible for plasma to have been responsible for that UFO.

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Nonsense, as has been described to you before and you have yet to show any knowledge of the field by describing how this is possible.


LOL!!

Those are the facts. The pilot can designate a target in another mode to jump it into STT mode.
skyeagle409
QUOTE (Evangium @ Apr 23 2008, 12:18 AM) *
And yet he still mised one of the eyewitnesses to Rendleshem stating that he saw a 'projection of a craft'.


Actually not, since civilians in area also confirmed the accounts of the military of the UFOs in the sky at that time, and look what you posted!!!
The amazing thing is, their (the civilians) statements were video taped and look what you posted. laugh.gif
skyeagle409
QUOTE
UFO REALITY IS BREAKING OUT.

Nov. 12: Former Arizona Governor Fife Symington moderated a distinguished panel of former high-ranking government, aviation,
and military officials from seven countries
who discussed encounters with UFOs and official investigations.



Breaking Down 'The Wall' of UFO Silence
Antonio Huneeus

Summary: In a totally unprecedented move in the history of ufology, the Belgian Air Force and government has not only carefully documented the great UFO wave over Wallonia, but shared its results with civilian investigators and the public, in effect literally breaking down "The Wall" of UFO Silence that still stands in the western world.

FOR THE LAST SIX MONTHS, ALMOST THE ENTIRE EUROPEAN CONTINENT HAS BEEN PLAGUED BY A WAVE OF UFO SIGHTINGS UNSURPASSED IN HISTORY, PERHAPS MOST PUZZLING HAVE BEEN THOSE OF A GIGANTIC "FLYING PLATFORM" SIGHTED NEAR THE GERMAN BORDER IN BELGIUM.

In a totally unprecedented move in the history of ufology, the Belgian Air Force and government has not only carefully documented the great UFO wave over Wallonia, but shared its results with civilian investigators and the public, in effect literally breaking down "The Wall" of UFO Silence that still stands in the western world.

For the past year, citizens in the French-speaking region of Wallonia in Belgium have experienced an extraordinary UFO wave. Thousands of witnesses, including dozens of gendarmes (national police) and officers of the Belgian Air Force, have described triangular-shaped vehicles flying slowly over rooftops, hovering, shooting searchlights and performing incredible maneuvers. The objects have been captured on some 25 videotapes and tracked on both ground and airborne radar by the military.

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WraithGod
WHEW, I tried but the posts are so long and there's so many links and redundancy that I simply couldn't get through all of this.

I'd just like to point out that you guys are wasting post after post on stupid misunderstandings due to throwing around some terms.

Evidence is data presented that points to a specific conclusion or hypothesis. From evidence alone, only theory can be derived.

Proof is fact, solid, concrete ideas that can be demonstrated repeatedly to be true. If you have proof, only then can you create a law or fact.

There are different types of evidence. Factual evidence is evidence that has proof of its own. Circumstancial etc. evidence are other theories.

Examples:

Evolution is a theory. Popular though it may be, there is no proof of evolution, only evidence. And even if you have a huge amount of evidence, it cannot be a law without proof.

Gravity is a law. Gravity can be proved, demonstrated infallibly, to be true and fact.

Natural selection is also a theory, but it is supported by factual evidence, such as the testable and infallible idea that genetic mutations occur naturally during cell division.

Eyewitness accounts are not factual evidence, but they are still evidence. For example, someone "sees" a bird at night, and reports this sighting. However, video cameras later show it to be a bat. The latter is factual evidence of a bat being there. The former is evidence of a bird being there, but such evidence can be taken in many ways: evidence of bird being there, or a flying creature, or simply a flying object. Keep in mind that analyses of the video camera are actually eyewitness accounts as well, further complicating matters when the film is unclear. So that video of a bat can be evidence of a bat, or a flying creature, etc. etc. (I hope the analogy is clear when we're talking about UFO vids and pics).

Take a court case, for another example. A person (let's say a male) is on trial. He is found to be unable to prove his whereabouts for the duration of the time in which the murder occurred (proved by decomposition rates under specific conditions), has been proven to have had conflicts with the deceased, and his fingerprints were found on a kitchen knife with the deceased's blood on it. None of this is proof that he murdered the victim, but the evidence is conclusive enough that he can still be thrown in jail for it.

