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- ZeNiTH456, on 10/24/2008, -5/+208He never mentioned actually seeing the aircraft.. Maybe it really was "a secret U.S. project to create phantom aircraft on radar screens to test Soviet air defenses".
That sounds cool, but why wouldn't we use it more often? - boardthis, on 10/24/2008, -5/+193lol this was on thursday night weekend update... "Another narrow escape for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."
- Ferros2600, on 10/24/2008, -6/+176I'm not sure if this is really cool or really scary...
- keithloughnane, on 10/25/2008, -15/+165for no particular reason, I BLAME VIDEO GAMES!
- TheBigL481, on 10/25/2008, -7/+153If ever there was a more appropriate time for it...
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: : : : : : :¯’’~~~~~~’’’ : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : | : : : : : : : : : - GoatMonkey2112, on 10/25/2008, -0/+89That means we need actual flying aircraft carriers so that this trick will work when it's used.
- inactive, on 10/25/2008, -3/+76IBM, the bastards...
- MadEnvoy, on 10/25/2008, -2/+73Failed tech: "moved erratically and gave a radar reading like "a flying aircraft carrier.""
- Aroundtheworls, on 10/25/2008, -0/+61Tell me, Mr. Anderson... what good is a phone call... if you're unable... to... speak?
- inactive, on 10/25/2008, -10/+63Assuming you're not just being a smartass with that comment... So if you were running the military and your radar picked up some kind of massive UFO, you'd tell your pilots to not bother firing rockets because the UFO probably has shields and phaser beams? Remind me to never make you my Secretary of Defense should I ever become president.
Thx,
Bill Pullman - BTraina, on 10/25/2008, -0/+47clearly rap music is to blame
- BenjoS, on 10/24/2008, -8/+53Sometimes I'm not sure what to to think.
- chownrus, on 10/25/2008, -2/+46So we've finally seen McCain's October surprise.
McCain: My friends, I know how to deal with aliens. "That guy" doesn't know the first thing about aliens. As a fighter pilot in the War of the Worlds, I dealt with the tripods first hand. - PhillyMJS, on 10/25/2008, -0/+40"That sounds cool, but why wouldn't we use it more often?"
The surprise factor.
In 1986, when the US did the air strike on Libya to get Khaddafi, they were going to use F-117s. At the last moment they changed it to conventional aircraft, which actually ended up saving Khaddafi's life because he got enough advance notice from radar detection to get outta dodge.
IIRC, according to the book "Skunk Works," the Secretary of Defense himself scrapped the idea of using the stealth fighter for the strike because they wanted to keep its existence a secret from the Soviets "until we hit them with it." - lead2thehead, on 10/25/2008, -1/+35So am I correct in assuming that he never actually saw the object? He only describes its radar signature. It seems much more likely that somebody was experimenting with radar scattering technology.
- xavyre, on 10/25/2008, -0/+34Who says we don't already have flying aircraft carriers?
- inactive, on 10/25/2008, -2/+36Sorry, got so flustered by the inherent humorlessness of these responses that I posted this as a main reply. Anyhow:
HOLY ***** how can you people be so humorless? Why in the world would you think that a reply signed "Thx, Bill Pullman" -- who played an alien-fighting jet fighter pilot President in a movie -- should be taken seriously?
Many apologies that my joke came off as "arrogant." It truly wasn't my intention. No apologies for calling you humorless though, no matter how arrogant it makes me sound.
p.s. ADHD, Do you know how ***** idiotic you sound when you can't spell "***** arrogant?" Haw haw. - strangewill, on 10/25/2008, -2/+34I also suggest Green Eggs and Ham.
- edebolt, on 10/25/2008, -1/+32but I thought the US govt was in partnership deal with the Gray's Alien pact of 1956 made at Edwards AFB which was the predecessor to Area 51. Why would the USAF want to shoot down their buddies?
- cosmosprince, on 10/25/2008, -1/+30haha that guy thought your name is Bill Pullman
- neodorian, on 10/25/2008, -11/+39UFO =/= alien spaceship.
This guy probably had a radar *****, got orders to fire off some missiles, and then when the glitch went away, the military didn't exactly want it known that we came close to firing off a bunch of missiles into the air at nothing.
Move along people.
Nothing to see here
/Barbrady - WhiskeyWrites, on 10/24/2008, -2/+27I'm going to say a little of both.
- inactive, on 10/25/2008, -1/+26"Sometimes I'm not sure what to to think."
More evidence of alien mind rays. - dieboldcracy, on 10/25/2008, -7/+31so EVERYONE's radar was malfunctioning? the radar on the ground that sent him scrambling to open fire AND his F-86's radar. all glitching in the same way? that doesn't sound likely
- poidh, on 10/25/2008, -3/+27FTA: "a shadowy figure told Torres he must never talk about the incident"
Sounds like he met one the aliens he was chasing..... - WhiteMike87, on 10/25/2008, -3/+27Project Blue Book is an interesting read. They declassified it so you can probably find it at your library.
