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Post by auntym on Jan 31, 2011 13:24:53 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Feb 4, 2011 16:40:56 GMT -6
The Sarasota Herald Tribune
DevoidFebruary 2nd, 2011 01:52pm Three dozen UFOs near Pittsburgh?by Billy Cox In the early morning hours of Oct. 24, 2008, as western Pennsylvania slept, FAA radar appears to have tracked roughly three dozen unknown targets cruising from south to northeast. De Void says “appears” because the FAA public affairs rep is unable to access a power-point reconstruction of that event at her secure computer in Atlanta. But you can judge for yourself by clicking on the link below for the time-lapse slide show. Or you can click each photo individually. The frames are 7.5 minutes apart. [View with PicLens] by going to the Devoid link: devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/ What Kathleen Bergen can confirm from the agency’s regional office is that power-point creator Glen Schultze did, in fact, request and receive FAA records. Schultze contends the incident is significant. From his home in Littleton, Colo., he writes, the radar targets are moving “in an operational pattern that is consistent with what can be argued is a coordinated search or survey mission extending over 10,000 square nautical miles of Western Pennsylvania.” A few words about Schultze. His name may ring a bell as the co-author of the Stephenville UFO incident for the Mutual UFO Network. Schultze’s credentials as a radar analyst go back to the Fifties when he tracked missiles for the Army at White Sands. His assignments have been diverse, from civilian intelligence agencies scarfing up Soviet radar signals bouncing off the moon to accident investigations for the FAA. Schultze came across the 10/24/08 data by accident. He was actually trying to get skin-paint verification of a 10/23/08 early-morning sighting report in Ohio, but the FAA sent him beacon returns instead. When he renewed his request, he says the agency sent him records for the following day. Schultze received overlapping skin-paint returns from three FAA stations some 100 miles apart. Schultze described the targets as “uncooperative,” meaning they had no transponders, and their signatures were different from “the four or five planes we had over that part of Pennsylvania during that time of night.” According to the radar station code-named QCF, with which Schultze used to piece together the reconstruction, the targets were tracked from 2 a.m. to 4:30 a.m. at variable speeds ranging from 7 to 20 mph, and up to 40 mph at the top end. The objects flew at between 4,000 and 5,000 feet, which didn’t pose a traffic hazard for the known planes whose cruising altitudes were roughly 20,000 feet. Dr. Greg Butcher, director of bird conservation for the Audubon National Science Office in Washington, D.C., reviewed Schultze’s package and cleared an entire species of suspects: birds. “Tons of birds migrate at night,” Butcher says. But “this doesn’t make any sense.” Migratory birds are heading south, not north, in October. “And what you see with flocks of birds on radar is, they form a big cloud. It looks like a mushroom cloud,” he says. “I don’t know what we’re looking at, but they’re not birds.” Perhaps curiously, no sighting reports were filed with MUFON or NUFORC in the early hours of 10/24/08. Then again, according to the National Climatic Data Center, the skies around Pittsburgh were overcast on that date at 3 a.m. So it goes. Share and Enjoy
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Post by lois on Feb 7, 2011 16:38:11 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Feb 8, 2011 18:01:19 GMT -6
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