Hope this clears things up/jogs a few memories and prevents future arguments over technicalities. This thread is asking for evidence, not proof, so fighting for proof and not evidence is fruitless. =P

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That said, skyeagle is actually offering excellent evidence towards UFOs being of ET origin. Officials and such coming forward and saying it is true can be considered evidence. If no earthly proof can yet be used to explain a UFO phenomenon, then ET origin becomes a theory under that evidence.

"Yet" being a VERY key term in such a debate.

Personally, I feel the best evidence as of yet lies in objects removed from people that seem not to have gotten there by known means and have been found to possibly have extraterrestrial origin, observations of clearly mechanical vehicles that present abilities not replicated by our technology, and confessions along the lines of the Disclosure Project. Not to mention the loads of pilot-ground control conversations that would have been a b**** to fake. The fact that at least some UFOs (unidentified flying objects) have exhibited potentially intelligent behaviours such as evasion also adds credence. Alone, these tidbits could have other explanations, but events in which several of these factors are present are compelling.

I can post links if you want me to refer to certain events that match the above criteria, but I'm sure SE has covered most of them already and we're all smart enough to play match-up. wink2.gif
~ MacDDT ~
Well said WraithGod thumbsup.gif , I hope people will apply that info from now on *golf clap* yes.gif
skyeagle409
Report concerning the observation of UFOs in the night from March 30 to March 31, 1990 (Full Report)

Belgian Air Force (UFOs at Close Sight)

Summary: The full version of the Belgian Air Force report by Major Lambrechts, VS 3/Ctl-Met 1. This report provides the full picture of the reports of the involved units of the Belgian Air Force and the reports of the eyewitnesses of the Gendarmerie patrols on the unknown phenomena observes in the airspace (further refered to as UFOs) in the south of the line Bruxelles-Tirlemont during the night from March 30 to March 31, 1990.

e. The hypothesis according to which it was an optical illusion, a mistake for planets, or any other meteorological phenomenon, is in contradiction with the radar observations, especially the 10000 feet altitude and the geometrical position of the UFOs between themselves. The geometrical formation tends to prove a program.

http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc409.htm

http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc408.htm



Evangium
QUOTE (skyeagle409 @ Apr 23 2008, 03:33 PM) *
Actually not, since civilians in area also confirmed the accounts of the military of the UFOs in the sky at that time, and look what you posted!!!
The amazing thing is, their (the civilians) statements were video taped and look what you posted. laugh.gif

Obviously you did since you're laughing nervously.
So now the military eyewitnesses are less reliable than the civvies? Bit of a turnaround in your argument...

And if you have been looking at what I posted, I want an explanation for the what was in that article about RADAR, plasma and the E layer, STAT!

Don't ignore, handwaive, parrot on about something else. You're the RADAR expert, so put up or shut up!
skyeagle409
QUOTE

April 23, 2008

US Base's Report of UFO Crash 'had MoD in a Panic'
by Richard Norton-Taylor

A report by the deputy commander of a US nuclear base in East Anglia of an unidentified flying object provoked panic in the Ministry of Defence, newly-released documents have revealed. In what was claimed to be Britain's first UFO landing, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt, commander of the US Bentwaters base near Woodbridge in Suffolk, reported that two of his security patrolmen had seen "unusual lights" early in the morning of December 27, 1980.

Thinking that an aircraft had crashed, they reported seeing "a strange glowing object in the Rendlesham forest". The object was described as being "metallic in appearance and triangular in shape".

It had a "pulsing red light on top and bank of blue lights underneath".

Animals on a nearby farm were said to have gone into a " frenzy". The following day three depressions were found as well as traces of radiation, Col Halt reported.

His report was released under the US freedom of information act two years later. What has not been disclosed until now is the MoD's response to it.

British papers on the incident have been discovered by David Clarke, a researcher at Sheffield University who is writing a book on UFOs.

The Halt report was sent to the MoD with a covering letter by Squadron Leader Donald Moreland, an RAF liaison officer, who referred to "some mysterious sightings".

