bad_hair_day wrote:That's fair, but if you accept the radar and eyewitness accounts are of things real
What kind of numbers quoted for the speed / acceleration?bad_hair_day wrote:the Hawkeye 'spy plane'
I’ll bet there’s been lots of other “guesses” that have been compounded into “verified facts” over the years and every time the story gets repeated.bad_hair_day wrote:- guess they know their stuff.
bad_hair_day wrote:The 1080p reference was pointing out even at this fairly low res on a laptop size screen, at 20,000 feet the road vehicles were visible to the eye. Hoping pilot's have 20/20 vision.
bad_hair_day wrote:From the report.
Since the radar was in the mode to handle Air Intercept if conventional aircraft it never obtained an accurate track of the AAVs and was quickly “dropped” by the radar meaning it was eliminated by the computer to reduce the amount of clutter on the radar, as any other false target is handled.
bad_hair_day wrote:I'll leave it to the radar operator with 17 years of experience who went on record to say these unknowns tracks were real objects going very fast.
No, he didn’t. You want him to have said that. He went on record to say that the radar readings were akin to real objects going very fast.bad_hair_day wrote:I'll leave it to the radar operator with 17 years of experience who went on record to say these unknowns tracks were real objects going very fast.
The initial reading was the highest number on the range, rapidly descending to the lowest, on a detector that is struggling to return accurate results and give any accurate indication of what’s happening. I’d be as well postulating that they were up my arse beforehand.bad_hair_day wrote:They also appeared at 60,000 feet, care to postulate where they were beforehand?
bad_hair_day wrote:It's their jobs to know what's a threat to protect the carrier and the fleet.
bad_hair_day wrote:...THE OBJECTS HAD A WIGGLE ON.
bad_hair_day wrote:Rather than me speak for the US Navy, listen to what someone who was there to explain why.
Kevin Day- Senior Radar Operator- USS Princeton
https://youtu.be/_2zRabdvKnw
Yossarian wrote:bad_hair_day wrote:Rather than me speak for the US Navy, listen to what someone who was there to explain why.
Kevin Day- Senior Radar Operator- USS Princeton
https://youtu.be/_2zRabdvKnw
Are there transcripts of these interviews anywhere? Because I’m still not about to sit down for 37 minutes to listen to this.
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