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Default UFO's may confound celestial navigators.

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:02:27 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:54:19 -0800, Chuck Gould
wrote:

Is that really Venus?

Interesting to note that the official policy is to "ignore radar
returns that don't comply with the operational characteristics" of
conventional fixed wing aircraft or helicopters.

The money would be better spernt fixing the bugs in the RADAR that
give you these glitches.


There is some truth to that. I don't know if I can find the online
reference for it, but a few years ago, a freighter was cruising along
to Boston Harbor when they started tracking a big return - like super
carrier size, super tanker size. The pilot started hailing, the track
kept coming, collision alarms and radio to USCG - then the really
heavy fog bank rolled over the top of them and everybody felt really
stupid.

Apparently it happens a lot around the Miama area and around the
Houston ship channel.

So you do have a point.

However, they do exist. What they are is another story.

Where I live in the country, the sky has a fairly good "dark" factor.
One evening I know that I saw a "UFO" only I'm fairly sure it wasn't a
UFO per se - it was a space plane. If it was the Aurora plane, I
don't know, but it had a really weird contrail. It was definetly WAY
up there and it was moving - the sound which had a really deep note to
it came well after whatever it was disappeared.

Spending a lot of time looking at these ghosts is like the people who
look for images of Jesus in their french toast


I have a tomato that if you look at it just right, looks like Mr.
Potato Head. :)
 
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