The ministry's scientists said they could offer "no explanation for the phenomena", or the radiation. Radar tapes from the night in question were impounded from nearby RAF bases to see if there was any evidence that British airspace had been invaded.



Didn't someone claim or post that no radar tapes were taken?! I wonder who that was?! rolleyes.gif



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The papers make clear the MoD was concerned more about protecting the base from unwelcome publicity than about the alleged UFO sightings.

The ministry was worried about rumours being spread suggesting that the "alien landing" was a clever cover story for an accident involving nuclear weapons, the crash of a prototype Stealth aircraft, or even the secret recovery of part of a Soviet satellite.

It was also worried that anti-nuclear campaigners would be alerted to the presence of nuclear bombs at Bentwaters.

Yet it had something else to hide. Five documents are being withheld on the grounds that they contain confidential briefings to ministers, relate to national security, or affect Britain's relations with the US.

Dr Clarke, of Sheffeld University's centre for English cultural tradition, and whose book is due to be published by Piatkus next year, has asked the MoD to release them.

He said: "Here we had USAF servicemen at a highly sensitive Nato base chasing UFOs around a forest in the middle of the night."

He added: "The files raise questions about how easily our defences could be fooled."


Read the transcript of Lt. Col. Charles Halt audio recording of UFO chase through Rendlesham



A sensitive issue involved the nukes when the UFOs appeared ovehead, but I will let the government tell you what happened.
skyeagle409
QUOTE (Evangium @ Apr 23 2008, 07:24 AM) *
Obviously you did since you're laughing nervously.


You say; "nervously!!! laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif

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So now the military eyewitnesses are less reliable than the civvies? Bit of a turnaround in your argument...


Not in the least! They are in the same boat on reality.
merril
Nothing personal Skyeagle409, I know you seem well intentioned.

But you BELIEVE ??? anything put out by some military PR machine- in Europe???!!!

No senior officer would ever think like that. Others, maybe, but not senior brass.

I suggest a re-think.

Unless, you have a bee in your bonnet...

Evangium
QUOTE (Evangium @ Apr 23 2008, 04:24 PM) *
Obviously you did since you're laughing nervously.
So now the military eyewitnesses are less reliable than the civvies? Bit of a turnaround in your argument...

And if you have been looking at what I posted, I want an explanation for the what was in that article about RADAR, plasma and the E layer, STAT!

Don't ignore, handwaive, parrot on about something else. You're the RADAR expert, so put up or shut up!



QUOTE (skyeagle409 @ Apr 23 2008, 04:30 PM) *
You say; "nervously!!! laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif



Not in the least! They are in the same boat on reality.

Would that be nervous laughter because you don't have a clue about how to make head or tails of that report I posted? The debate has moved well past your precious Rendleshem, yet when it comes to actually proving your 'knowledge' you just run back to the safety of your walled garden.

Either explain that report or be a man and admit that your 'knowledge' of RADAR isn't quite as extensive as you make out that it is, since obviously putting up or shutting up is something that scares the bejesus out of you.
(because you, and history, make it painfully clear that you never really grew out of playground arguing and still believe it's who gets the last word is the one who is right. Bit sad for a guy who's roughly twice my age...)
skyeagle409
QUOTE (merril @ Apr 23 2008, 07:35 AM) *
Nothing personal Skyeagle409, I know you seem well intentioned.

But you BELIEVE ???


Yes indeed and one of the reasons is that I personally saw a flying saucer back in 1968 and over of all places, in Vietnam. Over the years I have uncovered other facts and found that the Air Force had all along, knew that the flying saucers were those of ET, but never told the public and that determination was made back in 1948 and in 1952 after the Washington D.C. UFO incidents, based on the maneuvers of UFOs in the 1952 report by Major Dewey Fournet, USAF and by personnel at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH., including the commanding gerneral of Wright-Patterson AFB who stated for the records that ET visitation is a reality and that some of ET's material was brought to Wright-Patterson AFB.

Not long ago, I found that the U.S. Army had a special unit that went around and recovered ET's evidence and it was known as the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit, (IPU) which was operational long before we launched our first satellite. The mission of the unit was the recovery of space vehicles and since we were still years away from the launch of our first satellite, the spacecraft they were recovering were not ours.

