Jed sez: > 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.
To be honest, I suspect there may be a grain of truth to this line of speculation. I worked at the Space Astronomy Lab in Madison Wisconsin back in the mid 80s on a space shuttle mission. During my stint at the LAB I often felt as if the data the astronomers were trying to collect (within the Polarized Ultraviolet spectrum) was expected to conform to specific standards. The rest was "noise" that needed to be filtered out. "Uh...down in front please!" Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com
