"Richard P." wrote in message
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That was my 2nd thought. I have heard stories from some friends in the
military of navy and air
force crews "spoofing" civilian sets for practice and for a bit of fun.
Not enough to cause harm,
but just playing around for sure.

As an ex B52G Electronic Warfare officer, I am certain that no military
platform would be "spoofing" any civilian for practice or fun. That would be
the end of the guilty party's military career. Electronic emissions are
strictly controlled and allowed only in training areas. We even had to worry
about NASA space missions relaying data to ground stations and at times were
forbidden to even turn on our counter measure systems, much less transmit.
The electromagnetic spectrum is as crowded as our airspace.

Most likely the return was what you would think, a ship just sitting there
for whatever reason.
And visually, boats/ships would not be visible beyond 8ish miles, given
curvature of the earth, height of POV above SL, that sort of thing.


I don't really know what to say. This radar was just a basic
radar with no real advanced features, and the image of the anomaly on his
screen was that of a
perfect hollow square... no bluring or anything. Unfortunately, his
fishing buddy although within
radio range, was too far to see anything with his more modern radar.

I thought I would run this by the readers of this forum to see if anyone
else has experienced
anything like this. It's one of those nagging little mysteries that just
sit there and pick at your
brain.

Maybe with the recent reports of malicious civilians flashing commercial
aircraft with lasers on the
US eastern seaboard, there's a few others with surplus radio jamming
equipment fooling around.
heheheh.. probably not.

"Paul Schilter" wrote:
Perhaps a sub?