I later found what Project Moon Dust and Operation Blue Fly were used by the IPU to facilitate its mission. amd not long ago, the U.S. Army finally admitted that its Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit did iin fact, exist.

Evenually, some of my compatriots were reasigned to my base from RAF Bentwaters, and they were present during the UFO incidents and confirmed that indeed, the incidents occurred.

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anything put out by some military PR machine- in Europe???!!!


In regards to Europe, I would like to say that NATO doesn't like to report their UFO encounters to the public, but take a look at what was reported near the Lakenheath area in 1956.

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Lakenheath 1956: A UK Radar-Visual UFO Classic

Gordon D. Thayer, Journal of Astronautics and Aeronautics; September

Summary:
with two highly redundant contacts -- the first with ground radar, combined with both ground and airborne visual observers, and the second with airborne radar, an airborne visual observer, and two different ground radars -- the Bentwaters-Lakenheath UFO incident represents one of the most significant radar-visual UFO cases.

Selected by the UFO Subcommittee of the AIAA
(American Institute for Astronautics and Aeronautics):
The Lakenheath, England, Radar-Visual UFO Case, August 13-14, 1956

Gordon D. Thayer,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in:
Journal of Astronautics and Aeronautics; September 1971

Introduction
The following story -- an example of the type of observation which forms the core of the UFO issue -- has been selected by the UFO Subcommittee of the AIAA for publication not only because of its puzzling content, but also because of the multiplicity of observations. The author, a former member of the "Condon Committee" (University of Colorado UFO study team), discusses the case, but does not offer an explanation. This case study is intended to give the reader a flavor of the observational residue material which underlies the UFO controversy.
On a pleasant August evening in 1956, the night-watch supervisor at the Lakenheath, England, Radar Air Traffic Control Center (RATCC), a U.S. Air Force noncommissioned officer, was startled by a telephone call from the Bentwaters GCA (Ground Controlled Approach) radar installation (see map) asking, "Do you have any targets on your scopes traveling at 4000 mph?" Thus began one of the strangest and most disturbing radar-visual UFO episodes on record.


Account of Observations
The four events at Bentwaters GCA took this order:

1. At 21:30Z a URE (No.1 in map) was picked up on the Bentwaters AN/MPN-11A GCA radar about 25-30 mi. to the ESE. (Note that Z time -- zero meridian time --, or GMT, is also local time in the Lakenheath-Bentwaters area.) This URE moved steadily on a constant azimuth heading of 295 deg until contact was lost about 15-20 mi. to the WNW of Bentwaters. The radar operator estimated the apparent speed of the URE as 4,000 mph; but the transit time of 30 sec yields an estimate of 4,800-6,000 mph, and the operator's estimate of 5-6 mi. covered by the URE between PPI sweeps (2 sec apart) gives an estimate of 9,000-10,800 mph. "The size of the blip when picked up was that of a normal aircraft target. [It] diminished in size and intensity to the vanishing point before crossing the entire radar screen."

http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc629.htm



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skyeagle409
QUOTE (Evangium @ Apr 23 2008, 07:49 AM) *
Would that be nervous laughter because you don't have a clue about how to make head or tails of that report I posted?


laugh.gif laugh.gif grin2.gif

Now, how about telling the thread why it was impossible for plasma to have been responsible for that triangular-shaped object that was captured on multiple airborne and ground-based radars?

In fact, why are there now folks trying to paint a different picture on that indident after all of these years?
skyeagle409
UFOs Over Vietnam

General George S Brown (1918-1978) was commander of the 7th US Air Force and deputy commander for Air Operations, Military Assistance Command Vietnam from 1968 to 1970 - and so was in command of the Phantoms involved in the snafu. In later years he rose to chair the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington. In 1973, he fronted a Chicago media conference held to discuss the North American UFO flap of that year, and while airing his views on UFOs at the conference he said:

"I don't know whether this story has ever been told or not [but UFOs plagued us in Vietnam]. They weren't called UFOs they were called enemy helicopters, and they were only seen at night and they were only seen in certain places. They were seen up around the DMZ in the early summer of '68, and this resulted in quite a battle. And in the course of this, an Australian destroyer [Hobart] took a hit ... there was no enemy at all involved but we always reacted. Always after dark. The same thing happened up at Pleiku at the Highlands in '69".

http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=4813

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1968 is also the year when I saw one over Vietnam.
Evangium
QUOTE (skyeagle409 @ Apr 23 2008, 05:06 PM) *
laugh.gif laugh.gif grin2.gif

Now, how about telling the thread why it was impossible for plasma to have been responsible for that triangular-shaped object that was captured on multiple airborne and ground-based radars?

