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Originally Posted by captain swoop
What I am getting at with all this Radar talk is that just because a UFO report says that a military radar had a contact doesn't mean it's real because the equipment is modern or hi-tech' At the heart of the system is exactly the same gear as used in WW2 with the same limitations and room for errors.
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It doesn't really matter if the equipment is modern or not, though. I mean, imagine sitting in a bath, smacking your hand against the water, then watching the pattern of ripples as the waves bounce off the sides and using that to determine the shape of the tub! If someone told you that you had to do that, you'd say "oh no! that's way to complicated to get anything out of!"
But that's really what radar is doing. These nice cartoons you see of these nice waves being sent out and bouncing off of an airplane is nothing like what happens
. Real life is very noisy and complicated, and no matter how careful you are, you can still easily get spurious results.