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Re:UFO: Pilot who spotted famous Tic Tac breaks silence afte... by JimmyRuska on Sunday December 22, 2019 @04:47PM (#21859884)
Wouldn't the boring answer be they made something that can disrupt radar systems into creating fantom objects. Creating fake objects that are remarkable would be useful for when distractions are needed. The final QA would be a real in the field test where the observers are not aware of the experiment.
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Re:UFO: Pilot who spotted famous Tic Tac breaks silence afte... by rnikander on Sunday December 22, 2019 @07:20PM (#21860629)
Four people saw it with their eyes. David Fravor has talked the most but there were two planes, each with two pilots.
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Re:UFO: Pilot who spotted famous Tic Tac breaks silence afte... by wiml on Sunday December 22, 2019 @06:18PM (#21860309)
That really does seem like the simplest, most boring explanation to me — some kind of camouflage/countermeasures/stealth technology that makes it really hard to recognize something or to get a reliable indication of its bearing or distance.
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Re:UFO: Pilot who spotted famous Tic Tac breaks silence afte... by abnry on Monday December 23, 2019 @07:15PM (#21868737)
I'm pretty sure the observers reported both radar sightings and visual sightings. It wasn't radar alone.
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