In fact, why are there now folks trying to paint a different picture on that indident after all of these years?

No, how about you explain this, since you're the self appointed subject matter expert-

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Plasma structures responsible for sporadic E region quasi-periodic echoes

Yen-Hsyang Chua, , , Chien-Ya Wangb and Kuo-Feng Yanga

aInstitute of Space Science/Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan, ROC

bDepartment of Physics, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC


Received 25 September 2005; revised 8 October 2006; accepted 20 October 2006. Available online 19 December 2006.




References and further reading may be available for this article. To view references and further reading you must purchase this article.


Abstract
We used the interferometry technique to reconstruct the spatial structures of 3-m field-aligned irregularities (FAI) in the nighttime sporadic E (Es) layer responsible for quasi-periodic (QP) echoes. We found that the scattering regions that give rise to the QP striations with positive range rates occurred in patchy patterns with zonal and vertical extents of approximately 5–20 and 3–8 km, respectively. These echo patterns appeared quasi-periodically with periods of 2–6 min and moved horizontally from southeast to northwest at an approximately constant height. One of the important findings of this study is that the zonal trace velocities of the kilometer-scale plasma structures were approximately the same as the zonal drift velocities of the 3-m FAI. The former were deduced from the temporal displacement of the echo patterns on the horizontal plane, and the latter were estimated from the observed Doppler velocities of the 3-m FAI combined with the angular positions resolved by the interferometry technique. This feature strongly implies that the small-scale FAI were “frozen” within the large-scale plasma structures responsible for the QP echoes. On the basis of this frozen-in property, the meridional component of the drift velocity of the plasma structures can be obtained from that of the 3-m FAI, irrespective of the limitations of the extraordinarily narrow width of the expected echoing region in the north–south direction. Our results show that the maximum drift velocity of the plasma structures is as large as approximately 135 m/s in the direction from southeast to northwest. On the basis of the long dwelling time (greater than 6 min) and small horizontal dimension (average of approximately 10 km) of the QP scattering regions, we speculate that the configuration of the large-scale plasma structures responsible for the QP echoes is likely to be a horizontally elongate shape whose major axes are primarily aligned in the meridional direction with respect to geomagnetic north.

Keywords: Ionospheric plasma instability; Field-aligned irregularities; VHF radar; Drift velocity; Frozen-in property


I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd like a simple explanation...
Or you can continue to provide confirmation on the plausibility of your ignorance. It's your call. cool.gif
merril
Flying saucer in Viet Nam?

Seriously- battle fatigue or over-exposure to stress agents?

I'm serious. And, I would not downplay that either. I would say you were resiliant, and it was a tough situation.

Now, that, I could accept. That's how I see it, from the outside. And, I would not put one red cent into military records, or terminology used by its agents.
badeskov
QUOTE (skyeagle409 @ Apr 22 2008, 11:18 PM) *
Report concerning the observation of UFOs in the night from March 30 to March 31, 1990 (Full Report)

Belgian Air Force (UFOs at Close Sight)

Summary: The full version of the Belgian Air Force report by Major Lambrechts, VS 3/Ctl-Met 1. This report provides the full picture of the reports of the involved units of the Belgian Air Force and the reports of the eyewitnesses of the Gendarmerie patrols on the unknown phenomena observes in the airspace (further refered to as UFOs) in the south of the line Bruxelles-Tirlemont during the night from March 30 to March 31, 1990.

e. The hypothesis according to which it was an optical illusion, a mistake for planets, or any other meteorological phenomenon, is in contradiction with the radar observations, especially the 10000 feet altitude and the geometrical position of the UFOs between themselves. The geometrical formation tends to prove a program.

