On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 04:43:52 GMT, "Richard P." wrote:

Out towards the open Pacific Ocean at approx the 30 mile mark on his 12 inch display was a
perfect square about the size of an eraser found on the end of a typical pencil. The return was
stationary and changed aspect whenever he manouvered his vessel. The "square" was hollow in
appearance.

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Some of the Raytheon sets use a hollow square to denote a target that
is being tracked. My guess is that the set inadvertantly went into a
mode where it thought it was tracking a distant object.