Since the system is not locked onto an aerial target, it shows the distance to the ground behind the middle of the screen.
We can convert these numbers to altitude using Pythagoras.
SLR is the hypotenuse, the slant range
GDR is the base of the...
This is 50 km from the Iranian coast, well in the range of typical shorebirds. It may also be migrating birds; the wing flap frequency suggests a larger species, like spoonbills which are spending winters there - like numerous other species.
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Absolutely! I love good SF. It can be equally inspiring and frustrating at the same time. I learned how to suspend disbelief as I got older, but remember being deeply upset as a kid by a line in a Dr Who episode "I just need to reverse the...
More likely the Parliamentary questions were about the (probably fictitious) Aurora than SR-71, which was well-known.
On September 1st 1994 in a well-publicized flight, an SR-71 flew from New York to London in just under 1 hour 55 minutes; the...
Thanks Andreas, I was convinced the memo was a cover note faxed by Lindsay, but your new information seems entirely plausible.
I'm obliged to change my views in the light of evidence, presented in a clear and sensible way- I'll never get my dream...
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j2_xZG_CTA
Investigative journalists Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp have obtained and are revealing for the first time military-filmed footage of multiple UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena)...
While not Earth shattering, that is a nice little detail I would have expected to be noted somewhere before now. So I guess the story is something like this, though the detailed chronology is still a bit vague:
Some photos show up at The Daily...
I’ve now asked Clarke about the memo and he answered this in an email:
”We are confident the hand-written memo was written by Owen Hartop, Nick Pope's predecessor as UFO desk officer at Sec(AS)2… …his handwriting has been recognised as belonging...