http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc409.htm

http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc408.htm



Since you refer to those reports, I will quote from those. First quoted:

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1. Starting early Dec 89 the BAF has been contacted on several occasions by eyewitnesses who observed strange phenomena in the Belgian airspace. On some occasions they described the phenomena as a triangle-shaped platform up to 200 feet wide with 3 downward beaming projectors, hovering at +- 100 m above the ground and making only a very light humming noise. Some witnesses saw the object departing at very high speed after a very fast acceleration. All observations were made in the evening or during the night.


This could never really be confirmed, thus

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3. Consequently the Belgian Airforce, anxious to identify the origin of the phenomena, authorised F16 scrambles if following conditions were met:

a. Visual observations on the ground confirmed by the local police.

b. Detection on radar.


So the triangular craft could not be confirmed, but the Belgian military kept the option for interception open. And that then happened:

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4. On 30 Mar 1990 at 23.00 Hr the Master Controller (MC) of the Air Defense radar station of Glons received a phone call from a person who declared to observe three independent blinking lights in the sky, changing colours, with a much higher intensity than the lights of the stars and forming a triangle. Meteo conditions were clear sky, no clouds, light wind and a minor temperature inversion at 3000 Ft.

5. The MC in turn notified the police of WAVRE which confirmed the sighting at +- 23 30 Hr. Meanwhile the MC had identified a radar contact at about 8 NM North of the ground observation. The contact moved slowely to the West at a speed of =- 25kts and an altitude of 10.000 Ft.

6. The ground observers reported 3 additional light spots which moved gradually, with irregular speeds, towards the first set of lights and forming a second triangle.

7. At 23.50 a second radar station, situated at +- 100 NM from the first, confirmed an identical contact at the same place of the radar contact of Glons.

8. At 00.05 2 F16 were scrambled from BEAUVECHAIN airbase and guided towards the radar contacts. A total of 9 interception attempts have been made. At 6 occasions the pilots could establish a lock-on with their air interception radar. Lock-on distances varied between 5 and 8 NM. On all occasions targets varied speed and altitude very quickly and break-locks occurred after 10 to 60 seconds. Speeds varied between 150 and 1010 kts. At 3 occasions both F16 registered simultaneous lock-ons with the same parameters. The 2 F16 were flying +- 2 NM apart. No visual contact could be established by either of the F16 pilots.


So to start with the lights are independent!!!! Therefore not a single craft. That they form a triangle does not mean that they were on one "craft". Then this happened:

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9. The F16 flew 3 times through the observation field of the ground observers. At the third passage the ground observers notified a change in the behavior of the light spots. The most luminous started to blink very intensively while the other disappeared. Consequently, the most luminous spot started to dim gradually.


They did not disappear as traingle craft, but the most luminous disappeared. If 3 of the lights forming a traingle had disappeared, that would most certainly have been noted. Thus, we can most likely conclude that all of the lights were independent and not attached to traingular crafts.

Finally, the last part of the first report:

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Conclusions:
12. The Belgian Air Force was unable to identify neither the nature nor the origin of the phenomena. However, it had sufficient elements to exclude following assumptions:

a. Balloons. Impossible due to the highly variable speeds (confirmed visually and by radar).

b. ULM. Same as for balloons.

c. RPV. Impossible due to the hovering characteristics.

d. Aircraft (including Stealth). Same as for RPV. No noise.

e. Laser projections or Mirages. Unlikely due to lack of projection surface (no clouds). Light spots have been observed from different locations. Light spots moved over distance of more than 15 NM. Form of inlighted part of spots has been observed with spectacles. Laser projections or mirages can not be detected by radar.


Exactly which part of the above exclude plasma phenomena, or any other atmospheric event but Laser projections or Mirages?! No part, they are actually very specific in their exclusions, as would be expected. It is you making the unsubstantiated projections.

