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so what do we do

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anomalous propagation cases show

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unconventional flight characteristics so

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an example is here Selfridge Air Force

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an estimated 3

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000 to estimated 28 000 miles per hour

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this is Larson Air Force Base speed at

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950 miles per hour in 1951 we couldn't

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achieve that object track continuously

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for a period of six minutes

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of course 340 degrees

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so for this case I put reference for

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your radar sighting of 2651 please

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advise immediately whether weather

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conditions prevalent in your area at the

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time

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favor the phenomena of anomalous

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microwave propagation and further in the

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notes you can see it says no temperature

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did not favor anomalous microwave

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propagation and we can see here the

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fastest plane at that time of 755 miles

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an hour and 53 weather effect on radar

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speed from stationary to as fast or

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faster than a jet aircraft

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and we have experienced radar people

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technician four years

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of experience so in these cases of

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anomalous propagation we have very

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experienced people working The Radars

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that are confused enough to report this

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as a UFO

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to Blue Book and it does come with data

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they even tell you what kind of Scopes

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they use PPI scoping B

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that tell you to describe the signal

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produced by rotating sweep

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approximately 2 800 MC frequency of the

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transmitter

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sometimes even have drawings and radar

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pictures electronic radar appearance

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here they tried to say that another

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radar did it but you can see here at the

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bottom speed was from 1800 miles per

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hour to 84 100 miles per hour

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same place here in 1956

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they had a UFO this is actually seen by

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the radar and Visually

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here is the report from it see my cursor

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it says 4 000 miles per hour

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so in this bent Waters case this uh Dr

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Whipple was involved who's kind of been

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around hovered around Blue Book and all

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that kind of stuff uh for a long time

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which so he's suggesting to put cameras

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up in hot spots

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uh from which numerous reports have come

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and might be patrolled by a dozen or so

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uh automatically

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or Dr Whipple stated that as far as the

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report at hand is concerned no obvious

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physical solution is suggested he

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deplored the inadequacy of the typical

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UFO reports as a scientific document

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he further stated that the nature of

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such reports is not likely to change and

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urge that if the Air Force Series Senate

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attempts to resolve this problem both

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scientifically

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and in the public mind

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at the Air Force do more than continue

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its passive investigational attitudes

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director of blue book it is to be

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regretted that so unusual a citing

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report did not contain more factual

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material on which to base an evaluation

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the lake and Heath report is one of the

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more unusual UFO reports involving

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electronic and visual observations and

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subsequent Pursuit by fighter plane yet

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report does not State whether it was

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definitely established that Visual and

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electronic sightings refer to the same

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object or even if they occurred

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precisely simultaneously

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so further report does not give exact

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weather information which might enable

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one to charge whether charge weather

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conditions with any Precision relative

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to anomalous propagation such as

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frequently occurs with radars

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which uh it's interesting because this

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case really worried or interested Air

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Force people high brass people and they

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thought this could have been related to

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the lakenheath case Radar's first

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that's not faster than objects could go

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right in the comments it says the fact

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that the objects were orbiting over one

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spot at 700 knots supports this can and

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number of UFO reports submitted from

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usafe area during August as generated

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considerable interest in concern

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within Air Force

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of particular interest are those

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signings that occurred near lakenheath

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on the 16th of August in the born home

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Air Force is interested and they were

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concerned with UFO sightings that they

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caught on radar in Denmark

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radar from Night of 11th November to

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morning 12th of November blips which

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kept suddenly appearing and disappearing

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indicated speeds from 50

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so what do we do

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radar interference so here you can see

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in the corner this is what they do when

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they have a visual

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they separated they say what you saw was

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one Guam anomalous propagation

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2880 knots on a collision course uh the

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speed of the target the fact that no

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plane was to be in the area lack of oral

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observation and the fact that the target

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was not observed on an outward course

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all tend to mitigate against an aircraft

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propagation frequently causes false

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apparently fantastic speeds

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indicates the probable cause anomalous

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propagation so that's what they say it

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is but yet you have testimony from

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people like this first lieutenant U.S

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the past 12 years I have observed all

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types of weather wind temperature

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inversion false returns birds and

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never a Target like this moving with the

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speed and direction of these

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is why these anomalous propagation

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instances are so interesting because

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so in that case anomalous propagation

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this is what they write anomalous

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propagation although there evidently was

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period anomalous propagation is the most

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likely candidate for the situation

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since latent radar waves are both

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electromagnetic in nature

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could also cause the visual

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appearances as well which this is what

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1952 which was 13 years before this

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13 years before this and they still

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don't have it figured out they're

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they're still figuring out anomalous

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sighting is that there are radical

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variations in the atmosphere during this

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period which result in both Visual and

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observers known as sparkling light

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about three hours objects settle Beneath

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basically stationary in the west object

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was allegedly picked up on radar however

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that anomalous propagation was

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apparently the cause of the radar paint

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anomalous propagation Sergeant Burns had

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no explanation for the sighting and said

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the equipment was checked for

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malfunction and none was discovered

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29th air division whether Personnel

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suggested that the temperature inversion

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might have caused anomalous propagation

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of the radar causing false returns

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interference

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from Sage Raiders was unlikely

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anomalous propagation just blowing these

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experienced people's minds now this is

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the kicker so we go from 1950 we took us

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anomalous propagation still baffling

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upgraded Radars they've made new radar

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sets throughout those years and they're

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incidents we look at

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you finally get an admission from

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somebody a colonel in the U.S Air Force

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says the obvious in quotation marks

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if there is nothing sneaky behind

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anomalous propagation here

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there would be absolutely no need for

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this person to write excuse in

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quotations

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would put the obvious explanation for

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the sightings appears to be temperature

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and what do we hear about UFOs the

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observables right

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variations in speed 150 to 2000 miles

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per hour instant acceleration

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no sound no noise was heard

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represent

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those observables

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and goes down to the ground and picks up

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that's what they blame it all on maybe

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um when you have people admitting that

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it's an excuse

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and they're still dealing with the

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stuff it wouldn't be important enough to

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report

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you know because it would be a part of

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the training for the radar operators

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what it means they would see it go I

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don't need to make a report I was

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over the course of a couple decades they

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never were and they reported them as

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UFOs and obviously we saw some baffle

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the Air Force like the bent Waters Lake

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uh cases and there's a lot more of those

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cases like I just picked a few randomly

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to go through

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there's a lot more of those

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and of course there are cases that were

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not apparently picked up on radar that

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people saw and described visually as

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moving

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you know as the objects that were picked

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up on radar that we just went through