some quotes(below) from this interview:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2zRabdvKnw
and location where he saw ufos, were south of san clemente island
(screenshot from Nimitz encounters film)
As we know, this island is used for military exercises, and by looking at that document https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2015/1194/ofr20151194_appendix1.pdf
we can see that one of them is Stinger training (at the bottom)
it has similar duration of 4 days, and it's location is in China Point
which is over here:
and in exercise description (page 43) it states, that aerial targets are used:
"The targets would be either Ballistic Aerial Targets (BATs) or Remotely Piloted Vehicles (RPVs) and would be launched from a catapult type launcher that would be temporarily set up at an existing cleared area on China Point"
also this:
The stingers would be fired toward the ocean and impact an aerial target over the ocean at ranges of from 1 to 8 km (0.6 to 5 mi.) offshore...
...Training would be conducted predominantly in the daytime
sadly targets in description aren't balloons, but with some googling i found some book by ex-military guy with this:
which is how stinger will find it's target, so it seems to me that that is entirely possible that it might be target balloons with flares that survived and drifted away
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2zRabdvKnw
"... over the course of 3-4 days..." / "...several days..."
"... the only thing i could think that it could possible be were balloons..."
and location where he saw ufos, were south of san clemente island
(screenshot from Nimitz encounters film)
As we know, this island is used for military exercises, and by looking at that document https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2015/1194/ofr20151194_appendix1.pdf
we can see that one of them is Stinger training (at the bottom)
it has similar duration of 4 days, and it's location is in China Point
which is over here:
and in exercise description (page 43) it states, that aerial targets are used:
"The targets would be either Ballistic Aerial Targets (BATs) or Remotely Piloted Vehicles (RPVs) and would be launched from a catapult type launcher that would be temporarily set up at an existing cleared area on China Point"
also this:
The stingers would be fired toward the ocean and impact an aerial target over the ocean at ranges of from 1 to 8 km (0.6 to 5 mi.) offshore...
...Training would be conducted predominantly in the daytime
sadly targets in description aren't balloons, but with some googling i found some book by ex-military guy with this:
which is how stinger will find it's target, so it seems to me that that is entirely possible that it might be target balloons with flares that survived and drifted away
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