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Originally Posted by JayUtah
Of course I have no idea what exact model of radar might have produced this signal. If it were very important to know, I suppose we could survey all the S-band radar products produced prior to 1957. Instead of asking whether this signal is really a specific S-band search radar, I would find it more interesting to ask why space aliens would employ a device so suspiciously similar to human-produced radars.
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According to Klass, the radar in question was the
CPS-6B/FPS-10 (which was just a variant of the CPS-6B) type air defense radars. The AN/CPS-6 was near Biloxi, when the first recording of the UFO was made. The FPS-10 was found near Dallas (which was during the second part of this UFO event). According to Klass, the scan rate of this signal was at a rate of 4 rpm (apparently they were seeing the signal every 15 seconds) which matches (according to Klass, I could not verify this) the CPS-6B's antenna revolution speed.
The events are confusing and most of what has been written indicate two key points.
1) various lights/moving lights were seen and then disappeared
2) a radar-like signal was recorded by operators at various times that they related to the lights. There were radars in the vicinity that were using this frequency band and could have been the source of the signals.
As you have noted it is difficult to link the two. UFOlogists will but most skeptics will suggest that you can not positively say that the lights were emitting these frequencies. As a result, it is really guess work.
I also agree with your assessment that it is odd that the "UFO" would emit this type of signal, which mimics a radar. What would be the point? As far as I can tell, it is the first, and only time, that a UFO was recorded as emitting such a signal. If UFOlogists were really interested in tracking UFOs (and believed this case was a "real" UFO), you would think they would have all sorts of tracking receivers tuned to this frequency.