From: pgf@srl01.cacs.usl.edu ("Phil G. Fraering")
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Mystery Alien Object Invading European Airspace...
Date: 2 Oct 92 17:23:54 GMT
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The guy who started this thread writes:
\Dale Amon writes (Wed, 30 Sep 92 17:47:26 BST):

/>       21            290                       990       1000
\>       22            300                       990       0000
/>       22.5          300                       980       0000  Break
\lock
/>
\>                                                   I'd say it looks
/>like test data for a fire and forget air to ground missile. There are
\>some interesting features         . I assume altitudes in MSL rather
/>than AGL and airspeed rather than ground speed.

\Could not be an air to ground missile since nothing fell to the ground.
/Since the altitude displayed on the F-16's Westinghouse APG-66 radar
\display screen (upper right hand corner) has only two digits, 00 on
/this screen, and 0000 in the quoted report, means anything between
\0 and 500 feet (I think 0 = ground level, not sea level). The speed is
/the absolute value of the real 3-D vector speed (air speed ?), not the
\absolute value of its 2-D vector projection on the ground.

Don't be so sure. Have you heard of penetrators? It might have hit the
ground and buried itself and gone unnoticed. 

\Nobody knows what it was (I mean, those who know keep silent...). In
/its SUMMARY REPORT ON OBSERVATIONS 30-31 MARCH 1990, Colonel (now
\General) De Brouwer, of the Belgian Air Force, writes:
/"...............
\ A total of 9 interception attempts have been made.
/ At 6 occasions the pilots could establish a lock-on with their air
\ interception radar. Lock-on distances varied between 5 and 8 NM. On
/ all occasions targets varied speed and altitude very quickly and
\ break-locks occurred after 10 to 60 seconds. Speeds varied between
/ 150 and 1010 knots. At 3 occasions both F-16 registered simultaneous
\ lock-ons with the same parameters. The 2 F-16 were flying +- 2 NM
/ apart. ............."

Just wondering, but I recall a while back that some Viggens on
excercises in the Baltic once tried a lock-on to an SR-71, just to
prove that they could catch it if they wanted to. This was "way
back when."

Target lock lasted all of three seconds before being overwhelmed
bu ECM. The "black" projects the US has been building all have
heavy emphasis on stealth characteristics (passive ECM, as it were)
and more active forms of ECM.

I have heard speculation that the Belgian UFO's were American spook
vehicles that were not capable of that sort of acceleration, but
of making an F-16's radar _think_ it had seen something that could
do that.

Of course, it may have been alien spacecraft. After all, if the
aliens came tomorrow and buzzed the White House, whoever was in
charge of Aurora would hold a press conference and say "We didn't
do it. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more, we can't talk about
why it wasn't us, etc., etc., we totally deny everything." And noone
would think it was aliens, but that it was Project Whatever.

Oh, BTW: ;-)

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