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This is Volume 2 of the Ministry of Defence report 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region', Defence Intelligence Staff Scientific and Technical Memorandum 55/2/00, dated February 2000 and received 7 December 2000. It gathers 25 working papers on natural and man-made phenomena, meant as a reference for analysing UAP reports. The papers cover ball lightning, radar detection, balloons, satellites, mirages, plasma and similar subjects. One paper compares magnetic field experiments on human volunteers with close encounter reports. It concludes that effects from such fields are 'uncannily similar' to what witnesses describe.

  • p. 43 …A 'place name', 'near a place', 'between two places', 'out to sea off xxxx', 'on holiday…
  • p. 48 UNCLASSIFIED UK RESTRICTED Southend on Sea 153,700 Peterborough 148,800 Blackpool 144,500 Colchester 141…
  • p. 56 …by military or civil radars, either at sea, over land or by aircraft radars? 3. Possible…
  • p. 73 …open countryside, on a hill, or (without obscuration) viewing over the sea or, finally, in the…
  • p. 85 …An obvious exception is that of Search and Rescue operations and helicopter training over sea at…
  • p. 96 HELICOPTER MAIN ROUTES NORTHERN NORTH SEA EAST SHETLAND BASIN HFISA 61°N UNST SCATSA 61°N…
  • p. 121 …from an epicentre). (c) At land or sea (underwater faultlines, for example, Loch Ness, Loch Tay…
  • p. 123 …It is of interest, however, that a Ship's Captain (in the Baltic Sea) claimed (in…
  • p. 124 …A fire breathing dragon came out of the sea. In Japan a 'spinning ball of fire…
  • p. 179 …Water spouts occur similarly at sea. Tornadoes are predominantly cyclonic in rotation. All three phenomena move…
  • p. 227 …example, 50% relative humidity approximately doubles the sea-level dry air collision rate. 22. Plasma Lifetime…
  • p. 232 …combination of long path lengths and low grazing angles is more likely to occur at sea.
  • p. 246 …was first switched-on (in the Baltic Sea). It is assumed, since this occurred on a…
in use at the time, are no longer available. In the 1960s, Preston Air Traffic radar had unexplained detections and, over various years, the F-16 Air Interception radar has occasionally made UAP detections. More recently, RAF Neatishead, RAF Waddington Airfield Approach Radar and the CAA radar at Claxby, apparently had simultaneous detections. In all these cases the electron density of the target must have been high enough for the RF in use to produce reflections.

22. Clearly, UAP response to radar is variable, otherwise all the radars would see all the objects which entered their respective coverage zones all the time. The implication of this would seem to be that at least the surface offered to a radar wavefront by a UAP target is not a consistent solid object. This variability may be due to aspect or orientation, material composition or both. If UAPs are plasmas, their intensity would probably be diminishing as their physical life decays.

23. In the absence of firm radar crosscorrelation the number of occasions where velocity could be deduced from actual measurements (compared, for example with purely 'eyeball' estimates of speeds obtained from some members of the public) are few. On one event a triangular (visual) formation was tracked on radar with an acceleration from 100 to 980kts in two seconds and an altitude change from 7000 to 3000ft in 1 second. This, of course, is feasible if the entities are charged bodies which are moving under the forces of electromagnetic or electrostatic fields. The Hessdalen lights, in Norway, for example, were reportedly tracked at a velocity of $ \sim 8. 5 \mathrm{k m}. \mathrm{s}^{-1}. $

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