"HK" wrote in message
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UFOs.

Time to re-tell my UFO tale. I'll try to keep it short.

While in the Navy, stationed on a DE homeported in Naples, Italy, we spent
an average of two weeks at sea, one in port, two weeks at sea, one in port,
etc. We patrolled the Med, mostly at 7 knots, towing a passive sonar array
tracking Soviet subs.

Needless to say, these patrols got pretty boring. One Sunday afternoon the
Captain called "Holiday Routine" which meant that anybody not standing a
watch could basically chill out, sun on the fantail, helicopter deck or
whatever.

A few of us had prepared for this on one patrol and brought some kites with
us. We flew them off the fantail and, at 7 kts, they soared perfectly.
After a while one of us got the bright idea of tying a small, red flashing
beacon light from a life vest to the kites. The kites carried them fine, and
we let all the line we had out and tied the end to the fantail rail and
eventually forgot about them.

Later that evening I reported for a watch in the radioshack only to find a
beehive of activity.
The Captain was sending out priority position and situation messages,
reporting that the "unidentified objects" continued to track behind the
ship's course and are undetectable on radar.

The guilty quickly beat feet to the fantail and cut the lines.

Eisboch