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Originally Posted by nothingbutme
The head traffic controller at Edwards said if it were a top secret object of our own, he would have been notified. No, actually he said he would have HAD to have been notified to keep other aircraft away from it. Also, at one point one of the objects was over the runway.. I doubt we'd do that if we wanted to keep it hidden. It just makes no sense for it to be our own.
Also, you are correct that these things were never hostile. We still scrambled an aircraft eventually that could never catch up with these UFOs. The really cool part is we could tell the difference between the UFO and the aircraft we sent out! (little joke).
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Yeah. They interview the head ATC 40 years later and he tells them something extraordinary. Where have I heard that story before? Roswell maybe? Lots of people talking about all sorts of things but a lot of it was lies or confabulation. In the Lakenheath 57 case, one of the ATCs filed a report to the Condon committee ten years after it happened. His story was similar. Recently, some UFOlogists got together and reviewed the case and discovered a lot of the extraordinary tales later told were not completely accurate. In a lot of cases, UFO witnesses will say things like "it could not have been one of ours, I would know". Unfortunately, that is not always the case.
As for the scramble, it is normal routine for jets to be scrambled. Granted I don't have a lot of time to waste watching these videos but from what I glanced at watching the latest "UFO hunters" episode (does Birnes ever take off those stupid sunglasses?), the airplane had difficulty seeing the UFOs, tracking the UFOs, and catching the UFOs. Sounds more like false radar returns with observations of things that were in the sky.
If you want to lay out your case here feel free to do so but let's not have links to videos. Give us a timeline of events and some actual data to look at. I got fed up with the "UFO hunters" episode after watching it for a few minutes since it showed only one point of view. Add to it the bad acting of the "hunters" (specifically Birnes) and it is really an awful show. I would rather watch Penn and Teller's "bull-----" show. At least they make me laugh.