Second link:

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23 h 00: The supervisor responsible (MC) for the Glons CRC (Control Reporting Center) receives a phone call from Mr. A. Renkin, gendarmerie MDL, who certifies to see, from his home at Ramillies, three unusual lights towards Thorembais-Gembloux. These lights are distinctly more intense than stars and planets, they don't move and are located at the apexes of an equilateral triangle. Their color is changing: red, green and yellow. 23 h 05: The Glons CRC asks the Wavre gendarmerie to send a patrol at this place in order to confirm this sighting.

23 h 10: A new call from Mr. Renkin points out a new phenomenon: three other lights move towards the first triangle. One of these lights is far brighter than the others. The Glons CRC observes in the meantime an unidentified radar contact, about 5 km north of the Beauvechain airport. The contacts moves at about 25 knots towards west.

23 h 28: A gendarmerie patrol including, among others, Captain Pinson, is on the premises and confirms Mr. Renkin's sightings. Captain Pinson describes the observed phenomenon as follows: the bright points have the dimension of a big star(*); their color changes continually. The prevailing color is red; then it changes itself in blue, green, yellow and white, but not always in the same order. The lights are very clear, as if they were signals: this enables to distinguish them from stars.

23 h 30 - 23 h 45: The three new lights, in the meantime, have drawn closer to the first observed triangle. In their turn, after a series of erratic moves, they arrange themselves also in triangular formation. In the mean time, the Glons CRC observes the phenomenon on radar.


Emphasis mine. Nowhere is mentioned a triangular craft, just lights. If they had actually seen the craft, then it would have been specifically mentioned. Moreover, they actually state that some of the observed lights arrange themselves into a triangle, thus they can't have been attached to a craft, could they?!?!?!

And the conclusion:

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5. Conclusion.

a. In contradiction with other pointed out UFO sightings, for the first time a radar contact has been positively observed, in correlation with different sensors of the Air Force (CRC, TCC, RAPCON, EBBE and F-16 radar), and this in the same area as visual observations. This has to be explained by the fact that the March 30-31 UFOs have been noticed at +/- 10000 feet altitude, whereas in the former cases there was always talk of visual contacts at very low altitude.

b. The visual evidences, on which this report is partially based, come from gendarmes in duty, whose objectivity cannot be questioned.

c. The UFOs, as soon as seen by the F-16 radar in the "Target Track" mode (after interception), have drastically changed their parameters. The speeds measured at that time and the altitude shifts exclude the hypothesis according to which planes could be mistaken for the observed UFOs. The slow moves during the other phases differ also from the moves of planes.

d. The fighter pilots never have had visual contact with the UFOs. This can be explained by the changes of luminous intensity, and even the disappearance of the UFOs, when the F-16 arrived in the neighborhood of the place where they were observed from the ground.

e. The hypothesis according to which it was an optical illusion, a mistake for planets, or any other meteorological phenomenon, is in contradiction with the radar observations, especially the 10000 feet altitude and the geometrical position of the UFOs between themselves. The geometrical formation tends to prove a program.

f. The first observation of the slow motion of the UFOs has been made roughly in the same direction and with the same speed as the wind. The direction differs by 30 degrees from the direction of the wind (260 degrees instead of 230 degrees). The hypothesis of sounding balloons is very improbable. The UFOs altitude during all this phase remained 10000 feet, whereas the sounding balloons go on higher and higher, up to burst at around 100000 feet. It is difficult to explain the bright lights and changes of color with such balloons. It is very improbable that balloons stay at the same altitude during more than one hour, while keeping the same position between themselves. Kn Belgium, during the radar observation, there was no meteorological inversion in progress. The hypothesis according to which it could be other balloons must be absolutely dismissed.

g. Though speeds greater than the sound barrier have been measured several times, not any bang has been noticed. Here also, no explanation can be given.

h. Though the different ground witnesses have effectively pointed out eight points in the sky, the radars have registered only one contact at the same time. The points have been seen at a distance one from another sufficient for them to be distinguished by the radars also. No plausible explanation can be put forward.

i. The hypothesis of air phenomena resulting from projection of holograms(*) must be excluded too: the laser projectors should have been normally observed by the pilots on flight. Moreover, the hologram cannot be detected by radar, and a laser projection can be seen only if there is a screen, like clouds for example. Here, the sky was clear, and there was no significant temperature inversion.