- DestroyingAngel, on 10/25/2008, -1/+22UFO = unidentified flying object. It doesn't have to do anything with alien or extraterrestrials. Anything that is not identified on the radar is a UFO
- tdave365, on 10/25/2008, -3/+23I don't know why everyone gets so excited about "UFOs". A UFO is strictly an "unidentified flying object". Because of that, most people have seen one at one point in their life, and, most people, when polled, believe in them. The trick most media agents cast is pretending that the UFO meaning has something to do with aliens or creatures from outer space.
In a militarily sensitive situation, any UFO would naturally be alarming and suspect. So this situation, save for the trick I just pointed out, is unremarkable and not newsworthy. - GenghisTom, on 10/25/2008, -2/+22Unless there was some kind of atmospheric anomaly going on. Might have been a freak electrical storm that was giving off weird radar signatures, or maybe it was caused by the aurora borealis. There are tons of unexplained phenomena in the atmosphere. However, without looking into this further (which the article seems to suggest they didn't do), this event should be firmly in the "Huh, that's weird" category.
- dn11, on 10/25/2008, -0/+20I blame the hardcore sex in Mass Effect
- Tr33fiddy, on 10/25/2008, -0/+20I say scary;
Yes, shoot down a UFO. A UFO capable of interstellar and probably faster-than-light travel with technology far beyond our own that appears to merely be visiting our planet, rather than invading us.
Shoot it down because 1. you CAN shoot down something vastly more advanced than anything we have with a F-86 D Sabre and 2. I'm sure the vastly more advanced alien race won't mind one bit. - Raian, on 10/25/2008, -0/+18They were probably more interested in seeing the UFO shoot back.
- xavyre, on 10/25/2008, -1/+19Dear, Jackass,
Fighter jets are scrambled all the time for 'radar *****-ups'. - tyhen, on 10/25/2008, -6/+23Here's a thought Mr. "President". Try making first contact and put some ointment on that itchy trigger finger.
- Bojanglesmn, on 10/25/2008, -0/+15"errr, Control, my radar's *****' up."
"SHOOT" - elipabst, on 10/25/2008, -1/+16So they have the ability to travel close to the speed of light, but when they get here they're going to roll down the window and shoot us with sling shots?
- tyhen, on 10/25/2008, -0/+15Coz I scanned them with my tricorder .... duhhhhh
- robdiggity, on 10/25/2008, -2/+17Remind me to remind you to remind me to remind you to remind me.
- UNL1M1T3D, on 10/25/2008, -1/+16I am more afraid of the fact that this is the information THEY ARE releasing. I am curious to see what else they have.
- eigenweasel, on 10/25/2008, -0/+14That is verifiably true. It says so on several websites.
- jtbell04, on 10/25/2008, -1/+15Rise and... shine, Lt. Torres. Wake up... and smell the ashes.
- necromancer, on 10/25/2008, -3/+17Wait, you mean 1957 radar technology might have had a flaw in it? No way, because the computers in 1957 were awesome, and barely took up an entire room! I mean, UNIVAC had enough memory to store 1000 words! You just can't fool that type of super-computer technology.
- dieboldcracy, on 10/25/2008, -0/+14tv violence
- serif69, on 10/25/2008, -0/+13It was the Smoking Man.
- inactive, on 10/25/2008, -4/+17I love reading UFO stories but there is an explanation to every one of them. In this case its bad tech equipment.
- mtnsoccerguy, on 10/25/2008, -0/+13Actually, in Alabama, you ***** it, kill it, eat it, and then get a new sheep.
- ChayD, on 10/25/2008, -0/+13Dugg, but only for your ***** username.
- mtnsoccerguy, on 10/25/2008, -1/+13@Nitesmoke
The one thing that occurred to me while reading your post was that you assumed any aliens in existence would just be more advanced versions of the human race. I don't think it is likely that humans are following in some other civilization's footsteps. What if they have never had a need for stealth technology wherever they come from? What if their planet has an atmospheric makeup that would make the gases around them shine brightly as they passed through it? If they developed some sort of stealth technology, it might not even be effective against radar. Radar is just something that happens to work well on our planet. - CoreyTamas, on 10/25/2008, -2/+14You know, I'm not much of a UFO theorist. I don't spend much time thinking about them and I don''t really have a lot of concerns about whether they exist or not.
That having been said, I think it's possible and I don't dismiss the idea that there have been extraterrestrial visitors to planet earth. It doesn't keep me up at night, but I'm open to the idea.
I wanted to make a joke about this story, but after I started thinking about it.. it didn't make me want to laugh. It just seemed sad. -
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