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Originally Posted by nothingbutme
FALSE. Your just wrong. The head flight controller said there was no written script to follow. He called it a "fly by the seat of your pants sorta deal". Furthermore, because the object did not fire on us it confused the situation because I believe the only aircraft they had available were Nuclear armed.
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Of course there was no script but it documented how a response would occur. From what I read, the plane's nuclear-tipped missles were removed prior to the intercept. Apparently, the officers felt it was an unnecessary risk to send a nuclear-tipped missle interceptor up to investigate. Makes you wonder on how serious they thought the "threat" was. Apparently, they did not think it was too serious.
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Originally Posted by nothingbutme
Hogwash. Not everything is classified for 30 years as a matter of routine.
This was obviously classified because it illustrated a UFO penetrating our defenses and we could do nothing to stop it. The USAF lied in the official (Top Secret) report and called the objects weather balloons, EVEN THOUGH IN THE AUDIO TRANSCRIPTS THE WEATHER MAN IS HEARD ON THE UNOQUIVICALLY SAYING THESE ARE NOT WEATER BALLOONS AND THAT NONE HAD BEEN RELEASED. FURTHERMORE THE BALLOONS USED WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN LIT. They just were not balloons.
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Actually, it is routine. Events become classified and get declassified in steps. The actual bluebook records were declassified after bluebook closed down so the records you speak of were not even classified for 30 years but less than 10! UFO groups did not bother to get the tapes until 1998 when they found out they existed.
The actual report said astronomical and a weather balloon (again you have problems with the real facts behind the case). There WAS a balloon launch at 1200Z by the Edwards AFB weather office. Was it lit? I can not say for sure but it was common practice to light weather balloons when launched at night if radar was not being used. Weather balloons are tracked by visual observation of those who launched it or by radar. Considering the fact the radar was busy tracking UFOs that morning, the weathermen probably decided to track it visually, which would require a lit balloon.