Re: Wired article on Jahn

[Jed Rothwell]

I wrote:

However, if they have not observed them, it would not surprise me, and I 
would not blame them. The government and the professional astronomers have 
not observed or cataloged many of the large and potentially dangerous 
asteroids. . . .

I meant to say that I suppose asteroids resemble UFOs, in that they show up 
at unpredictable times and places, and they are often close to the limits 
of detection. The big telescopes are not good at looking for asteroids. You 
can do a better job with many small custom-built telescopes equipped with 
high-res digital cameras and innovative new software. It would not surprise 
me to learn the same goes for UFOs.

I read in the New York Times that in recent years, digital cameras have 
improved so much, amateur astronomers are capturing better images than the 
best observatories got 10 or 20 years ago.

I wouldn't know, but perhaps intelligence surveillance equipment is not 
geared toward detecting UFOs, and perhaps innovative amateur equipment 
could do a better job. This is mere speculation, but suppose UFOs are 
common, so the big radars have been programmed to ignore them. After all, 
Russian ICBMs and smugglers flying in from Mexico never fly the way UFOs 
reportedly do. They have a different signature. Maybe someone decided the 
UFO signatures are noise, and eliminated them years ago.

- Jed