Here we have to look at point e. So they concluded that meteorological phenomena is not the cause of this and they might actually be right. Meteorology is a sub-discipline of atmospheric science, where plasma events is in another category (atmospheric physics). So, again, nothing excluding plasma here.

So what di this actually tell us?!

No triangular crafts were ever spotted in conjunction with the radar data. Actually, the lights were moving independently and not attached to a triangular craft. And nowhere was the plasma hypothesis excluded.

Please, do try again.

Cheers,
Badeskov
badeskov
QUOTE (skyeagle409 @ Apr 22 2008, 10:39 PM) *
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UFO REALITY IS BREAKING OUT.

Nov. 12: Former Arizona Governor Fife Symington moderated a distinguished panel of former high-ranking government, aviation,
and military officials from seven countries
who discussed encounters with UFOs and official investigations.



Breaking Down 'The Wall' of UFO Silence
Antonio Huneeus

Summary: In a totally unprecedented move in the history of ufology, the Belgian Air Force and government has not only carefully documented the great UFO wave over Wallonia, but shared its results with civilian investigators and the public, in effect literally breaking down "The Wall" of UFO Silence that still stands in the western world.

FOR THE LAST SIX MONTHS, ALMOST THE ENTIRE EUROPEAN CONTINENT HAS BEEN PLAGUED BY A WAVE OF UFO SIGHTINGS UNSURPASSED IN HISTORY, PERHAPS MOST PUZZLING HAVE BEEN THOSE OF A GIGANTIC "FLYING PLATFORM" SIGHTED NEAR THE GERMAN BORDER IN BELGIUM.

In a totally unprecedented move in the history of ufology, the Belgian Air Force and government has not only carefully documented the great UFO wave over Wallonia, but shared its results with civilian investigators and the public, in effect literally breaking down "The Wall" of UFO Silence that still stands in the western world.

For the past year, citizens in the French-speaking region of Wallonia in Belgium have experienced an extraordinary UFO wave. Thousands of witnesses, including dozens of gendarmes (national police) and officers of the Belgian Air Force, have described triangular-shaped vehicles flying slowly over rooftops, hovering, shooting searchlights and performing incredible maneuvers. The objects have been captured on some 25 videotapes and tracked on both ground and airborne radar by the military.

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Where the conclusions given by the Belgian military simply doesn't support the concusions here - see earlier post wit h respect to this.

Cheers,
Badeskov
badeskov
QUOTE (skyeagle409 @ Apr 22 2008, 10:28 PM) *
I have already made it knows as to why plasma played on part in the Belgian incident but it seems you are ignoring those facts as to why plasma played no part and in fact, why it was impossible for plasma to have been responsible for that UFO.


Do you even read the links you post?! They did not exclude plasmas. And, actually, no triangular craft, but rather independent lights that formed triangles after some moving around.

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LOL!!

Those are the facts. The pilot can designate a target in another mode to jump it into STT mode.


Which again displays a blatant lack of knowledge in the field of physics and radar tech. Again, please describe in detail (yes, technical details) as to how a plasma can be eliminated. I have described (in technical detail) how and why a reflective plasma acts as a metal obejct with respect to radar. You have told us that you could differentiate it from other aircraft, which is fine, but how do you differentiate it from ET? And if you STT it, it will just be an unknown target track, and just because it isn't in your DSP database of aircraft signatures be eliminated.

Cheers,
Badeskov
badeskov
QUOTE (skyeagle409 @ Apr 22 2008, 10:17 PM) *
Why forget the JAL incident???

Plasma played no more a part in that incident anymnore than in the Belgian incident!


Because we are talking about your radar data from the Belgian case - no need to obfuscate the discussion by suddenly trying to sidetrack it due to a lack of arguments.

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I have to go back because I don't have the numbers and why I asked you to review the video and what the pilot, the Colonel and the professor had said. So review he video and please post the statements of each of those individuals.


I have watched the video and I have repeated asked you where (minute and second) they state that plasma phenomena are not the cause, but I guess your inability to answer that question is the answer to my question; they don't.

Thus, the plasma possibility still stands.

Cheers,
Badeskov
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